{"id":9138,"date":"2016-11-02T17:12:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T09:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=9138"},"modified":"2016-11-02T17:39:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T09:39:08","slug":"dutch-companies-open-to-ph-partnerships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/11\/02\/dutch-companies-open-to-ph-partnerships\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch companies open to PH partnerships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9139\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/11\/phnl.jpg\" alt=\"phnl\" width=\"588\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/11\/phnl.jpg 588w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/11\/phnl-300x125.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Image grabbed from <a href=\"http:\/\/philippines.nlembassy.org\/\">philippines.nlembassy.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">In a report published by <a href=\"http:\/\/news.abs-cbn.com\/business\/10\/28\/16\/dutch-companies-eye-ph-investments-unaffected-by-duterte-tough-talk\" target=\"_blank\">ABS-CBN News<\/a>, Marten van den Berg, director-general for foreign economic relations at the Dutch foreign ministry, said that representatives from 20 Dutch companies are looking for partnerships with Filipino firms on infrastructure, water, and agriculture projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">During the interview at news channel ANC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j9aNNdV_AJg&amp;feature=player_embedded\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cMarket Edge with Cathy Yang,\u201d<\/a> Van den Berg mentioned that Dutch businessmen are on a three-day trade mission in Manila to look for possible partnerships in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">He said that the Netherlands is inviting its companies to invest in the Philippines and that they are ready to help \u201cfacilitate the trade [and] investment opportunities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Van den Berg also said that follow-up meetings in Manila are being scheduled as there were no deals signed yet during the current visit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u201cDutch companies are looking for long-term relationships. For us, it\u2019s not always important to have straight away contracts but starting good relations, looking for opportunities, discussing opportunities,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.abs-cbn.com\/business\/10\/28\/16\/dutch-companies-eye-ph-investments-unaffected-by-duterte-tough-talk\">ABS-CBN News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j9aNNdV_AJg&amp;feature=player_embedded\">ABS-CBN News YouTube Channel<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives from 20 Dutch companies are looking for partnerships with Filipino firms on infrastructure, water, and agriculture projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[576,577,578,574,575],"class_list":["post-9138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-dutch-businessmen","tag-dutch-companies","tag-dutch-companies-partnership-with-filipino-firms","tag-marten-van-den-berg","tag-netherlands"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/11\/phnl.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9167,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions\/9167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}