Inward Investment

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Inward Investment
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What we do

• Attract / Retain / Grow
• Access to over 25 agent / 800 premises
• Business Case
• Sector Focus
• Access to networks
• Marketing of Suffolk as a business location

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Background structure
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Background Value added

• Business Engagement
• One product
• Economies of Scale
• Business Case / Bespoke service
• Retentions / Growth
• Sector Focus

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Campaigns and Features
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Promotion of Strategic Sites
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Progress

• 2001
• Reactive
• 100 enquiries a year
• 90 regional
• 2009
• Proactive
• Up to 80 a month
• 1,600 unique visitors
• 25 Property Agents
• 800 land and property sites

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Statistics and Information

• Record of Done Deals
• Woodbridge and Felixstowe remain in top 5 visited
  towns
• Unique business visitors for April June 434
• Total Suffolk jobs created and safeguarded 484
• Focus on the following sectors for the current
  financial year
• Bio-tech
• Energy
• ICT
• Creative Industries
• High Value Food

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The Future

• Targeted marketing material
• Initiatives in partnership with sector support
  agencies
• Network events to encourage promotion of sectors
• Collaborative working with East of England
  international to promote those sectors
• Follow up calls to all companies that register
  with Choose Suffolk from within the sectors to
  offer the Hand Holding service.

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Testimonials

• When relocating our newly established business
  into Ipswich it was a hard task to find an
  independent property resource. We found Choose
  Suffolk extremely helpful, with lots of up to
  date and relevant information on the area. Mad
  Rabbit Recruitment
• I wish to thank everyone at Choose Suffolk for
  developing a web site that is straight forward,
  user friendly and saved our company 1,000s.
  Thank you Choose Suffolk.Zeta Digital FM

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Thank you