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Ten reasons you should be exporting

Ten reasons you should be exporting

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 …

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Healthcare UK launches

Posted by: Howard Lyons, Posted on: 11 February 2013 - Categories: Dubai, Healthcare

Arab Health in Dubai is a bit like Christmas – it comes round only once every twelve months but it’s a great time for meeting up with friends you haven’t seen all year. This year, Arab Health was special because …

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India - an unexplored opportunity?

Posted by: Clive Drinkwater, Posted on: 6 February 2013 - Categories: Export, India

It’s always fascinating to go back to a country that you haven’t visited for a while.  So it was with my visit to India last week, my first for about nine years.  My parents used to live in Kerala and …

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Why is everyone investing in the UK? Why aren’t you?

Posted by: Leigh Turner, Posted on: 4 February 2013 - Categories: GREAT campaign, Investing in the UK, Turkey

Why is the Turkish company HDM Steel setting up a £7m manufacturing plant in South Wales? Take a look at the world. Think about countries where you might possibly imagine investing your money. Do they have a solid record on …

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Beautiful British boats at Boot

Posted by: Dan Rutstein, Posted on: 1 February 2013 - Categories: Germany, GREAT campaign, Marine

If you weren't sure in which country the €8m, 28 metre luxury yacht, was engineered, designed and manufactured, the Union Flag napkins on the wet bar on the fore-deck would have given it away. But actually to get to the …

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Ageing Infrastructure + Ageing Population = Rejuvenated Business Opportunities

Posted by: UKTI Japan, Posted on: 31 January 2013 - Categories: Export, Infrastructure, Innovation, Japan

...the ring still attached to the outside of the garage, and the persimmon tree from which he used to steal fruit on the way home from school. His old primary...

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A dialogue with Vietnam in a "breakthrough year"

Posted by: UK-ASEAN Business Council, Posted on: 30 January 2013 - Categories: Vietnam

On 23 January the City of London, in cooperation with the UK ASEAN Business Council (UKABC), hosted a delegation of Ministers and senior officials who were accompanying General Secretary HE Mr Nguyen Phu Trong on his first official visit to the …

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Healthcare UK - a portal to excellence

Posted by: Howard Lyons, Posted on: 22 January 2013 - Categories: Dubai, Export, Healthcare

The UK healthcare system is considered on many criteria to be the best in the world. Now that’s probably what you’d expect the new Managing Director of Healthcare UK to say. But don’t take my word for it. Listen to …

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One Mini, two princesses, three commercial opportunities

Posted by: Dan Rutstein, Posted on: 21 January 2013 - Categories: Export, Germany, GREAT campaign, Investing in the UK

When I suggested a few months ago we might want to emblazon a Mini in a Union Flag and drive it around Germany for a year to promote the GREATness of Britain, I certainly didn't expect it would end up …

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Mexico : New Year, New Challenges

Posted by: John Pearson, Posted on: 18 January 2013 - Categories: Export, Investing in the UK, Mexico

2013 is the Year of the Snake in the Chinese Calendar – which would be “El Año de la Serpiente” in Spanish. The holiday season is a good time to get a break and recharge the batteries.  A new year …

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Opportunity Korea - a week you don't want to miss

Posted by: UKTI South Korea, Posted on: 16 January 2013 - Categories: Export, South Korea

I have been struck, in the nearly 2 and a half years that I have been living here, by the sheer dynamism of South Korea. There’s a real sense that our bi-lateral cooperation has never been stronger and I hear …

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