Services
Expanding in the U.S. or North America
U.S. Business Location Services
Financing Strategies & Acquistion Advisory Services
Expanding in Scandinavia or Germany
International Marketing
Business Partnerships
Economic Development Outreach Support, Federal Goverment Services
International Development Opportunities Originating in the United States
Expanding in the U.S. or North America
Hager Ernst can act as your representative in the United States. Over the last decade, we have helped numerous companies establish business ties in the world’s largest markets, helping them add value to their operations. We offer a wide range of services and solutions for expansion in their respective value chains, from establishing a manufacturing plant or distribution center, to opening a sales office, or finding agents and partners. Hager Ernst offers consulting services, access to its partners, introductions to its network of professional service providers, guidance in dealing with Federal or State government agencies, and market research. Our ties to government at the federal and state levels include most state governments on the densely populated eastern seaboard and across the U.S.
The Mid-Atlantic states around Washington, DC, are home to a broad array of manufacturing industries and technology-focused companies and of course offer the proximity to all major branches of the Federal government.
Hager Ernst’s advisory services in the North American market include:
- Market research
- Distribution and channel strategies
- Agent/partner searches
- All aspects of supporting financial transactions for projects
- Locate and open sales offices, distribution facilities, or helping decide where to locate a manufacturing facility
- Strategic marketing advice and promotion of the company and its products, especially at relevant trade fairs and conferences
- Marketing campaigns
- Support to how to work with the U.S. Federal and State governments, including focused government relation efforts
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U.S. Business Location Services
We provide more than just a site location evaluation
Registering your company in the United States | Opening an office
Using proven location-search criteria, validated by numerous client engagements, Hager Ernst will help you find the ideal location for your U.S. business—and help you get started with staffing.
We help you answer the questions “Which part of the country, city, what part of the town, what size, what is the best value?” for the new endeavor.
If appropriate, we can function as your representative office, using our experience in establishing and running a business and successfully growing that business in the United States. Through our partner, the Reznick Group, we can also provide you with detailed tax advantage calculations for each location once your firm has focused its search.
Manufacturing in the United States | Where to locate
We will help you find the best suited location and help negotiate the best financial incentives.
State and local governments in the United States provide an array of incentives to attract new businesses. We have proven experience with economic development and the many organizations in various states in the United States and a record of success in locating new manufacturing facilities and offices for European companies. Your U.S.-based operation will benefit from our knowledge of locations, market concentrations, processes, commercial benefits, tax advantages and financial incentives provided by state and local governments.
Finding an agent or channel partner
We have cultivated a wide network of partners and agents across many sectors. This can provide your firm the support it needs to launch into the U.S. market.
Some of the services Hager Ernst provides:
- Locating space for your company to grow where it makes the most sense
- Registering your company as a U.S. entity
- Recruiting and staffing
- Introductions to lawyers, accountants, and real estate agents
- Corporate representation if necessary, enabling cost savings in the initial stages
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Financing Strategies & Acquisition Advisory Services
Identifying the proper partner and strategy
With more than 20 years of business development and financial advisory service experience, we are well suited to assist you in validating your expansion strategy and identifying the proper partner candidates for your investment or financing opportunity, helping you create more value and ensure you have the capital to grow.
Securing financing or equity funding
We have years of experience in banking, finance, and mergers & acquisitions. We have successfully placed investments for start-ups and small companies below $1M and led larger acquisitions and financing agreements. We have written or contributed to business plans and strategic investment memoranda related to those transactions. With the relationship to the Reznick Group, even complex due diligence and tax considerations can be addressed through one point of contact.
The technology and biotech cluster around Washington, DC, is accompanied by a strong venture and equity capital industry, complementing the financial center of New York.
Target Identification, Evaluation and Due Diligence
Together with our partners and based on our experience, we can support your acquisition efforts across various industries. With extensive knowledge of international transactions, not only can we identify the proper candidate for your expansion plans, we will also help shape your transaction according to your needs and requirements.
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Expanding in Scandinavia or Germany
Hager Ernst as your representative in Europe – We speak the language! Over the last decade, we have helped numerous companies establish business ties in the world’s largest market, the European Union, helping them add value to their operations.
In addition to our proficiency in the Scandinavian and German languages and a familiarity with corporate culture, we offer a wide range of services and solutions for expansion in the respective value chains, from opening an office to establishing a manufacturing plant or distribution center, or finding agents and partners.
Hager Ernst offers consulting services, access to its partners, introductions to its network of professional service providers, guidance in dealing with National or State government agencies, and market research.
Through our network of representatives in government and public-private agencies throughout Northern and Central Europe, combined with years of senior management experience on the ground in various countries, we are well positioned to add value to your European expansion activities.
Hager Ernst’s advisory services in European markets include:
- Market research
- Business or financial planning
- Commercial activities
- Marketing campaigns
- Agent/partner searches
- Distribution and channel strategies
- Identification of professional contacts
- Event planning
- Follow-up and securing results
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International Marketing
With over 30 years combined experience, Hager Ernst has a substantial and proven expertise in international marketing, guiding various organizations throughout the United States, Germany and Scandinavia through commercial development and opportunities, conceptualizing strategies and unique events and driving growth in different industries.
The scope of activities spans from marketing strategies to implementation to event promotion, both in the U.S. and in Europe. We are fluent in German and the Scandinavian languages.
Hager Ernst services include:
- Marketing strategy advice
- Promotional campaign strategy and implementation
- Identification and execution of promotional partnerships
- Support to marketing campaigns, direct contact, mailings, web sites, advertising, etc
- Promotion of the company and its products, especially at relevant trade fairs and conferences
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Business Partnerships
Partnerships between companies or organizations are key elements of doing business.
Hager Ernst provides services to secure and identify partners in the US, Europe or in developing countries.
We are able to assist with the following types of partnerships:
- Partnerships as part of a promotional platform linking companies with organizations, organizations with organizations to co promote services, events or products
- Business partnerships linking companies with other companies in research, manufacturing, sales or promotion of services or products
- International research exchange partnerships
- Project development partnerships targeting project opportunities in the US with federal, state or private developers
- Project development partnerships targeting project opportunities with World Bank or Inter American Development Bank
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Economic Development Outreach Support, Federal Government Services
For Economic Developers
With many years of international economic development experience at the State and Federal levels, Hager Ernst is well positioned to provide customized solutions to select economic development agencies ranging from tailored European outreach marketing including marketing missions, international placement and promotion ‘inside the Beltway’, marketing to Federal Agencies and focused lobbying efforts in economic development matters. For more information, please contact Christian Hager, christian@hagererenst.com
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International Development Opportunities Originating in the United States
Product and service contracts with multilateral institutions can help companies diversify and expand abroad. Hager Ernst offers advisory services to Danish and European companies seeking to tap the business potential of the developing world, particularly opportunities associated with the official aid that developing countries receive from multilateral banks located in Washington, DC.
We have strong relationships with several such organizations, including the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation, USAID, the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation, the Inter-American Development Bank, and large nongovernmental organizations.
We provide advisory services in connection with:
- Relationship management with the World Bank, including
conceptualizing staff exchange opportunities
- Identification and tracking of project opportunities, with monthly reporting
- Act as a liaison on behalf of your company
- Monitoring and guiding policy decisions
- Identification of contacts and meeting planning
- Market analysis
- Partner searches
- Event planning and promotions (seminars, conferences, symposia, presentations)
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