World news story

UK Trade Mission Visits Jordan

皇冠体育app mission鈥檚 members conducted meetings with potential clients and learnt more about doing business in this fast developing region

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
UK Trade Mission

UK Trade Mission

From 22 to 23 September, a delegation of five British companies visited Jordan on a two day business development mission.

Representatives from Aggreko, City & Guilds, Linguaphone, KBC and Avon-Barrier, all firms with multi-sector experience, visited Jordan to look at new opportunities and partnerships in the energy, education and security sectors. 皇冠体育app mission鈥檚 members conducted meetings with potential clients and learnt more about doing business in this fast developing region. 皇冠体育app delegation鈥檚 meetings included calls on 皇冠体育app Ministry of Labour, 皇冠体育app National Electricity Power Company and the King Abdullah II Centre for Excellence, and many others.

Mr. Peter Millett, 皇冠体育app British Ambassador to Jordan said: 鈥淭rade between the UK and Jordan is healthy. This mission demonstrates that British companies are keen to develop contacts with Jordanian firms, especially in key sectors where new opportunities are being created, such as IT, energy and health. I hope to see some positive results from the contacts we are arranging.鈥�

In addition to calls on potential clients, the mission鈥檚 members learnt more about doing business in this fast developing region and received a briefing on different projects in Jordan and received a market briefing on Iraq and Egypt.

Background

皇冠体育app visit was organised by UK Trade and Investment at the British Embassy in Amman. UK Trade and Investment Jordan works to build stronger trade and investment links between the UK and Jordan. /government/world/organisations/uk-trade-investment-jordan

Updates to this page

Published 24 September 2014