Insider, the leading business magazine in the South West, is delighted to invite you to an exclusive panel event addressing the practicalities and opportunities associated with trading with North America.
Together with our sponsors - UTKI, Bristol International Airport and Continental Airlines, Lloyds TSB and the North American Business Club - we will bring together local business leaders with experience of US and Canadian business as well as a range of experts to discuss how to access North American markets for new business.
The UK has long had a strong trading relationship with the US and Canada, but is now the right time to try to move into North American markets? We will be inviting senior business people from across the region to attend, and have compiled a top-class panel including:
Bob Schumacher, director of sales, Continental Airlines
Steve Turner, head of business development for
North America, Davies Turner
Russell Jones, South West international trade director, UKTI
Also, a director of a prominent local business with North
American trading links.
Questions and themes likely to get an airing include:
• What key risks are associated with North American trade in
2009 and beyond?
• Does the US federal government’s massive ongoing investment
programme in the country’s infrastructure present an opportunity
for South West companies?
• What particular skills or expertise do we have here in the South
West that North America needs?
• Do South West companies have any reason to be concerned
about US protectionism in the current economic climate?
• What does the recent strengthening of the sterling against the
US dollar mean for South West businesses?
Timings are as follows:
7.30am: Registration & breakfast
8.00am: Debate begins
9.00am: Anticipated close
We expect demand to be high and as such we will take acceptances on a strictly first come, first served, basis. Please click here to access the reply slip as soon as possible if you would like to attend. If you would like to submit a question to the panel, please complete this on your reply form or email lucie.knight@newsco.com.
Date: Tue 15th September, 2009
Venue: The Grand Hotel, Broad Street, Bristol, BS1 2EL