Welsh businesses have secured £436 million in new export sales as a direct result of Welsh Government export support over the past five years, Cabinet Secretary for Economy Rebecca Evans told the Explore Export Wales conference in Llandudno today (18 March 2026).
Accounting for over a third of Wales’ GDP, exports are a key to the Welsh Government’s ambition to grow the economy and create new jobs.
Since the Export Action Plan launched in 2020, the Welsh Government has supported nearly 1,500 businesses supported to export for the first time or expand into new markets and delivered 89 trade missions, with 844 business representatives taken to markets across the world.
During that time Welsh Government International Trade Advisors have held around 6,000 face-to-face meetings with businesses, delivered over 430 export market research projects and supported more than 600 overseas business development visits – from Kenya and Vietnam to Argentina and South Korea.
The Export Cluster programme also provides peer-to-peer support across six priority sectors, with over 350 members. The New Exporter Programme has supported 68 businesses new to exporting, with a sixth cohort now open for recruitment.
North Wales life sciences company Reacta Healthcare is one business whose growth has been driven by export, with Welsh Government support. Reacta develops specialist allergy diagnostic products used in global clinical trials.
Exports now account for 100% of its business. In the past year alone, the company has increased its workforce from 50 to 80 people and has secured new clients in Europe and the United States. Reacta will be actively supplying these new contracts over the next 3 years, representing significant volume and revenue growth. As a result, the company is expanding floor space by 50% in an adjacent facility to its existing site in Deeside.
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