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2009
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December 2009:
Once again, Crossborder is retained by San
Diego-headquartered International
Community Foundation (ICF), to assist with
processing and analyzing significant new survey data related
to retirement trends in Coastal areas of Mexico. This
marks the second time in 2009 that Crossborder has
undertaken significant work related to the growing
opportunity for retirement developments in Mexico. |
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September 2009:
UK (Wales) based division of Carl
Kammerling, a high-end industrial tools company,
contracts Crossborder to undertake a market study of
Mexico's electronics industry -- involving contacting and
interviewing potential industrial clients (prospecting), as
well as recommending a basic market-entry strategy. |
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July 2009:
SD Fluid System Technologies
-- a major Swagelok
distributor in Southern California and Baja California --
hires Crossborder to survey potential industrial users in
Northern Mexico, as well as to assess mid-term prospects for
economic trends in the Sonora-Baja California region. |
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January 2009:
The City of Tijuana's Economic
Development Corporation (DEITAC) retains
Crossborder Group for major revision of their investor
marketing data and materials. This effort includes
replacing the long-standing "Book of Facts", as well as
industry-focused marketing information, and will use staff
from our CrossborderComunica division
(English-language marketing & communications). |
2008
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December 2008:
Crossborder's President, Kenn Morris, is invited by the
Government of Wales' International Business team (IBWales)
on a week-long visit to this region of the UK to participate
in a series of presentations about doing business in Mexico;
as well as to formalize Crossborder Group's new role as an
"in-market" Mexico partner with IBWales (to assist Welsh
firms with Mexico market research and expansions). |
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November 2008:
Crossborder retained by California-based, diversified steel
products manufacturer to assist with 3-State comparison of
potential costs for future Mexico-based operation. This
effort will include using industrial cost data collected via
Crossborder's survey team, as well as a confidential RFP
process applied to four contract shelter maquiladoras, to
develop a "Mexico Virtual Manufacturing Model" for our
client. |
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November 2008:
Our new, Mexico-based subsidiary,
Crossborder NS, S de RL de CV,
moves into expanded offices. Crossborder
Group's Mexico division has allowed us to provide expanded
in-market expertise for our consulting and research clients;
the additional space now provides the infrastructure for our
new nearshore professional contracting services (CrossborderNearshore),
which will be launched in mid-2009. |
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September 2008:
The successful Baja California non-profit health care
facility, Hospital Infantil de las
Californias, retains Crossborder to analyze the
market size and demand characteristics for expanded
pediatric services for their customers on both sides of the
border. The work will include surveying of similar health
care facilities in Baja California, as well interviews and a
focus group with regional doctors and health care providers. |
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July 2008:
Deloitte Tijuana hires
Crossborder to design and implement a survey of
administrative and labor costs of Baja California's
maquildora industry. The study goals includes
contacting over 80 firms to assess various costs and
overhead depending on size and industry. |
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June 2008:
Crossborder Group's educational program division,
CrossborderTours, takes
group of Advanced MBA students from CSU Long Beach on 4-day,
executive educational tour to Guadalajara, Jalisco --
marking an expansion in these services that now include
Central Mexico, Monterrey, Mexico City, Puebla, and other
key business regions in Mexico. |
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May 2008:
Tijuana's Convention & Visitor's
Bureau (COTUCO-Tijuana) hires Crossborder to
assist with regional tourism and security research to help
guide their outreach efforts, as well as to provide COTUCO
with strategic communications assistance for US-based
decision-makers and media. |
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February 2008:
Crossborder Group is proud to lead a team of Mexico experts
-- including NAI-Mexico and Luce Forward -- on a project to
assist the major European company --
HILTI -- with a site selection
project in Mexico for their new manufacturing facility. The
project includes a Phase 1 evaluation of major industrial
factors in 14 cities, followed by a more in-depth economic
analysis in Phase 2. |
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January-February 2008:
Our
CrossborderTours
division provides crossborder executive educational programs
for UCSD's Global Leadership Institute, LEAD San Diego, and
the LA Chamber's Southern California Leadership Network --
including both site visits to Tijuana, and briefing programs
with border leaders in San Diego. |
2007
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December 2007:
Toll-road operator,
South Bay Expressway,
re-hires Crossborder Group to assist with crossborder
marketing consulting services, and application of nearly
2,000 surveys along the San Diego-Tijuana border. |
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November-December 2007:
Crossborder conducts truck surveys at five major commercial
Ports of Entry along California, Arizona, and Texas borders
(Otay Mesa, Nogales, El Paso-Ciudad Juarez, Laredo-Nuevo
Laredo, and Pharr-Reynosa) for
HDR|HLB Decision Economics Inc.,
Accenture, and their client
-- the U.S. Department of Commerce. |
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November 2007:
Crossborder Group's executive education division,
CrossborderTours.com,
provides a series of one- and two-day executive and
university educational tours of Baja California
manufacturing operations for
Chapman University's Executive MBA and
undergraduate business students, as well as for
UCSD's Global Leadership Institute's
international executive program. |
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September
2007:
Crossborder retained by Orange County-headquartered metal
manufacturing firm to assist with due diligence and Mexico
permitting services for their Ensenada-based maquiladora (O.I.
