Andhra CM Naidu's 4 day Davos trip to build 'Brand AP' concludes

Hyderabad: The four-day visit of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu to Davos aimed at creating a 'Brand AP' image and setting up a network to invite massive investments to the state ended successfully on Thursday.

While holding fruitful discussions with Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) along with the heads of various globally-renowned companies and representatives of different nations, the Chief Minister, at the same time, actively took part in the round-table conferences and summits spending all the four days making relentless efforts to build the 'AP Brand'.

Having a fruitful meeting with heads of different business houses from across the world, the Chief Minister explained in detail the opportunities available in the state for making their investments. He particularly focused on the new policies being adopted for promoting various business houses and industries, the plans of Swarnandhra-2047 and the cooperation being extended to investors.

The Chief Minister invited them to visit the state personally to have first-hand information on all these issues following which various companies have evinced keen interest to set up their units in the state. On day one of the World Economic Forum summit, Naidu discussed in detail the possibilities of inviting investments from Switzerland during a meeting at Hilton Hotel in Zurich with Indian ambassador Mrudul Kumar.

Naidu also held discussions with the CEO of Maersk Company, Vincent Clerc after which the company expressed its readiness to invest in the state.

He invited the Chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems, Chuck Robbins, to invest either in Visakhapatnam or in Tirupati for which he responded in the most positive manner. Discussions were also held with Google Cloud CEO, Thomas Kurian, during which Naidu asked him to make Andhra Pradesh as its main headquarters.

The Chief Minister had a series of meetings with CEOs of various other companies including Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

The Chief Minister expressed happiness over the successful visit to Davos while IT minister Nara Lokesh will be there on Thursday too to hold discussions with various industrialists and will be back to the state on Friday.