Inspired by UKTI's Exporting is GREAT initiative to inspire and support an additional 100,000 businesses to trade abroad by 2020, here are my top 10 reasons to expand your business horizons. It's vital to look for new customers overseas as …
The Fourth of July seemed an appropriate time to think about the UK’s trade relationship with the US – as well as to wish all my American friends and colleagues a happy Independence Day. The US is a market of …
Yesterday I was at the opening of Jaguar Land Rover’s first fully owned factory outside the UK in Itatiaia, a couple of hours drive from the city of Rio de Janeiro. After 6 years of working with JLR in Brazil, …
When a client says, ‘you’ve just saved six months of my life’ after a conversation with an International Trade Adviser, you want to know why. The client in question is ‘Talk to a Doctor’ CEO, Dr Doniert Macfarlane (below). His …
If you’ve flown in a twin-aisle passenger jet in the last couple of years, there’s a one-in-three chance that it was powered by Rolls-Royce engines. At the start of the next decade, it will be a 50/50 bet. That growth …
Here’s a story of innovation, inspiration and UK-India collaboration. What started off as a little experiment with their computer, switching the LEDs on and off, inspired a “eureka” moment for two Indian students. From this beginning, Sanskriti Dawale and Aman …
With less than 100 days to go to the Rio Olympics, Brazil is going to be in the headlines a great deal. The Games will show off Rio’s spectacular scenery and infrastructure to great effect. Whilst most of the infrastructure …
Whether you are just starting out, building your business or have reached a level of maturity, reputation is critical. No more so than when you are looking to export, move your business beyond the markets you started in and start …
Being the managing director of a North East-based company, which exports all over the world, is such a rewarding role. I travel a great deal and that gives me the opportunity to rave to anyone who will listen about how …
I hear great stories. Export is a bit of an adventure. We have intrepid entrepreneurs setting off into unknown international territories, facing conflicts along the way and emerging victorious with exciting opportunities for the taking. And it is great to …
Are you going on another one of ‘those jollies’ to Latin America, India or other exotic place where the sun shines in the Northern European winter? It sounds glamorous and appealing but, as we know, the reality can be quite …
