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 …
In my exporting challenge blog I set a series of questions. I now turn to the question of routes to market. Luckily Doug Mahoney, UKTI’s Director-West Midlands, recently blogged on the subject and promised more in the future but I …
As part of our new Exporting Challenge for 2012 in the North East, led by Lord Green, Minister for Trade and Investment, I'd like to challenge the North East to find 500 new exporters in this Olympic year. This would …
I’ve witnessed two very different events in recent months on the stage in the main auditorium at the Maritim Hotel in Duesseldorf. In July it was Phil 'The Power' Taylor, the multiple darts world champion. This week it was German …
In theory Japanese companies were back at work after the New Year break on 4 January. But it's a while before normal routine resumes. On the first day back there is some kind of ceremony to mark the start of the …
Any body reading my blogs will know that I enjoy food, all sorts of different food, so it was in search of a good schweinshaxe while attending the Frankfurt fair as a young exporter when I endured one of my …
You've got to admire Japan's resilience. An earthquake 6000 times more powerful than the one that hit Christchurch in February, the most towering tsunami in a thousand years, nuclear crisis, power shortages, typhoons, astronomically strong yen, flooding of their factories in Thailand, predictions that the …
If you’re accepting our challenge to get started exporting in 2012, a few quiet days over the Christmas break can be well spent in thinking about how you will decide on how to select your target markets. I see from …
One of the more endearing aspects of Japan is that each December they choose a "kanji" (character) that epitomises the year just passed. Last year it was just "hot", and back in 2007 it was "fake", following a series of …
In my earlier Exporting Challenge blog I invited you to come along to our event on 12 December in the Concorde Suite at Manchester Airport to learn about how you could join in. I’m delighted to report back that we …
When I posed various questions in my blog on the export challenge recently, leading to my answering the question this week: "Are there any regulatory requirements you need to be aware of?" little did I expect an excited phone call on …
