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Rotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb met business leaders of Turkey during his visit to Istanbul!

The Mayor of Rotterdam Mr. Ahmed Aboutaleb met prominent business leaders of Turkey in a CEO lunch hosted by the Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Istanbul, Mr. Onno Kervers, on December 8 at Palais de Hollande.  The Mayor learned from the experiences and opinions of a number of major players in the economic field especially engaged in food, chemicals, energy, logistics and shipping industries with the aim to promote and strengthen business opportunities in/via Rotterdam. Mr. Aldo Kaslowski, President, Organik Holding A.S., Mr. Ali Ülker, Vice Chairman of the Board, Yıldız Holding A.S., Mr. Atilla Kurama, CFO, Yıldız Holding A.S., CEO Gozde Private Equity, Ms. Ebru Özdemir, Member of the Board, Limak Holding Inc., Ms. İdil Yiğitbaşı, Chairperson, Yasar Holding A.S., Mr. Mehmet Habbab, Chairman of the Board, Delta Petrolium Products Trading Company, Mr. Osman Okyay, Group Head Technical Division, Kale Group of Companies, Mr. Ömer Araz, President, Normed Group, Mr. Sami Habbab, Member of the Board, Delta Petrolium Products Trading Company, Mr. Sani Şener, Executive Board Member & CEO, TAV Airports Holding were among the distinguished guests as well as Mr. Seyit Yeyden, Chairman, District Municipality of Feijenoord, Mr. Levent Deniz, Assistant Director of Foreign Relations, Municipality of Greater Istanbul.

NFIA and Brabant Investment Agency (BOM), in association with Isbank "Executive Investment Roundtable on "Brabant Region the Netherlands: Access to Markets & Partners"" 

NFIA Turkey and BOM, in association with Isbank, realized an executive panel on “Brabant Region, the Netherlands: Access to Markets & Partners” on September 29, Thursday at Isbank Kuleleri in Levent. As NFIA and BOM, we are honored to collaborate with Turkiye Is Bankasi for this special event  and had the pleasure of the support  from Mazars Denge and Capital & Ekonomist! The panel brought together the country`s  top executives  around the table for a strategic discussion about possibilities in the Netherlands.

The Regional Minister for Economic and International Affairs of the Province of Brabant Mr. Bert  Pauli, the Consul General of the Kingdom of Netherlands Mr. Onno Kervers, Deputy Chief Executive Mr. Erdal A. Aral and Area Director Turkey NFIA Ms. Deniz MISIR were among the speakers.

_{For a copy of the program please click here}

News

• NIKE, Inc. announces strategic partnership with Dutch DyeCoo to scale waterless dyeing technology
• Midtronics Opens New European Headquarters, Press release
• Dutch seed companies among global top, Expatica
• More international partners to invest in TI Food and Nutrition, TIFN
• GoGrid opens European operations in Amsterdam, nfia.nl
• Bloomberg Best Countries For Business - Netherlands ranks 2
• Helly Hansen expands in Limburg
• Amsterdam still popular with foreign firms, DN and ia
• Plastic pipe maker Wavin taken over by Mexichem for €530m, DN
• Rotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb met business leaders of Turkey during his visit to Istanbul!
• Nominee for Capital – Johnnie Walker CEO Contest “Walkers to Success”*: Deniz MISIR, Area Director Turkey, NFIA
• Lotus Jeans' European Headquarters: established in the Netherlands
• Taxi chooses Amsterdam over London !
• "Biomedica", the leading interdisciplinary congress in Human Health will be held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands on 7-8 April 2011.
• Turkey's leading label and trimming supplier Prop Labels establishes marketing & sales in Rotterdam
• Foreign investment levels unchanged in the Netherlands: IBM report, DN, FD en AG
• Dutch jobless figures lowest in eurozone, RN
• Dutch exports return to pre-crisis levels, DN
• Netherlands Turkey Trade Directory

Reasons to Invest in Holland

• Strategic location in Europe
• International business environment
• Superior logistics and technology infrastructure
• Highly educated, multilingual and flexible workforce
• Quality of life
• Favorable fiscal climate

Why invest in Holland?

• Corporate income tax rate of %20 on the first €200.000. 

• In respect of R&D, companies can benefit from innovation box, resulting in an effective tax rate of %5; also R&D allowance (WBSO) for wage tax and social security deduction contributions. 

• %30 ruling: tax-free reimbursement of the employee’s salary. 

• More importantly, participation exemption meaning that all benefits related to a qualifying shareholding (subsidiary) are exempt from Dutch corporate income tax. 

• Fiscal unity regime designed to offset profits and losses among group members 

• Advantages in debt and loss restructuring. 

• A wide tax treaty network, resulting in deduction of withholding taxes on dividends, interests and loyalties. 

• Open tax administration (Dutch ruling practice allowing for clarity and certainty in future tax positions) 

• Good legal and banking system 

• Infrastructure, skilled and multi-lingual labor 

• And on top of all these, the network of 19 offices that we have all around the world, providing free of charge and on confidential basis services to companies that would like to expand in/through the Netherlands with EU operations. We help investors with needs related to various stages of an investment project

Find out why companies like Samsung Electronics, Tata Consultancy Services, FedEx, Cisco Systems, Abbott Laboratories, Nike, and Starbucks Corporation have already invested in Holland.