UKTI
Government to help SMEs to trade globally
Business Secretary Vince Cable, Foreign Secretary William Hague and Trade and Investment Minister Lord Green today launched a new cross-government focus on trade and investment to help the British economy grow.
A quarter of UK businesses consider themselves too small to export
By Maggie Choo, Director at Alibaba.com EMEA
Setting up an exporting arm can be a profitable way of expanding your business, helping to spread risk and reduce dependence on the local market. Advances in technology have opened up a host of new export opportunities for UK businesses. Today, businesses are able to identify, connect and do business with companies that would have been far beyond reach just 10 years ago.

