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Last week the Department of Agriculture announced it is ending a $5 million national program to eradicate Asian honeybees. It is expected United States quarantine authorities will ban all imports of Australian bees to prevent accidental entry of the pest species. The owner of a multimillion-dollar bee export business based in NSW town Blayney says [...]
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Austrade’s G’Day USA program hosted an Innovation Forum and Dinner showcasing the latest in Australian science and technology in San Francisco on 24 January. Space, biotech, clean energy and mobile and digital technologies provided the focus of the forum, and the event also honoured Australian 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for Medicine winner Professor Elizabeth Blackburn [...]
...read moreRead Kylie Hargreaves of Industry & Investment NSW’s 5 tips to break into the US market for valuable pointers for accessing the lucrative markets of the United States. Take a hard look at your business capabilities Ensure your local operations are operating smoothly. Scaling up production quickly to meet increased demand ultimately requires increased investment [...]
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Creating a business in the United States can be the single most rewarding outcome for any local producer. The potential is huge. The US is the world’s single largest market. Developing a business in the US is the ultimate planning exercise. A common mistake is to assume that the US is one big market. It [...]
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Australian mobile coffee franchise Cafe2U is preparing to enter the United States market, after a successful trial run in San Diego in June. The Cafe2U concept (delivering made-to-order espresso to offices) has already met with success in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Managing director Derek Black said the mobile coffee model is [...]
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Andrew Forrest, Australia’s fourth richest man, predicts the Australian dollar will soon reach parity with the US dollar. The CEO of Fortescue Metals Group believes the resources boom in Western Australia and Queensland is responsible for driving our dollar to the 20 September conversion rate of 95.64 US cents, its highest since mid 2008. “That’s [...]
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A US delegation is currently touring Australia to gain an insight into our water conservation methods, product development, management and policy. The delegation for the Water management and Sustainability Study Tour, organised by Austrade and supported by Water Australia, consists of 13 decision makers from US government, industry and research organisations who will visit Brisbane, [...]
...read moreThe global economy is still at risk with Europe and USA’s public debt on the rise, according to a report by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the coordinating body for central banks worldwide. BIS indicated that public debt in the major markets of Europe and the USA had replaced the private debt that triggered [...]
...read moreResults from Tourism Research Australia’s International Visitor Survey has shown a solid recovery in international visitor numbers to Australia with the March quarter showing a rise of six percent rise compared with last year. The number of nights that tourists stayed also rose by eight percent, and visitor expenditure increased by three percent compared with [...]
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Tourism Australia’s ‘There’s Nothing Like Australia’ campaign has received positive feedback from potential visitors overseas with data from online monitoring firm Webtrends showing that 70 percent of social media feedback was by people who liked it. Despite being accused of too stereotyped and dated, the campaign had a 64 percent positive response rate from the [...]
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