Top Free Zones were rewarded for their Internet Communications Strategies at the 2009 World Free Zone Convention. The World Free Zone Convention (WFZC) and IPAWorld recompensed four winners at the 2009 Website Awards, held in Hyderabad, India.
UAE's Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone Authority took the number one slot for the Best Free Zone Website, followed by Runner Up Hamriyah Free Zone Authority, also from the UAE. The Best Zone or Other Authority Website Award went to SKIL Infrastructure Ltd. From India and with as Runner Up the Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) coming a close second.
Graham Mather, Chairman of the London-based World Free Zone Convention said: “WFZC is delighted to see how far Free Zones and Zones have embraced the Internet since we instigated the Website awards with media partners IPAWorld in 2002. Our 2009 winners are leading examples of the forward-looking communications’ strategies adopted by free zones today”.
The World Free Zone/IPAWorld Website Awards were established in 2002 to acknowledge and encourage the positive value of the internet for communications between Free Zones and their clients across widely divergent regions of the world.
Peter Lemagnen, Managing Director of Oxford Intelligence, the publishers of IPAWorld said: “We have supported the WFZC WebSite Award initiative since the start. These four winners demonstrate how Free Zones are now using the Internet as one of their primary communication channels and lead generation tools.”
The WFZC Website Awards have seen 24 winners since their outset from zones and countries such as India’s Krishnapatnam Port; Canadian Construction Association; Jebel Ali (UAE); Esbas Aegean Free Zones (Turkey); and other zones from Serbia, Gran Canaria and South Africa. Peter Lemagnen added; “As a technology-driven consultancy at the forefront of Trade and Investment issues, we could see then (in 2002) just how much the Internet would change global business – Free Zones have continued to benefit from and help influence that change.”
About the World Free Zone Convention (WFZC): The World Free Zone Convention, based in London, UK monitors special economic Zones around the world - more than 120 countries now have some form of zone development programme - India, China & South East Asia, the Middle East, North and South America, the Russian Federation and Central Asia, Europe and Africa. Since mid 2008 WFZC has published a monthly Zones Activity Report.Speakers and Delegates who have participated in WFZC’s various meetings represent a wide cross-section of organisations from almost all these countries, and from others considering their establishment - Zones and the Authorities who regulate them, Government Ministries, Investment Promotion Agencies, Corporates and Location Specialists as well as Investors, Banks and other Financial Advisers.Since 2001 WFZC has built up an unparalleled network of partners, sponsors and speakers who have contributed to events held in London, Brussels, Skopje, Cairo, Cape Town, Cannes, Izmir, Geneva, Paris, Kuala Lumpur, The Netherlands and the United States.
About IPAWorld: IPAWorld delivers economic development, trade and investment promotion professionals with daily personalised information resources and business intelligence. It is the only independent publication focused on the needs of the global economic development and investment promotion community. Established in 1999, by Oxford Intelligence, IPAWorld provides news, leads and investor profiles on companies making Foreign Direct Investment moves, in addition to key content on the latest reports, competitor data, events and jobs in and around FDI. IPAWorld is the daily information resource for executives involved in attracting foreign investment and promoting local companies abroad.
About Oxford Intelligence: Established in 1996, with offices in Oxford, London, Paris, The Hague, Moscow, Frankfurt and Boston, Oxford Intelligence is a recognised leader in the provision of consulting and quality business information to international businesses and government agencies. It delivers solutions to facilitate overseas business development and to meet foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade promotion needs.
Since 1996 Oxford Intelligence’s experience and superior FDI intelligence has enabled clients to rapidly build their cross-border presence through trusted Corporate Location services and top-level connections in national, regional and city governments globally.
