Corporation to open third office

Press, 27 February 1984, Page 4

Corporation to open third office

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PA Wellington The New Zealand ExportImport Corporation will open its third office overseas next month.

The new office is in Kuala Lumpur, to handle the growing trade with Malaysia and Singapore.

The corporation already has a trade centre in Sydney and a South American office in Caracas, Venezuela.

The corporation’s general manager, Mr C. B. Stanworth, said the Kuala Lumpur office would run similarly to the Caracas one, handling both export and import opportunities, and would ultimately be a trad-

ing office for South-East Asia. “We have been very pleased with the way trade has developed for us in Malaysia and Singapore on behalf of a variety of New Zealand exporters and we now wish to consolidate by having a man there fulltime, to service substantial existing business and identify further opportunities, including possible new imports to New Zealand,” he said. Mr Stanworth said corporation business with both Malaysia and Singapore was running at more than $1 million a year.