Global Business Development Center
- 2. WHO WE ARE Global Business Development Center (GBDC ) is founded by the International Business Alliance in 200 4 . GBDC is nongovernmental organization which provides companies with strategies, solutions and information concerning match business partners to entry emerging markets of the Silk Road region. GBDC is located in capital of Georgia –Tbilisi. Through its extensive business network and experienced teams “on the ground” GBDC works in 10 Silk Road countries. We can guide and prepare western companies to entry markets and doing profitable business in the Silk Road region.
- 3. OUR MISSION GBDC strives to facilitate business relations among business c ommunities in the Silk Road countries and prospective western investors and partners. The historical Silk Road is regarded as the greatest strategic East-West Trade route, the transport corridor on West-East direction from Europe, crossing black sea to Caspian Sea with an exit to Central Asia and China. The Silk Road countries are rapidly growing emerging markets, conomies with enormous natural resources and investment opportunities. The Silk Road is the best junction to connect businesses throughout Eurasia and work in the CIS and Asian markets. There are favorable conditions to open the representative offices of the companies in the region. The Silk Road region is still unexplored markets. The business community throughout the region has a great interest and desire to purchase Western products and technologies, especially from the United States. GBDC project covers 10 countries of the Silk Road region with the population of over 160 million: Turkey, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
- 4. OUR SERVICES GBDC works in close cooperation with EBRD, CAG AJANS Turkey , International Trade Associations , the International Business Alliance . Besides, we cooperate with the Silk Road countries’ governments, economic development offices and investments agencies that strive to attract foreign direct investment. GBDC provides the best solutions for successful navigation in cross cultural context in the Silk Road region. GBDC offers the following services to facilitate business transactions: 1. Search for partner/ Strategic alliance/ Joint ventures and projects 2. Company registration/legal consulting 3. Due diligence 4. Representative and Virtual Office service in Georgia and other Silk Road countries 5. Market entry strategy with all supportive services: preparation of information/feasibility study/market research/marketing mix
- 5. Search for partner / Strategic alliance / Joint ventures and projects As always, business in the Silk Road region is a matter of knowing the right partners. GBDC has an extensive business network that includes reputable companies in 10 Silk Road countries. GBDC is your partner if you seek long term or short term partnership for investment, export/import, franchising, distribution, agents or representative office in the Silk Road region. We can identify and contact key strategic partners and networks. GBDC will help to explore new markets and unlimited opportunities for private companies seeking to expand foreign operations in oil and gas industry, construction, tourism infrastructure, cotton textile industry, agriculture and food processing, transportation and logistics, telecommunications and IT technologies. GBDC offers to match the business partners for you whose due diligence can give you the reassurance you need that the business partnership will be reliable and profitable one. If you need help with a specific issue on which we are not able to consult, we will refer to other reputable consulting organization to provide service in the region. Use our service to facilitate business transactions in the Silk Road region. Our US partner: Muir Marketing Communication International.
- 6. Due diligence If you are going through any type of expansion into new markets you need due diligence – elimination of future surprises and huge unexpected expenses. GBDC provides assistance in due diligence. Based on our own resources and outsource transactions we offer due diligence across the Silk Road region. Representative and Virtual Office Service Through our business network we provide the representative office service in 10 Silk Road countries. The representative office service includes service of dedicated consultant. Besides, GBDC offers virtual office service in Georgia with phone and mail forwarding service to 36 countries including the US and Western Europe. Prospective partner from Georgia can reach you any time in 36 countries if you are virtual office service user. The relevant areas may include the financial, legal, tax, environment and market/commercial situation of the company. You can benefit from our service and navigate in new markets safely.
- 7. Market entry strategy with all supportive services: preparation of information / feasibility study; If you have made decision to enter the Silk Road market we have variety of the solutions for you. 5 GBDC provides information on existing trends in industries and markets, market players, competitors, market niches, consumer preferences. Having done all the preparatory planning work we offer market entry strategy and a marketing mix. Through our network companies we ensure to conduct product planning, pricing, branding, istributing, advertising, direct sales. We build bridges to new markets for you. The Silk Road/NIS Experience marketing, promotion, personal recruitment and training, direct sales. GBDC has an extensive experience of working for the western companies in the most problematic areas and industries in the Silk Road countries . In 2004 PA consulting was hired by USAID and KFW to “westernize” the business structure and practices of Georgia’s largest utility, UDEC. We were hired by PA to communicate their mission to Georgian people. After successful campaign UDEC was restructured and bought by the western company. We have coincidentally developed partner relationships with biofuel companies with offices in Arkansas, Wisconsin, Chicago and the Republic of Georgia. We have helped obtain financing and Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) for biofuel projects in Arkansas. Liquid fuels from cellulosic/bio-mass may be a critical answer to Georgia’s energy dependence on Russia as well as America’s dependence on mid eastern oil. The partners will start project implementation in Georgia in 2009 year. GBDC has conducted numerous import/export, trade facilitating, market entry projects for the western companies in Turkey, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia.
- 8. Contact information: GMT PLAZA 4 Freedom Square 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia TEL: +995 32 478 498 FAX: +995 32 921805 e-mail: info@globalbdc.org www. G lobal BDC .org