Market Ranking Report
Know where to expand before you invest.
Choosing the right market is one of the most important decisions in international expansion. The wrong choice can cost months of time, significant capital, and internal momentum. The right choice gives your team a clear path forward.
Dearin & Associates’ Market Ranking Report helps you compare and prioritise potential export or expansion markets using a structured, evidence-based approach.
We assess each market against the factors that matter most to your business, then rank them based on commercial attractiveness, accessibility, risk, and strategic fit.
The result is a clear, practical report that helps you decide where to focus next.
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A clearer way to choose your next market
Many companies approach international expansion based on opportunity signals that are incomplete or anecdotal: a distributor enquiry, a trade show conversation, competitor activity, or a general sense that a market “looks promising.”
Those signals can be useful, but they are not enough to justify a serious market-entry decision.
A Market Ranking Report gives you a stronger foundation. It helps you step back, compare options objectively, and identify which markets deserve deeper investigation, investment, or action.
What the report helps you answer
The Market Ranking Report is designed to help leadership teams answer questions such as:
- Which international markets are most attractive for our product, service, or capability?
- Where is demand strongest?
- Which markets are easier or harder to enter?
- What regulatory, competitive, operational, or commercial factors should we consider?
- Which markets should we prioritise now, later, or avoid?
- Where should we allocate sales, marketing, partnership, or market-entry resources?
What's included
Your Market Ranking Report includes:
Market shortlist
A defined set of target markets selected in consultation with your team. This may include countries, regions, states, provinces, or other geographic markets depending on your expansion objectives.
Ranking criteria
A tailored assessment framework based on the factors most relevant to your business. Criteria may include market size, growth trends, customer demand, competition, ease of doing business, regulatory environment, tariffs, logistics, channel access, cultural fit, and other sector-specific considerations.
Comparative market analysis
Each market is assessed against the agreed criteria, allowing you to compare options on a like-for-like basis.
Scoring and ranking
Markets are scored and ranked to identify the strongest opportunities and the most significant barriers.
Strategic interpretation
We do not simply provide a spreadsheet of scores. We explain what the findings mean, where the strongest opportunities appear to be, and what further questions should be explored before making a final market-entry decision.
Recommended next steps
The report concludes with practical recommendations on how to move forward, including which markets warrant deeper validation, partner search, customer discovery, or market-entry planning.
Our Clients
What our clients say
Working with Dearin & Associates made our Australian trade mission a standout success. Their structured, hands-on approach—from assessing market readiness to refining our pitch and facilitating high-value buyer meetings—gave each participating company the tools and connections needed to enter the market with confidence. The team’s deep local insight and proactive support delivered immediate results in leads, visibility, and clear pathways to market entry, setting a strong foundation for our Singaporean brands’ expansion into Australia.
Enterprise Singapore
Dearin & Associates gave us the clarity and direction we needed to expand confidently across the Asia-Pacific region. Their in-depth market analysis and actionable recommendations identified the best countries to target, outlined key pricing and distribution strategies, and removed much of the uncertainty around international growth. Thanks to their expertise, we now have a clear, prioritised roadmap for scaling Backdoor Shoes globally with focus and confidence.
Backdoor Shoes
We had an outstanding experience working with Dearin & Associates. The team was amicable and TSC was able to speak freely and brainstorm through problems to affect solutions. We were able to move from an abstract concept to a concrete strategy in just a few sessions, culminating with Dearin successfully executing the first phase of the plan.
We would absolutely recommend Dearin & Associates. They are an intelligent, well-networked, forward leaning team with a focus on obtaining results for their clients. The team at Dearin was able to come up with a creative solution to an abstract problem and leverage their regional network to succeed where TSC working alone would have failed.
Mike Connolly
Technology Service Corporation (TSC)
Partnering with Dearin & Associates made it possible for Smart Rider to expand beyond Europe with clarity and confidence. Their data-driven approach pinpointed Australia as the ideal launch market, and within six months we had secured a partnership with the country’s leading equine retailer. Thanks to D&A’s expertise and structured process, we entered the Oceania market strategically and efficiently—laying the groundwork for continued international growth.
Arbel Passal
Smart Rider
Dearin & Associates helped us turn our U.S. expansion from a slow start into real momentum. Their in-depth market analysis and clear, data-driven recommendations gave us the insight we needed to refine our strategy, target the right clients, and choose effective distribution channels. Within just three months of implementing their advice, we had tripled our U.S. sales and were well on the way to establishing PumpEng as a serious player in the American mining market. We were subsequently acquired by a major American firm.
Matt Oliver
PumpEng
Knowing what to focus on to achieve growth was our biggest challenge. Working with Dearin & Associates gave us the clarity to build an international strategy and execute it. Before, we were overwhelmed but now we’re excited and confident at the opportunities that await us.
Georgie Yates
Aje
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