Mexico : New Year, New Challenges
2013 is the Year of the Snake in the Chinese Calendar – which would be “El Año de la Serpiente” in Spanish. The holiday season is a good time to get a break and recharge the batteries. A new year …
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Opportunity Korea - a week you don't want to miss
I have been struck, in the nearly 2 and a half years that I have been living here, by the sheer dynamism of South Korea. There’s a real sense that our bi-lateral cooperation has never been stronger and I hear …
2013 Business is GREAT!
If you believe a number of our banking friends, 2013 is going to be an even better year than 2012 in Emerging Europe. Set right at the heart of Europe, Poland is set to have a robust year even if …
Like Giants Refreshed
I hope you’ve returned from your Christmas and New Year break, as my old headmaster used to say, like giants refreshed. I always enjoy a long break myself and use it to recharge the batteries – more necessary this year …
Christmas is no humbug
I started December this year with a lovely performance of “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens at the Maxim Theatre here in Stockholm. The story was brilliantly told and sung by a group of English actors. Ebenezer Scrooge, the main …
Open to Export - Highlights of 2012
2012 has been a challenging, exciting, sometimes frustrating, but very good year for us in the Open to Export team. It's fair to say for the UKTI members of our team, there have been some major changes to our roles …
All I Know About Mexico
Launch of Weetabix in Mexico, a joint effort of the Guadalajara and Mexico City teams Now is a great time for Mexico. It may not have been named as one of the BRICs in 2001, but according to the …
Emerging Europe is GREAT!
Just wanted to catch up at the end of a very busy week. The Emerging Europe message really is great. Everybody is talking emerging market opportunity. For many businesses however they are just too far away – we offer a …
Airbus, Bentley, Mini and Rolls Royce
Two days, four factories, billions of pounds worth of exports. In a busier than usual start to the working week, I had the great pleasure of seeing first-hand the jewels in the crown of UK manufacturing as we toured British …
UKABC: Exploring Opportunities in ASEAN
Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of making my first UKABC trip to ASEAN, where I stopped off in Hanoi, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. By the end of the week of meetings with UKTI and FCO colleagues, …