Government Ministers Visit EDM to Launch New Exports Initiative, A|D|S
Release Date: 2009-03-19
Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Minister for Trade and Investment Lord Davies launched a new export trade initiative during a visit earlier today to Manchester-based specialist training and education systems provider EDM.
The Government Ministers met with more than 100 of the north-west region's largest business exporters during the visit to EDM's facility on Thorp Road in Newton Heath, where high-technology simulation systems based on sophisticated air, land and sea vehicles are developed for the training needs of a wide range of commercial and defence customers.
The £3.5 million ‘Gateway to Global Growth' initiative will support the export efforts of innovative small and medium enterprises (SMEs), though UK Trade & Investment services and access to specialist third-party support. It will begin next month with around 1,250 companies expected to be put through the programme in 2009/10.
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| Company: | A|D|S |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
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