Global trade

Managing growth in new markets? What are the essential qualities required of leaders when going global?

International expansion is a must for businesses looking to enhance their growth prospects and deliver future sustainability.

Watch our five years of trade shocks and their impact across the world.

Despite weaker global optimism and increasing trade barriers, technology and growth potential are driving businesses internationally. Growth companies expanding into new markets have always needed to keep an eye on two horizons: the long-term goals and the short-term challenges. In today's rapidly changing trade environment, where uncertainty dominates, that twin focus needs to be sharper than ever.

Nine considerations for growing businesses when selecting and entering new markets.

A shifting global trade landscape is contributing to rising uncertainty, but could it also unlock new opportunites for adaptable mid-market businesses while larger companies opt to wait and see?

The latest International Business Report (IBR) data shows that mid-market businesses have high expectations for global trade.

Despite ongoing economic uncertainty, many international business leaders continue to see international trade, and particularly exports, as a key driver for growth.

Against a backdrop of rising inflation, a talent war, political upheaval and economic contraction, the mid-market is maintaining optimism over export growth.