Highlights: Sales Offices

Where We Are:

• There is no systematic response for foreign-owned firms seeking to establish a sales office in Virginia that provides information on key, initial market entry issues such as taxes, accounting, legal, risk management, market research, employee recruitment and real estate requirements.
• Some local economic development resources are in place, but availability of resources is not consistent across the Commonwealth.

Where We Can Be:

• Finding needed resources is easy for foreign companies wishing to open sales offices in Virginia.

2008 Initiative:

• Create a consortium of service providers that assist foreign-owned firms that open sales offices in Virginia.

View the four-page 2007 VITAL task force report on this topic or a compilation of all the 2007 VITAL report task forces recommendations.