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 …
Sue Kinoshita, Director UKTI Japan, reflects on the Japanese passion for group activity in business, and in daily life Morecambe and Wise, the Two Ronnies, Little and Large... the comedians of my childhood all seemed to come in pairs. I suddenly …
Charlotte Griffiths from UKTI Japan’s marketing team takes a step into Japan’s future and considers how the UK can help to build it. Remember when Japan was the future? Think Blade Runner where Los Angeles looked more like downtown Osaka, …
I am really looking forward to February! TEDxStockholm just announced that I will be a speaker at their 16 February 2015 event. This will be the biggest TEDx event ever organised in Stockholm, with 10+ speakers and over 400 attendees. …
Looking back over the past year my region, the North East, has a lot to be proud of. The total value of our exports is now back at pre-recession levels, with latest figures showing the annual total at £12.7 billion. That’s …
Charlotte Griffiths from UKTI Japan’s marketing team examines one of Japan’s most successful marketing exports. This year a British female turns 40. I imagine a fair number of other British females will do the same, but this one has particular …
Only in Los Angeles would you get a former Gladiator, a TV presenter, actors and musicians on the same football pitch as venture capitalists, bankers, tax advisors and a member of the Royal Family. But that's what happened here on …
As the dust settles and we reflect on another busy Export Week, I think it’s safe to say that this was a particularly great week for my region, the East of Engalnd, many reasons. It was not just because we were …
My first experience of a GREAT week was as part of a trade mission to Japan in October of this year. I was slightly apprehensive whether I was committing to something that would help my business, Amelia Rope Chocolate, grow in export …
For three years now, I have led UKTI’s Central Europe Network – 62 trade and investment specialists working out of nine British Embassies in the region (Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia and Croatia). Throughout that …
The next six years will see unprecedented investment into the railways across Central & Eastern Europe (CEE). The main driver is EU funding – the region will receive €150 billion between 2014 and 2020 – and the railways are a …
