Monthly Archives: February 2012

Each year the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise – hailed as the most prestigious awards for business performance – celebrates and rewards outstanding achievement by UK businesses of all sizes and from all sectors.

In this Diamond Jubilee Year, the winners of the UK’s highest accolades for business success are uniquely placed to encourage the further development of British companies by inspiring others to reach for this gold standard recognition and the prestige it brings.  Continue reading

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Which countries will you be exporting to over the next few years? How dependent is your company on the success of your exports and what barriers will you have to overcome?

We’ll be collecting answers to these and many more insightful questions over the next five weeks in the 2012 International Trade Survey, run by Trade and Export Finance Limited. TAEFL has been instrumental in gathering some of the most valuable data on companies involved with international trade and, since 1996, has undertaken the surveys in conjunction with the IOE. Continue reading

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With latest reports highlighting that business confidence in the Eurozone is on the increase as the services sector reverses its decline, the Institute of Export’s Director General Lesley Batchelor responds to a sample of frequently asked questions on harnessing opportunities – and reminds us that the UK is still one of Europe’s biggest buyers. Continue reading

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