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 …
UK companies are hearing the message – companies that export are more profitable, more productive, grow faster and are more likely to survive economic downturn than those that don't. This was UKTI’s message to companies last week as we held …
Thirteen Food & Drink companies that represent the best of British in the South East won a place on a UK Trade & investment (UKTI) South East Insight Visit to Milan during the launch of the Milan Expo 2015.
When we began planning the UK’s participation in Milan Expo one objective was always clear. As well as using the UK Pavilion as a platform to showcase our nation’s capabilities to millions of international visitors, we also wanted to demonstrate that …
Last week, UKTI hosted 280 people, 200 one-to-one meetings, 14 nations and 13 first-time exporters at UK House in Central Milan, Italy for GREAT Week Food and Drink. The first of six trade missions taking place in Milan this year, …
Did you know that the UK has more offshore wind turbines than the rest of the world put together? Not only is this great news in helping us to meet our ambitious targets to reduce carbon emissions, it’s also creating …
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One of the parts I have loved about taking on this role as CEO of UK Trade & Investment has been discovering how many different partners we already work with. I had a strong sense we could do more for …
Building relationships is essential to international sales, and an awareness of cultural considerations is hugely important when selling your products and services in international markets. What may be acceptable in the UK could deemed as inappropriate, insensitive or even offensive …
Egypt has for a number of years predominantly hit the headlines due to political and security instability. Naturally, this has had an impact on the levels of foreign direct investment and the new Government of President Abdel Fattah-El-Sisi have been …
A prince, an astronaut and a CEO walked into a hotel... Sounds like the start of a tall story or a bad joke, right? But it actually happened the other day in Tokyo, when Prince William, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi and …
