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Mercato Solutions ranked highly for innovation
A Birmingham software development company has made it to number two in an influential ‘Top 100’ ranking of small and medium-sized companies (SME). The list is published by The Sunday
Times, and the high-flying company is Mercato Solutions, who were joined by another 12 Midlands companies on the list. The annual ranking includes UK SMEs
with the fastest growing international sales figures from the past two years. Mercato managed to average an international sales growth of 197.09 per cent during that period, and total sales of almost £6 million. Mercato marketing director Simon
O’Carroll said: “Everyone at Mercato has been working very hard to innovate and create disruptive technologies that can be adopted by companies of any size worldwide. “Following our latest successes, we have
structured a ‘Partner Program’ which aims to collaborate with resellers, independent software vendors and referral partners to further extend our reach into overseas territories. We are very excited to continue the good work and expand further in the upcoming year.”
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Business should look to the Gold Coast
Oz trade boost: David Watson with Chamber trade advisor Anne Cooke and Mark Sankey By Jessica Brookes
Australia’s senior trade and investment representative in the UK has visited Birmingham to drum up interest in the country on the back of the Commonwealth Games, taking place this month on the Gold Coast. Birmingham will be taking over from Gold
Coast, for the 2022 Games. As part of efforts to use the Games to
Trip highlights business opportunities in Normandy
A business agency has led a five-day inaugural trip with businesses to showcase the business and investment opportunities available in Normandy. The trip made its way to five cities in the
UK, including Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Cambridge and London. The trip was co-ordinated by AD Normandie, a development agency that promotes the region its business services. The ‘Magical Norman Tour’ held a number
of networking and individual meeting events across the five days, and promoted the 600 foreign companies already established in the region, academic and research and development excellent as well as the diverse economy and strategic location to continental Europe.
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highlight trade opportunities, David Watson, senior trade and investment commissioner at the Australia Trade and Investment Commission, visited Birmingham to talk about doing business Down Under. He said: “The purpose of the visit is to
connect with the Chamber here, in relation to working together collaboratively to identify companies in the Greater Birmingham area – as well as companies in Australia – that may be able to do business together. “The Chamber has been fantastic in
introducing two companies who are interested in Australia and we hope to be able to reciprocate with companies we’ve become aware of that may be interested in coming this way. “ The three attendees also met with prospective
companies, and spoke to them at length about the potential trade and investment opportunities in Australia and establishing the similarities between UK and Australia markets, economies and place of business. Mr Watson said: “I think the opportunities are
very much around having two very similar legal landscapes, cultural landscapes, regulatory frameworks, political frameworks. We [the UK and Australia] both have relatively low sovereign
risk, we know each other well, we’ve got so much in common which allows business to be conducted far more easily than it might otherwise be in other countries or jurisdictions. “We’ve got 27 years of uninterrupted
economic growth, it’s a growth market that gives you access to Asia and it’s an easy place for a Birmingham company, particularly in services and technology, to start their business. Really what Australia has to offer is growth.” Further to this meeting, various trips are
taking place to Australia to further boost international links. Trade and Investment in Queensland (TIQ) are
inviting businesses on two trade trips, as part of their Trade 2018 business programme timed to coincide with the Games, in order to explore the opportunities in the health and major regional events sectors. Medilink trade association are organising a
trade visit between 10-13 April that will expose businesses to the health industry in Australia, and will allow delegates to participate in a business engagement program involving many of Queensland’s leading health sector research and development organisations and agencies. TIQ will also host a business programme
organised by Major Events International (MEI) between 11-16 April, which will concentrate on the opportunities for businesses looking to supply services to the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.
For more information about trade opportunities in Australia and the support available from DIT and Austrade, contact International Trade Adviser Ann Cook on 0121 450 4205.
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