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From garage to global: firm hits £4milion global sales A Worthing firm that started life in a spare room 30 years ago has announced global sales of £4 million. The news came during UK Trade & Investment’s (UKTI) biggest ever national Export Week, a campaign designed to help businesses and the economy to grow by encouraging firms to start exporting or to expand their export activity. It also coincided with a new national campaign, Exporting is GREAT, targeting almost 3 million people with the ambition to generate 3,000 appointments with locallybased UKTI advisers. From checking the temperature of a Starbucks Panini to an award-winning cake on a prime time TV programme, Worthing company Electronic Temperature Instruments Ltd has been at the forefront of food safety since 1983. The firm’s digital thermometers, produced by a team of 155 staff, have been steadily gaining prominence overseas for the last 10 years. However, the firm have enjoyed a recent surge after receiving help from government export body UKTI, with exports doubling over the past three years, and now making up 40% of their almost £10 million turnover. To help increase their export sales they have been on UKTI’s flagship Passport to Export scheme and accessed funding to attend trade shows, alongside working with locally based senior export adviser Stephen Golding. Managing Director Peter Webb said: “Food legislation has driven our business. As the UK began to develop strong definitive legal
guidance around food temperature at the end of the 80s, we experienced an overwhelming surge in demand for our digital thermometers. They’re used at every stage of the food industry – from farm to plate, testing the temperature of food is an essential requirement. “This legislation has improved the food we eat and the way it is served in the UK, and has of course boosted our business. “EU countries also have had to comply with similar legislation, driving our sales across Europe and beyond. “We are increasingly becoming an export driven firm as we’ve identified that countries like the USA and Scandinavia are big areas for growth, as more and more business realise that it is good practice to monitor the temperatures of the food we eat. “With help from UKTI to identify suitable markets and trade shows, this year’s exports have already increased by 18%.”