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Next Event 2011
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Date: Tuesday 18th October 2011 at 5.30pm
Venue: Meridian Cafe Bar, Meridian Wharf, Trawler Road, Swansea SA1 1LB
Speaker: Luke Khan
Our Speaker Luke Kahn, the founded of FK Create, and then in 2007 FauvelKhan Design Limited who will be telling us of his exporting experiences. Since graduating from the Industrial Design course at Swansea Metropolitan University, Luke completed a short period of freelance work with a Swansea based charity and then a London based Product development agency and went on to work with a trend forecast company based in Paris.
Over the past 4 years Luke has developed more than 25 products and 30 projects ranging from the Bee Automobile to the AiR Guitar Application. Luke now specialises in the creative sector with a collective of companies operating in both physical & digital creative thinking and development from Automotive to Augmented Reality.
Previous Events 2011
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Event: An Exporters’ Guide to Trading Overseas
Date: Tuesday 13th September 2011
Venue: Cafe Twocann, Swansea SA1
Speaker: Andrew Jones, S&C Electric Europe Ltd
Andrew Jones is running the company’s business unit for Europe, Middle East and Africa and has been involved with sales and export markets since 1982 having visited 58 countries.
In 2010 C&S Electrics achieved sales of £7.8 million. The company whose headquarters is in Chicago, US is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year having established their European Headquarters in Swansea in April 2008.
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Date: Tuesday 28th June 2011
Venue: Village Hotel, Swansea SA1
Speaker: Representative of the Welsh Government
Someone from the Welsh Government will be telling us how they are seeking to support export activity in Wales.
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Event: Export Documentation
Date: Wednesday 1st June 2011
Venue: Ice House, Swansea SA1
Speaker: David Phipps
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Event: Exporting to the USA
Date: Wednesday 4th May 2011 at 5.30pm
Venue: Americano Jazz Caffe, Kings Road, Swansea SA1 8PP
Speaker: Craig Evans
Craig Evans is the founder Managing Director of Swansea based SureView Systems International Limited. SureView Systems is a software company that writes and licenses software to enable remote CCTV monitoring stations to effectively handle and manage various security and CCTV equipment on monitored sites.
Anna Bastek of the multi-award winning translation company Wolfestone Translation Limited will follow with a talk on general hints and tips for marketing and exporting.
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Event: Exporting to the Middle East
Date: Tuesday 29th March 2011 at 5.30pm
Venue: Village Hotel, Langdon Road, Off Fabian Way, Swansea SA1 8QY
Speaker: Steve Price
Steve Price of Dr Organics - Dr Organics is a Swansea based company producing Organic Health & Beauty Products in the UK via Holland & Barret and worldwide through various distribution networks.
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Event: AGM/Exporting to China
Date: 1st March at 5.30pm
Venue: Oriental Gardens, Swansea Maritime Quarter SA1 3XA
Speakers:
Michael Thomas, the Wales representative of the ‘China-Britain Business Council’ who will talk about exporting to China generally together with some specific country information.
Paul Greenwood of Teddington Engineered Solutions Limited will speak of his company’s experience of exporting to China.
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Event: Export Assisted Funding and Documentation
Date: 25th January @ 5:30pm
Venue: Meridian Tower, Trawler Road, Swansea SA1 1JW
Speakers:
Graham Morgan, South Wales Chamber of Commerce, who will be telling us about their International Trade Department and how they can help exporters i.e. preparation of export documentation.
Steve Smith, Handelsbanken, who will give a presentation on financing foreign trade, including the types of finance available.
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Previous Events 2010
Event: Festive Season’s Cultures & Traditions around the World
Date: Tuesday 14th December @ 5:30pm
Venue: The Pump House, Maritime Quarter, Swansea SA1 1TT
Get into the spirit of Christmas with a light hearted look at the festive cultures and traditions arond the world.
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Event: Exporting to Australia
Date: 23rd November @ 5:30pm
Venue: Walk About, 5-6 Castle Square, Swansea SA1 1DW
Phil Bowen one of our members will be giving a profile of his company Natural Welsh Stone.
Event: Exporting to Middle East
Date: 26th October @ 5:30pm
Venue: Charlie’s Cafe Bar, 2 Prospect Place, Swansea SA1 1QP
Mark Carter, MD of RAP International is a Chemical Engineer with over 35 years experience in the oil and gas industry and specialises in producing risk assessment software for high hazard operations.
Nigel T Packer, MD of Business for Business is one of our members who will be giving a profile of his Internet Marketing company.
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Event: Exporting to India
Date: 15th Sept @ 5:30pm
Venue: Miahs Indian Restaurant, 137 St Helens Road, Swansea. SA1 4BL
Speaker: Our speaker for the evening is Phil Tandy of ATRADIUS, (which is a credit Insurance and Risk Management Company - with responsibility for International Trade - specialising in Asia) and from his experiences Phil will be giving us an overview of Trading with India.
| Date | Speakers | Venue |
| June 22nd at 5:30pm |
Exporting to GermanyOur speaker for the evening will be Malcolm Davies, who is the Trade & Invest Manager, at International Business Wales, for Germany, Switzerland, Austria & Liechtenstein. |
Aspers Salubrious Place Wind Street Swansea. SA1 1EEClick for a map |
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May 18th
at 5:30pm.
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Exporting to South Africa Our speaker on Exporting to South Africa is Duncan Bonnett who is a partner at South African research and consulting firm, Whitehouse & Associates and has twenty years of experience in conducting research, both in the academic and commercial environments. |
Castellmare Braclet Bay Mumbles SA3 4JT Click for a map |
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April 20th
at 5:30pm.
