Foreign Trade Service
New Markets in Focus
In the area of foreign trade, NGlobal’s task is to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMUs) and entire business and industry sectors in preparing for and entering foreign markets. SMUs that already have experience abroad are encouraged to enter new high-growth regions (market diversification) and expand their operations abroad. Enterprises that have not so far been active abroad are helped to prepare for their debut. This happens through participation in trade fairs, business delegations and national and international events.
NGlobal services are intended for all Niedersachsen companies with an interest in exploring foreign markets.
NGlobal Services:
Foreign trade delegations (often led by Niedersachsen government ministers and state secretaries) offer SMUs opportunities to make business contacts abroad and get acquainted at first hand with the business situation and conditions in fast-growing markets.
Cooperation and Networking Events
Our national and international networking events such as B2B fairs bring together potential business partners from Niedersachsen and the whole world.
Trade Fairs
Participating in national and international trade fairs, either at the Niedersachsen joint stand or supported by a grant towards a solo fair presence, offers excellent opportunities to find partners and customers from around the world and extend the field of your business success.
Niedersachsen Worldwide
Niedersachsen’s representations in China, India, Poland, Russia, the USA and the UAE, representatives at the Niedersachsen Business Centers in Brazil, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the USA, and the state’s partners in Cuba, Scandinavia and South Africa provide customised advice and information about these markets.
International Consultancy Days
Once a year all the state’s foreign representatives gather in Niedersachsen to answer interested enterprises’ questions and enquiries about their countries in individual consultations.
Niedersachsen Foreign Trade Day
The State of Niedersachsen’s largest foreign trade promotion event is an international forum held every year since 2004 during HANNOVER MESSE as a platform where countries present their economic strengths to participants from the worlds of business, science and politics.
Niedersachsen Foreign Trade Prize
This award is presented annually to a Niedersachsen SMU for exceptional achievement in foreign markets.
Further Training
DMAN and Quantum cooperate on further training for German and Indian executives.
DMAN has signed a partnership agreement with Indian training provider Quantum to promote business dialogue between Germany and India through qualification programmes and to advise and support German companies entering the Indian market. Complementing the Niedersachsen Representation in Mumbai, this offers Niedersachsen’s enterprises additional consultation opportunities. www.dman.de
Training programmes for German executives and trainees in the Russian Federation
For over 10 years now the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) has supported a training programme for young Russian executives, implemented by Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung gGmbH (InWEnt). The programme has evolved into a highly successful instrument of German-Russian business relations and now also offers German executives insights of Russian companies. www.inwent.org
NGlobal and the state representatives of Niedersachsen chambers of craft trades sign a cooperation agreement to intensify foreign trade activities.
These include foreign trade delegations and business trips, trade fairs, promotion events and information campaigns to broaden the international view of Niedersachsen’s craft and technology enterprises, and to integrate craft trades in location marketing measures. www.handwerk-lhn.de
Export guarantees
Export credit guarantees issued by the Federal Republic of Germany are an ‘insurance’ for export business that cover a customer’s failure to pay for economic or political reasons. The guidelines ensure globally responsible business practice. www.agaportal.de
KMU-Management International
To enhance competitiveness on international markets, the EU-subsidised project ‘KMU-Management International’ offers SMEs the opportunity to adapt to globalisation trends within the context of purposeful knowledge management in their own companies. www.kmuinternational.de
GTAI
Germany Trade and Invest (GTAI) is the new business promotion agency for the entire Federal Republic of Germany. It advises and supports foreign companies seeking to expand into German markets and German companies looking to enter markets abroad. www.gtai.de
IXPOS
The foreign trade portal IXPOS includes over 70 organisations that support German companies in their business with foreign customers, helping them keep a clear overview of opportunities, and to find the right contact person and information. www.ixpos.de
