Wine Australia renews partnership with Efic
Wine Australia has renewed its partnership agreement with Efic, Australia’s export credit agency.
The partnership aims to help Australian wine producers better understand how they can access the finance they need to maximise their export opportunities.
Efic provides a range of export finance solutions to Australian small and medium enterprise (SME) exporters and those in an export supply chain.
Under the renewed agreement, Wine Australia will continue to work with Efic to help Australian wine exporters learn how Efic’s range of loans and guarantees can help them to take advantage of new export opportunities.
Wine Australia Chief Executive Officer Andreas Clark said, ‘With Australian wine exports and export opportunities on the rise in regions such as Northeast Asia, particularly China, it’s important that wine exporters are aware of all of their financing options.
Efic Managing Director and CEO Andrew Hunter said, ‘Australian wine exports play an important role in Australia’s trade. We’re pleased to continue to work with Wine Australia to ensure SME wine exporters get access to the finance they need when their bank is unable to help.’
More information about how Efic can help Australian wine exporters is available at www.efic.gov.au/wine
More information about how to obtain Wine Australia approval to export wine shipments more than 100 litres, as well as Export Market Guides for 33 markets is available at www.wineaustralia.com.
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About Wine Australia
Wine Australia supports a competitive wine sector by investing in research, development and extension (RD&E), growing domestic and international markets and protecting the reputation of Australian wine.
Wine Australia is funded by grape growers and winemakers through levies and user-pays charges and the Australian Government, which provides matching funding for RD&E investments. Wine Australia is the trading name of the Australian Grape and Wine Authority, a Commonwealth statutory authority established under the Australian Grape and Wine Authority Act 2013.