How we help
Focus areas
FT Locations supports your IPA and EDO across all focus areas.
Analyse and attract the most suitable cross-border investments across key markets and sectors with our best-in-class data and research tools. Our data and analysis products combine the world's largest set of corporate investment data with analytical insights, covering hundreds of thousands of businesses globally.
Our data and analysis tools can help you develop targeted sector and market plans, unlock new business growth initiatives, and refine your marketing so your organisation stands out in the global landscape.
- Track greenfield FDI across all markets and sectors
- Benchmark your locations competitiveness
- Analyse global corporate incentives
- Monitor domestic investment (UK + Canada)
Without the right marketing and attraction tools, valuable leads may slip away unnoticed.
Our powerful suite of solutions and GIS mapping software can help you visualise a location's strengths, showcase corporate investments and promote a location to a global corporate audience. You can also create custom reports, virtual tours and respond to prospects with unmatched speed and precision.
- Help prospects analyse and visualise your location's assets online
- Track and map the corporate investments in your location
- Create interactive virtual tours for your location's top assets
- Advertise your location to a global corporate audience
We've worked with some of the world's most notable public and private organisations, building up years of specialist knowledge and experience.
Our powerful consulting services create high-impact value propositions, identify top-tier investors, and forecast sector-specific investment potential. Our tailored strategies can help you target and engage with prospective corporate investors and community stakeholders.
- Marketing strategy and value proposition development
- Sector and market prioritisation studies
- Competitive positioning and location benchmarking
- Strategic investor targeting
Discover, develop and capitalise on business development opportunities with gold-standard data and processes.
Our economic development focused CRM can help you identify, engage and manage your pipeline with targeted prospects. Our influencers database and lead generation events can help you build a more focused and efficient development plan across all global markets.
- Access a database of 27,000 corporate investment intermediaries
- Accessible CRM built for EDO's and IPA's
- Lead generation events tailored to your organisation
Empower your economic development teams with our professional development solutions.
Our e-learning platform, bespoke investment attraction workshops and tailored capacity-building programmes can help unlock your team's full potential. Plus, with a free subscription to fDi Intelligence Magazine - packed with industry insights, trends and location rankings - you can stay ahead of the competition.
- Upskill your team with our globally recognised e-learning platform
- Organise a custom training workshop suited to your organisation's needs
- Request a free subscription to fDi Intelligence Magazine for the latest research trends and rankings
How we help
Focus areas
FT Locations supports your IPA and EDO across all focus areas.
Data and analysis
Analyse and attract the most suitable cross-border investments across key markets and sectors with our best-in-class data and research tools. Our data and analysis products combine the world's largest set of corporate investment data with analytical insights, covering hundreds of thousands of businesses globally.
Our data and analysis tools can help you develop targeted sector and market plans, unlock new business growth initiatives, and refine your marketing so your organisation stands out in the global landscape.
- Track greenfield FDI across all markets and sectors
- Benchmark your locations competitiveness
- Analyse global corporate incentives
- Monitor domestic investment (UK + Canada)
Marketing and attraction
Without the right marketing and attraction tools, valuable leads may slip away unnoticed.
Our powerful suite of solutions and GIS mapping software can help you visualise a location's strengths, showcase corporate investments and promote a location to a global corporate audience. You can also create custom reports, virtual tours and respond to prospects with unmatched speed and precision.
- Help prospects analyse and visualise your location's assets online
- Track and map the corporate investments in your location
- Create interactive virtual tours for your location's top assets
- Advertise your location to a global corporate audience
Strategy and consulting
We've worked with some of the world's most notable public and private organisations, building up years of specialist knowledge and experience.
Our powerful consulting services create high-impact value propositions, identify top-tier investors, and forecast sector-specific investment potential. Our tailored strategies can help you target and engage with prospective corporate investors and community stakeholders.
- Marketing strategy and value proposition development
- Sector and market prioritisation studies
- Competitive positioning and location benchmarking
- Strategic investor targeting
Business development
Discover, develop and capitalise on business development opportunities with gold-standard data and processes.
Our economic development focused CRM can help you identify, engage and manage your pipeline with targeted prospects. Our influencers database and lead generation events can help you build a more focused and efficient development plan across all global markets.
- Access a database of 27,000 corporate investment intermediaries
- Accessible CRM built for EDO's and IPA's
- Lead generation events tailored to your organisation
Professional development
Empower your economic development teams with our professional development solutions.
Our e-learning platform, bespoke investment attraction workshops and tailored capacity-building programmes can help unlock your team's full potential. Plus, with a free subscription to fDi Intelligence Magazine - packed with industry insights, trends and location rankings - you can stay ahead of the competition.
- Upskill your team with our globally recognised e-learning platform
- Organise a custom training workshop suited to your organisation's needs
- Request a free subscription to fDi Intelligence Magazine for the latest research trends and rankings
Products and services
Best solutions for IPAs and EDOs globally
Gain the insights to compete more effectively. Our solutions have been built and refined over years of working with high-performing economic development organisations.
FT Locations surpassed our expectations with their timely delivery, adherence to budget constraints and exceptional communication. Their impressive skill set ensured the project's success, making them an invaluable partner in the creation of this data-informed strategy.
FT Locations tools we subscribe to are absolutely amazing and enable us to engage investors on a higher level. fDi Benchmark has ensured that we have a value proposition to offer. Companies that we meet are quite impressed and find the information very relevant.
Our team of experts
Trusted global FDI and economic development experts
As the world's most trusted provider of economic development data solutions and consulting, FT Locations has supported thousands of economic development and investment promotion agencies globally.
Our data-first approach to attracting investment combines traditional research tools with proprietary data and decades of experience in economic development and investment promotion.
Our extensive expertise means we're well placed to help locations, and the companies they hope to attract, better navigate the corporate expansion process and compete more effectively.
Attract, facilitate and retain more corporate investment to your location
Make better, more informed decisions with our location intelligence solutions.