de México). |
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August
2007:
Crossborder Group de México
offices in Tijuana, Baja
California, begin initial operations (located at 3999 Av. Américas, Ste. 206, Plaza Castro, Tijuana [664-681-6049]). |
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August
2007:
Crossborder's President, Kenn Morris, invited by Nuevo
León's Secretariat of the Economy to participate in meeting
to support development of
Monterrey's Bio Cluster
(see
article here [PDF,
in Spanish]). |
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July
2007:
Crossborder Group's executive education division,
CrossborderTours.com,
provides two-day Mexico educational program for
San Diego State University's
Executive MBA program. |
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June
2007:
"Borderless Biotech & Mexico's
Emerging Life Sciences Industry"
briefing developed by Crossborder Group released by UCSD Extension/San Diego
Dialogue. |
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April
2007:
Los Angeles Chamber
of Commerce's Southern California Leadership Network
hires Crossborder for planning and implementation of
multi-day executive educational seminar involving San Diego
and Baja California. |
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February
2007:
UCSD Extension/San Diego Dialogue retains
Crossborder for year-long study into Mexico's emerging life
sciences (biotechnology, biomedical device, health services)
sectors in project funded by Merck. |
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January
2007:
San Diego's International Community
Foundation contracts Crossborder for binational
event and planning expertise for annual Gala (October 2007). |
2006
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November
2006:
Crossborder retained by the Otay
Mesa Chamber of Commerce to assist with market
research, public informational and strategic consulting. |
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October
2006:
HDR|HLB Decision Economics Inc. and
Crossborder hired as team to undertake study of economic
impact of border waits in Imperial Valley/Mexicali region.
Crossborder services include conducting more than 2,900
surveys at 3 Ports of Entry. |
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September
2006:
CBA contracted by
Economics Research Associates to
undertake crossborder demographic analyses, field surveys,
and at-border surveys to assess demand of Baja California
visitors for various retail and consumer services. |
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September
2006:
CBA's crossborder survey and consulting services retained by
California Transportation
Ventures/South Bay Expressway for crossborder
market demand and demographic study that includes more than
1,500 surveys at Tijuana border crossings. |
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September
2006:
Regional business organization retains CBA to assist with
market data collection and public education campaign. |
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August
2006:
CBA's Director, Kenn Morris, invited to become
interim-member of prestigious San
Diego District Export Council; official
appointment by U.S. Secretary of Commerce expected by 2007. |
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June
2006:
California-based
International Community Foundation
once again retains Crossborder for maquiladora networking
and strategic consulting services aimed at developing and
promoting new crossborder campaign,
MaquiladoraGiving.org. |
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April/May
2006: Crossborder Business Associates in
process of relaunching as
Crossborder Group Inc. -- a new business
structure to better leverage crossborder market research and
industrial marketing services, crossborder educational &
training services, and commercialization of products and
services from Mexico -- stay tuned for more information! |
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April
2006: Crossborder hired by SDSU to support
development of crossborder student networking and internship
project with universities in Mexico. |
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April
2006: Crossborder's Director, Kenn Morris,
speaks on technology panel for Mexico's
ADIAT National Conference, held in Tijuana. |
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March
2006: For the third-year in a row,
participants in
LEAD
San Diego attend a one-day crossborder training
