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Leverage the ACCIÓ Foreign Offices to take your company global

The Export and International Expansion Service provides the support, know-how, and contacts at the destination you need to grow your exports or establish your company in the world’s main markets.

Globalization and international trade are the major drivers of growth for any company that wants to survive in today’s world. Leverage the service to boost your sales in a particular country, diversify markets, or successfully go global to better reach your international customers.

Contact us to discover our advanced services for powering exports and international expansion. The ACCIÓ global network of foreign offices is your showcase, contact point, and sales office for more than 100 countries around the world!

Tell us your international growth project, and we will put the service at your disposal.

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Featured services and products to grow your business in the world

The ACCIÓ Export and International Expansion Service makes it possible to develop different types of custom projects with our experts and specialized consultants the world over. Featured projects and services include:

Sales Channels

We identify the most appropriate sales and distribution channels and partners for your product and industry. We also schedule meetings with the most interesting prospective contacts.
Area Manager

Your contact and permanent representative with the key companies and economic agents in each country or region to track and grow your business abroad.
Contacts and Meetings Schedule

Preparation and tracking of schedules with strategic contacts for your product. We organize your meetings or attend them with you.
Market Studies

We drill down on the opportunities and best strategy to introduce your product or service to any country in the world.
Soft landing and Virtual Platform

At implementation outset, we give you a physical workspace, infrastructure, and the address of the ACCIÓ office.
Supplier Diversification

The Technical Office on Barriers to Internationalization and the Foreign Offices will help you find and diversify your supply chain.
Bending the Curve: Projects Without Borders

All the work we do is customized and tailored to your company and project. Our offices can also help you with anything you need outside of these featured services.
Sourcing Partners, Placements, Personnel, and Legal Support

Once you have decided to open your office or subsidiary abroad, we help you find the partnerships, placements, personnel, and most suitable legal incorporation for your company in the country concerned.

How does the Export and International Expansion Service work?

How does it work?
Who can use it?
Length and costs

How does it work?

Do you want to improve your export performance or enter a new country? Discover how the Export and International Expansion Service works in three steps:

Meet with our experts in Catalonia or around the world. We will study your project, help you prioritize markets, and together define the project needed to deliver on your market goals.
We will present an obligation-free, no-cost custom action proposal drawn up together with our teams in Catalonia and the ACCIÓ Foreign Offices.
Do you like the proposal? Implement the proposal with the Foreign Office specialists in your chosen market and enjoy the personalized support of your project manager in Barcelona.

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Who can use it?

Any company established in Catalonia can contact the Export and International Expansion Service, but it is especially targeted at businesses with exporting experience that want to expand, consolidate, and improve their international outcomes.

In any case, contact us to determine what fits you best and see how your company can benefit from the service.

Length and costs

The agreed action will be implemented by the experts at the ACCIÓ Investment and Trade Foreign Offices in the destination country.

It will be jointly funded by ACCIÓ and the company, which must assume part of the project costs. Check the ACCIÓ pricing policy (.PDF document - in catalan).

Export promotion projects have an average length of three or four months, depending on the characteristics of each country. Our experts normally put 100 to 140 hours of work into each one.

More advanced international expansion projects may last longer and cost more, depending on the nature of each.

They are, however, always short projects focused on delivering results fast.

Do you want more information on the Export and International Expansion Service? Are you ready to start?

Discover the companies that have already gone global

Can Bech enters the US with the sale of its gourmet cheese sauces in 27 states of the country

The company has led the way in North America with cheese pairing sauces, which have recently been added to more than 160 new stores in California.

WellWo to expand in Mexico with more than 40,000 users on its digital platform

The company from Granollers has reached an agreement with several large Mexican companies to provide them with their contents of occupational health and comprehensive well-being, which include elements of gamification among workers

beHIT wins a WHO tender to digitize Moldova’s public health laboratories

The project, with a total value of around 200,000 euros, has allowed to computerize and automate the processes of collecting and distributing information from the laboratories of the country’s National Public Health Agency.

Soruka introduces its handbags to 1,300 U.S. outlets

The brand, which also produces handcrafted wallets and accessories from surplus leather stocks that prevent them to end up in landfills, has sold 60,000 units in its first year in the United States.

Nextium Implements Ride Share and Traffic Calming Technology in the UK

The company has introduced its app into Bournemouth taxis in a pilot test that only lets vehicles enter a pedestrian-prioritized area if they have the Catalan technology proving they are carrying a certain number of passengers.

Catalan Firm Cooltra Notches up 50,000 Shared Electric Motorbike Users in First Year in Paris

The company now has a 15% market share in the French capital, where it has become the number-two operator in its first year.

Catalan Company NZero Introduces Organic Waxes to 300 Ski Stores in Germany

The company has rolled out a new sales network in Germany to serve one of Europe’s largest skiing populations, where over 14 million skier days are sold per year.

Social Economy Firm El Rosal Starts Exporting With the Introduction of Its Biscuits in 25 Stores in Belgium

The Tàrrega-based bakery, which has 10 workers with difficulties and at risk of exclusion, has reached a deal with a local distributor to sell 700 boxes of its biscuits in the country.

Sensual Intim Lands in the UK with Plans to Export 20,000 Menstrual Cups in Two Years

The company has patented a type of silicon menstrual cup designed for use in public restrooms that can be emptied without removing it.

TRG Bestnets Exported Over 400,000 Footwear Care Products to China in 2021 Through Online Sales

The Bagès-based firm that manufactures and owns the brand TRG the One has quadrupled sales to China in the past four years with a model it is now starting to reproduce in India.