Expert on inward investment and life in the UK | CEO InvestUK
London, Mayfair
Joined February 2014
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Just reached a great milestone of 100,000 views on my TED Talk, very proud! With all the talk about sovereignty surrounding Brexit it is more relevant than ever. #brexit #Sovereignty #TedTalk
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🇬🇧🇮🇳 Today I signed the UK-India Enhanced Trade Partnership with my friend @PiyushGoyal. Together, we have committed to:
👉Negotiating a comprehensive free trade deal, starting this autumn
👉More than doubling trade by 2030
👉Reducing barriers to trade in key industries
My response to the Prime Ministers announcement of further reduction to carbon emissions. #climatechange
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Great to see the UK agreeing so many great and economically beneficial trade deals with countries from all over the world, strengthening our relationships with all involved. #Trade #deal #UK
Following the Serbia signing - 94 nations have signed trade deals with the UK
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#UKTrade
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American-owned GE Renewable Energy is set to build a new new multi-million pound wind turbine blade manufacturing plant on Teesside. The huge investment is expected to create 750 direct jobs and a further 1.500 across the UK’s supply chain. bit.ly/30AkTaG #UKmfg🇬🇧
First BIG win for the #UK Office for Investment and another big win for @tradegovuk and #globalbritain.
Today I signed UK-UAE Sovereign Investment Partnership agreement with @Mubadala for:
👉£800 million for the UK’s world leading life sciences sector
👉More jobs and growth across the UK
👉Deeper cooperation with the UAE on key sectors
🇦🇪🇬🇧Read more: bit.ly/2PrNs7O
"During the first three months of the year, venture capital firms invested $7.6 billion into U.K. tech firms, a 124% increase in the first quarter of 2020"
#invest #UK #progression #FDI
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Great to see job creation and foreign investment into the UK. #UK #invest #economy
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Great week:
▪️Smurfit Kappa: £34m investment
▪️GE: New blade factory, 750 jobs
▪️Warburtons: New £18m factory
▪️Nissan: 100 new jobs
▪️Budweiser: £117m investment
▪️Hitachi: £8.5m investment
▪️Oatly: New factory, 200 jobs
▪️SBD Apparel: New factory, 237 jobs
#UKmfg🇬🇧
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Remainers: 'The UK is finished, the City is dead'
The real world:
💷Companies are piling into the UK post #Brexit
🌍Busiest IPO venue in Europe in Q1
📈UK IPO market has had its biggest quarter since 2006
💥May yet still be the best quarter ON RECORD
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Celebrating International Woman's Day - Whitney Wolfe Herd is a shining example for all entrepreneurs - The Bumble Cofounder Becomes World’s Youngest Self-Made Woman Billionaire, Thanks To IPO via @forbes forbes.com/sites/angelauyeun…
As usual the FT underplays a stunning success for the UK in its latest survey of Europe's fastest growing companies The amazing facts are compiled below
No In UK GE FR IT
Top 10: 4 2 0 0
Top 20: 8 5 0 0
Top 30: 12 7 2 0
Top 50: 14 12 3 5
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"London's scores were particularly strong in the innovation" This is great to see that even after #brexit and the skepticism around our economic strength post-deal, that London is still a leading economic city.
London has been ranked the world's top city to invest in according to @Schroders, thanks to scoring highly on environmental and social factors.
Read the full story 👇
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UPDATE: Nissan plans to increase its investment in Britain as it rolls out greener technology. "We've invested over £400 million so far (in Sunderland) and we are planning over the coming years to exceed the £1 billion investment mark." #UKmfg🇬🇧
BREAKING: Nissan unveils next generation Qashqai. The new hybrid model, designed and engineered in the UK, will be built at the Japanese carmaker's Sunderland plant following a £400 million investment. bit.ly/3awUhNE #UKmfg #GBmfg🇬🇧
2020 marks the 60th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall. I am pleased to share the story of my uncle in an article I wrote for the @SundayTelegraph. @invest_uk continues to build lasting global investment networks.
#Berlin #60years #anniversary
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"London is Europe’s major financial centre and one of the world’s two leading financial hubs. This is unlikely to change following Brexit."
spectator.co.uk/article/no-a…
