Our Expertise
Global Trade Development Group’s expertise allows us to assist and guide clients in most functional areas of their businesses. We review each client’s circumstances and objectives to comprehensively assess, plan and manage from three distinct perspectives.
We will help you –
Our goal is to recommend strategies and courses of action best fitting the needs of the client that address the specific country or regional situation while concurrently benefiting the corporate parent and rest of the company.
The details on how we help –
Generate Revenue
- Penetrate and develop international markets and after-markets – present alternatives; prepare and implement entry strategies
- Establish and build sales, distribution and product support activities internationally, along with tailored application of other marketing elements
- Generate business not readily obtainable with in-house products and services alone by using non-equity marketing alliances and collaborations with international companies
- License, cross-license and develop technology transfer strategies for market penetration and growth
Optimize Costs
- Shift part or all of the cost base abroad to achieve cost reductions not possible domestically – (e.g. supply chain management, business process outsourcing, foreign direct investment, tooling design-development internationally and other approaches)
- Build “lean-flexible” businesses across the entire value chain, at home and abroad –further leveraging the already competitive international cost structure
- Create non-equity, operating alliances with other international companies to achieve cost reductions not obtainable internally (e.g. “factory-in-a-factory” scenarios, “just-in-time” and other approaches)
Provide general management with an international viewpoint
^ TopStrategic assessment, planning & implementation
- Conduct international strategic assessment (i.e. regional, national, local); develop alternative courses of action
- Perform due diligence – obtain meaningful, reliable information for decision making and planning in complex, often unstructured international environments
- Manage acquisitions, joint ventures and mergers in international settings and successfully integrate them with the corporate parent
- Build organizations– recruit and build world-class, indigenous management teams and organizations in foreign locations and successfully integrate the team with the corporation
- Reorganize and turnaround international subsidiary companies, departments or specific business activities; conduct damage control
Location, infrastructure, facilities planning & management
- Plan international locations; conduct site selection; plan infrastructure and site-facility layout and perform due diligence for industrial facilities
- Manage rigging, international transport and installation of machinery; commissioning and start-up of industrial facilities abroad
Financial & investment strategies
- Recommend foreign direct investment – create the investment plan; negotiate strategies; perform due diligence; create company structure and 3rd country holding entities; create investment concessions, incentives and entitlements; and implement the plan
- Develop lease financing strategies for industrial facilities internationally – transfer financial outlay and give exposure to developers and other parties via design, build-to-suit and other leasing arrangements
Cultural interchange and education
- Ensure effective cross-cultural relationships and business interchange – not allowing the “deal” to fall through or be less than it should be because of cultural oversights and misunderstandings
- Educate the client’s home office and other domestic managers and staff concerning the international initiatives and actions undertaken by the company
Contact us today to find out more about how we can help.
