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 …
Now that the dust has settled after our GREAT Week, I finally have the chance to reflect on what an incredible week (or, to be exact, 11 days) it was. Led by Sir John Sorrell, UK Business Ambassador for the Creative …
Jack Porteous , Language and Culture Adviser for UKTI London, blogs on the importance of cultural considerations when doing business overseas. Taking your business abroad can be challenging – your first meeting in a new market can be less like stepping …
Export Week has been fantastic in the North East once again. We’ve had hundreds of companies taking part in events, lots of input from experts and many business deals progressed this week. Thank you to all the business community and …
Working in UKTI’s Consumer and Retail Sector Team, I am used to meeting well-known British brands, but it’s rare to be in a room with over 1,000 of them! Last week was an exception, when I attended the 2014 National …
Sue Kinoshita: Director of UK Trade & Investment Japan, shares her experience of this year's GREAT Week in Japan events which involved nearly 50 UK companies and over 500 Japanese buyers. It wasn't quite the Queen in her carriage being …
Guest blog by Rosemary French, Executive Director of the Gatwick Diamond Initiative. It’s a striking fact that, even with recovery taking hold across the British economy, there still remains a huge amount of untapped talent which has the potential to …
With only a few days to go until Export Week, I am issuing a challenge to all North West businesses to reach out to one more market. The UK needs to increase its exports to £1 trillion by 2020, and …
I was delighted to see UK exports to South Korea growing, following the Free Trade Agreement between Europe and South Korea which was signed off last year. It reminded me that a lot of business is based on interpersonal relationships …
Signs the economic recovery is underway are everywhere. Last week, we heard that the UK GDP has grown by another 0.7% in the third quarter of 2014, with all the main sectors of the economy growing steadily, in particular services, …
Export Week, the stuff of which many a UK Trade & Investment blog/press release/editorial piece is made, is with us again. 300-ish words of facts and figures, running something like this: 'Export Week, 5 days of activity designed to encourage …
