IBDGi - International Business Development Group, Inc., is an international business development firm specializing in strategic planning and implementing start-ups while ensuring the successful growth of companies in the industrial manufacturing technology equipment industry. IBDGI provides its clients with a full range of services, including market feasibility studies, localization, distribution-channel planning, and development of customer-relationship management best practices.

IBDGi serves American companies interested in expanding their business in international markets and foreign companies interested in investing in the United States with the purpose of accessing business opportunities in this market by establishing a marketing, sales, service and/or manufacturing operation in the country.

Mario Winterstein, CEO, is a business, manufacturing, and international trade strategist, with many years of experience in international marketing, sales and service support management for the advanced manufacturing technology industry. Mario has earned his engineering degree at FEI – Faculdade de Engenharia Industrial, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He is fluent in six languages and has worked and spent considerable time abroad, travelling on business to more than 58 countries.

Why work with us

IBDGi offers the following customized services to its clients:

· Business and Market Feasibility Studies

· Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats Analyses

· Market Readiness Assessment

· Internationalization of Companies for Global Access

· International Business Culture Coaching

· Market Dimensioning and Targeting

· Competitive Analysis

· Complete Marketing and Sales Strategic Planning

· Full Marketing and Sales Plan Implementation Support

· Customized Product Development

· Sales Channels Development

· Trade Show Support – Before, During and After the Event

· International After-Sales Service Support, Training and Parts Planning

Here are some of our past projects and expertise highlights that will benefit our client’s businesses:

· Marketing, Sales and Service companies’ start-ups in USA, Mexico, Germany, Japan and Brazil

· Managing distribution channels, selling and servicing high-tech equipment in 58 countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Middle-East and Oceania

· Manufacturing greenfield start-up in the United States

· Developing relationships that generated business opportunities across culturally diverse markets. Developing relationships that are conducive to creating business at local subsidiaries of international companies

· Development of creative trade financing tools, allowing access to new industrial markets