News Release from: UK Trade and Investment
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 4 April 2005
Buyers event pays off for Winkelmann
A Sussex based biometric and electronic security service firm has won an order worth GBP 10,000 from Greece following its participation in a 'Meet the buyers' event.
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A Sussex based biometric and electronic security service firm, Winkelmann, has won an order worth GBP 10,000 from Greece following its participation in a 'Meet the buyers' event, organised by UK Trade and Investment, the Government organisation that provides support services for UK companies trading overseas. Established in 1995, Winkelmann specialises in the manufacture of advanced electronic countermeasure safety equipment. Under the terms of the new contract, the company will provide its state-of-the-art security equipment to Pass Defence of Greece.
Having established itself in the UK, Winkelmann approached UK Trade and Investment to help it to develop overseas.
The company participated in a 'Meet the buyers' event held in Surrey in December 2004.
Organised to help UK based security providers expand business overseas, the event reversed the usual exhibition format by placing buyers on exhibition stands.
It served as an excellent opportunity for Winkelmann to meet a large cross-section of potential overseas clients.
As a result, the company won orders worth GBP 10,000 from Pass Defence and looks forward to finalise a contract worth GBP 15,000 with Baltimore Police Department from the USA in the next couple of months.
Stephen Read, Managing Director of Winkelmann, said: 'Participation in the meet the buyers event was the most effective way to expand business overseas'.
'It helped us to interact with a large number of global buyers within a short time period and in the most cost efficient way'.
'The event was a very successful for our company'.
'We signed-up our first contract only two weeks after having attended the event and have had considerable expression of interest in our products'.
'It was a great, quick and easy way to do business'.
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