Copernicus hasaccumulated considerable international business experience over the last 15 years by working with business owners to identify distributors, partners, joint ventures or even acquisition targets in overseas markets. Senior international consultant Helen Flowers explained one of the reasons Copernicus has been so successful. "One of our strengths is that we are local here in the UK and also "local" in each of our international markets, where we have the requisite linguistic and businesses cultural know how to make things happen for our clients. Rather than take time out from running their business or adding additional fixed costs to the sales team our clients use us as their fast track resource to develop international trade opportunities- and then develop them profitably.