Australian fashion is defying the odds, as local brands export with success in a dark market. Sass & Bide and Willow are leading the way in Australian fashion exports, as other entrepreneurial designers begin to crack the New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States’ markets.
Intellectual Property laws are often critiqued as a protectionist system that limits innovation and cross-company collaboration.
The Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA) is leading a trade mission to Shanghai in July this year, the first of its kind following successful missions to Hong Kong and New York.
Tourism Australia has big plans for Shanghai World Expo 2010, playing host to around 60 corporate event buyers from across North Asia on June 18 as part of World Expo 2010.
A new report commissioned by the Victorian Government has revealed strong opportunities in the Chinese baby and pregnancy products market.
Australia has lifted its almost 10-year-ban on the importation of beef from countries that have experienced mad cow disease (or BSE, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy). Opening the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) Outlook 2010 conference in Canberra on Tuesday, Agriculture Minister Tony Burke said Australia’s import policies must be based on the best […]
Park Assist Pty Ltd, a global leader in parking guidance, bay sensing and parking enforcement, has secured its first contract with a US government authority with backing from Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC). The company was awarded a US$780,000 contract with the City of Seattle to provide an electronic parking guidance system (EPGS) for […]
Australian company Servcorp has serious growth ambitions, with approximately 50 new office openings on the horizon. Over the next 12 months, Servcorp is opening new doors in Australia, USA, Europe, Japan, Asia, Middle East and India. Most notably, Servcorp is taking on the business capital of the world and opening over 10 new offices on […]
Reports of the death of manufacturing have been greatly exaggerated, believes Ian Murray, executive director of the Australian Institute of Export (AIEx), citing advanced manufacturers Cochlear and Resmed as examples of companies that still produce in Australia, during yesterday’s panel session of the AIEx’s ‘Managing your export business in a turbulent global environment’ conference. Panellist […]
Australia’s export connection with the United Kingdom goes back longer than any other market, and our UK exports are thriving. Cameron Bayley investigates the appeal, and the challenges, of exporting to the UK market. It’s not just Australia’s soap operas and pop stars making it big in the UK, plenty in other fields are flying […]
