UK seafood businesses invited to meet international buyers
UK seafood businesses are being invited to explore growing export opportunities in South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand and Australia at four dedicated ‘meet the buyer’ events.
These countries have a rising demand for high quality imported fish and shellfish and, with supportive trade agreements in place with the UK, there is new and exciting trade potential for UK seafood export businesses.
Inward mission visit
To showcase these opportunities, the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) and ourselves are partnering to host an inward mission visit by 19 different seafood importing companies from South Korea, Vietnam,Thailand and Australia.
The delegation will visit a number of locations to learn more about the UK seafood industry and, crucially, to meet directly with exporters to discuss potential business partnerships.
These ‘meet the buyer’ events provide a fantastic opportunity for UK seafood businesses to engage directly with serious buyers from growing overseas markets.
Vietnam and South Korea in particular are showing increasing demand for premium imported seafood and this inward mission allows our industry to meet with importers from Asia and build trading relationships without the cost and time commitment that is often incurred by UK companies if having to travel overseas to prospect for potential new customers.
We strongly encourage businesses of all sizes to attend and explore what could be significant new export opportunities.
DBT representatives will also attend to provide guidance on export support, alongside the UK Agriculture, Food and Drink Attachés and their teams from the British Embassies in Hanoi, Vietnam and Seoul, South Korea, along with representation from the Export Support Service at the British Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand.
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How to attend
The Meet the Buyer events will be held at the following locations:
- Monday 9 March (10am - 4pm) – Buchan Braes Hotel, Peterhead.
- Wednesday 11 March (9am - 2pm) – Clayton Hotel Manchester Airport, Manchester.
- Thursday 12 March (10am - 2pm) – Healing Manor Hotel, Grimsby.
- Friday 13 March (10am - 2pm) – Billingsgate Fish Market, London.
To ensure that incoming visiting companies have good opportunity to be able to engage with individual UK exporters to discuss trading links, Seafish are scheduling suitable meeting times for UK exporters at the various events.
To register interest in attending any of the events and the opportunity to meet with the various visiting seafood importers from Asia and Australia, or for more information, contact trade@seafish.co.uk.