Singapore’s Manufacturing Boom Has an Outbound Dimension. Few IPAs Are Tracking It.
The fastest-scaling sectors are hitting a capacity ceiling. The next unit of output has to go somewhere. Singapore’s manufacturing sector entered 2026 with momentum that caught many analysts off guard. Output grew 15% in the fourth quarter of 2025, driven by biomedical manufacturing and AI-linked electronics demand. The manufacturing PMI reached 50.3 in December 2025, […]
Gulf Capital Has Moved On from Real Estate. The IPA Pitch Deck Has Not.
GCC family offices manage $270bn and are deploying into operating assets, direct deals, and Asia. Mostinvestment promotion agencies are still leading with property incentives The default assumption about Gulf capital – particularly among investment promotion agencies in Europe and Asia – is that it flows into real estate. For a long time, that was broadly […]
PLI Has Built India’s Export Manufacturing Base. The Next Move Is International.
₹2.4 lakh crore in commitments. A cohort of mid-market manufacturers is now evaluating overseas locations. India’s Production Linked Incentive scheme has attracted over ₹2.4 lakh crore in investment commitments through March 2026 across 14 sectors. PLI-covered industries recorded average annual export growth of approximately 10.6% between FY21 and FY25. Electronics production has risen from ₹1.9 […]
UK Manufacturers Are Rerouting. Investment Follows Trade.
Tariffs and supply chain pressure are forcing British manufacturers to recalibrate their global footprint. TheIPAs that understand this get the deal. The ones that don’t get the announcement. UK manufacturers are being forced to rethink how and where they trade. Research from Make UK and DHLExpress published in May 2026 documents the pressure directly: tariffs, […]
Saudi Arabia’s Private Sector Is Ready to Move. IPAs Are Not in the Room.
Vision 2030’s third phase is producing outbound investors. They do not attend investment promotion events.They do not wait for a pitch deck. 2026 marks the start of Vision 2030’s third phase – a deliberate shift from launching economic reforms to extracting returns from them at scale. For investment promotion agencies, this transition carries a specific […]
India’s Outbound Investment Is at a Record High — and a New Cohort Is Leading It
$47bn in FY26. The firms moving capital internationally have changed. So has the opportunity India’s outbound FDI reached a record $47 billion in FY26, up from $41.6 billion the previous year. The headline number is receiving attention across investment promotion circles globally. The composition beneath it is not – and that is precisely where outreach […]
The 5-acre decision for manufacturing scaleups
Cost, compliance, supply chain — in that order For a manufacturing scaleup, the first plant decision is a different problem than expanding the third. The five-acre version — small footprint, first or second facility, often the first time the company is buying land overseas — has its own traps. The instinct is to lead with […]
Why facilitation matters more than analysis
And where the handoff usually breaks Location decisions get a lot of analysis. Spreadsheets, reports, scoring matrices, peer comparisons. The analysis is necessary. It’s also rarely the constraint. The constraint is facilitation — what happens after the decision, when an organisation actually has to land in a place. Permits, approvals, the first conversation with the […]
From shortlist to setup
The 90-day window most teams underestimate Most expansion projects pour energy into the location decision — assessment, shortlist, board approval. The work that determines actual outcomes happens after the decision, in a 90-day window most teams under-resource. This is the gap between “we’ve chosen Country X” and “we’re operating in Country X.” It’s where momentum […]
Geopolitical risk for the mid-market
A pragmatic filter, not a 60-page report Geopolitical risk frameworks were designed for global enterprises with multi-country exposure and the resources to model it. For a $50M scaleup choosing between two or three locations, those frameworks are over-engineered. The answer isn’t to ignore the question — it’s to ask it differently. A pragmatic filter, in […]