Blog: News and Insight

UKTI recently published its new strategy to drive international trade with a number of measures to help businesses get to, and grow in, overseas markets. This new strategy, under the banner ‘Britain Open for Business’, is focused on driving economic growth through trade and investment.

Britain’s businesses are being urged to take advantage of specialist export advice in light of the fact that 62% of companies in the UK are being held back from exporting by language barriers.The rallying cry comes from language expert Comtec Translations off the back of recent figures released by the British Chamber of Commerce that state only five per cent of businesses in the UK speak enough French to do business in the country while 58% of companies are not confident they have a good enough product or service to market overseas.

Companies working with translations specialist Comtec can be even more certain of 100% accuracy of translated material following recent accreditation to the internationally accepted quality standard EN15038.

After years of exams, essays, more essays and even more essays, each university graduate dreams of landing their first grown up job. 18 months ago I was in this exact position. I suddenly found myself in a gruelling battle, the battle which all young graduates are sadly forced to endure as a result of the current economic climate; the long and arduous process of finding graduate employment.