Exteria International
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What we do

Everything it takes to open a market.

Three practices, delivered by the same team from the first assessment to the day the entity runs without us.

01 · Market entry

Market entry

We establish whether the market is worth entering at all, choose the mode that fits your balance sheet and your appetite for exposure, and then build the thing — entity, accounts, premises and people — to a date you can commit to publicly.

  • Opportunity assessment and honest market sizing
  • Entry mode: subsidiary, branch, joint venture or distributor
  • Incorporation, statutory registration and banking
  • Registered address, company secretarial and payroll
  • A costed first-year operating plan for your board
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02 · Regulatory & compliance

Regulatory & compliance

The half of internationalisation that quietly decides your timeline. We hold the regulatory path on both sides of the corridor so that the launch date you announced survives contact with the paperwork.

  • Corporate, tax and labour registration in both jurisdictions
  • GST, VAT and transfer-pricing readiness
  • Sector licences, import codes and product certification
  • Contract review under local law, in the local language
  • Ongoing filings, statutory audit support and renewals
03 · Partners & talent

Partners & talent

A market is a set of relationships before it is anything else. We build the shortlist from our own network, qualify it properly, and sit with you through the negotiation rather than handing over a spreadsheet of names.

  • Longlist from a 200-strong network, not a directory
  • Qualification, reference checks and site visits
  • Commercial terms, margins and territory negotiation
  • Distributor and agency agreements that hold up locally
  • Country manager and first-hire search
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Sectors

Where the network is deepest.

We take work outside these too — but in these we can usually name the right partner in the first meeting.

Industrial & manufacturing
Automotive components
Renewable energy
Technology & digital services
Food & beverage
Healthcare & pharma
Logistics & supply chain
Professional services
Method

Four stages, agreed before anything is filed.

01

Listen

A working session to map the product, the target market and the constraints you are genuinely under — commercial, regulatory and internal.

02

Plan

A written entry plan: mode, sequence, cost, dates, and every licence the schedule depends on. Yours to keep whether or not you engage us.

03

Establish

Incorporation, registrations, banking, premises and the first local relationships — run by the partners who wrote the plan.

04

Operate

We stay until it runs without us, then hand over every file, licence and contact in your name.

Questions

The ones we are asked first.

Anything not answered here is worth a fifteen-minute call rather than an email thread.

Six to ten weeks for a private limited company with foreign shareholding, counted from the day we hold your documents: incorporation, PAN and TAN, a bank account and GST registration. Sector licences and import codes run alongside and are usually what decide the real date, which is why they are costed into the entry plan before anything is filed.

Frequently not in the first year. A distributor or agency arrangement lets you test demand without committing capital or taking on statutory obligations, and we write the agreement so that converting to your own entity later does not mean restarting the relationship. We will tell you which route we would take on the first call, before there is an engagement to protect.

A fixed fee against a written scope, invoiced in agreed stages. No hourly billing, no success fee on introductions we make, and no retainer that quietly renews. Ongoing compliance is a separate annual fee you may stop at any renewal.

The partner who takes your first call stays on the engagement, on both sides of the corridor. Nothing is passed to a junior team after signature — that hand-off is the single most common complaint we hear about the firms our clients used before us.

Yes. The corridor is where our own people sit and where our knowledge is deepest, but roughly a fifth of current work runs into Portugal, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates and Mexico through the same partner network. Where we cannot cover a market properly we say so rather than subcontract it quietly.

A description of the product or service, the markets you are weighing, and any certification you already hold. That is enough for the first conversation. Corporate documents are only needed once you have approved the plan.
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Which market are you weighing?

Send two lines about your product and where you would like to sell it. We will tell you honestly whether the route is worth taking — and if it is not, we will say which one is.

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