The US is the leading destination market for greenfield forestry and wood FDI, while Austria is the top source market. GlobalData’s forestry and wood foreign direct investment (FDI) report highlights the current trends in forestry and wood foreign investments. Buy the report here.
Between 2019 and 2023, the forestry and wood sector was the twenty-ninth largest FDI sector in terms of the number of greenfield investments. The forestry and wood sector accounts for 0.2% of global greenfield FDI projects.
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Greenfield foreign direct investment is when a company invests abroad to establish a new physical presence or expand an existing operation. Greenfield investments create jobs and/or involve a capital investment into the foreign location. Other forms of FDI, such as mergers and acquisitions, are not included as part of this definition.
Combined, the top ten destination countries account for 69.2% of total forestry and wood FDI projects.
The leading destination country for forestry and wood FDI is the US. Germany, France and Russia are also popular forestry and wood investment hubs.
According to GlobalData’s FDI Projects database, Canada-based companies were the leading source of greenfield forestry and wood investments into the US.
With respect to outbound FDI, Austria was the leading forestry and wood source market. Austria-based companies held a 14% share of total outbound forestry and wood FDI projects. Canada, Germany, UK and the US are also top source markets for forestry and wood FDI.
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