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Founded in 1979 by Ulrich Daldrup, GFE grew in little time to one of the leading consulting companies in Germany and in Europe. One year after its foundation, German Ministry of Economic Co-operation concluded contracts worth four Million DM with GFE for regional development projects in Kenya, Somalia and Haiti. This was the breakthrough of GFE´s successful development. In 1981 the European Commission, the United Nations UNIDO, UNDP and UNHCR counted among the clients of GFE.
25 years after its foundation GFE has world-wide reputation as consultant to governments, ministries and the private sector
Broad range of activities
The reorganization of ministries, privatization of state owned companies, temporarily management, delegation of experts, rehabilitation of companies, organization of conferences, studies and workshops, GFE has a broad range of activities.
Worldwide activities
Today GFE has daughter companies and branch offices in five countries and has carried out contracts in 90 different countries.
GFE´s staff
GFE has a permanent staff of 70 highly specialized and multilingual experts. On top of its permanent collaborators GFE has some 1.900 free lance experts covering almost any professional skill.
Satisfied clients - world-wide
GFE has satisfied clients in more then 90 countries. Among the clients are many private companies and financial institutions, but also governmental bodies, ministries, state owned financial institutions, federations, chambers of industries and international institutions.
Our philosophy is to have satisfied clients, deliver quality work at affordable costs. Thanks to this philosophy, GFE did not need to invest in publicity costs. Our clients express their satisfaction by reordering services from GFE.
Satisfied clients
Major clients of GFE are:
European Commission, including FED, PHARE, TACIS, ECHO, MEDA, SAPARDKreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau
GTZ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit mbH
DEG Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft
EBRD European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
World Bank
UN: UNIDO, UNDP, UNHCR ESCAP
BMZ Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit
DtA Deutsche Ausgleichsbank
Examples of GFE´s activities:
GFE
Worldwide: DELEGATION OF OUR EXPERTS IN ALL PARTS OF OUR WORLD
GFE´s experts are experienced to work worldwide, also in the most remote places on our Earth, to join the needs of our clients. In all continents GFE-Experts manage, plan, evaluate and carry out projects. Often the logistics around a mission are expertise and know-how on its own.
GFE worked in more than 90 countries and has daughter companies in Latvia, Spain and Mauritius.
Assistance
to East European Governments to become full member of the European Union
GFE assisted East European Governments of the 10 new EU member states to fulfill certain chapters of the Acquis Communautaire. That Acquis, some 80.000 pages of text, represents the entire legislation of the EU, that the new member states have introduced in their national legislation. GFE has assisted most of the ten new member countries to introduce the EU legislation into their national legislation and to train executives on all levels of administration. The consulting services of GFE included also to set up procedures and management structures for EU structural funds (Interreg, ERDF).
On top, GFE assisted in the process of privatization and making companies fit for the international competition. Part of this assistance is the introduction of Quality Management and the preparation of the ISO 9000ff certification.
PRIVATIZATION,
MANAGEMENT CONSULTING, STUDIES
Some 100 private companies have been made fit by GFE managers for the more competing and global world. GFE Management contracts with private companies in the European Union, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Czech Republic, Egypt Tunisia, Pakistan, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela, Mauritius etc had been concluded, to re-organize companies, to introduce new audit systems, to improve production, to cut costs down, to competitive present products in international markets, to enter into joint partnerships, to develop successful marketing und to sell on international fairs and exhibitions.
REGIONAL
DEVELOPMENT IN DEVELOPPING COUNTRIES and in EMERGING ECONOMIES
Regional development projects, as in Haiti, in Kenya, in Tunisia and in Somalia, where GFE has constructed hundreds kilometers of feeder roads to access remote villages, planted up to 100.000 trees per year to stabilize the destroyed environment, constructed hundreds of ha of irrigation schemes, created schools for the children, organized markets and promoted handicrafts.. These large scale projects have been funded directly by German Ministry of Economic Cooperation (BMZ).
