New start for exporters

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12/7/10
New start for exporters

New Zealand export companies and those thinking about exporting were given a big boost today with the launch of the Exporter Development Programme (EDP) by the New Zealand School of Export and a 50% subsidy.

The Programme will see the School working one-to-one with exporters over an 8 month period to raise their export knowledge and skills, and to provide very practical assistance in a logical step-by-step process including an on-site Export Health-Check.

The New Zealand School of Export Director, Dr Romuald Rudzki says: “The subsidy will ensure that the maximum number of exporters can participate, but numbers are limited to 40 to ensure our quality standards and to maintain the highest level of support. I strongly urge exporters to contact us now, as a recession is the best time to train and prepare for the future.”

The Exporter Growth Programme takes companies through everything from understanding their competitors, through choosing an export market, to finding customers, export pricing, agency and distributor agreements, shipping goods, getting paid, and growing the business into an international operation.
“We have been successfully growing exporters since 2007 when we were founded as an independent Charitable Trust” says Rudzki “and this is the next stage in raising our companies to the same level as their overseas competitors. We can achieve this because the School is New Zealand’s only institution to be accredited by the global body IATTO and for the first time we have the same level of professional development for our exporters as offered in other IATTO member countries such as Australia, the USA, Canada, UK, and South Africa. We have a very long way to go to catch up but at least we are now in the same game.”

Exporters who have graduated from the School include those from the largest to the smallest export companies such as Fonterra, Atrax, Red Seal, Cowell’s Pavlovas and NZ Liquor Resources, as well as staff from NZTE.

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