UK Advanced Engineering Global Strategy Launch

This ministerial  launch event organised on behalf of UK Trade & Investment took place on the 11th of March 2009. The event incorporated a live satellite broadcast between two venues in Birmingham and London, with keynote speeches, question and answer sessions with government ministers and high profile speakers in the advanced engineering field. This event attracted 220 delegates and included a presentation of the strategy and the launch of a website to promote UK advanced engineering capability.

UK Advanced Engineering 2008 – Seminar Mission to India, 2008

This programme of three events taking place in India was organised by BtoB on behalf of UK Trade and Investment Advanced Engineering Team. BtoB designed, developed and delivered a high profile series of three one-day events focusing on the Advanced Engineering sector to be held in Bangalore, Pune and Chennai in India. The seminar were designed to promote the UKs strong advanced engineering capability and facilitate business to business networking between UK and Indian companies.

The series of events was seen by UK Trade and Investment, the UK companies and Indian delegates as a fantastic success. A total of 409 Indian delegates and 32 speakers/presenters attended.

“This is one of the best events, helpful for improving relations between UK and Indian industries”

“All the seminar lectures were excellent; this will definitely help for business with the UK”

Website: www.ukae2008.com

Romanian Inward Mission to East Midlands EXPO, 2007

The mission consisted of ten delegates from the Romanian public sector organisations who were visiting the East Midlands to develop relationships to support various environmental projects. This mission was a major success with all delegates giving excellent feedback and expressing interest in working with UK organisations.

“It was excellent! Professional welcome and organisation; good variety of meetings”
Union of Romanian County Councils

Shanghai International Circuit (SIC) Inward Mission, 2007

The inward mission from China visited the UK to develop business relationships and promote the business opportunities that exist at the SIC for UK companies. The mission was a major success with face to face meetings taken by UK companies and a number of companies expressing interest in visiting Shanghai to continue discussions.

Northwest Region UKTI International Meet the Buyers Programme 2007-2010 and 2004-2006

Eight international Meet the Buyers events were organised up to 2006 within industry sectors consistent with the RES of the NWDA. Over £17million of new export business was generated for the 503 SMEs that took part in this programme of events. 219 buyers were engaged. Included aerospace, healthcare, and technical textiles. The series has continued through 2007 and 2008 and has included industries such as: Energy, Textiles, Aerospace and Automotive. This series is due to continue until 2010.

Website example: www.aerospaceprocurement08.com

Serendib, 2006

This unique hybrid event welded our successful ‘Meet the Buyers’ concept to an exhibition and showcase of all that is best in Sri Lankan business. The event held in Covent Garden, showcased 50 Sri Lankan companies to 79 UK-based buyers such as Fortnum and Mason, Harrods, Tesco and many more.