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InterTradeIreland - Trade and Business Development Body
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Opening the Island for trade….
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InterTradeIreland is helping businesses to do just that. Too often on this island valuable commercial relationships go undeveloped or potential customers are overlooked. Too often a lack of knowledge is preventing business people from making the most of doing business on the island.
By opening the island for business, and through equipping companies to achieve their goals, InterTradeIreland can help your business to compete more effectively.
What we do....
InterTradeIreland was established in 1999 as part of the Belfast Agreement between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. InterTradeIreland's mission is to expand cross-border trade and business on the island of Ireland. We aim to achieve this by delivering distinctive knowledge based interventions that will produce significant returns in the areas of cross-border trade and business development. Knowledge - its creation, dissemination and exploitation - is for us the key that will unlock the potential of the island economy.
InterTradeIreland delivers more than 30 initiatives through eight key programme areas:
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• Trade Development
• Trade Awareness • Micro-enterprise support • Business & Economic Research • Equity • Science & Technology • Benchmarking • Supply Chain & Cluster Development. |
Our initiatives do not aim to subsidise, but to promote competition, eliminate barriers and to realise external effects of knowledge and technology through the development of all-island networks.
Our work on cross-border trade and business development is underpinned by a solid research agenda that seeks to develop our understanding of the dynamics behind the emerging island economy. It is our policy to disseminate our research to as wide an audience as possible through publications and seminars.
Contact: Eoin Magennis, Information Executive,
InterTradeIreland, Kilmorey Street, Newry, Co. Down BT34 2DE;
Tel: 028 30834100 (048 from Ireland);
E-mail [email protected] ;
Web: www.intertradeireland.com