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 …
Forbes has just issued its list of billionaires for 2011 and it makes interesting reading. I’ll admit that I struggle with understanding what it would be like to be a billionaire and, even if I were lucky enough to win …
One of the most striking features of the South Korean economy is the hugely important role played by its large conglomerates, or ‘chaebol’ in Korean. The chaebol are led in size by Samsung – which has annual revenues larger than …
I came across a short online report recently by SERI (the Samsung Economic Research Institute, one of South Korea's most respected research centres). There are a few interesting predictions on economic growth here - and some pointers for British exporters …
Demonstrating children’s colouring products at a gift show in Japan brought back memories of my childhood. This may sound a strange activity for us to engage in, but this is just one very practical way we can support UK companies …
I closed International Trade Week 2011 in the North East recently with a speech about the UK’s successes - and James Averdieck of GU Puddings was our guest speaker . It was great to meet James - an ex-Durham …
I have just returned from a two day tour of Lancashire, an area which I’m afraid I visit all too infrequently, despite having an aunt living in Blackpool. Now when you think of Lancashire what do you imagine? Is it …
A Japanese businessman came to call on me the other day to talk about the UK economy. In telling me about his company's experiences it struck me that his story was the story in microcosm of most of Japanese industry. …
As a fresh faced young boy at grammar school in Newcastle-under-Lyme in the early 70s I recall being handed a stack of what they called punch cards on to which I was taught to apply binary coding to programme a …
As part of UKTI North East launching International Trade Week, and in my capacity of UKTI's International Trade Director for the North East of England, I hosted a round table of interested parties yesterday . Lots came out it, which …
Japan's seen record snowfalls this year, right along its Japan Sea coast and northern prefectures, enough to bury entire houses. And yet the traffic keeps flowing. How come? Well, a mixture of preparation, and ingenuity. One Japanese company making rice …
