Benefits to SME’s of Go UK: A business plan competition
Go UK provides Australian and New Zealand based companies with an opportunity to really hit the ground running in entering the UK. Now that success has already been established in your home market, and you wish to enter a new territory. Perhaps you have some clients or distributors in the UK, and there is a business need for you to setup in the UK and have a real headcount on the ground.
Let us look at the sponsors and establish the benefits for you with the Go UK competition:
UKTI
With professional advisers across 96 international markets, they really are a fountain of knowledge. UK Trade & Investment can help set the scene for you, giving you advice on your sector and an understanding of what the market is doing, which ultimately helps lead to an answer to the most important question: will we survive? UKTI can also advise you on the practicalities of setting up a UK presence, including information on visas and office accommodation, as well as providing introductions to third parties that can be of assistance. UKTI can advise on any grants that may be available as well as financial assistance if it is available. When your UK Company is formed, you are able to utilise the UKTI service once again, to help you enter other overseas markets and continue to expand your business worldwide.
With appropriate data on the UK, now you have to get there:
British Airways
A return Club World business class airfare with potential access to a worldwide route network covering of 150 destinations spanning 75 countries makes this truly a unique opportunity to access the face to face values that really count for doing business.
So, armed with knowledge of the UK marketplace and a return flight booked, you now need appointments in the diary, in order satisfy your customers needs – profitably:
AMaC Ltd
Prior to leaving Australia AMaCLimited will be working with you to profile the target UK Executives & Influencers you need in place to succeed. They will become your Local UK Champion and part of your extended team seeking opportunities and raising your brand for the long term.
A recent project for ON-Brand Partners of Auckland (a global leader in Customer Experience) resulted over the first 6-months in 50+ executive meetings and exchanges of ideas and a pipeline of 500+ executives & influencers with whom they continue to share added-value shared articles and websites.
For 40 years AMaC Limited have been making B2B Executive-Executive introductions, facilitate meetings and help Executives build relationships with their peers in key customers, alliance partners, thought leaders, emerging markets, geography and innovative suppliers. Proven experience for and with ON-Brand, Rider Levett Bucknall (Global property and construction – ME, Europe and Caribbean), Oracle (Embedded Products & Healthcare), Hewlett-Packard (UK & ME Channels), Symantec and a wide range of SME’s around the globe.
Alan MacKelworth values exchanging ideas with executives, connecting on LinkedIn and hearing of your plans to establish UK/Aus/NZ operations in 2012. http://www.LinkedIn.com/in/AMaCLtd
Having arrived in the UK knowing your market exists here, and appointments made with alliance partners, you now need an entity that you can trade from – and conduct business:
Kevin Beare & Co.
Preferring to work only with overseas companies currently operating, or about to in the UK – they are a specialised team of experts who take care of the incorporation of your business and back office accounting. They take the larger commitment, and are happy to be contacted for those questions, which you may feel unsure about – such as:
- What type of UK legal entity do I need?
- Can I continue to invoice from Australia and/or New Zealand?
- How much tax would a sales support/marketing company pay?
Once your entity is formed, they will support your UK operation and overseas parent company with on-going outsourced accounting and first employee support.
What are you waiting for, let’s Go UK!
For further details about the competition, including the online links to enter the competition:
http://ukinaustralia.fco.gov.uk/go-uk/
http://ukinnewzealand.fco.gov.uk/go-uk/
For more information on UKTI http://ukinaustralia.fco.gov.uk/en/business/investment-in-the-uk/