New Exporter Award
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The New Exporter Award recognizes a company that has made its initial entry into an export market and achieved notable success. The award acknowledges the company's ability to overcome obstacles in order to expand its potential markets and grow its business through export. The New Exporter Award goes to a company which has started exporting within the last three years.
Eligibility:
- Must be a BC registered company
- Produce goods and/or services that have significant Canadian benefits
- Have earned foreign revenue in excess of $100,000 in the past fiscal year
- Have been in business for more than three years and exporting for a minimum of 2 years
- Established a presence in one or more geographic markets
The successful nominees will have the following attributes:
- Have a sound capital base with sufficient working capital to support their export activity
- Demonstrated significant year-to-year percentage growth in value of export sales or increased sales volume over the past year
- Demonstrated ability to overcome obstacles or other unique challenges in entering new international market(s)
- Demonstrated quality of their export plan through use of innovation and strategies to promote brand awareness in their export market(s)
- Shown notable growth in their overall business as a direct result of their export activities