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<p>Great.gov.uk is a digital platform with a suite of digital tools built to help
UK businesses expand their reach overseas and secure their place on the global stage.</p><p>UK
and overseas marketing activity and DIT’s commercial partnerships are used to promote
the platform.</p><p>In the 14 months since great.gov.uk was launched in November 2016,
great.gov.uk has been visited by nearly 2.8 million unique users. Of these:</p><p>
</p><ul><li>The Invest tool, which promotes the UK as an obvious destination for inward
investment, has received over 764,000 online visits with over 1,200 enquiries</li><li>The
Export Opportunities tool has received over 67,000 responses from UK businesses to
13,000 published export opportunities, which have been gathered and published by our
network of in-post Embassy and High Commission trade experts, as well as overseas
partner stakeholders</li><li>The Trade Profile tool has published over 2,600 verified
UK business profiles, presenting them to a wide network of prospective overseas buyers
and partners</li><li>The Export Readiness tool, which went live in December 2017 and
helps UK businesses see how export-ready they are, and presents them with tailored
information has already been used by 710 companies.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Activity is
planned to promote this platform further to the UK and overseas businesses.</p>
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