brandannual 2019
The brandannual magazine has been issued for the 6 year. The magazine covers brand-relevant topics in the area of financing, brand management, current studies, people and industry trends. This year covering Destination, City & Region Branding, Corporate Branding, Brands for Competitiveness and Sustainable Growth, Innovation, Alternative Financing as well as several high-ranked companies, programs, projects, nations and initiatives.
The brandannual magazine has been issued for the 6 year. The magazine covers brand-relevant topics in the area of financing, brand management, current studies, people and industry trends.
This year covering Destination, City & Region Branding, Corporate Branding, Brands for Competitiveness and Sustainable Growth, Innovation, Alternative Financing as well as several high-ranked companies, programs, projects, nations and initiatives.
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Cuba<br />
Greetings<br />
Mariel Special<br />
Development Zone<br />
attracting foreign investors<br />
H. E. Juan Antonio Fernández Palacios<br />
Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba and Permanent<br />
Representative to the United Nations Office at Vienna<br />
and the International Organizations based in Austria<br />
Mariel Special Development Zone is the<br />
first of its type in Cuba and enjoys a<br />
privileged geographic location, in the<br />
center of the Caribbean Sea, at the crossroads<br />
of the main maritime commercial traffic<br />
routes in the Western Hemisphere.<br />
ZED Mariel provides a world class production<br />
and logistics platform which will enable<br />
an increase in national production levels,<br />
reduce import costs, boost growth, create jobs<br />
and facilitate direct foreign investment.<br />
It is an area of the national territory, located<br />
in the north of Artemisa province, 45 km west<br />
of Havana, regulated by special regimes and<br />
policies, designed to attract investment in the<br />
production of goods and the provision of services<br />
with added value, using knowledge and<br />
innovation, as well as clean technologies.<br />
The Biotechnology Industrial Complex is<br />
one of the largest projects within the Zone,<br />
where latest generation products will be manufactured.<br />
Cuba’s portfolio of foreign investment opportunities<br />
2018-<strong>2019</strong> contains 525 projects, seeking<br />
total financing of over 11.6 billion dollars.<br />
These initiatives are distributed across the<br />
country, and 45 of them are in the Mariel Special<br />
Development Zone.<br />
Tourism is the sector with the greatest<br />
number of proposals, with 187 projects<br />
included in the portfolio. Tourism represents<br />
an important strength for the country, in<br />
attracting foreign capital and exporting services,<br />
while work underway to build productive<br />
links with the rest of the national economy<br />
continues.<br />
Investments in solar parks and wind farms<br />
continue, while those related to power generation<br />
from biomass in bioelectric plants have<br />
begun, supporting the plans for changing the<br />
energy matrix, and the increase in the use of<br />
renewable energy sources.<br />
ZED Mariel and Cuban companies are<br />
ready to hear your investment proposal.<br />
Foto: Cuban Embassy<br />
The Business and Investment Magazine <strong>brandannual</strong> 25
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