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Everything you need to know about importing. Welcome to our upcoming seminars!
Welcome to the upcoming seminars we are running on “Everything you need do know about Importing” together with Sveriges Industriförening (SINF), Nyföretagarcentrum i Göteborg, Östsvenska Handelskammaren och Handelskammaren Mälardalen. Make Trade together with Sinf in Jönköping at Elmia, November 15, 9:15-10:30 (breakfast), More info and registration Make Trade together with Sinf in Stockholm, November 20, […]

Make Trade launches Swedish Import Handbook
Make Trade today lauched the Import handbook targeting Swedish small and medium sized businesses (SME). The handbook goes through what you as a company need to know to suceed with your imports. Together with a handful of Swedish business organisations Make Trade will be doing a road show this autumn targeting SME’s. We also hope […]

Make Trade SME International Expo2020 Initiative
Make Trade is launching an SME International Expo2020 Initiative for the benefit of Swedish small and medium sized businesses. As a newly appointed Official Organisation to the Swedish Government’s Expo2020 Sweden Committee, our main focus is to reach out to – and facilitate for – Swedish small and medium sized companies. We will help SMEs […]

A Corruption Crisis – avoidance and management tactics
By Dani Cohen and Sandra Sowray, Prolog Consulting Volkswagen, Enron, Anderson Consulting, McKinsey, KPMG. These are – or were – some of the world’s best known brands. They are also companies which have been embroiled in corruption scandals, grabbing media headlines for months across the globe. Some are still with us, having weathered the storm, […]

Celebrate Women’s Day – Inspired by Pernilla Stålhane’s success of selling car batteries in Africa
Pernilla Stålhane, CEO and owner of the Swedish company Pallmax, is not only celebrating women’s day this week. She is also celebrating the 10-year anniversary of taking over her father’s company Pallmax, in March 2009. The company provides customers in Sweden and Africa with high quality car batteries. Pernilla practically grew up “inside” the company, […]

Business women from Hälsingland visit their “sisters” in East Africa
We visited Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda with seven successful Swedish business women from Hälsingland and the science park Movexum’s women business network. The goal was to inspire and build networks between Swedish and East African business women, through our partner AWAN, the African Women in Agribusiness Network. It was very inspiring to compare the challenges […]