Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce & Industry

'NI Chamber is driven by ensuring businesses develop, grow and enhance their position in the global market place, making sure they embrace all the services on offer and inspiring them to export. Exporting is all about growing markets, customers, sales, revenues, partnerships and relationships.'

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Profile

Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NI Chamber) is an award winning, quality assured, customer focused membership organisation with over 230 years commitment to the Northern Ireland economy. It is a well-known network for business with a membership of 1,200 businesses representing over 100,000 employees across Northern Ireland. It includes corporates, SMEs and micro businesses and represents a wide range of sectors including manufacturing, construction, professional and other services. NI Chamber helps businesses grow locally and internationally through tailored programmes of support, networking and policy representation.

Services for Exporters

Business Support for Growth and Export – Learn Grow Excel
The Learn Grow Excel initiative has been designed to support growing companies at every stage of development and encourage more export activity in Northern Ireland. Whether you are in the early stages of growth, starting out in new markets, or interested in scaling-up your business and expanding into additional export markets, the portfolio of programmes has something for every level of business. The only pre-requisites are the potential and commitment to grow your business for export and a determination to succeed.

The focus for Learn Grow Excel is to:

• Inspire and Build Confidence
• Build Capability and Networks
• Povide One to One Support
• Promote Development & Sales Opportunities

Learn Grow Excel encapsulates uniquely the route which businesses will follow as they journey towards success on the global export map and includes the follow support programmes:

• Connecting For Growth - creating cross border business opportunities through meet the buyer events
• Danske Bank Export First – inspiration and market intelligence through the success stories of experienced
• exporters
• Development Your Growth Potential - enhancing sales and leadership skills whilst building effective networks
• Learn Grow Excel Export Conference - collaborative conference to encourage export growth in NorthernIreland
• International Trade Training - support for logistics and finance teams within exporting companies
• Near Market Trade Visits – exploring new markets, build networks and create new business opportunities
• NI Chamber Connections- utilising NI Chamber’s network of business people and international Chambers to achieve business growth
• Scaling-Up - improving scale and driving excellence for business growth and export

Export Documentation

NI Chamber is a designated authority for the issue of certified export documents. Whether it’s processing export documentation in person or through our on-line platform, from form filling to liaising with freight and cargo operators, NI Chamber has the expertise to make the documentation process as straightforward as possible and ensure that goods will arrive safely when and where they should.

Market Information

Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom, one of Europe’s most open and flexible business environments. Over 700 foreign investors and a multitude of investors from the rest of the UK have chosen to locate here. That’s because the region has hi-tech expertise, industrial ingenuity and a great lifestyle to offer, making it one of the most attractive inward investmentlocations in Europe.

Northern Ireland’s compelling business proposition is based on:

• A smart, highly educated, English-speaking workforce in one of the youngest populations in the European Union
• An excellent infrastructure with advanced telecoms and transport networks
• A competitive cost environment
• Excellent incentive packages
• Satisfied investors

World-class businesses that have chosen to locate in Northern Ireland include Microsoft, HCL Technologies, Seagate Technology, DuPont, Bombardier Aerospace, Caterpillar, Allstate Northern Ireland, Liberty IT, Abbey, Citi and Allen & Overy. Northern Ireland is very strong in the software, financial services and telecoms sectors, and also has clusters of excellence in areas such as life and health sciences and manufacturing. In many sectors the region is at the forefront of global developments.

Key sectors include: Business services; Financial Services; cyber security; ICT; Renewables