GOIC conducts workshop on Export Intelligence & Promotion in Kuwait

The workshop, which targets stakeholders from and related to Small, Medium and Handcraft Industries, will introduce the basic principles and best practices of exports and serve as a guide through the challenging jungle of procedures and documentation required for a complete export process.

The five-day intensive training workshop is intended to train participants on export and its procedures and certificates, also to facilitate networking, spread awareness and link up export practitioners from the public and private industries with service providers and policy makers in order to increase the synergies for greater growth of exports from GCC.

The training will be conducted by two experienced practitioners in fields of economy, marketing and export promotion. The training agenda covers five key modules: Basics of Intelligent Export Management: The Foundation of the Profitable Export Business; Export Markets: International Market Intelligence; Pricing Products and Budgeting for Export-Related Costs; Getting Paid; and finally Export Business Plan .

In its turn, the workshop comes within the framework of the efforts exerted by GOIC to foster industrial development in GCC member states, and its role in facilitating the transfer of knowledge and enhancing the individual and organizational capacities for industrial development in GCC member states.

Some more light can be shed on the importance of the workshop in view of the fact that Small and Medium Sized industries (SMIs) are increasingly stepping up on the industrial production arena internationally and in GCC as well; thus GOIC aims to support their export capacity building through facilitating the country specific transfer of knowledge, and providing SMIs with a set of internationally utilized tools for a yet more successful Export Promotion.

It is essential to mention in this context that GCC member states have a long tradition of exporting great industrial quantities to the world. However, these exports are mainly delivered by major industrial stakeholders and/or by the governments themselves and the experience remains preserved in-house in the large corporations.