Lisburn City Council is pleased to be launching its 8th consecutive trade development programme to the Netherlands.

 

The Dutch marketplace has realised many successes for Lisburn companies and the Council is confident that this time around will also bring many business benefits for participating companies.

 

Funded by the Council and the EU through the Sustainable Competitiveness Programme 2007-2013, and managed by Northern Ireland Trade Consultants (NITC), the programme in 2009/2010 will once again assist growth orientated local businesses to identify and develop new market opportunities and strategic business partnerships in the Netherlands.

 

Each participating business will benefit from a bespoke programme of assistance specifically tailored to meet their export and trade development requirements. This will include one-to-one company meetings and establishment of individual company objectives, provision of market research, targeting and itinerary planning, information and advice on developing sales and marketing skills for the Netherlands.

 

Ultimately companies will receive assistance to identify new business opportunities, with a series of individual business appointments to take place during the market visit. There will also be the provision of follow up assistance to assist companies to pursue new business opportunities identified.

 

Chair of the Council’s Economic Development Committee, Councillor Jenny Palmer states: ‘Local economic growth can only be achieved with a dedicated export development plan in place. With this in mind Lisburn City Council continues to provide support to trade development initiatives such as this, in order to encourage local businesses to explore new market places, realise new business opportunities and generate additional revenue streams into the local economy.

 

Interested ?

 

Any Lisburn companies interested in participating on the programme which will include a market visit to the Netherlands in March 2010 should contact the Council’s Economic Development Unit (Hazel King Tel: 02892 509484, or email hazel.king@lisburn.gov.uk)

or

Steve Murnaghan of NITC Tel: +31 20 4217400, or by email murn@nitc.nl).

 

The breakfast launch of the Netherlands Trade Development Programme is planned to take place on 12th November 2009.