Wednesday, 13 Apr 2011
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New To Exporting? Here’s How We Can Help
UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) can help you rise to the exciting opportunities and challenges that globalisation offers. We can work with you to help you grow your business and offer a number of key services which can be tailored to meet the needs of your company. Here's how you can get started, with our help..
Speak to your local expert
Our International Trade Teams are located in local offices all over the country.Every UK region has dedicated sector specialists, helping new and established exporters every day. Our local teams can provide support tailored to your company's particular needs and growth stage. You'll find a list of our regional offices here or use our postcode searcher, labelled as "Contacts in your Region" on our export landing page
Exporting for growth: a Guide to getting started in exporting
The Exporting for Growth Guide is designed to encourage UK companies to consider exporting and tells them how to get started. It explains some of the many benefits of exporting, sets out the issues companies need to consider and outlines where they can go for help.
Find out about Passport to Export
Our Passport to Export programme offers new and inexperienced exporters free capability assessments, support in visiting markets, mentoring from a local professional, action plans, customised and subsidised training, and ongoing support once you've started to export.
Access our market expertise
Each business and each market is unique. Our aim is to help you through research and advice, to make those initial approaches into new markets. We offer two key research and contact services, Overseas Market Introduction Service and Export Markets Research Scheme
Additionally, our website offers access to two market intelligence services for exporters. FCO country updates are assessments of business -relevant political and economic issues in key markets, and Overseas Business Risk service provides declassified strategic information on business security related issues.
Break down barriers
If you need help with the linguistic and cultural aspects of doing business overseas, the Export Communications Review offers companies a variety of options and advice, including cultural awareness reviews and communications planning.
Visit a market
Taking part in overseas events, trade fairs or missions is an effective way to test markets, attract customers, appoint agents or distributors and make sales. UKTI helps arrange groups of UK companies to attend tradeshows and missions worldwide.
Manage payment risks
You may wish to consider the products and services offered by UK Export Finance
Are Your Ready to Export?
The “Exporting for Growth” tool can provide you with more information on increasing your company's export capability and expertise. The tool is part of Businesslink’s new Growth and Improvement service. This service has a range of easy-to-use tools, online tutorials and video case studies, and signposts to discussion forums, events and support schemes. Access the Growth and Improvement service here
Talk to us
Get the ball rolling by contacting your local International Trade Adviser in the regional office closest to you. We also operate a customer enquiry line which is staffed from 09:00 to 17:00 Monday to Friday.
If you want to find out more, or have any questions or feedback, then please give us a call.