Ben Coes has more than 25 years professional experience in leading management positions of which more than 16 years international experience in business development, export promotion and international marketing. Ben worked for more than10 years as a component manager in export promotion programmes targeting in particular (M)SMEs. Since 2003 Ben developed a comprehensive market and export studies for textile, furniture, leather, agriculture and food processing, plastics, plastic recycling, and apparel industry and conducted several market and export studies covering the entire manufacturing industry.