The Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency has signed Development Counsellors International to a three-year integrated marketing program worth $25K per-month.
The New York-based firm will push the "Invest in Holland" brand carrying the "rolling out the orange carpet" theme to underscore the "warm welcome that North American investors find in the Netherlands," according to its contract.
The program calls for creation of a news bureau, organization of press trips, trade shows (Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Chicago), luncheons, small events ("Heineken Happy Hour,"), participation in social media (Twitter, Linked-In, website management) and digital advertising.
Dariel Curren, senior VP, heads the seven-member DCI team.
Under the contract, DCI agrees not to work for IDA Ireland and UK Trade & Investment or any other entities that NFIA considers competitors.

GOP-connected DCI Group promotes Nigeria's effort to protect its Christian communities under a one-year contract worth $9M. (Updated)
Republican advisory firm Nestpoint Associates is providing “continuous strategic guidance on US policy developments” to Burundi.
Republican advisory firm Nestpoint Associates is working to secure US diplomatic recognition for Somaliland, which declared independence from Somalia in 1991.
GlobalPoint International signs on to build and strengthen the relationship that Israel Aerospace Industries and its Missouri-based unit Stark Aerospace have with the Trump-Vance Administration, Congress and across the US government.
GrayRobinson has signed a $35K per month contract to provide government affairs services to the Embassy of Bahrain.