HUMANITARIAN AID
Food Security Programs and Humanitarian Aid by GFE in
Northern Kenya, funded by German BMZ. Other large humanitarian help Programmes,
as Food for Work Projects, Regional Development Projects, Refugee Camp
Management, Food Shipment and Distribution have been realized in Somalia,
Tanzania, Gaza, Haiti, Azerbaijan, Macedonia and Pakistan.
GFE evaluates many
Humanitarian Aid projects of EU/ECHO, German government and British DEC in
countries as: Afghanistan, Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya, Congo, Malawi, Palestine, Macedonia,
Albania, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua
ASSISTANCE TO SMALL SCALE
INDUSTRIES, INSTITUTION BUILDING
In 25 years GFE has acquired large
experience in the development of SME/SMI in many countries and under different
market structures. Though in In Fez, Morocco, GFE has realized the first Moroccan
Chamber of Handicrafts under a twinning with
German Handwerkskammer Rhein/Main. This 8 Million EURO project with
a duration of 10 years brought a break through and a new politics in favor of the SME sector in
Morocco. This Chamber project realized the first non-governmental Vocational Training
Center in Morocco, offering professional up-grade and basic training to some 1.000 handicrafts
per year. This Center is allowed to grant "professional certificates".
Similar projects have been realized in Poland and Mauritius.
The Construction and management of "Technology Centers" in the neighborhood
of Universities is another success story by GFE tp promote the start up of
technology oriented small enterprises. Such projects have been realized in
Lithuania, Macedonia and Mauritius.
The Vocational Training Center in Fes was inaugurated by Philipp Jenninger, at the time President of the German Parliament.
INDUSTRIAL
AND ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION - CONFERENCES
GFE is one of Europe's leading
Conference Makers.
Since 1979 the European Commission contracts GFE´s services to organize some of
its most important business meetings between entrepreneurs of ACP -countries and the European Union: The
Forum of Investors,
now called
Forum EU -ACP.
This Forum is held almost every year and brings some 200 to 600 entrepreneurs
together to talk about business.
GFE is in charge of the German-Indian Trade Promotion Programme, the EU-funded,
Jamaica based Trade Development Programme, the GTZ funded , but also the EU/GTZ
co-funded EACH programme. The last Programmes covered to product development and
export promotion for SME in some 25 developing countries
CONFERENCES, TRADE FAIRS,
INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS
Many Trade Fairs have been organized and made fit
for competition by GFE experts. Among these Fair companies count: The St.
Petersburg Fair (LENEXPO), the Cairo Fair, the Nairobi Fair, GFE won the
contract to assure the participation of the East African countries at the EXPO
2000, that took place in Hanover. This "all -in" contract included the
complete organization and participation of East African countries at this World
Exposition.
From 1995 to 1998 GFE was a sponsor and co-organizer of the famous GLOBAL PANEL
CONFERENCES. On the left photo the Prime Minister of
Mozambique, H.E. Mucombi address a key-note speech during the GLOBAL PANEL
Conference 1997 in Aachen. Other key-note speakers
at the GLOBAL PANEL have been the Presidents of the United States of America, of Romania,
of Hungary, the King and the Crown Prince of Jordan, the Prime Ministers of France, the
Netherlands, Malaysia, Russia, Ivory Coast, Lithuania etc. Also heads of companies as from
Daimler-Chrysler (1998), Nokia, Unilever, Shell, Philips etc have participated
and addressed important
speeches on these annual conferences in Aachen.
TRADE AND INVESTMENT PROMOTION
GFE organizes missions of entrepreneurs to other countries to discover new market opportunities. Such promotion missions of European entrepreneurs to Mauritius, Morocco, Tunisia, India, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Jamaica etc have been organized by GFE.
VOCATIONAL TRAINING and SME PROMOTION
One of the two Vocational Training Centres of the Handwerkskammer Rhein-Main in Frankfurt. The Handwerkskammer is partner of GFE since 1985. GFE is in charge of all international operations of this Chamber. The Chamber is among the 10 largest Chambers in Germany and represents 24.000 companies in the Frankfurt area.
Workshops,
evaluations, management training
Some 50 project-evaluations worldwide and another 100 workshops have been organized and implemented by GFE senior experts during the last 25 years.