program developed and organized by CBA, highlighting
crossborder business, political, housing and cultural
issues. |
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February
2006:
San Diego
State University's Executive MBA program hires CBA for
two crossborder executive educational tours to Baja
California. |
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February
2006: CBA hired for industrial marketing
and promotional services by Baja California-based
manufacturer of technology products. |
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January 2006:
Borderless Innovation
-- the first study to assess prospects for
mutually-beneficial economic development in crossborder
technology clusters -- is released by UCSD's San Diego
Dialogue. Research for Borderless Innovation
(nearly two years in the making) was led by CBA's Kenn
Morris, who was also the lead co-author of the report. |
2005
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November/December
2005: Crossborder hired by
RLR Advertising,
a major Hispanic advertising firm located in Southern
California, to undertake at-border surveys along
California-Baja California border for Fortune "Global 100"
telecommunications company. |
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August
2005: For the 7th year, CBA
provides Chapman University's Executive MBA program with a
one-day crossborder education program in Baja California. |
| July/August
2005:
Crossborder Business Associates retained by one of San
Diego County's largest casinos to undertake crossborder market
analysis and surveys of Baja California customers. |
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March
2005:
CBA chosen by the International
Community Foundation and Synergos
Institute for first-annual, borderwide
survey of charitable giving by the maquiladora industry.
Survey results expected out in Fall 2005. |
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February
2005:
CBA's Director, Kenn Morris, asked to head San Diego
Dialogue's Crossborder Innovation &
Competitiveness Initiative during development of
major study, Borderless Innovation. |
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February
2005:
For the second-year in a row, CBA provides LEAD
San Diego -- the regional leadership training
organization -- with a multi-faceted, one-day crossborder
business, political and cultural training program for
approximately 50 of their participants. |
2004
| December
2004:
CBA completes third roundtable and report on Crossborder
Pharmaceuticals Innovation & Clinical Trials for UCSD
San Diego Dialogue's ongoing Crossborder
Innovation & Competitiveness Initiative. |
| November
2004:
CBA's Director quoted in San
Diego Union-Tribune
article regarding Tijuana's 2004 elections. |
| November
2004:
LA
Times
article analyzing California-Mexico relations includes
observations from Kenn Morris, Director of CBA. |
| August
2004: For the 6th year in a row, CBA
provides Chapman University's Executive MBA program with a
one-day crossborder education program in Baja California. |
| August
2004: CBA takes approximately 40 members of
the prestigious women's leadership organization, Leadership
California, to Tijuana on a one-day executive training
program. |
| May
2004:
CBA's border retail research
highlighted in two articles by the San Diego Business Journal --
one focused on crossborder
shopping, the other on the expansion
of the San Ysidro Port of Entry. |
| May
2004:
CBA contracted by the border public policy group, San
Diego Dialogue, to assist with organization's industry
research projects and strategic planning. |
| April
2004:
CBA's Director speaks at University
of San Diego NAFTA conference. Read the media's
coverage from the San
Diego Union Tribune and the San
Diego Business Journal. |
| March
2004:
CBA contracted to manage the first Federal political
action committee focused on border issues: BorderPAC |
| March
2004:
CBA's Director, Kenn Morris, elected to the Board of the
prestigious, tri-national organization, the Border
Trade Alliance (based in Arizona). |
| February
2004:
Crossborder Business Associates moves into new offices in
Otay Mesa starting February 1. |
| January
2004:
CBA's Director quoted in San Diego Business Journal
article
regarding Bush immigration proposal, and it's local impacts (article:
PDF, 120k) |
| January
2004:
San Diego-based LEAD
San Diego hires CBA to take more than 50 regional executives
on crossborder training visit to Tijuana. |
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