GBDI Program Objectives

• Create international awareness of Northeast Ohio through the deployment of comprehensive communications and target marketing strategies.
• Develop regional economic development support programs that provide NEOTEC members with unique and effective ways to attract new capital investment and jobs.
• Provide NEOTEC members the opportunity to leverage their marketing budget through regional coordination and participation in international marketing activities.
• Serve as a central point of communications, collaboration and integration between economic development organizations within the NEOTEC region.
• Position Northeast Ohio as a preferred location for foreign companies serving the North American markets.
• Ease the location process for foreign companies through deployment of the Global Rapid Response Team
• Continue the development of an effective international business environment through the management and promotion of Foreign-Trade Zone 181, and the services of the International Trade Assistance Center (ITAC).
• Increase our efforts to bring visibility to the logistics assets of Northeast Ohio through aggressive promotion. Continue the development of the Northeast Ohio Logistics Network to explore new ways to improve the flow of goods, information, and people in and out of the Northeast Ohio region.
• Expand our efforts to strengthen relationships through collaboration with other regional, national and international groups and associations to further the objectives of NEOTEC and to add value to other local and regional marketing efforts.
• Convert more inquiries to projects for the region with a “rapid-response” system to inquiries, and through a consistent and aggressive lead management process.
• Develop an international Northeast Ohio brand as a Global Trade Region.