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| Regional Manager Emmie van Halder-Eicher Oldenbarneveltlaan 9 2582NE The Hague The Netherlands Tel: +31(0) 70 358 61 58 Fax: +31 70 322 8049 Mobile: +31- 653-20-2105 E-mail:evhalder@theyorkgroup.com |
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Ms. Van Halder specializes in helping North American companies that want to get established in the Netherlands, or that want to enter Europe via the Netherlands, as well as working with Dutch companies that want to go international. She has a well-established client base in Holland, and counts Amazon.com among the American companies she has helped set up in Holland.
| Justine Stanley Johan van Oldenbarneveltlaan 9 2582 NE The Hague The Netherlands Tel: +31 (0) 70 355 93 26 Mobile: +31 (0) 628 271 712 Fax: +31 (0) 70 322 80 43 E-mail:jstanley@theyorkgroup.com |
Justine Stanley brings skills that include commercialization, marketing and sales strategy and financial analysis. Now managing a variety of projects for various customers, her background is supporting international expansion with business intelligence, strategic business development and implementation services.
Justine is a British university educated UK national, but has lived in the Netherlands since 1993.
Regional Spending on Information and Communications Technology
(Data provided by WITSA - www.witsa.org/digitalplanet
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| Spending (%millions) | ||
| Technology Sectors | Belgium | Netherlands |
| Hardware | 2,652 | 4,993 |
| Software | 1.979 | 5,077 |
| Services | 3,863 | 7,541 |
| Communications | 10,085 | 18,440 |
| TOTAL ICT Spend | 18,578 | 36,050 |
| Vertical Markets | ||
| Agriculture | 13 | 60 |
| Manufacturing | 2,233 | 4,191 |
| Utilities | 332 | 666 |
| Construction | 178 | 435 |
| Wholesale & Retail | 1,759 | 3,679 |
| Transportation & Communication | 1,952 | 3,554 |
| Finance & Bus. Services | 3,377 | 6,882 |
| Other Services | 999 | 1,305 |
| Government | 3,449 | 7,579 |
| Consumer | 4,283 | 7,612 |
| Software Piracy | 29% | 32% |
Top 5 reasons to consider Netherlands as a place to do business:
1. Excellent language skills and English is widely spoken as a second
language
2. Best ITC/Internet absorption in Europe
3. Good test market: the Dutch are early adopters, but also critical
buyers. If you can sell in the Netherlands you can sell anywhere in
Europe
4. Easy access to rest of European market
5. Stable economic environment with virtually no strikes.