LOCAL businesses have been given top tips for expanding into Eastern Europe.
More than 50 guests, including business studies students from local colleges, attended a Bolton Bury Export Club seminar to discover the opportunities for exporting to Hungary and Poland.
They were told that energy, the environment, construction, hotel, retail, transport and agriculture are the seven key areas likely to see a significant increase in funding over the next five years.
Funding
Mr Tony Glover, head of the Central and Eastern European Business Bureau, said the European Commission had particularly earmarked agriculture, the environmental sector and transportation for additional funding.
Mr Glover, a director of European Construction Ventures, the company managing the CEEB project on behalf of UMIST, also highlighted the challenges and benefits of expansion into Central and Eastern Europe. Mr Jeno Hamori, Head of the Hungarian Trade Commission, gave a presentation to delegates. Export Club President Peter Weidenbaum and Sarah Bendera of Bolton College are pictured, front, with left to right, John Byrne, Business Link Bolton and Bury, Tony Glover, Mrs Hamori, Mr Hamori, Dianne Fairhurst of Bolton College and Export Club Secretary Neal Massey 29 hungary
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