Susan Cates of Urban Originals explain how the EMDG helped the accessory brand make its name overseas.
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Covering Costs: To market effectively, businesses need to spend money. Peter Mace explains how to calculate how much and where to go to access funding.
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Reading Thomas Friedman’s seminal book The World is Flat should be compulsory for all those aspire to lead our country. It is a book that explains the how, the why and, importantly, the effects of technological change to the world’s economy. Why, with the ubiquitous spread of technology, it doesn’t matter where your business operates. [...]
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Hope springs eternal for the Export Market Development Grants (EMDG) scheme debate. New Minister for Trade Craig Emerson comes with a wealth of experience and qualifications. Seeing as Emerson has a doctorate in economics and experience as an economic analyst with the United Nations, he has been an adviser to various Labor government ministers, a [...]
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Yesterday’s proposed changes to the Export Market Development Grants (EMDG) scheme were introduced into Parliament as the EMDG Amendment Bill 2010. The changes proposed aim to extend the life of the EMDG scheme and better balance the cost of the scheme to its budget as well as ensuring that those exporters most deserving of grants [...]
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Recent cuts in the Federal Budget to the popular Export Market Development Grants scheme puts a question mark over SME exporter entitlements for 2009 and 2010, according to capital consultants Business Strategies International (BSI). The EMDG scheme has helped businesses generate more than $5 billion worth of exports, employing some 60,000 Australians for the investment [...]
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Export has become a “sacrificial lamb” for the Federal Government’s plan to push the public coffers back into surplus, according to Ian Murray, executive director of the Australian Institute of Export. While he applauded the Federal Government’s forecast to be in the black earlier than expected, but making exporters pay was a highly risky way [...]
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Austrade’s popular Export Market Development Grants (EMDG) scheme has received an unexpectedly high number of applications, which will most likely result in a shortfall, said Minister for Trade Simon Crean. More than 5,000 Australian businesses submitted grant applications this year, an increase of 15 percent compared with last year. Claims have also risen 20 percent [...]
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I have a wishlist for the export sector for 2010. The first is for rain; while not everybody got it — sadly WA experienced terrible fires — lots fell in Queensland and NSW, which will have a positive effect on our agriculture exports in the coming year. It would be nice to link this with [...]
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In the 2007/08 financial year, more than 4,000 businesses accessed almost $186 million in the Federal Government’s Export Market Development Grants (EMDG) scheme and Austrade is encouraging exporters to submit their applications for this year’s round of funding. Australian exporters that spend at least $10,000 for eligible export expenses in 2008/09 have until November 30 [...]
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