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Develop your exports in Emerging Europe
The central and eastern Europe(CEE) region offers opportunities for all UK companies ranging from novice to experienced exporters
CEE is up made of 9 markets and over 100 million consumers located in central and eastern Europe.
The CEE markets are just 2 to 3 hours flying time from the UK. The majority are EU regulated and are lower risk then markets further from the UK.
UK exports to Emerging Europe were worth over £15 billion in 2012. This includes services exports valued at £4.1 billion.
What is CEE?
The CEE markets are at differing stages of development, but all offer long-term growth prospects for UK companies. The markets are:
- Austria
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Hungary
- Poland
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
Benefits of doing business in CEE
The markets offer UK companies a number of advantages including:
- ease of developing business relationships as located close to UK with access via large number of budget airlines
- ideal for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) on tight budgets
- supply chain opportunities in support of strategically important industries
- opportunities resulting from £150 billion EU funded infrastructure projects
Opportunities
There are opportunities across a range of sectors. These include:
- energy (nuclear, shale gas, conventional and renewables)
- infrastructure (railways, roads, ports and airports, water and urban regeneration)
- healthcare, life sciences and science and technology
- industry and engineering
- services (financial, ICT and engineering)
- retail
- security and defence