cknowledgments
The Team Atlantic trade mission to the New England states is funded
through the Canada/Atlantic Provinces COOPERATION Agreement
on International Business Development (IBDA).
The IBDA is a cooperative effort designed to optimize export and trade
development at the Atlantic level. Agreement partners include:
• the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA)
• the New Brunswick Department of Economic Development, Tourism
and Culture
• the Newfoundland Department of Industry, Trade and Technology
• the Nova Scotia Department of Economic Development and Tourism
• the Prince Edward Island Department of Development
• Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
• Industry Canada
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ission Itinerary
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Vermont
New Hampshire
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April 12-15, 1999
Team Atlantic, a trade mission to
four of the New England states, is
an initiative of the Conference of
Atlantic Premiers designed to
encourage companies to explore
new business opportunities offered
through exporting.
New England is a large, highly
competitive market with easy access
to all of the Atlantic provinces. There
are excellent transportation links
and few cultural differences. There
is a long history of trade
relationships between Atlantic
Canada and New England, but
what is unique about the Team
Atlantic initiative is the export
experiences of the participating
companies. While they all have
the products and the capacity to
participate in international markets,
most of the companies have not
yet embarked into the export arena.
This mission will focus on exploring
the potential, the opportunities and
the possible partnerships that could
be established between these two
coastal markets.
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Boston, Massachusetts, The Boston Park Plaza Hotel
Monday, April 12, 1999
9:00 am
Business Meetings
11:30 am
Business Luncheon
Cohosted by the Massachusetts Trade Office
1:30 pm
6:00 pm
Business Meetings
Reception and Dinner With Guest Speaker, Sir Graham Day
9:00 pm
Atlantic Canadian Entertainment – ‘A Coast of Difference’
Cohosted by the New England - Canada Business Council
Burlington, Vermont, Radisson Hotel Burlington
Tuesday, April 13, 1999
12:00 noon Business Luncheon
Cohosted by the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community
Development and the Greater Burlington Industrial Corporation
1:30 pm
Business Meetings
Manchester, New Hampshire,
The Center of New Hampshire, Holiday Inn
Wednesday, April 14, 1999
1:30 pm
Business Meetings
6:00 pm
Reception and Dinner
Cohosted by the New Hampshire International Trade Resource Center
Portland, Maine, Sheraton South Portland Hotel
Thursday, April 15, 1999
12:00 noon Business Luncheon
Cohosted by the Maine International Trade Center
1:30 pm
Business Meetings
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Canada .........................................................................2
Atlantic Canada ..............................................................3
New Brunswick ...............................................................4
Newfoundland and Labrador ............................................12
Nova Scotia ..................................................................20
Prince Edward Island ......................................................28
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anada: A Valuable Trading Partner
New Englanders and Atlantic Canadians have enjoyed a very special
relationship for a long time. We understand one another. We respect one
another.
Not surprisingly, those close ties of friendship have also led to significant
links of commerce.
But as in any close relationship, there is always the danger that our
familiarity can breed complacency, that our proximity might make us
unappreciative, and that our success in the past might obscure the potential
for the future.
And potential there is! Because for all our trade and investment with one
another, we are still only scratching the surface of what could be.
The Honourable
Fred J. Mifflin
Minister of Veterans
Affairs and Secretary
of State (Atlantic
Canada Opportunities
Agency)
For our part, Canada’s federal and provincial governments are working
with Atlantic Canadian companies by encouraging them to export to their
closest neighbours and best customers.
We are serious about building an even stronger long-term relationship
with our friends and partners in New England.
We want you to know that Atlantic Canada is a superb place in which
to do business: our quality of life is high, our workplace is highly skilled,
our economy is strong and our books are balanced.
KPMG recently revealed the results of a study which compares the cost
of doing business in G -7 countries. Findings indicate that Atlantic Canada
is an investment location of choice. It is among the most cost-competitive
and industry-attractive in the world.
The Team Atlantic trade mission is a superb opportunity to forge a future
that benefits Atlantic Canadians and New Englanders alike; a future that
combines our history with our hopes and infuses our present with a
renewed sense of purpose.
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tlantic Canada: New Partnerships
tlantic Canada:
Well-Placed
Atlantic Canada is ideally
located – strategically situated for
investment, expansion and trade.
The North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) presents opportunities for more efficient trade and
the development of trading alliances
between American and Atlantic
Canadian industries capable of
pursuing global opportunities.
Atlantic Canada is closer to Europe
– by well over 1,000 kilometres –
than any other part of the continent.
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The Atlantic Canadian infrastructure
adds efficiency to proximity with
advanced telecommunications,
year-round ports, major air cargo
routes and fast, high-bulk land transport.
Atlantic Canada: Innovative
Atlantic Canada is innovative, creating new technologies and generating new opportunities. As a result,
you’ll find endless trade and investment opportunities here.
Atlantic Canada is on the cutting
edge of information technology.
Atlantic Canadians are receiving
international recognition for environmental management software;
we are creating leading courseware, virtual campuses, on-line
services, cybermalls and much
more.
Atlantic Canada: Resourceful
Atlantic Canada is resource-rich.
Our forests cover millions of hectares. We have just about every
mineral from antimony to zinc, all
manner of seafood and agriculturally-based food products ranging
from “lobster au gratin” to specialty
chocolate. And whatever the resource, our aims are quality, sustainability and adding value. All
of that means quality products and
excellent investment opportunities
for you.
Atlantic Canada: Enterprising
In Atlantic Canada, you’ll find
scores of new businesses eager for
investment, joint ventures and partnership.
For new entrepreneurs, established
companies, and outside firms opening branch plants or relocating to
Atlantic Canada, we have the right
kind of workforce – skilled and
stable. What’s more, many of our
people are bilingual and that means
you can get the staff you need to
work in either of Canada’s official
languages, English and French.
Companies in Atlantic Canada find
dedicated, eager employees. They
also find a highly evolved training
network, equipped to design and
deliver custom programs to fit individual corporate needs.
Atlantic Canada: Welcoming
Discover the kind of lifestyle other
regions have forgotten. Here we
have safe, friendly, family oriented
communities. In Atlantic Canada
people take the time to say “hello,”
to welcome you. Here you’ll find
quality housing at prices substantially
lower than in most North American
centers. We have fine schools,
excellent universities and colleges.
Our recreational facilities offer yearround sports and entertainment.
There’s theatre, there’s symphony
and there’s even a thriving film
industry. And, wherever you are in
Atlantic Canada, the great outdoors
is close at hand.
generate our own successes and
export them to the world.
We’re talking names like Michelin
at home in Atlantic Canada for
more than a quarter of a century
with more than 3,500 employees
at three different plants in the region.
You can add a host of others including Purolator, Northern Telecom
and Xerox.
Then there are the home-grown
names like Paderno, a diversified
metal engineering firm whose high
quality cookware has chefs cheering. There’s Pizza Delight, with 200
franchises stretching across Canada
and all the way over to Dubai in
the United Arab Emirates.
We have companies like Diagnostic
Chemicals Limited, Canada’s largest
manufacturer of diagnostic products;
NGM International Inc., a leader
in the design and construction of
OSB, MOF and particle board
plants with successful projects across
North America and around the
world; ADI Group, whose anaerobic wastewater systems can be
found everywhere from India to
Indiana; and Xwave Solutions, the
fourth largest Canadian owned IT
services company. The list goes on
- Fishery Products International,
McCain, Irving - and on.
Atlantic Canada: Successful
Take any measure you like and
Atlantic Canada comes up a winner. We attract major outside investors and we keep them happy. We
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