Interesting publications


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Flanders... trading with the world

Flanders is famous for producing the quality products and services today’s world demands. Key figure: we export some 85% of our Gross Regional Product. Key words: IT, healthcare, biotechnology, diamonds, fashion, design, logistics, automotive.


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Sourcing quality suppliers can be easy...

No time to lose? A quick look at the services supplied by Flanders Investment & Trade.


Picture - Factbook 2010 - A closer look at Flanders

Factbook 2010 - A closer look at Flanders

This booklet contains an overview of Flanders' most important export and investment figures of 2009.


Picture - Sourcing guide 'Biscuits and pastries from Flanders'

Sourcing guide 'Biscuits and pastries from Flanders'

Fully-updated, this sourcing guide “Biscuits and Pastries from Flanders” features 36 leading Flanders-based manufacturers of baked confectionery of any description, ranging from sinful treats to healthy snacks: waffles and wafers, gingerbread, caramelised biscuits, pancakes, premium brand biscuits, florentine squares, frangipane tartlets, cigarettes russes, frozen convenience, thaw-and-serve desserts and bake-off pastries, ice cream cones, organic or no-added-sugar biscuits, enriched with health-giving ingredients,...


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Sourcing guide 'Building and construction materials'

This sourcing guide has a closer look at over 40 Flemish exporters of innovative building and construction materials for residential, utility, industrial and engineering applications alike. The product mix clearly reaches far beyond your regular bricks and mortar and also includes pavers and flags, roofing and cladding materials, fibre cement products, precast concrete elements, formwork shuttering, composite concrete floors, hollowcore slab production equipment, steel building components, timber sectional building, access flooring, drainage systems, reconstructed and engineered stone, masonry and concrete reinforcement...


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Sourcing guide 'Chocolate, confectionery and sweet spreads'

Chocolate is a true Belgian icon around the world. No wonder that each year, over a billion euro worth of the world’s best chocolates “made in Flanders” is shipped across the globe to chocolate-loving palates. Global chocoholics are indeed spoilt for choice in Flanders. Luckily, they can now fall back on this sector focus as a great sourcing tool for “all things sweet”. It includes company profiles of over 100 Flanders-based firms, all vying for the attention of “sweet-seeking” taste buds. You name it, it’s all in there…: praline chocolates, bars, snacks, tablets, sweet spreads, honey, marmalade, marzipan, nougat, mints, lollipops, chews, toffees, gums and jellies, marshmallows, choc coins, pâte de fruits…even companies manufacturing the equipment these treats are made on feature in this report.


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Sourcing guide 'Convenience Food from Flanders'

The Convenience Food from Flanders report features 20 Flemish convenience food manufacturers, most of them member companies of BReMA, the Belgian Ready Meals Association, the sole representative trade body within the Belgian ready meals industry. Every single one of the companies listed, are proven providers of innovative meal solutions: with product categories as wide-ranging as chilled, frozen and ambient recipe dishes, ready meals, meal components and snack meals inspired by favourite traditional national recipes, Mediterranean, oriental, ethnic cuisine...), sandwich fillings, hot and cold sauces and dips, prepared salads, frozen vegetables and fruits, IQF culinary herbs...; to varying levels of convenience: ready-to-cook, ready to reheat, ready-to-eat...; providing healthy meal options (fresh, flavoursome, nutritionally-balanced, salt- and fat-reduced, along GDA guidelines...); targeted at various channels within the food distribution market (food retail, catering and foodservice, the out-of-home eating sector...).


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Sourcing guide 'Interior floor & wall coverings'

This sourcing guide offers company profiles of some 70 Flanders-based manufacturers of interior floor and wall covering products for residential and/or contract use. Not surprisingly – in view of Flanders’ centuries-old reputation for innovative textile production - a sizeable number of these are engaged in manufacturing area rugs, wall-to-wall carpeting and carpet tiles. Still, the scope of products also includes traditional parquet, veneered parquet, engineered flooring, cork flooring and cork wall covering, skirting boards, vinyl and laminate flooring, wallfashion collections etc. The ceiling is the limit.


