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 …
After Export Week in May, when 130 businesses from across the East of England attended an array of events focussing on exports to countries including Brazil, China, India, Nigeria and Turkey, the trade figures for the period to end March 2013 …
This guest blog on innovation is by Dr Nicola Millard who is a customer experience futurologist with BT. Innovation is a defining feature of progress. Without people devoted to doing things better, faster, cheaper and greener we’d still be stuck …
There's nothing like living overseas for getting to know your own country. Just in the past week Japanese acquaintances have asked me about the British Blue Guide system, how our variable VAT system works and why it is that British …
There is a growing appetite for British food & drink products in Emerging Europe. Poland is already established among the UK’s top dozen food & drink export markets globally; while exports to the nine countries making up UKTI’s Central Europe …
In March I was delighted to announce the UKTI Trade Challenge Partner initiative. Our purpose, working with 99 Trade Associations and membership organisations, is to get more UK SMEs doing business overseas and to support those that do export to …
The Australian life sciences sectors is thriving and with many exciting developments and events coming up we thought a chat with our sector specialist Joe Dodd might be in order. We sat down with Joe to find out about everything …
A key priority for the Embassy in Mexico City is encouraging inward investment to the UK. There are various large Mexican companies that have invested in the UK – like Cemex, Monex and Gruma- but we also want to explore …
Another hugely successful Export Week is over but our drive to increase exports is not. As far as we at UKTI are concerned every week has to be export week if we are to grow our economy. There is a …
China is a huge and expanding market - UK exports to the country reached almost £4bn between January and May 2012, up by 21 per cent on the same period in 2011. That’s why it’s one of the emerging economies …
The sporting eyes of Germany will once again be on London this weekend. Dortmund and Bayern face-off on the hallowed turf of Wembley for the ultimate prize in European club football. And thousands of fans, as well as politicians and …
