LOCATION EUROPE INTRODUCTION — If you’ve decided to join the ever-increasing number of growing companies that set up shop in Europe, you’ve come to the right place.

Maybe it’s because you want to save on the high cost of deliveries, or meet local competition head on. Maybe it’s because you’ve had great success – or not enough success – through a European partner. Whatever the impetus, the reasons are usually the same: cost, control and opportunity. Once it gets too difficult or expensive to do business from the U.S., establishing a European base of operations makes sense.

Well, Location Europe was designed to help you go about it in the right way. It covers two of the major activities companies go to Europe for: marketing and sales or logistics and distribution. If your focus is technology and product development, you can find more specific information, such as matchmaking services, at nfia.com/matchmaking.

Location Europe was designed by the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency. Over the years, we’ve received many calls from growing businesses like yours. Most of them had been doing business in Europe to some extent already. But actually setting up operations themselves was a little daunting. Since they didn’t have the budget for outside consultants, or the expertise in-house, these companies had few resources for advice.

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