MIDWAY — The Liberty County Development Authority recently welcomed two business delegations as part of a World Trade Center Savannah event that coincided with the Savannah Music Festival.
Representatives included Canadian and United Kingdom consuls, who specialize in trade and business development, as well as a Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce.
Visitors met with leaders from foreign-owned existing industries for an exchange of business and cultural ideas, according to Ronald E. Tolley, CEO of the development authority.
“We enjoyed having these visitors in Liberty County and appreciate the opportunity to learn about each country’s business practices and aspirations with markets in the United States and coastal Georgia,” Tolley said. “These activities are a valuable business development tool that is afforded to us through our partnership in World Trade Center Savannah.”
Representatives from Brazil, Canada and the United Kingdom toured International Greetings, a United Kingdom-based gift-wrap and stationery manufacturer with more than 500,000 square feet in Midway Industrial Park.
The visiting German delegation received a tour of Hugo Boss, a German-based, high-end apparel company that has a 330,000-square-foot distribution center in Midway Industrial Park.
About 70 percent of Liberty County’s industrial employment is attributed to foreign investment, with international headquarters in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Lebanon and Korea.