(December 15, 2016) “Lombardy Region aims to actively support the process of internationalization of all categories of enterprises, small businesses that have never gone abroad, SMEs that want to consolidate its international presence and already established realities and does so by proposing a structured path that provides specialized training and missions in those markets considered a target for Lombard businesses, such as Morocco, the next stage of the project, the market in which the export of Lombardy in the second quarter of 2016 did an increase of 28.6% over the same period of 2015. A good example of the receptivity of the Moroccan market toward products from Lombardy “: says the vice president of the Lombardy Region and House, social Housing, Expo and Businesses Internationalization Assessor Fabrizio Sala, presenting the next steps of the strategic markets project, in collaboration with Unioncamere Lombardia and Promos, which will be held in Morocco (Feb. 1-2) and Kenya (Feb. 27-28). The project foresees the involvement of 200 export-based Lombard companies in 10 strategic foreign countries. Closing the missions in South Africa and Iran, which have seen more than 220 B2B meetings with local counterparts, the project of the Lombardy Region and Unioncamere Lombardia, realized by Promos, the Special Agency for International Activities of the Milan Chamber of Commerce, will continue with other eight initiatives in foreign markets in 2017. (Red)
