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Exporting starts at home

A short while ago I dined at a very well known Leicestershire venue that attracts people from all over the country. The dessert menu included 'a selection of French cheeses'. Nothing wrong in that you may say but ponder a little longer and you begin to wonder why specifically French cheeses. That venue is but a few miles from the source of some of the best cheeses in the world, made locally in Leicestershire. The UK more widely makes a huge range of some of the finest cheeses that money can buy.

6 June 2011

An opportunity to get all your burning export questions answered!

Peter Hogarth, International Trade Director for UK Trade & Investment East Midlands, will be giving companies throughout the East Midlands expert export advice during a live one hour Q&A session through his twitter account @UKTI_PHogarth on Friday 10 June, from 9am, with the #askUKTIPeter

The breakfast Q&A will give local companies and partners the chance to ask questions following the release of the latest quarterly international trade statistics on Thursday 9 June. He's doing this to help local firms make the most of export opportunities: exporting is vital for the British economy to grow.

Any local companies that have any exporting questions, from knowing whether your ball bearings will sell in Brazil, to how to sell textiles in Tallinn to shipping scarves to Sicily, should simply tweet your question with #askUKTIPeter to @UKTI_PHogarth until 9.45am on Friday 10 June.