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 …
When people talk about current business opportunities in Mexico, the energy and telecom industries get a lot of attention, given reforms in these areas. However, the auto industry is booming – and has very positive prospects. Mexico is the 8th …
During this series of blogs, I will be guiding you through trade missions, looking at what they are and also some basic tips for international business travel. And I wanted to share some first hand experience, having just returned from …
I had heard that it rained a lot in Manchester but as I arrived the City of Liverpool on the eve of the International Festival for Business Africa Rising Event, I was welcomed with an even bigger downpour. It prevented …
A blog from Jack Porteous, UKTI London’s Language and Culture Adviser. You’ve spent hours agonising over the minutiae of your marketing materials, days making your website word-perfect, and months producing the perfect sales brochure. Now you’re looking to export and need it …
I founded Righttrack Consultancy in 1988. By 1999 we had started to carve ourselves a market exporting bespoke, in-house soft skills training to the Middle East (with great success.) Every UKTI Trade Mission I have attended over the years has …
Tea with Katherine Jenkins, jokes about football, Pimms, Welsh cheese, Scottish salmon, F-Type Jaguars and a fond farewell. I could not have asked for more from my last day of official engagements as Director of UKTI Germany. After three years …
By the time you read this post, UKTI will just have launched the ‘Innovation is GREAT’ campaign in Warsaw. The campaign, which is very close to my heart, is designed to support cooperation between Britain and Central & Eastern Europe …
A blog from Penny Adegboyega , Marketing and Communications Assistant at UKTI London, who is accompanying a trade mission to Angola. Read part one of her blog here In the last few days I’ve learnt so much about this blossoming …
The Hungarian Grand Prix is just around the corner and it is always a proud occasion for me. Formula One is followed around the globe but it is a peculiarly British sport. Eight of the eleven F1 teams are based …
As news of its impending IPO resurfaces, it is clear to see why the Alibaba Group is not only China’s biggest online commerce company, but will soon be one of the most valuable tech companies in the world. A quick …
