Andrew Ace Exports

At Andrew Ace Exports, we make exporting do wonders for your business. It can boost profits dramatically and the barriers to entry have reduced significantly. However, it's not for every business - and getting it right is far from easy.

Exporting can completely transform a business. For some companies, exporting is quite simply a requirement. Most major films and computer games, for example, cost so much money to create that they need to sell globally in order to recoup their development costs. Strangely, that makes exporting easier for those markets – there are very established routes and practices available to them.

For many of you, though, exporting may be something you haven’t considered, or something you have dabbled with but not pushed. Possibly, you don’t think it could sensibly apply to your business.

The case for exporting

It can be incredibly profitable, though. Remember, once your fixed overheads have been covered, all gross profit drops to the bottom line. If you could add gross profit with negligible additional overheads, you could boost your overall profitability signifcantly. And very often it will be substantially easier than you might imagine. Overseas trade conjures up images of dispatching cargo to far-flung continents. Traditionally, manufacturing companies have used “agents” abroad to make sales, or have appointed foreign distributors; the manufacturer then just transports goods ordered from overseas, much as it would to a UK company.

And increasingly, companies are exporting using the internet. This is especially true for specialist companies. Many UK businesses have literally been taken by surprise when foreign customers find them. With a little effort, it is possible to target these customers and develop a very strong. The company exports a lot of electronic goods, and introduced an online tracking system so that customers could work out where their goods were.