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HSBC – Open for Business


At an event held earlier this year, one of HSBC’s leading economists told the audience that export had a significant role to play in the economic recovery of UK Plc.


During the past 150 years, trade has fuelled economic growth and development around the world, widened choice for consumers and businesses, increased access to new markets, driven innovation and prompted development in new skills. Modern communications and technologies have accelerated this pattern over the last 20 years and there has never been a better time to explore world markets.


Research shows that companies with an


Tracey Pitman, Area Commercial Director, HSBC


international presence have been in a better position to weather the economic storm as they are less dependent on one market.


With the emerging markets offering huge potential for overseas trade, they are also poised to access our existing markets. So we know how important it is for the UK to take advantage of this myriad of opportunities and not lose out. But for many budding


exporters the prospect of developing an international platform, however modest the aspiration, can be daunting.


HSBC is known as the ‘world’s local bank’ due to its unrivalled presence across the globe, with 7,500 offices in 87 countries and territories across Europe, the Asia- Pacific region, North, Central and South America, the Middle East and Africa. International trade is an integral part of the bank’s ‘DNA’ and its global network allows businesses to take advantage of one banking relationship, in addition to expertise in everything you need to know about trading overseas.


A clear message from HSBC is that it is very much open for business and keen to lend to viable propositions, a message reiterated by Tracey Pitman, HSBC’s Area Commercial Director for Dorset. “It’s worth having a conversation with us whatever your business aspirations, whether or not you are interested in trading abroad. But if you are exploring the possibility of expanding overseas and just don’t know where to start, or if you are already doing so but would like to see what we can do to improve the way you do business, we would love to hear from you.”


Tracey leads a team of 10 Commercial Managers, including two specialised International Commercial Managers, based at HSBC’s Commercial Centre at Old Christchurch Road in Bournemouth. If you would like to contact HSBC, please call Tracey on 07717 484126.


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