Support plan to help SMEs to cope with globalisation
The Commerce Ministry has come up with a project to train 230 small and medium-sized enterprises and support them to trade in the international arena.
Pongpun Gearaviriyapun, director-general of the Business Development Department, said recently that her department in cooperation with the Industry Ministry, Office of SMEs Promotion and Board of Trade plan to strengthen local SMEs in each province so that they can compete amid the globalisation trend.
Each governor will select SMEs from his province. in three categories – start-ups that have operated from one month to three years, rising stars, medium-term enterprises that have operated for more than three years.
Among the 230 SMEs, 150 are from manufacturing, 41 are from trading and the service business, 39 are from agro-industry.
After they are taught operations, accounting, product and service development and drafting of trading and marketing plans for penetrating overseas markets, the department and the Board of Trade will arrange business matching sessions for them.
They will meet with overseas traders so that they can have a chance to penetrate new markets or form joint ventures.
Those 230 SMEs will be encouraged to trade online through e-commerce. The government’s Digital Economy policy should help facilitate e-commerce in the long run, she added.
