I’ve witnessed two very different events in recent months on the stage in the main auditorium at the Maritim Hotel in Duesseldorf. In July it was Phil 'The Power' Taylor, the multiple darts world champion. This week it was German …
In theory Japanese companies were back at work after the New Year break on 4 January. But it's a while before normal routine resumes. On the first day back there is some kind of ceremony to mark the start of the …
Any body reading my blogs will know that I enjoy food, all sorts of different food, so it was in search of a good schweinshaxe while attending the Frankfurt fair as a young exporter when I endured one of my …
You've got to admire Japan's resilience. An earthquake 6000 times more powerful than the one that hit Christchurch in February, the most towering tsunami in a thousand years, nuclear crisis, power shortages, typhoons, astronomically strong yen, flooding of their factories in Thailand, predictions that the …
If you’re accepting our challenge to get started exporting in 2012, a few quiet days over the Christmas break can be well spent in thinking about how you will decide on how to select your target markets. I see from …
One of the more endearing aspects of Japan is that each December they choose a "kanji" (character) that epitomises the year just passed. Last year it was just "hot", and back in 2007 it was "fake", following a series of …
In my earlier Exporting Challenge blog I invited you to come along to our event on 12 December in the Concorde Suite at Manchester Airport to learn about how you could join in. I’m delighted to report back that we …
When I posed various questions in my blog on the export challenge recently, leading to my answering the question this week: "Are there any regulatory requirements you need to be aware of?" little did I expect an excited phone call on …
In my blog "Exporting Challenge" I outlined some factors you would have to address before you embark on your exporting journey. The first of these was "Will you need to adapt your product offer to suit overseas markets?" One of …
It’s an undisputed fact that we need to have more firms exporting from the UK for the economy to grow. Our Minister, Lord Green, was in London last week with the Prime Minister to launch a national challenge to find …
