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Members of the ACT Exporters’ Network are invited to celebrate the festive season and the end of another successful year for exporters.
As part of the celebrations Australian Scientific Instruments (ASI), winner of the 2010 Chief Minister’s Exporter of the Year Award, is opening its factory to members of the ACT Exporters’ Network. Come and learn [...]
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Doing Business with Indonesia
A Joint ACT Exporters’ Network and Australian Indonesia Business Council Seminar held on 11 November 2010.
Peter Dawson
The Manager of the Exporters’ Network, Dr Pam Faulks opened the seminar and introduced Peter Dawson, the immediate past Chair of the ACT Branch of the Australia Indonesia Business Council (AIBC) Peter outlined that Indonesia has a population of [...]
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B2B Article: Strong Australian Dollar an Extra Challenge for Exporters
October 2010
The Australian dollar is nearing its strongest level in two years, with September likely to reflect the biggest monthly gain since May 2009. While many Australians are celebrating this strength by enjoying international holidays and stronger purchasing power, for exporters the strong Australian dollar presents new challenges.
While exporters may already have strategies in place [...]
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B2B article: Growing export strength through relationships
November 2010
Business is all about relationships. And relationships take time, commitment and patience to develop. For those in the business of exporting, there is the added factor that those you want to build a relationship with can be located just about anywhere around the world.
There are, however, a number of avenues that can assist exporters [...]
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3rd Annual Export Leaders’ Breakfast – Last few days to register!
12 August 2010
3rd Annual Export Leaders’ Breakfast – Last few days to register!
To celebrate the success of Australia’s export heroes, the Centre for Customs and Excise Studies, Canberra Business Council and the ACT Government will be hosting the 3rd Annual Export Leaders’ Breakfast on 12 August 2010.
The breakfast will showcase some of Australia’s most successful [...]
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Restoring Support for Australian Exporters
The Shadow Minister for Trade, the Hon. Warren Truss, launched the Coalition Government’s Trade Policy themed – Restoring Support for Australian Exporters at an Australian Institute of Export (AIEx) breakfast this week in Brisbane.
The key announcement was the Coalition’s election promise to restore the $50 million funding shortfall to the Austrade administered Export Market Development [...]
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B2B Article: EMDG scheme
Australian exporters have faced many obstacles over the past two years – a buoyant dollar making our products less affordable on the world stage, the global financial crisis, and now the reduction in funding of the Export Market Development Grant (EMDG) scheme.
EMDG is a scheme that has been supporting Australian exporters for many years to [...]
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ACT Exporters’ Networks 2009-2010 Achievements
2009-10 has been a particularly successful year for the ACT Exporters’ Network and the ACT export community at large.
The Network’s major achievements in 2009/10 include –
• Nearly 800 registrations for ACT Exporters’ Network training, briefing or networking events in 2009/10 - The Network has delivered Pitch Club sessions, Getting into Export workshops, Networking breakfasts and CEO [...]
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GSA Schedules
QUESTION: Do you believe that the GSA option can limit your sales outside the government sector?
ANSWER: No, being listed on the GSA schedules can only enhance a company’s stature and offering. Getting a GSA Schedule tells customers (government or not) that you are a serious vendor and that the US government has done the due [...]
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