Exporters' stories

The Association counts 31 producers as members. They produce their special prosciutto exclusively in San Daniele del Friuli, in north eastern Italy.

Graffeo Cravatte is an Italian manufacturer of high quality handmade ties. The company, based in Alcamo in the province of Trapani, has been supplying ties to the Italian market for the last 24 years. Recently, however, Graffeo Cravatte has been setting its sights on international markets.

Stella Milano 1952 has a long and strong tradition of jewellery making. With CETA’s tariff cuts, Stella Milano has seen its exports to Canada grow by 30%.

Col d'Orcia is an Italian winery located in Tuscany. The vineyard estate has been producing wine since 1890 and now comprises 140 hectares. Perhaps most famous for its Brunello di Montalcino wine famous to the region, Col d'Orcia has been exporting its wine around the world for 45 years, taking adv

The EU trade agreement with South Africa opened up new business opportunities for Astorino, a family-run Calabrian pasta producer. The firm exported 1 tonne of pasta to South Africa in 2015.

PERUZA is an engineering and manufacturing company that produces equipment, primarily for the food processing industry, and especially for fish processing. PERUZA delivers its production lines worldwide under its own brand name.

Dobeles dzirnavnieks is one of the leading grain processors in the Baltics and the largest pasta producer in Northern Europe. Dobeles dzirnavnieks exports its products to more than 70 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America.

Grindeks’ product portfolio is composed of original products, generics and active pharmaceutical ingredients, all produced in line with global requirements of safety and quality.

The EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement eliminated most Japanese duties on foodstuffs from the EU, helping this Lithuanian firm specialising in lyophilised snacks to be more competitive in Japan.

TUKI, founded in 2014, produces and sells Colombian fruit juice. The small Luxembourgish company benefited from the signing of the EU trade deal with Colombia and Peru. The agreement has made it easier for European firms to do business with the two countries.

CODIPRO is a small Luxembourg business which designs and manufactures patented safety swivel rings for use with heavy equipment. The company makes full use of EU trade agreements, exporting to sixty countries around the world via a network of distributors.

The 2013 EU-Colombia trade deal helped Luxembourg's Bofferding brewery to get into a market 100 times bigger than that of Luxembourg. Strong exports to Colombia have boosted the brewery's growth and overall, Bofferding now exports 34,000 hectolitres of beer a year.

iNUI Studio is a Luxembourgish SME in the computing industry. Founded in 2010, the company develops software solutions for businesses. The SME, with sights set on international markets, benefits from the improved business environments that result from EU trade deals.

Chocolaterie Genaveh is a Luxemburgish artisanal chocolate maker that offers high-end products in elegant, contemporary packaging. All Genaveh’s chocolates are handmade in its workshop in Steinfort. Genaveh sells its products throughout Europe. Thanks to CETA – the EU’s trade agreement with Canada.

Thanks to a reduction in tariffs, trade between the EU and Canada has grown and costs have gone down. This has allowed the company to expand.

The Dutch company Spotzi offers an interactive mapping platform that shows the world’s demographic composition and people’s behaviour like travel patterns and shopping habits.

The VanDrie Group exports to over 60 countries worldwide. Since CETA removed Canadian tariffs on veal of up to 26.5% the VanDrie Group can now easily send regular shipments from the Netherlands to Canada.

From its beginnings in Przemyśl, Poland, in 1983, Inglot Cosmetics has become one of the world's leading cosmetics manufacturers. It went global in 2006, starting in Canada, followed by the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, India, Turkey and the USA. Inglot now has more than 600 shops in 80 countries.

Thanks to the success of its digital solutions, RTB House cooperates with well-known brands like Adidas, Sephora, Reebok, Carrefour, and many more. Its online advertisement solutions are based on so-called deep learning, a sub-field of Artificial Intelligence.