Author Archives for UKTI Australia & New Zealand 
We help British businesses succeed in Australia and New Zealand and ANZ businesses expand into the UK. We also celebrate everything that contributes to the close and long-lasting relationship between the UK and its southern cousins. We watch cricket. We eat pies. We spell things with an ‘s’ instead of a ‘z’. We talk a lot about the weather. We are UKTI Australia & New Zealand. Business Development Diaries 3
I have a soft spot for Bristol. A great combination of old and new UK and lots of innovative SMEs!
We have seen large numbers of companies from the South West in Australia in recent months and they have demonstrated many times that smart companies with good products who prepare well often do good business in Australia.
Business Development Diaries 2
I had forgotten how beautiful the scenery is across the North West of England and into Southern Scotland. Even the heavy, dark sky did not take away from the majestic vistas. The journey put me in a great mood for my first working visit to Glasgow. I met with five fantastic companies all looking to build their export markets into Australia. They told me that the retail sector had been hit quite hard by the recession. But they, and many other companies, were seeing great opportunities for export. The weaker pound meant UK exports looked better value in overseas markets and that UKTI could support them to make the most of these opportunities.
Business Development Diaries
I am writing this as I sit on the new Qantas A380 heading for UK. It’s over a year since I was back in UK. The last time I arrived I turned on the radio in my hire car to hear the news that Lehman Brothers had collapsed. The subsequent four hour drive to my home in Yorkshire left me concerned for the first time in my life that the banks might just fall over and something which had always felt guaranteed was actually at risk. So what will I find this time?
AusBio does the business
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 bods who are dusting off their labcoats and giving all of us a sneak peek into [...]
South West to Down Under
I’m not sure that I’d be able to catch Richard Morris as he speeds around the region but I have had quite a breathless time myself as an International Trade Advisor in the South-West and now as a Trade Development Manager in Australia.
For the past eighteen months I’ve been giving advice to a wide variety [...]