The Small Business Expo, the country’s largest event for business, went national for the first time last year and attracted larger than expected crowds with more than 13,000 business people attending at Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
Now small business sector specialists Sarah Trotman and Associates have taken the concept overseas and are franchising the event through New Zealand’s leading franchise company Franchize Consultants.
Trotman attended the Business Startup Expo at Olympia in London and the International Small Business Conference in Glasgow this year and says the Small Business Expo stacks up extremely well against these international events. “We plan to invite a number of APEC SME leaders and managers charged with looking after SMEs in the EU to attend the 2008 Small Business Expo and Vero Excellence in Business Support Awards to see for themselves that we are indeed world class,” she says.
She is confident the franchise package which includes the Small Business Expo, the Excellence in Business Support Awards and the Your Business Your Way expo magazine will work as well internationally as they have in New Zealand. These three business support initiatives will be offered as a total business support package for franchising through Franchize Consultants.
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