One of the Agency’s main tasks is assistance to formation of favourable economic, organizational, and other conditions for an increase in export and improvement of its efficiency with the use of mechanisms for granting public financial, informational, consulting, marketing, and other kinds of support to exporters with development of concrete actions on the regional level. Achievement of the purpose in view can be provided by rendering services to the regional business community for revealing perspective kinds of products, and to export-oriented enterprises, identification of their technical, financial and organizational readiness for exportation, and establishment of needs for external help.

In order to accomplish the tasks the Agency offers to enterprises in the Kaliningrad region the following kinds of services :

• supply with information about foreign trade activity;
• carrying out of marketing study of foreign markets;
• support to establishment of business ties with representatives of foreign structures and search of foreign partners for joint participation in industrial and foreign trade activity;
• assistance to promotion of goods and services produced in the region to the foreign market;
• provision of additional support measures to small business enterprises, including professional training, assessment of readiness of the enterprise to work on a foreign market, etc.

One of the Agency’s main tasks is assistance to formation of favourable economic, organizational, and other conditions for an increase in export and improvement of its efficiency with the use of mechanisms for granting public financial, informational, consulting, marketing, and other kinds of support to exporters with development of concrete actions on the regional level. Achievement of the purpose in view can be provided by rendering services to the regional business community for revealing perspective kinds of products, and to export-oriented enterprises, identification of their technical, financial and organizational readiness for exportation, and establishment of needs for external help.
In order to accomplish the tasks the Agency offers to enterprises in the Kaliningrad region the following kinds of services.

"Informational support to foreign trade activity"

In modern conditions, the most important component of achievement of success in doing business on the market is availability of necessary information. The agency provides information to Russian and foreign companies on the following questions:

• Issues of certification and standardisation of goods and services in the Russian Federation and in EU countries
• Information about the markets in Russia and in the EU, as well as statistical data
• Import and export documents and procedures

"Marketing study of foreign markets"

Market scanning

Objective: collection of initial data about the market and its participants
Term of execution: from 1 week to 1 month
Approximate volume of the report: 10-15 pages
Standard contents of the report:

• Brief description of the market segments
• Basic brands and trade marks presented on the market
• Range of prices in the market segments
• Key market characteristics (competence level, channels of sales, advertising and promotion).

Objective: collection of initial data about the market for strategic marketing purposes
Term of execution: from 1 month
Approximate volume of the report: 30-40 pages
Standard contents of the report:

• Statistical data about the market
• Analysis of the demand side (market segments, analysis of consumption)
• Analysis of the supply side (comparative analysis of competitors’ activities)
• Analysis of the channels of sales
• Barriers in the way of entering a market
• Recommendations on formation of marketing strategy of the customer’s company.

"Support for establishment of business ties with representatives of foreign structures and search of foreign partners for joint participation in industrial and foreign trade activities"

Detailed information about this service is given in the section "Search of partner".

"Assistance in promotion of goods and services, produced in the region, to a foreign market"

Market scanning

Objective: collection of initial data on the interesting market and its participants for target search of potential partners
Term of execution: from 1 week
Approximate volume of the report: 7-12 pages
Contents of the report:

• Description of industrial and marketing structure of the market
• The most significant participants of the market
• Possible schemes of selection of business partners
• Information about requirements to quality and certification of the products on the market
• Information about significant statutory acts regulating business activities on the market

In future, at the request of the client, the Agency can render services for search of partners on the market, interesting to the client, and to undertake organisation of business negotiations as well as legal support at the stage of establishment of partnership between the client and an external company.

Professional training

Detailed information about this service is given in the section "Trainings for companies".