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Exporting to Czech Rebuplic Our guest speaker is Paul Sinclair who is a Trade Advisor covering Mid and West European countries.
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Guildhall Commitee Rooms 3a/3b, Swansea.SA1 1PEClick for a map |
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March 23rd
at 5:30pm.
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Exporting to Malaysia Nicola is IBW’s South East Asia Partner and she will be giving a general overview of trading with Malaysia plus a mention on Singapore and Thailand. |
Lord Mayor’s Reception Room, Guildhall, Swansea SA1 4PEClick for a map |
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February 22nd
at 5:30pm.
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AGM Exporting to South America We have a unique opportunity to talk to these country specific experts on the following markets; Argentina, Mexico and Brazil. Our Main Speakers are: Alfredo Fierro: who is from Argentina and will be telling us about trading with his country. Chris Wall: from UKTI Fiscal Incentives Programme will be talking about Mexico and Brazil They will be followed by our Support Speaker Bill Fraser: IBW Head of Americas Team will be telling us about Latin America and the IBW Support Services |
Lord Mayor’s Reception Room, Guildhall, Swansea SA1 4PEClick for a map |
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February 2nd
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Exporting to China With the Chinese New Year on 14th February it will give us an opportunity to have an early celebration of the Chinese ‘Year of the Tiger.’ We have two speakers for the evening: Shelly Zhu: who is the IBW Trade Consultant for China, and she will be talking about the current trading situation and opportunities. Jane Wang: who works with international students at Swansea University will talk about her knowledge of the Chinese markets and cultural awareness. |
Oriental Garden, Swansea Maritime Quarter, Swansea, SA1 3AXCick for a map |
Previous Events 2009
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December 8th
at 5:30pm.
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Exporting to Korea - Our speaker for the night is: Sungho Choi: Dean of International Development, Wales Evangelical School of Theology, Bridend, South Wales |
Committee Room 2 County Hall Oystermouth Road Swansea SA1 3SNCick for a map |
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November 2nd
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Exporting to the Middle East - We have three experts who will be giving presentations on trading with the Middle East. The team are doing a series of awareness raising seminars in Wales and similar to our last event on ‘Europe’ they will be coming along to give presentations on the overview of the area and how to do business. Our speakers for the night are: Lee Jennings: Vice President (Middle East) International Business Wales, UAE, who is based in Dubai Dennis Clarke: a leading associate consultant providing strategic support to SMEs throughout Wales via IBW and has had considerable experience in Egypt Paul Gilbert: is an entrepreneur with a number of Directorships with a wide experience particularly with Libya. |
Village Hotel Langdon Road Swansea SA1 8QY Cick for a map |
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September 22nd
at 6:00pm.
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European Forum - There will be numerous In-Market Country Experts available to answer questions together with a networking session. Thomas Heinrich, AHP GmbH & Co KG |
National Waterfront Museum Maritime Quarter Swansea. SA1 3RD. Cick for a map |
| Tuesday 9th June at 5:30pm |
Exporting to Russia - Speaking will be Philip Owen, Director of Volga Trading, who specialises in the Russian Market and Maria Leshchnskaya, Trading and Investment Advisor at the British Embassy in Moscow |
Hurns Brewing Co Alberto Road Century Park Swansea Ent Park SA6 8RPClick for a map |
| Tuesday 28th April at 5:30pm |
Exporting to China - Speaking will be Mark Jones, China British Business Council CBBC. |
Oriental GardenVictoria Quay |
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Tuesday 24th March at 5.30pm The event will start at 5.30pm with a reception followed by the welcome of the Lord Mayor Cllr Gareth Sullivan. |
Website Launch - Speaking will be Professor Brian Morgan, Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Cardiff School of Management at the University of Wales in Cardiff (UWIC) where he is Director of the new Creative Leadership and Enterprise Centre (CLEC).A demonstration will also be given of the new website together with the forum.Click here to view our recent press release.Click here to view the launch Podcast. |
George Hall The Guildhall, |
| Tuesday 24th February at 5:30pm |
AGM and Exporting to the USA - Speaking will be Bill Fraser, Ron Cole, Paul Ciggers from International Business Wales (IBW) America’s team.
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Village Hotel Fabian Way Swansea SA1 8QY. Click for a map |
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Tuesday 20th |
Exporting to India - Speaking will be Dr Paul Davies, who is a Member of the UK Indian Business Council (UKIBC). |
Karma Indian Restaurant 3 Victoria Road, Swansea. SA1 3NE.Click for Map. |
Previous Events 2008
| Date | Speakers | Venue |
| November 2008 | Exporting to Scandinavia Speaking was Ken Evans from Handlesbanken and Rhys Jones from Rhys Jones Images. | Cross Keys St Marys Square Swansea |
| October 2008 | Exporting to JapanSpeaking was Gavin Hamilton | Wasabi Sushi Bar Uplands Swansea |
| September 2008 | Queens Award for Enterprise Speaking was Stephen Brice, David Moore and Patrick Gee. | Village Hotel Fabian Way Swansea SA1 8QY. |
| February 2008 | AGM/HealthcareSpeaking was Mike Younghusband from BBI Healthcare and Jayne Wheeler from Cyden Ltd. |
Technium Swansea |
| January 2008 | Arts and Crafts Speaking was Carol Francis from Structural Change and Anna Lewis CIRIC Swansea Institute. | Swansea Museum |
