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Newsletter 25 : January 2010
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Général - New investment projets - Expansion projects - Event Calendar - Printable version - Contact us
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 The economy is coming back to life as demonstrated by Wallonia companies' order books. And we can congratulate ourselves that during the period of this crisis, we maintained actions to promote visibility and remained particularly vigilant with regard to opportunities: we were on the ground ready for the recovery.
Our main and obvious asset is our geographical location which is proving of particular interest to logistics – one of the five Walloon government's competitiveness centres. According to a study recently carried out by Cushman and Wakefield, all of Wallonia's provinces come in Europe's top 10 most significant regions logistically speaking.
Philippe Suinen,
CEO
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> GENERAL
Wallonia, first logistic region in Europe !
This is the conclusion of a survey lead by Cushman & Wakefield and published today by Logistics in Wallonia en AWEX. This survey has been presented on the 10th of december during a press conference by Jean-Claude Marcourt, Vice-Président of the Walloon Region en Minister of Economy, SMEs, Foreign Trade and New Technologies.
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Mons, ready to welcome a Chinese incubator
The centre has opened in the immediate proximity of the head office of one of the first Chinese investors on the site, Reach Hangzhou, a company playing an intermediate role for Chinese companies in applying the Reach standards.
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A more competitive Belgium
Belgium is retaining its competitive ability, to a certain extent remaining ahead of the foreign competition and is still attractive mainly in the eyes of investors.
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Belgium remains fertile ground for researchers
Belgium remains fertile soil for the research world. Belgium is making appreciable efforts, in particular at the tax level, to support research, in particular in the pharmaceutical sector
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> NEW INVESTMENT PROJECTS
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H&M confirms its arrival in Mons
The Swedish giant Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) has acquired the plot in the Ghlin-Baudour industrial estate where it will locate its future European distribution centre. More than 400 new jobs will be created.
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The Chinese HUAWEI Technologies opens a R&D center
in Louvain-la-Neuve Science Park
Already in Belgium since 2007, Huawei is a 87.500 staff worldwide enterprise. The company enjoys already 4 European R&D centers. The Louvain-la-Neuve centre will be added to the list of R&D centers located in Berlin, Milan, Amsterdam and Munich (HQ)
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160,000 m2: Médiacité opens to the public in Liège
A commercial centre with 126 stores, including twenty or so which are new to Belgium, a leisure centre and media centre: this 160,000 m2 complex, designed by the famous architect Ron Arad, has now been opened to the public in the Longdoz district
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> EXPANSION PROJECTS
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L'Oréal opens its first “100% green energy” factory in Belgium
The world’s leading cosmetics manufacturer L'Oréal has opened a new biomethanisation plant in Libramont,making this Belgian site its first “100% green energy” factory.
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