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Importing British food gives your customers the brands they already recognise and trust, from the breakfast cereals, sauces and condiments that fill a family’s cupboard to the baking ingredients a hotel kitchen gets through by the case, and demand for that kind of range keeps growing in markets that otherwise have very little in common. […]

When a shopper walks into your store looking for the same tin of beans, jar of curry paste or box of cereal they bought last week and finds an empty space where it should be, there is a good chance they will buy it somewhere else next time, and that is the risk every business […]

Dairy sits second on the list of British goods arriving in Lebanon, behind cars and ahead of every category of machinery on the manifest, which is unusual enough to be worth pausing over. Food rarely places that high in any country’s import profile from the UK, and it tells you a good deal about how […]

Around seven in ten people living in Kuwait today are expatriates, drawn in by tax-free salaries and long careers across oil, engineering and medicine, and they arrive with both the disposable income and the appetite for the brands they grew up with. Your Kuwaiti customers skew young by any regional standard, with more than half […]

Roughly a third of the people living in Jordan today were born somewhere else, and if you are buying for a supermarket group, a hotel business, or a restaurant chain here, that one statistic probably describes your customer base more accurately than any market report will.  Foreign nationals, including expatriates, immigrants and refugees, account for […]

International demand for British food and drink continues to grow, creating exciting opportunities for overseas retailers, wholesalers and distributors. The UK Government recently announced that its global network of agri-food attachés has unlocked an estimated £80 million in new export opportunities during 2026. By removing trade barriers and simplifying export procedures, the network is helping […]

Latvia is a smaller market than most British exporters ever look at, with total UK exports sitting at £617 million across 2025, yet the food and drink opportunity inside that figure is more interesting than the headline suggests.  A well-chosen British range does not just sell to Latvia’s own shoppers, it can reach across the […]

Estonia may sit near the smaller end of the UK’s trading relationships, with total British exports of £480 million across 2025, but few markets of its size are as easy to actually do business with. The country runs on some of the most advanced digital infrastructure anywhere, which strips out much of the friction that […]

For a country you can drive across in under an hour, Luxembourg pulls a remarkable amount of trade from Britain. Total UK exports reached £13.2 billion in the year to early 2025, which makes it the 19th largest market for British goods and services despite a population smaller than most UK cities.  The bulk of […]

Few markets give a buyer a clearer reason to bring in British food and drink than Malta does. The United Kingdom finished 2025 as your largest source of inbound tourists, with 841,397 British visitors making the trip as total arrivals pushed past four million for the first time.  Whether you run a hotel group, a […]