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IGEP´s integrated approach is tailor made for the needs of small and medium sized companies. It comprises:
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Regular information workshops and seminars in Germany/EU in co-operation with highly reputed organizations (examples in the recent past: with GTZ at the Asia Pacific Weeks in Berlin; with Indo-German Societies and Round Tables in Aachen; Hamburg, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig, Frankfurt and Munich; with Frankfurt, Hamburg, Kiel, Duesseldorf, Stuttgart Chambers of Commerce; with reputed research institutes like HWWA and IFO Institute; with East Asia Association in Hamburg; etc.). |
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Provision of information material and manuals. |
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Direct contacts with potentially interested companies in Germany, especially in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Saxony and Baden-Wuerttemberg . |
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Selection of partners in India. |
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| IGEP’S CO-OPERATION WITH INDIAN COMPANIES COMPRISES: |
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MARKET INFORMATION
on trends, designs, fashions, technological standards, ecological norms, besides sales and distribution channels |
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ADVICE AND COUNSELLING
for product development, quality control, production processes, marketing and sales promotion |
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FACILITATING BUSINESS RELATIONS
for sustained exports through product and market development including technology transfer and trade related direct investment. |
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MONITORING AND INFLUENCING FRAMEWORK CONDITIONS
by providing information and support for appropriate economic, social and environmental issues conducive to trade facilitation |
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MARKETING THROUGH SPECIALISED TRADE FAIRS
preparation and selection of product collections, assistance for pre-fair and post fair follow-up activities |
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Support for establishing strategic partnerships
Accompanying entrepreneurs during their exploratory visits in India and in Germany preparing meetings and initiating and supporting negotiations.
Giving necessary information and advice about rules and regulations, locations for joint ventures, incentives etc.
Information about social and environmental questions. |
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Accompanying entrepreneurs during their exploratory visits in India and in Germany preparing meetings and initiating and supporting negotiations. |
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Giving necessary information and advice about rules and regulations, locations for joint ventures, incentives etc. |
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Information about social and environmental questions. |
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Preparation of contracts (articles of association and agreements according to the Indian law ) in English and German, if necessary free of cost |
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Provision of logistic assistance to the new company during the initial period to avoid difficulties, |
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Assistance in contacts with financial and other related institutions like DEG, KFW, ICICI, IFCI, NSIC etc. |
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With various initiatives about 35 joint ventures could be established in India. Contacts with companies are intensive because of the long co-operation with them over many years. Detailed company profiles are available at present for more than 4000 companies. |
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Similar relations have been built up in Germany and other European countries. Co-operation exists with thel important associations including the apex bodies, economic research institutes, etc. |
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Trade promotion activities of IGEP are carried out in co-operation with the concerned Export Promotion Councils, Associations, Chambers of Commerce and financial institutions both in India and in EU/Germany. The work done over the past years has enabled IGEP to acquire and build up a reservoir of expertise in trade promotion activities. This aspect, in turn, enabled access to relevant institutions and organizations both in India and EU/Germany. It has established co-operation agreements with many of them. |
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For the coming months the following activities are planned by IGEP in the field of investment promotion; |
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To bring the German Mittelstand (SME) companies to India through the IGEP initiated Indo-German Round Tables. (Target figure about 50-70 companies.) |
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To explore the possibilities of trade intensification and joint ventures with the ten new EU member countries, especially with Poland, Czech and Slovak Republic, Hungary, the Baltic states and also focus on emerging older member countries like Spain and Portugal. |
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