Export - Your Way to Success

Farmer’s son developed fruit crisps in his university dorm begins exporting them around theworld and is set to net £1million.

Charlie Fermor has now sold more than one million packets of his healthy snack made from apples and pears.

The 25-year-old has taken orders for 100,000 packs from Australia, 40,000 from China and 10,000 from the UAE, with the business set to net him over a million pounds in 2013.
Charlie began experimenting with making the fruit crisps - the only ones of their kind in the UK - while studying agricultural business management at university in Reading.
He turned his student accommodation into a makeshift lab and bought a dehydrator device to dry out slices of the fruit as he experimented with apples in between lectures.
After finishing his degree at the University of Reading , Charlie used his newfound knowledge to develop his brand of crisps at Perry Court Farm, near Ashford, Kent.
After a trade show six months ago more and more retailers from countries across the globe are now getting in touch with Perry Court Farm about the tasty crisps.

He visited famous American fruit-growing states such as Oregon and California to learn about processing techniques.

Returning to the UK Charlie used some savings to buy his own equipment and set up production in an on-site cold store on the farm using the apples from the orchards.

The global chain Whole Foods Market snapped up the snacks for their five London shops as well as many other smaller retailers across the country.

The tasty crisps, which sell for 50 pence a pack, have proved popular with school tuck shops, as one packet counts as one of your five-a-day.

Flower Export for Valentine's Day

As Valentine's Day looms, Colombian flower growers are preparing for their busiest time of year.

Farmers in the South American country are gathering, picking and packing rose and other flower consignments to export to the US and other global markets, including the UK.

Colombia exports 450 million flowers for Valentine's Day, and flower farmers say that day alone accounts for 12 percent of their annual income.

What does Italy Export to the World?

Italy is the world’s eighth largest industrial economy and the fourth largest in Europe, with a potential market of almost 60 million consumers.

The country is internationally recognized for its fashion, automotive, marine, design, and mechanics industries. Italian style, innovation, creativity and love for tradition are all key success factors of the ‘Made-in-Italy’ brand.

The country is a leading producer of industrial and artisan products, which are exported worldwide. This is especially the case for pasta, wine, olive oil, fruit and vegetables (which has earned Italy the nickname of the ‘European orchard’), and for various other processed foods such as preserves and chocolates.

History of Container Shipping

Modern container shipping will celebrate its 60th anniversary in 2016. Almost from the first voyage, use of this method of transport for goods grew steadily and in just five decades, container ships would carry about 60% of the value of goods shipped via sea.

In 1955, Malcom P. McLean, a trucking entrepreneur from North Carolina, USA, bought a steamship company with the idea of transporting entire truck trailers with their cargo still inside. He realized it would be much simpler and quicker to have one container that could be lifted from a vehicle directly on to a ship without first having to unload its contents.

His ideas were based on the theory that efficiency could be vastly improved through a system of “intermodalism”, in which the same container, with the same cargo, can be transported with minimum interruption via different transport modes during its journey. Containers could be moved seamlessly between ships, trucks and trains. This would simplify the whole logistical process and, eventually, implementing this idea led to a revolution in cargo transportation and international trade over the next 50 years.

Interesting Facts about International Trade

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• International trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories.
• International trade has increased so much people talk of the ‘globalization’ of the world economy. This means that goods are sold around the world.
• The balance of world trade is tipped in favour of the world’s richest countries and companies.
• Just 200 huge multinational companies control much of world trade.
• Just five countries – the USA, Germany, Japan, France and the UK – control almost half world trade.
• The 30 richest countries control 82 percent of world trade.
• Oil tankers carry crude and refined petroleum. Supertankers can hold around 550 million kilograms of oil.
• The 49 poorest countries control just 2 percent of world trade.
• Some countries rely mainly on just one export. Ninety-five percent of Nigeria’s earnings come from oil; 75 percent of Botswana’s come from diamonds.
• Some countries such as the USA .want ‘free trade’ – that is, no restrictions on trade; other less powerful nations want tariffs (taxes on foreign goods) and quotas (agreed quantities) to protect their home industries.

Interesting Facts about Fruit Export

• The world’s most popular fruit is the tomato. More than 200 billion pounds (about 90 billion kg) of tomatoes are produced yearly, primarily by China and the U.S.
• The country that exports the most fruit to the U.S. is Mexico. Mexico also happens to be the world’s largest producer of avocados, lemons and limes.
• The world’s leading producer of kiwi fruit is not New Zealand, as many people think. It’s actually Italy, which produces  about 450 million kg of kiwi fruits a year.

Indian's Silk Export

With sericulture activities spread across 52,360 villages, the Indian silk industry is one of the largest generators of employment and foreign exchange for the country. India enjoys a unique global position in terms of producing all the commercially useful varieties of silk.

The readymade garments of silk formed the largest segment, generating around 58 per cent of the export earnings from silk, while natural silk yarn, fabrics and made-ups accounted for around 38 per cent of the silk export earnings.

The US and the UAE are the major export destinations for Indian silk goods. 

The UK, France, Italy and Germany are the other major export destinations. The segments that are exported in the silk sector include natural silk yarns, fabrics, made-ups, readymade garments, silk carpets and silk waste.