In the past 25 years, Future Trends has successfully executed over 100 historic and influential cases that span across all seven continents and various sectors including finance, energy, investments, trade, IT, high tech, agriculture, health, environment, automotive, tourism, and government.
Below are a sample of cases.
- Parties: Kuwait Investment Authority, Qatar Investment Authority, Noor Investments, Al Mal Investments, and Goldman Sachs; collective club investments into The Industrial Commercial Bank of China (ICBC).
- Sector: Finance & Banking
- Year: 2005-2006
- Our Function: Directional Strategy, Policy Survey, Proposals, Market Positioning
- Result: The first-ever investment from Sovereign Wealth Funds of the Gulf Region into China, amounting $1.5Bn
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- Parties: DASIBI Corporation of Glendale California, Export–Import Bank of the United States, 56 municipal governments of China and their respective banks, Ministry of Environment of China, Ministry of Finance of China
- Sector: Environment, Air Pollution Equipment
- Year: 1998-2003
- Our Function: Securing local bank return guarantees, Securing local government endorsements, Securing Ministry of Environment approvals, securing Ministry of Finance Sovereign Guarantee for the loan, Securing Ex-Im Bank Loan at the right terms (3.2% interest, 12-year return)
- Result: Successful contract signing in two stages in June 1998 at the Great Hall of the People presided by U.S. Secretary Daley and China State Councillor Madam Wu Yi; May 1999, Washington D.C. presided by the then Chinese Premier, Zhu Rongji and the U.S. Vice President, Al Gore.
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- Parties: The Sultanate of Oman; Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Petroleum, Ministry of Tourism, Ministry of Transportation, Oman Chamber of Commerce, Omani Centre for Investment Promotion and Export Development (OCIPED), The Embassy of the Sultanate of Oman in China, Top 100 Omani governmental and private enterprises
- Sector: National Government Mandate, National Development, Bi-lateral Trade, Investments, Oil and Gas, Energy, Finance, Telecom, High Tech & IT, Automotive, Health, Environment, Municipal & Infrastructure, Construction, Ship Building, Expo, Tourism, and multiple other sectors
- Year: 2001 – 2007
- Our Function: Served as Oman Trade Representative, Served as appointed Honorary Consulate of the Sultanate of Oman to China, Served as OCIPED China Office, Organized The Prime Minister & 130 State Leaders Official State Visit, Organized many rounds of Chambers of Commerce delegation and many rounds of China-Oman co-operation & partnership seminars, Organized numerous Chinese government and private enterprises delegation and negotiation visits to Oman,
- Result: Increased the China-Oman trade volume from $600mm USD to $11Bn USD, 18 times multiplication within 6 years, created at the least 50 key transactions, including; joint-ventures, investments, dealerships, trade, manufacturing, government procurements and bids supplies; obtained favored tourism destination rights
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- Parties: Municipal Government of Vernon California, Vernon Redevelopment Agency, Vernon City Council, Vernon Chamber of Commerce
- Sector: Investment Promotion for the City Government, Manufacturing,
- Year: 1998-2005
- Our Function: Organizing 20 investment promotion seminars in various cities in China and Hong Kong, reaching out to several thousands of Chinese entrepreneurs, Rigorous follow up, Organizing Chinese delegations to visit Vernon regularly
- Result: Settlement of 275 factories from the Greater China into Vernon
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- Parties: IDG Ventures
- Sector: VC & Private Equity Fund & Finance, Placement Agency
- Year: 2008 – 2010
- Our Function: Strategy for approaching and engaging the Gulf States (GCC) sources of capital, Product design, Placement into the Gulf Region sources of capital, Organizing road shows
- Result: Brought the above Fund for the first time ever into GCC, placed them into the Gulf Region’s diversely spread sources of capital among Sovereign Wealth Funds and Royal Families, brought some 10 new sources of capital to the Fund
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- Parties: Lyrical Asset Management L. P.
- Sector: Fund & Finance, Hedge FoF, Placement Agency
- Year: 2009 – 2012
- Our Function: Strategy for approaching and engaging the Gulf States (GCC) sources of capital, Placement into the Gulf Region, Organizing rounds of road shows
- Result: Brought the Fund into the GCC Region, arranged 6 rounds of road shows, placed them into the Gulf Region’s diversely spread sources of capital among Sovereign Wealth Funds, Royal Families, financial institutions, family offices, Islamic sources of capital; introduced and connected the Fund to some 50 new sources of capital in the Region
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- Parties: Halcyon Asset-Back Advisors L. P.
