Pence will travel with a delegation of Hoosier business leaders to Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou, the capital city of Zhejiang Province, Indiana’s Chinese sister-state. The delegation plans to leave May 9 and return May 16.
The governor has meetings planned with General Motors CEO Mary Barra and executives of other companies, including Honda, Subaru, Fiat Chrysler, and Toyota.
The Indiana governor told Benjamin Netanyahu that he expected Congress to back Israel negotiating to “achieve defenseable borders and secure its own peace and security in the years ahead.”
The governor will meet Monday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Minister of Economy Naftali Bennett to discuss economic relations between Indiana and Israel.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence plans to travel to Israel this month on a nine-day cultural and economic development trip, the state announced Tuesday.
This year’s goal for the Midwest U.S-Japan Association is to find opportunities for the Midwest’s environmental, health and wellness sectors as the population of Japan and the U.S. states age.
Coinciding with Gov. Mike Pence’s economic development trip to Germany this week, three German companies agreed to hire more than 100 workers in Indiana.
The Indianapolis delegation will hit the cities of Hyderabad and New Delhi. Visits will focus on information technology, life sciences, and research groups, organizers said.
About to embark on his eighth trade mission since 2008, Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard is committed to keeping up the city’s international profile, regardless of whether that results in a major economic-development deal.
A group of 20 advisers to Chinese businesses looking to expand in the United States plan to visit several Indiana sites starting Wednesday.
An Indiana trade delegation led by Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman is on its way to Japan after being delayed by a typhoon.
The lieutenant governor's delegation will will leave in September and focus on job creation.
China remains a small market for Eli Lilly and Co. It generated $320 million in sales for the company in 2010, just 1.3 percent of its $23 billion in sales worldwide. But Lilly has big ambitions in China and is racing to capitalize on its rapid economic growth.
With economic growth in the United States sluggish, Indiana companies are joining the race to capitalize on the fast-growing Chinese economy—even as hundreds of millions of Chinese move into the middle class and adopt a Western-style thirst for goods and services.
Develop Indy, Marion County’s local economic development organization, plans to lead a delegation of officials to Australia to attract life sciences-related business opportunities, the group announced Friday morning.
Nanshan America Co. will invest $98.5 million to construct a manufacturing facility and office building, with work slated to begin in the spring. The company will start hiring in the fall.
Firms are taking matters into their own hands to open trade relationships overseas, developing export policies they hope will benefit themselves and their communities.
Daniels and about 40 government and business officials from Indiana are scheduled to be in China until Sunday. The governor and a smaller group will then go to Japan for meetings until returning to Indiana on Nov. 17.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels will lead about 40 business leaders and elected officials on an economic development trip to China and Japan next month.
The area southwest of Shanghai is known as a tourist destination, as well as for its high-tech industrial development zones.
