That’s why we offer a comprehensive suite of tailored programs, such as the Export Capability Building Program, Export Strategy Workshops, and the NSW Going Global Export Program, designed to meet specific business needs.
In addition to these programs, we provide a range of essential services, including export advisory, online tools, industry outreach, eCommerce skill development, and in-market eCommerce campaigns. With these resources and support, we help you navigate the complexities of global trade, helping businesses create sustainable success in overseas markets, compete effectively across the globe, and grow.
Local support to help you thrive globally
Investment NSW drives resilient and sustainable growth by enabling collaborative partnerships between business, government and priority sectors and markets.
We strengthen bilateral relationships, support business to export, and support investment from the markets that matter the most to NSW by:
- Advising government on international matters, working together with our global offices and international stakeholders.
- Assisting SMEs to be export ready, and then grow internationally.
- Representing NSW and NSW’s economic interests in the State’s priority markets.
The Export team delivers export capability building to identify and nurture the next wave of exporters and through our network of Export Advisers provide a single access point for state and federal government export support.
Investment NSW supports NSW businesses to be ‘export ready’ and grow internationally through specialised programs and bespoke services delivered by its onshore and international staff.
Investment NSW export programs are designed to:
- Grow NSW’s export base by increasing the number of exporting businesses, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises
- Increase the range of goods, services and technologies that NSW exports to the world
- Grow exports in our established markets and also diversify the number of markets that NSW businesses export to
- Assist businesses to explore new channels to international markets and build new pathways to reach global customers, including ecommerce
Investment NSW’s network of export advisors act as a single access point to both state and federal government export support and provide free assistance to assess export capability and readiness, build export knowledge, establish market connections, and access referrals to specialist service providers.
- A network of TradeStart Export Advisers across NSW, a collaboration with Austrade, including in regional locations to provide tailored export advisory services to NSW businesses.
- The Going Global Export Program supports export ready businesses through a free four -to-six-month market-entry program that includes professional coaching, mentoring and business matching. Cohorts of similar businesses from across an industry will participate, typically culminating in a trade mission to the chosen market to meet customers and establish trade opportunities.
- The Export Capability Building Program is targeted at business seeking to initiate export activities, preparing them for the fundamentals of successful exporting. This in-person program runs throughout the year in metropolitan and regional NSW
- Strategy workshops are targeted to businesses with fundamental export skills but need to hone their export strategy and maximise sustainable growth in target markets
- NSW’s international network provides on the ground, in-market assistance, real-time market insights, navigation of local supply chain issues and connections to customers and buyers. Talk to an expert from our global network.External Link
- Investment NSW helps showcase NSW businesses to buyers at global trade shows. We have supported tradeshows such as Gulfood in the United Arab Emirates, Foodex in Japan, London Tech Week, Food & Hotel Indonesia, and American trade shows BIO2024 and South by Southwest.
- Investment NSW also hosts inbound buyer missions and visits to profile NSW exporters and their facilities to prospective international buyers, customers and distributors via hosted regional trips and familiarisation programs.