GlobalTarget Program

GlobalTarget: Accelerating your Company's International Success

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To learn more about joining the 2026-2027 GlobalTarget™ cohort, please contact the Global Business Center at gbc@csuohio.edu

The GlobalTarget™ program was established in 2005 through a partnership between the Ahuja College of Business and Entrepreneurship Global Business Center at Cleveland State University, the SBDC Export Assistance Network, the U.S. Commercial Service, and other regional and international organizations.

This year, GlobalTarget™ is proud to offer a program focused on doing business in the United Kingdom and the European Union. Participants will gain the knowledge, tools, and connections needed to maximize opportunities across the Atlantic. The program will also help prepare companies to take advantage of a planned 2027 manufacturing trade mission to the United Kingdom.

In 2023, GlobalTarget® received the prestigious Program Excellence Award from NASBITE International during its annual conference in Annapolis, Maryland. This recognition highlights the program's longstanding commitment to helping businesses succeed in international markets. Read more about this honor here.

Program Schedule

Friday · December 11, 2026

• Orientation
• Mentor Matching
• Global Management for the European Union and UK
   

Friday · January 15, 2027

• Doing Business in the UK.
• European Business Environment.
• Market entry techniques
• Trade mission prep #1

Friday · February 26, 2027

• Marketing in the EU and UK
• Digital Marketing Techniques
• Industry Analyses
• UK and EU Country reports

Friday · April 23, 2027

• Operations for Global Logistics
• Cyber Security
• Export Controls
• Payment and Financing

Friday · May 21, 2027

• Trade mission preparation #2
• Agenda review with mentor
• New sales materials review

MEMBERSHIP

GlobalTarget membership provides a low-cost, interactive method to extend a company's international resources to build an effective global strategy. Companies will gain the skills they need to manage global markets.

By participating in the GlobalTarget Program, companies with sales from $5 million to $50 million that are expanding into foreign markets will gain knowledge, tools, current perspectives on operating in global markets and best practices in order to execute their global strategies more efficiently, effectively and quickly.

Throughout the year, companies will have an opportunity to work with:

• experienced mentors
• trade counselors and
• subject matter experts from the public and private sectors.
   

Special Thanks to our Sponsors

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