Thank you, economic developers!

International Trade Administration sent this bulletin at 05/13/2016 03:36 PM EDT

Congratulations on a great #EconDevWeek

SelectUSA Executive Director Vinai Thummalapally

Every day, economic developers across the United State work to create, attract, and retain jobs in their local communities. This week, the International Economic Development Council (IEDC) is leading Economic Development Week to thank economic developers for their contributions to economic growth and the quality of life in their regions.

SelectUSA works with these economic developers to help them attract foreign direct investment (FDI), and in the process, we see just how hard they work. They are often at it for long hours, stretching across multiple time zones. They’re on their feet for days, pitching people at trade fairs and patiently answering questions. We saw this most recently at Hannover Messe, as more than 90 U.S. economic development organizations (EDOs) worked incredibly hard to find the right leads among more than 200,000 attendees. Then, they painstakingly follow up, business card by business card, for months and sometimes years, with potential investors.

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