Agoria International Business Development

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Agoria International Business Development

• Peter Demuynck

World Bank Seminar on September 13, 2007
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Who is Agoria ?

• The Federation for the Technology Industry in
  Belgium
• Actively represents 1500 member companies
• who employ over 300.000 people
• in 13 different technology sectors.

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Agoria's positioning
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International Business Development

• To help the Agoria members to
• Obtain increased market knowledge
• Identify new commercial opportunities
• Identify and form new partnerships abroad
• Enhance international networking
• Optimize international financing issues
• Increase visibility abroad

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Markets Focus

• Agoria has defined key-markets in which Belgian
  enterprises in our sectors have particular
  strengths and can offer leading solutions.

• Oil Gas market ? Belgian Oil Gas Group
  (BOG)
• Hospital infrastructure ? Hospibel
• Infrastructure Projects ? Europrojects
• International sports events market ? Olympic
  Business Club (OBC)
• Financial industry ? Agoria Banking Club (ABC)
• Renewable energies ? Agoria Green Energy (AGE)
• Also geographic focus

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Why Western Balkan Region ?

• Large opportunities offered by major projects in
  the environmental sector
• Serbia and Montenegro carry out a voluntary
  policy primarily aimed at meeting urgent needs
  water purification, waste recycling, soil
  sanitation, industrial waste water treatment etc.
  (gt 1 billion )

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Why Western Balkan Region ?

• Large-scale projects in the transport sector
• Rail transport reconstruction of corridor X
  (electrification of railroads, civil engineering
  works, supply and construction of rail roads,
  command of rail road switch systems, procurement
  of electrical locomotives, carriages and wagons).
• Urban transport first line of the light
  undergroud in Belgrado (350M)

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Rail Corridor X
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Why Western Balkan Region ?
And many other opportunities which will be
presented next by some real experts
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THANK YOU ENJOY the next presentations
SUCCESS with your busines endeavours Peter.dem
uynck_at_agoria.be