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Aice is a non-profit Italian association that has promoted international business relations for over 60 years. It represents companies involved in foreign trade, especially small-to-medium sized enterprises. Aice provides services like representation, consulting, training, and business opportunities to help its members with internationalization. It also works to connect Italian companies with foreign partners and markets.
Aice english
- 1. Associazione Italiana Commercio Estero Italian Association of Foreign Trade
- 2. What is Aice? Aice is a non-profit entrepreneurial association which, for over 60 years, has been working to promote international business relations, representing companies that are committed predominantly to commercial activities abroad as well as the services related to such activities.
- 3. Aice members Aice represents Italian companies dealing with foreign trade: -Trading companies - Exporters - Importers - Distributors - Agents - Export houses - Buying Offices - Services for FT - Manufacturers (mainly SMEs) wishing to improve their business abroad.
- 4. Aice members Main sectors of activity: Export: - Machineries - Industrial supplies - Consumer products (linked to Italian lifestyile, like fashion, food, furniture etc.) Import: - Agri-food - Raw materials - Electrics, Electronics - Machineries - Consumer products
- 5. Aice members - From very small (individual) companies, to very large (multinational) groups - 80% of our members located in Lombardy - Markets of interest: Eastern Europe, Northand South America, Far East, Middle East, Africa
- 6. Aice services for the members Representation Consulting Training Information Business opportunities abroad Promotion on foreign markets
- 7. www.aicebiz.co m Aice has a web portal dedicated to the items of foreign trade in order to: - assist Italian companies in their internationalization process. -be the gateway to Italian market for foreign companies with interesting sections available in English (members db, international marketplace, b2b sites, information on Italian market).
- 8. Aice direct relationships Aice is a member of: Confcommercio Milan, Local Confedeartion of Trade, Tourism and Services (about 35,000 companies) Confcommercio - Imprese per litalia, Italian General Federation of Trade, Tourism and Services Confcommercio (about 800,000 Companies) CITHA - Confederation of International Trading Houses Associations
- 9. Why an Italian company should be a member of Aice? to receive personalized assistance on ALL the items of FOREIGN TRADE: Partner search abroad (distributors, agents, clients, suppliers etc), international contracts, customs, transports, export financing, payments etc. to receive updated information on foreign markets, laws, procedures etc. to be promoted on foreign markets
- 10. Why a foreign company should contact Aice? to get in touch with the right Italian partners (distributors, agents, clients, suppliers etc) to receive assitance in organizing business meetings in Italy to promote requirements/offers on the Italian market by means of Aices bimonthly pubblication Il Commercio con lEstero (Foreign Trade) and Aices website www.aicebiz.com
- 11. Aice: gateway to the Italian market Aices objective is to create new business opportunities between its members and foreign companies, thus contributing to the development of international trade. Through Aice, any company interested in the Italian market and/or products will be able to expand into Italy.
- 12. Aice: gateway to the Italian market Furthermore Aice works to develop collaborative relationships with international institutions and promotional bodies, as well as with entrepreneurial associations world wide, with the aim of increasing international trade and fostering a balanced development of economies in all countries
- 13. Italian Foreign Trade In Italy more than 190,000 exporting companies (about 52,000 in Lombardy Region) About 170,000 are SMEs 44% of Italian exporting companies selling in only ONE foreign market (usually an EU Country) In Italy about 260,000 companies doing import
- 14. Contact us... Free Trade in a Free World Aice - Associazione Italiana Commercio Estero Italian Association of Foreign Trade Corso Venezia 49, 20121 Milan Tel +39 027750320/1 Fax +39 027750329 aice@unione.milano.it www.aicebiz.com