On 19th September 2012 in Sarajevo, FIPA organized a press conference in order to promote promotional spots recorder by Agency during 2012.
Speakers at the conference were the FIPA Director Ms Jelica Grujic, the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway in B&H H.E. Ms Vibeke Lilloe, and the Director of Daccoment from Zurich in Switzerland and the President of the Board of Standard as Prnjavor Mr Edin Dacic.
In order to promote better foreign investment, the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency of B&H (FIPA) in cooperation with the Norwegian Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina has made short promotional films on bh strategic economic sectors that also include brief statements and experiences of existing investors. The focus was on the energy sector, metal-proccessing, wood and tourism sector, and the films were made in English.
In addition to general information about these sectors, the project included sixteen companies who presented their reasons why they decided to invest in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and also presented some of their future plans.
According to the Central Bank of B&H, the amount of total foreign investment in B&H is 10.6 billion KM. Out of this 567 million are related to 2011, which makes increase of 32% compared to 2010 when the flux of foreign investments amounted to 431 million KM.
In 2012, according to the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of B&H, in the first six months it was recorded 51.4 million KM of foreign investments (including increase and decrease of the capital). The most significant investments in the first half of the 2012 were from the Croatian (27 million KM), Serbia (24 million KM), Turkey (11.5 million KM), Slovenia (6 million KM).
The aim of making short promotional films is to present Bosnia and Herzegovina as a country that has significant investment opportunities and the country that offers a wide range of industrial activities that can attract foreign capital, and that it is worth investing in, as confirmed by experience and testimony of the existing investors in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Promotional videos you can also follow on:
YouTube: www.youtube.com / InvestInBiH
Facebook: www.facebook.com / InvestInBiH