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 …
I've opened a few British store promotions over the years, but never before under a flyover on a busy main road. But then the Aoki British fair is breaking new ground in other ways too. It's the first time a …
It's not every day you get chauffeured around by your Ambassador, so I made the most of the experience when I joined Ambassador David Warren as he undertook a test drive of the electric Rolls Royce 102EX concept car on …
How many of today's audience will be wearing ties? Given the range of companies the UKTI Germany team have been bringing to the embassy on inward missions of late, I never know quite what to expect - but I have …
There’s a saying in these parts a bit like "once in a blue moon" and it’s "once every Preston Guild". Not many people outside the North West will be aware of the latter saying, so here is a short local …
I saw a joke recently from Professor Brian Cox: The world is made up of 10 kinds of people – those that understand binary and those that don’t! It’s not often that you get a good joke with a bit …
When I was about 10 years old my party trick was to be able to distinguish the different cars on the road at night by the shapes of their headlights. My parents never ceased to be amazed at how accurate …
The North East’s export performance saw a slight dip in Q2 of 2011 compared to the first three months of the year, but at a total of £3.112bn it was still our third highest quarterly figure. And I’m delighted to …
We hosted an awards ceremony at the Embassy last week for Japanese companies who want to do business with the United Kingdom. British Airways offered twenty free tickets (and Hilton Hotels free accommodation in the UK) for Japanese firms planning …
Mounds of presents, the aroma of cinnamon , the strains of Silent Night: it must be ..... August. It's hard to get in the Christmas spirit when it's 32 degrees outside, but Lush certainly did their best when they mounted …
Being named Jenny in history class in secondary school posed somewhat of a challenge. According to our Swedish history books, a machine called Spinning Jenny was the origin of the industrial revolution that started in the UK and spread over …
