In 2018, small and medium-sized companies of the Volgograd region, using the regional Export Support Center, entered into contracts for 55 million rubles. Since the beginning of the year, more than three dozen entrepreneurs of the region have taken part in business missions and major international exhibitions, the Volgograd Region Committee for Economic Policy and Development reports. The regional business incubator and its structural divisions helped them in this.
More than 20 small and medium-sized enterprises of the region since the beginning of 2018 have become part of business missions. These are manufacturers of caterpillar equipment, building materials, equipment for the agro-industrial complex, food and other goods.
Ten more entrepreneurs presented their products to the court of potential foreign partners at major international exhibitions in Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Astana.
With the help of the Export Support Center for the first six months of 2018, Volgograd enterprises managed to conclude contracts with foreign partners for 55 million rubles.
Participation in international exhibitions, conferences and negotiations organized by the regional business incubator is completely free for entrepreneurs.
Note, Governor Andrei Bocharov set the task to double the export of Volgograd products. The development of foreign economic activity will give a result in the form of an increase in GRP - the region has plans to increase this figure to a trillion rubles by 2021. To support the business, which is focused on foreign partners, projects are implemented in the region with the participation of regional development institutions, as well as the Russian Export Center. Since the beginning of the year, 20 large industrial enterprises have used the services of the REC. We add that 300 people have already graduated from the REC school in the Volgograd Region.
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