- MEXICO-CANADA SITE SELECTION & DEVELOPMENT -
MEXICO AND CANADA SITE SELECTION EXPERTISE
For over 20 years, JBA has assisted Canadian companies looking for US locations as well as US companies locating facilities in Canada. He has worked in almost every province and understands the laws and the nuances of working in Canada and handling rules, regulations and programs. Throughout the years, Allston has conducted studies in Kenora, Ft. Frances, Thunder Bay, Nova Scotia, Halifax, Toronto. He has conducted workshops in a multitude of Canadian communities, especially in Northern Ontario. In 2000, the Northern Ontario Development and Mines hired Allston to conduct six workshops on site selection and targeting in five days. In 2007, the same organization asked JBA to repeat his seminar with provincial economic development officials.
In the past JBA worked extensively in the Atlantic Provinces with Deane Foote and gave the Halifax Partnership several cost comparison reports that eventually led the locations of back office/information technology companies into the province. Currently JBA has been working with Western Canadian in efforts for them to enter the US marketplace and share technologies with American companies.
Within the last few years JBA has extended itself into Mexico. JBA affiliate, The Kinnett Consulting Group chairs the Mexico Basic Economic Development Course which has run classes within Mexican economic development in Mexicali, Vera Cruz and Tijuana. Together, Kinnett Consulting and JBA completed a targeting and labor study in Saltillo, Mexico in the province of Coahuila. The studies have develop a marketing plan and program in which Kinnett and JBA introduced the Saltillo economic development officials to over 25 companies in the Midwest over a week period of meetings.
- Now, JBA has teamed with Global Perspectives Integrated, Inc., an international trade counseling and project management firm. The company focuses on advising public and private sector entities interested in "going global" with their product/services.
- In the past ten years, GPI has:
- Counseled hundreds of private companies in their import/export projects.
- Served as an expert agency on small business and international trade for New Mexico's public and private sectors.
- Worked on contract for public and private sector agencies.
- Performed project management in areas of program development and marketing research for public and private sector agencies.
- Had its trade-related information including, columns on international trade published in major periodicals throughout the world
In addition, GPI, along with JBA, can address the very tedious job of assessing and hiring workforce in Mexico.
GPI is headquartered in Santa Teresa, New Mexico with a staff that includes Jerry Pacheco, who has over 20 years experience in working with maquiladora and the Mexican government in several states and at the federal level. GPI’s expertise and knowledge is in the following:
Global Business Resources
Doing Business In Mexico
Together, JBA and GPI make a dynamic experienced team that can assist you in your site selection process, help with trade issues and lower your cost of doing business.
Past clients of GPI include:
Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM):
GPI has worked for PNM in various capacities including conducting background research on potential Mexican joint venture partners; and providing the corporation with market entry counseling for its efforts in Mexico.
SEBRAE:
SEBRAE, the Brazilian furniture manufacturer's association, contracted GPI to do marketing studies for its wicker and rattan furniture in various regions of the U.S. In this extensive project, GPI created a series of reports, published in Brazilian Portuguese, which were used by the association to start exporting newly developed products to the U.S.
Disperse Technologies:
This New Jersey-based company contracted GPI to investigate the possibility of manufacturing its health and skincare products in Mexico. GPI also gathered and provided to Disperse specific products standards from the Mexican Ministry of Health.
Verde Realty Group:
Verde, on of the largest development firms on the U.S.-Mexico border, contracted GPI to: create a marketing plan for its marketing mix; provide and analysis on its manufacturing target market; conduct research on Mexican prospects; and to write up the concept of a "binational campus," which is a manufacturing center straddling both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
World Wide Press:
WPP of Tokyo Japan hired GPI as its advance agency to provided contracts and support services for the publication of Mono Magazines' Native American special edition. The Spirit of the Indian merchandise catalog, which were both published in Japan. GPI created and arranged all of the Contacts for WPP's interviews and photo shoots during a 2-week period in the southwestern U.S.
Pica & Olson:
P&O, an Albuquerque-based legal firm, has used GPI as an expert witness in cases involving business and marketing plans. GPI has testified under oath on behalf of P&O's clients involved in legal matters.