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Sourcing guide 'Renewables from Flanders'

Flanders has not been spared the toll a thriving economy takes on the environment. Yet it did not ignore its environmental wake-up call and set out to tackle the pollution of its most valuable natural resources : water soil and air.

With demand for environmental technology lively and on the rise both at home and abroad Flemish environmental companies now cater for this demand by offering a broad quality range in the best available technologies that have since met with considerable success on export markets too.

This sector focus offers a sample of Flemish environmental technology in the soil, air and water areas. In it are 44 companies, varying as to their scope of activity and size : some of them are technology suppliers, others service providers such as soil sanitizers, international environmental contractors and multi-disciplinary environmental consultants. Some are unrivalled global players, others promising niche companies.

Have a closer look at the company profiles of these Flemish environmental companies trade bodies, research institutions and government organisations in the environment area.

They will probably provide you with the key to cleaning up the soil you tread on, the air you breathe and the water you consume…


Picture - Sourcing guide 'Soil remediation, water and air treatment'

Sourcing guide 'Soil remediation, water and air treatment'

Flanders has not been spared the toll a thriving economy takes on the environment. Yet it did not ignore its environmental wake-up call and set out to tackle the pollution of its most valuable natural resources : water soil and air. With demand for environmental technology lively and on the rise both at home and abroad Flemish environmental companies now cater for this demand by offering a broad quality range in the best available technologies that have since met with considerable success on export markets too. This sector focus offers a sample of Flemish environmental technology in the soil, air and water areas. In it are 44 companies, varying as to their scope of activity and size : some of them are technology suppliers, others service providers such as soil sanitizers, international environmental contractors and multi-disciplinary environmental consultants. Some are unrivalled global players, others promising niche companies.


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The ICT industry in Flanders

This brochure was created to provide you with a sample of Flanders’ impressive and diverse ICT industry. Driven by innovation, creativity, technological expertise and entrepreneurship, ICT fi rms in Flanders have acquired European as well as global leadership positions.


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The Life Sciences Industry in Flanders

This recently updated brochure provides an overview of how Flanders offers life sciences companies a long and successful tradition in discovery and development, and production and logistics. Leading pharmaceutical companies in the region include Janssen Pharmaceutica, Schering Plough, Pfizer, Alcon and AstraZeneca, for example. There also are more than 40 discovery-based biotech firms as well as leaders in medical devices and medical imaging, such as Becton Dickinson and Agfa. For life science companies looking to move into Europe, Flanders is the right place to be…


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The Logistics Industry in Flanders

The hub of Europe, the heart of Europe Located at the heart of Europe's core economy, Flanders provides the right location, the right platform and the right infrastructure for companies establishing pan-European logistics operations. In fact, some 60% of European Union purchasing power lies within just 300 miles. This brochure describes the quality infrastructure available to logistics operations - from three of Europe's leading ports, two airports, an extensive inland waterway system and a high density of both road and rail networks, through to connectivity and reliability in communications and IT. The brochure also looks at the thriving logistics community already using the region as a base and at the support services available, as well as offering testimonials from those who know...


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The Fifth Conference Clean

Book with articles and cases about the Energy, Environment & Sustainability sectors in Flanders and Belgium


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The Fifth Conference Grow

Book about Belgian companies who have grown through strong entrepreneurship


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The Fifth Conference Innovators

Book with articles and cases about Innovation and Design in Flanders and Belgium.


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The Fifth Conference Move

Book with articles and cases about the Energy, Environment & Sustainability sectors in Flanders and Belgium


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Factsheet - IBBT

Factsheet - IBBT: Flanders’ research institute for ICT and broadband


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Factsheet - IMEC

Factsheet - IMEC: a world leading research center on nanotechnology and nanoelectronics


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Factsheet - The Notional Interest Deduction

Factsheet - Flanders’ unique tax proposition