IBCenter
In this Section
- What is the MetroHartford International Business Center?
- We provide the RIGHT resources for all your business needs
- We provide the RIGHT resources for your family’s needs
- About the Metro Hartford Region
- How Metro Hartford Ranks
- Major Corporations are headquartered here!
- Connecticut has over 800 foreign owned companies with over 120 from Germany and 100 from the U.K.
- What Our Businesses Say About Hartford
- Contact
What is the MetroHartford International Business Center?
The MetroHartford IBCenter is managed by the MetroHartford Alliance, the Hartford Region’s Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development Leader. With our close ties to the region’s businesses, city, and towns, we will help you evaluate business opportunities and find the right location to meet your needs.
The MetroHartford International Business Center gives you a low cost, low risk way to test your market potential and evaluate site locations throughout our 34-town Region. We provide short-term, complimentary Class A office space, a U.S. mailing address, and access to resources while you investigate business opportunities or search for permanent office space.
We provide the RIGHT resources for all your business needs
- Financial service experts - bankers, lawyers, accountants, insurance
- Immigration assistance for executives, employees and their families
- Site selection assistance and location tours
- Introductions to local and state officials for incentives, permitting, etc.
- Logistics services including warehousing, transportation, customs brokerage
We provide the RIGHT resources for your family’s needs
- Networking with other executives and their families from your home country
- Real estate agents to find the right home and schools
- Rich cultural and leisure opportunities in beautiful Southern New England
About the Metro Hartford Region
Hartford is strategically located between Boston and New York with superb access to North American markets - over 33 percent of the U.S. population and 68 percent of the Canadian population located within a radius of 800 kilometers.
- Excellent transportation infrastructure: Bradley International Airport and located at intersection of New England’s major highways
- World-class fiber optic technology
- Foreign Trade Zone
- Strong, diversified economy
- Insurance and financial services
- Aerospace/Precision machining
- Health care and biomedical devices
- Highly productive and educated workforce
- First in gross domestic product per capital in the world
- Third in labor productivity in the world
- Third in the nation in readiness for the knowledge based economy
- Top 6% of North American regions for the arts
- Connecticut ranks 2nd in U.S. patents per capita
Major Corporations are headquartered here!
- Aetna
- Carrier
- Ensign Bickford
- ESPN
- Gerber Scientific
- Hamilton Sundstrand
- Kaman Aerospace
- Otis Elevator
- The Phoenix Companies
- Pratt and Whitney
- Stanley Works
- The Hartford Financial Services Group
- Traveler’s Property Casualty
Connecticut has over 800 foreign owned companies with over 120 from Germany and 100 from the U.K.
- ABB
- Ahlstrom
- Bombardier Aerospace
- Eppendorf Brinkman
- Henkel Loctite
- ING
- Konica
- LEGO Systems
- MTU, Aerospace Div. of DaimlerChrysler, A.G.
- Permasteelisa
- Retail Brand Alliance
- Royal Sun Alliance
- Trumpf Inc.
What Our Businesses Say About Hartford
- “Connecticut’s strategic location, its tradition of precision manufacturing and its skilled workforce make the Hartford Region ideal for German companies entering the U.S. market.”
- Peter Leibinger, Chairman and CEO, TRUMPF Inc.
- “The workforce excellence of the Hartford Region allows ING to locate our U.S. retirement services business here.”
- Shaun Mathews, President, ING Financial Horizons
Contact
Call Sandra Johnson at the MetroHartford International Business Center at
1.860.525.4451 ext 281or sjohnson@metrohartford.com.
Please visit our website at www.metrohartfordalliance.com.
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