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 blog "Exporting Challenge" I outlined some factors you would have to address before you embark on your exporting journey. The first of these was "Will you need to adapt your product offer to suit overseas markets?" One of …
I am sure whatever tennis legend Michael Stich was saying must have been interesting, but I have no idea what it was. I know it is rude to ignore the guest speaker at an event and perhaps it is ruder …
I always liked the word cyberspace. Growing up in the 1970´s and 1980´s I was completely bred on TV-shows like Star Trek, Space:1999 and V and movies like Star Wars and Alien. For a solid part of my youth I …
It’s an undisputed fact that we need to have more firms exporting from the UK for the economy to grow. Our Minister, Lord Green, was in London last week with the Prime Minister to launch a national challenge to find …
11 November may mean Remembrance Day in the UK, but in Japan it's Pocky Day - well, they're perfectly formed to make a 3D version of 11.11.11. It's also Cheese Day, for reasons which I've been unable to ascertain. I …
I was delighted to attend Lord Green's event last week, launching the flagship initiative Exporting for Growth in the UK. PM David Cameron, HSBC Chief Executive Brian Robertson and PWC Chair Ian Powell all spoke extremely supportively of boosting the …
When I leave our new office at Daresbury Laboratory, if the traffic on the M56 is snarled up, I occasionally take a short cut through Daresbury village going past All Saints Church. Famously the curate of this church in 1832 …
Answer - when you're the owner of the "World's Worst Driver" TV format. Licensing fees have been pouring in for the format from around the world. Germany set out to find the "World's Worst Cook", Denmark the "World's Worst Husband" and Sweden …
So you’ve decided it’s a good idea to have a look at exporting but need a bit of context to understand why it’s potentially beneficial to your firm? Up and down the country SMEs are asking themselves the same questions. …
He must have had an incredibly busy year. That was my first thought when discovering my partner for an upcoming discussion on the UK economy was not only the former Mayor of Berlin, but the one who had been in …
