(November 9, 2016) Recover investment flows, promoting, supporting and encouraging the attraction of capital by facilitating direct contacts between foreign and Italian realities. With this goal it was inaugurated in Dubai, during the Ice Roadshow “Invest in Italy”, the first investments attracting desk in the UAE, at the presence of the Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Development Ivan Scalfarotto and the Italian Ambassador in the UAE, Liborio Stellino. The work of the Roadshow, after those in Istanbul and Tokyo in 2015 and New York, San Francisco and London in 2016, have been opened by the Italian Ambassador and then continued with the interventions on the Italian political context and reforms to foster foreign investment by Scalfarotto, and on the main macroeconomic data and the Agency’s activities to promote the attraction of investments by the director general of Ice Piergiorgio Borgogelli. Special attention was paid to the issues that are capturing the best performance and the highest interest rate in the area of foreign investment: fashion, agribusiness, real estate and start ups. Ample space is also dedicated to aspects of taxation, anticipating some of the main innovations provided by the State budget in favor of FDI. The event was attended by over 100 investors and economic and financial operators based in the UAE. The next stages of the Road Show “Invest in Italy” will be those in Singapore, Beijing and Hong Kong in the early part of 2017. The Ice Agency promotes Italy as an investment destination, not only through road shows and Desk – already active Istanbul, London, New York, Singapore, Tokyo – but also through the presence in fairs and international events, and widespread communication activities directed at the press and foreign investors. (Red)
