Trade & Investment KwaZulu-Natal (TIKZN) is the official inward investment promotion agency mandated to market the province of KwaZulu-Natal as the premier investment destination and to grow the provincial export capacity of the province by assisting local companies access international markets. TIKZN is mandated to:

• Promote, brand and market KwaZulu-Natal as an investment destination;
• Facilitate trade by assisting local companies to access international markets;
• Identify, develop and package investment opportunities in KwaZulu-Natal;
• Provide a professional service to all clientele;
• Retain and expand trade and export activities; and
• Link opportunities to the developmental needs of the KwaZulu-Natal community.

TIKZN offers the following services to foreign and local investors and KZN based exporters:
•Black economic empowerment financial assistance
•Technical financial assistance fund
•Project appraisal
•Site identification and evaluation
•Sector economic data provisioning
•Backward and forward linkages
•Business permits (under the auspices of the department of trade and industry)
•Agreement brokering
•Joint venture facilitation
•Joint venture facilitation
•Capital-raising
•General business advice
•After-care services
•Incentives
•Inward and outward investment promotion missions