Published June 6, 2017
Croatia declared independence in 1991, but didn’t regain the two-thirds of its territory that had been under the control of the Yugoslav National Army and Serb paramilitaries, until the end of the bloody civil war in 1995.
It became part of the European Union in 2013 – when it became the 28th member state – and although it does plan to enter the eurozone, it still currently uses the kuna as its national currency.
Croatia still presents a great upcoming opportunity for UK businesses though – UK goods exports to Croatia were about £189.85 million in 2014 – so if you’re looking to export to Croatia, here’s all you need to know…
Published June 2, 2017
Remote working is on the rise – the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that 13.7% of the UK workforce now undertake some working from home – but why is this?
Published May 29, 2017
Costa Rica is one of Latin America’s most stable countries – its population of just under 5 million has an open economy that is focussed on agriculture, industrial production, services, and tourism.
There are many well known UK businesses that are now established over there, including AstraZeneca, Glaxosmithkline, and Land Rover.
So if you’re planning on exporting to Costa Rica, here’s everything you need to know…
Published May 15, 2017
Business is booming in China – in the last three decades it has grown to become the world’s largest economy, and this presents a huge opportunity for UK businesses thinking of exporting to China.
Jaguar Land Rover is currently the UK’s biggest export to China, and if you’d like to join it and become one of the many UK companies doing business in China, here’s all you need to know…
Published May 12, 2017
Japanese tech giant, Softbank, is to plough more of its millions into UK tech – following last year’s acquisition of ARM Holdings, it’s now backing Improbable, a London-based virtual reality…
Published May 5, 2017
The UK is a pretty unstable place right now – as we outlined in our last blog, the snap general election, and the ongoing confusion over any Brexit deal means…
Published April 17, 2017
Brazil is the biggest economy in Latin America, with larger states such as São Paulo having a bigger economy than neighboring nationArgentina. Brazil is also the world’s seventh biggest economy with a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of USD 2.3 trillion.
The UK and Brazil have a burgeoning trading relationship in place – UK goods exports to Brazil more than doubled in the decade between 2002 and 2012, and services exports increased by 59% in the five years between 2009 and 2014. And even though overall imports to Brazil dropped by 14.3% in 2015, the number of UK goods exported to the country only fell by 5%.
If you’re thinking of exporting to Brazil, the top UK exports include:
- Chemical products (mainly fungicides)
- Electrical appliances
- Machinery
- Pharmaceuticals
- Vehicles
If Brazil looks like a good opportunity for your business, here’s all you need to know about exporting there…
Published April 5, 2017
Cloud computing is a technology that enables companies to manage data and files online, rather than on a computer’s hard drive, and has been a driving force behind the growth of flexible working across the UK.
And 2017 is expected to be the year when we reach the tipping point where flexible working becomes more common than working from an office, according to a report from Lancaster University’s Work Foundation.
So what is the future of flexible working? And how will cloud computing feature in this brave new world?
Published April 4, 2017
Belgium is an affluent and multicultural nation with an open market that offers opportunities to businesses in most sectors. There are over 1,000 public and private international organisations with headquarters in Belgium, including some big-name UK businesses such as BP, BT and Shell.
Belgium is the UK’s eighth largest export market – worth £12.5 billion in 2014 – and the top exports to Belgium include:
- chemical products
- medical products
- automotive equipment
- diamonds
The Belgian economy is growing at a rate of about 1% each year, and the country’as top priority sectors for economic development include:
- biotechnology
- agri-food sector
- environmental technology
- pharmaceutical sector
- information communications technology (ICT)
- transport and logistics
If you think this looks like a good opportunity for your business, here’s all you need to know about exporting to Belgium…
Published March 31, 2017
If you work in an office you’re not much of a man, or at least your career isn’t very manly.
Even if you’ve no less than five days’ worth of stubble on your face at all times, bath in Acqua Di Parma, and swill your mouth with single malt every morning, office work just isn’t man’s work..
That is unless you happen to work as an intelligence analyst, in which case you’ll be considered quite manly, but even then you’ll be nowhere near as manly as a marine engineer, which is the most manly job there is. Apparently.
Confused? Read on…
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