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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.

Current Position : emita Project Co-ordinator

Email : jo.botting@uktiem.co.uk

Current Office : N/A

Areas of Specialism : Event Co-ordination, Finance, Web Management

Jo is the Project Co-ordinator for the East Midlands International Trade Association.

After finishing higher education in 1997, Jo worked within the Hotel Industry for several years before moving to Lanzarote in the Canary Islands in 2001 to become a chef at a restaurant in a popular tourist resort.

On returning back to the UK in 2006, Jo embarked on a career change and worked for a conference and events management company in Derby before joining EMB Ltd in 2008 as a Business Link Events Co-ordinator.

Jo’s role at emita is to undertake the organising and marketing of the events, and to work closely with partner organisations to keep emita in the public eye.