What Constitutes Eligible Categories and activities under the BDS Fund?
The allowable categories and eligible activities under the BDS Fund are as follows:- • Company expansion planning, for example, strategic and marketing plans; workshops and seminars and procurement supply techniques. • Management, for example, Institution of quality management systems; marketing management systems; management information systems (MIS). • Market research, for example, Export market investigations; domestic market investigations; product development and testing of product concepts. • Advertising and promotion in domestic and export markets, for example, brand promotion; design origination; art work; photography; translation. • Joint venture searches/seeking investment, for example, investor or equity research. • Establishment of distribution in export and domestic markets, for example, research to identify market representation. • Consumer market testing and launch on domestic and export markets, for example, identification and testing product concepts; survey of competi