- Sector: Fund & Finance, Real Estate Mortgage Fund, Placement Agency
- Year: 2010 – 2011
- Our Function: Strategy for approaching and entering the Gulf States (GCC) sources of capital, Product design, Organizing road shows, Placement into the Gulf Region sources of capital,
- Result: Brought the Fund for their first time ever into the GCC Region, organized 3 rounds of road shows, placed them into the Gulf Region’s diversely spread sources of capital among Sovereign Wealth Funds, Royal Families, financial institutions, family offices, introduced and connected the Fund to some 50 new sources of capital and some 10 financial agents in the Region
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- Parties: MGPA (The largest real estate fund outside of the USA)
- Sector: Real Estate Fund & Finance, Placement Agency
- Year: 2011 – 2012
- Our Function: Strategy consultation, Placement into Gulf Region, Organizing road shows
- Result: Brought the Fund into the GCC region, arranged 4 rounds of road shows, placed them into the Gulf Region’s diversely spread sources of capital among Sovereign Wealth Funds, Royal Families, financial institutions, family offices, introduced and connected the Fund to some 30 new sources of capital in the GCC Region
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- Parties: Muscat Overseas Group (Company owned by the Royal Family of Oman), Haier Group (China’s leading global brand manufacturer)
- Sector: Trading, Electronic and Home Appliance
- Year: 2005 ongoing
- Our Function: Exclusive Agency Rights Negotiation
- Result: Haier Chairman and the Board approved exclusive dealership rights of all of its significant product lines for the entire East Africa to Muscat Overseas Group
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- Parties: Jiu li Group (public listed company), Tai Gang Steel Corp, Petroleum Development of Oman (PDO)
- Sector: Oil and Gas Equipment Supply, Pipelines
- Year: 2011-2013
- Our Function: Secure PDO purchase order approval
- Result: Sales of 7000 tons of duplex stainless steel pipelines to Petroleum Development of Oman (PDO)
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- Parties: Hinacom, Bright Oceans Corporation
- Sector: Health, Big Data, Cloud based digital imaging, Multi modalities on one platform
- Year: 2015-2018
- Our Function: Placing the products and services to Ministries of Health and hospital systems in multi national markets, Developing process and system for global placement
- Result: Contract orders and deployments in Bahrain, Saudi, Dubai, Tunisia, India, etc.
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- Parties: Siemens Corporation
- Sector: Engineering and equipment marketing
- Year: 1999
- Our Function: Market research for Siemens One, the new unified marketing department of Siemens, for 4 target market provinces
- Result: Produced extensive market reports for each province and multi industry sector helping new multiplication of market share of Siemens One
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- Parties: IBM Corporation
- Sector: IT & Office set up and decoration
- Year: 1994 – 1995
- Our Function: Office construction management
- Result: Executed the entire IBM China Corporation’s Shanghai offices set up and construction plus fit out decoration on Panyu Road, Shanghai
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- Parties: Campbell Corporation (USA classic brand)
- Sector: Food, Canned Food
- Year: 2000-2003
- Our Function: Providing office (Future Trends was the China entry base for the Campbell Corporation), Providing market advisory services
- Result: Provided corporation’s first China office base, provided first market entry advice and support
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- Parties: Sorbilite Corporation, China Yanbian Korean Autonomous Region ICBC, Helong City Government
- Sector: Construction materials, new tech wood waste recycling particle board
- Year: 1995-1996
- Our Function: Purchase and order of entire turn key factory, factory see up and operation and management
- Result: Purchased the entire turn key factory manufacturing and processing lines, set up and installed and operated the factory, factory existed for over two decades
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- Parties: Tunisia Future Trends’s Mediterranean Corporation, Shandong Taier Sealant Corporation
- Sector: Oil and Gas
- Year: 2018
- Our Function: Set up Future Trends Tunisia’s oil field supply center
- Result: Obtained government licensing and imported total and partial losses sealant products on ongoing basis
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- Parties: Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), Kuwait Petroleum International (KPI)
- Sector: Oil & Gas, Refining
- Year: 2005 – continuous
- Our Function: China market advisory, Initial market direction consultation
- Result: KPC/KPI signed Agreement with Sinopec in June 2011, after 5 years of negotiations, to set up a $10 Bn USD 15 million metric tons JV refinery in Donghai Island, Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province of China. However, the implementation of the project had been delayed several times. The project construction started finally in 2017, and is expected to finish and be operational by 2020
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- Parties: Oman Oil Corporation
- Sector: Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals
- Year: 2003-2005
- Our Function: Mandated China investments advisory & China entry
- Result: Oman Oil invested for the first time into China in two projects; one joint venture in Shandong Province on Aromatics, and another project in one unified platform for municipal civilian gas pipelines network in 50 Chinese cities
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