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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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AusBio does the business

Posted by: UKTI Australia New Zealand, Posted on: 29 October 2009 - Categories: Innovation, Investing in the UK

Well it’s day two of four-day-long AusBiotech2009 and I must say Melbourne is putting on a cracking show! It’s not just the weather, which is a most un-Melbournely, mid twenties and sunny with consistent blue skies, but also the biotechnology …

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Reflections on a great visit

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 24 October 2009 - Categories: Chile, UK regions

On the plane home overnight. Will be back in the house at about 6pm on Saturday. My wife complaining that every other weekend I lose a day to travel and half a day to papers. I say it's part of …

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Down to Business in Buenos Aires

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 23 October 2009 - Categories: Export

Flew in to Buenos Aires with huge views of River Plate and a sense of Spring. We are going in to winter in UK and it is a delight to experience the joy of new growth and Spring sunshine. Two …

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A Packed Day in Peru

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 22 October 2009 - Categories: Export

Peruvian food is the best in S. America - so the Peruvians say. It certainly is delicious - there’s a Peruvian restaurant near Waterloo station in London. The potato of course is Peru’s gift to the world, a real global …

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Chile / UK : Building on our history

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 21 October 2009 - Categories: Export

  At Santiago airport after zooming down a bit of Route 5. This is the road that goes the whole length of Chile. It makes Route 66, of Rolling Stones fame, seem tame We were returning from visiting a BG …

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On route to South America

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 19 October 2009 - Categories: Chile

The best preparation for long haul travel is exercise and no caffeine or alcohol – particularly so for a full six day schedule visiting three markets in the vast continent of South America. So Sunday was a day of vigorous …

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Shared knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch

Posted by: Sam Gemmell, Posted on: 15 October 2009 - Categories: United States

Bikram Yoga, for those not familiar with forms of water torture, is a series of 26 yoga positions performed in a room heated to over 140 degrees F with extreme humidity.  I’m sitting in our office in Delray Beach, Fl, …

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Uncertainty is invevitable. Worrying is optional.

Posted by: Sam Gemmell, Posted on: 14 October 2009 - Categories: Export

I have metal in both my ankles, the legacy of a misspent youth, and it set off the security scanner at Chicago International Airport. It’s not my first time, so I deliberately travel without pockets, flaunt my ankles to anyone …

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And now for something completely different

Posted by: Sam Gemmell, Posted on: 13 October 2009 - Categories: United States

The first leg of my US export adventure is almost over. The Kellogg School Marketing Master Class has really inspired me, and it’s worth taking some time to let the learning simmer and distill. But for now, it's time to shift …

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The lure of a good sandwich

Posted by: Sam Gemmell, Posted on: 9 October 2009 - Categories: Marketing

I can’t leave this hallowed place of learning without bemoaning the lure of twenty-four hour snacking. The idea that you have to carb up to work out, academically speaking, has caused much international debate. Clutching his new paunch, one athletic …

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