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Gloucestershire LEP encourages firms to think exports

Gloucestershire LEP and UKTI are calling on businesses to maximising their export options following the Exporting for Growth event.

Run by the LEP’s Business Membership Group, which brings together more than 50 business membership organisations and UKTI, the event presented export case studies.

Terry Morgan, chair of the LEP’s Business Membership Group, said: “Export is vital for creating jobs and improving the Gloucestershire economy and the LEP will continue to highlight our export success stories from across the county.

“But the Business Membership Group still wants a lot more businesses to come forward that could become successful exporters given some individually tailored advice and support.

“There is already a lot of funding support available and, as the event proved, many local experienced exporters are very willing to offer advice and encouragement so nothing should be holding them back.”

Businesses head from speakers from Barclays, UKTI and Gloucestershire LEP, and businesses case studies such as Colin Hygate of Green Fuels.

Steve Barnett, managing director of Glevum Security does not currently export, but suggested the company may do in the future, following the event.

He said: “For us it is about finding more information on how to go about exporting. When it is the right time for us then we would export. The event has really shown me the best way to go about it and who to contact.”

Qing Lin, from Join in China, which supports UK small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to export in the Chinese market, said: “The event was absolutely wonderful and very useful. I am pleased to see Gloucestershire is very keen to export, especially the SMEs.

“My opinion is that if you don’t export now you will never do it so this is sort of event is vital.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Tom Keighley .