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Alabama Trade Station"La estación de Comercio de Alabama"
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Alabama Trade Station"La estación de Comercio de Alabama"
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Alabama Trade Station, headquarters Chilton
County, Alabama.
Import & Export commodities, harvested goods and manufactured goods. Direct Sales & Marketing support for "Made in Alabama" manufacturers and "Alabama Grown" producers.
Alabama Trade Station offers international sales, marketing, and trade services for Alabama small businesses that manufacture or harvest goods produced in Alabama. Our sales & marketing efforts assist companies with an Alabama presence to promote sales and trade across the Latin American territories. We provide opportunities for Alabama manufacturers & producers of goods to establish trade relationships with members located within Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.
Follow up activities include extending services provided by Government and University funded entities from Alabama. Government support facilities include the US Commercial Service with offices located across the United States and in most countries around the world; the newly formed Alabama Department of Commerce, formerly the Alabama Development Office (ADO - Alabama Trade Office) in Montgomery, AL; and the Alabama International Trade Center (AITC) housed on the campus of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, AL. Whereas the federal government, the state governments, and selected universities offer "research services, trade contacts, and initial support", our company seeks to assist you by operating as your Alabama Foreign Trade team. We will help you put feet on the ground in selected Western Hemisphere countries. Our niche market specialty provides you a Direct Sales team, offering you sales & marketing support to establish direct sales agreements with new customers on foreign soil. For those Alabama small businesses searching for new customers in North America, Central America, and South America, Alabama Trade Station will help you open new markets for your business to trade your products across this hemisphere.
Forming Collaborative Efforts & Trade Partnerships to support the International Sales efforts of Alabama owned small businesses, consortiums, coops, and organizations.
Our job is to help you trade products and services in North America, Central America, and South America. We help you move your import/export products through customs, out the ports, and into the hands of those businesses located on foreign soil. Especially essential, we help you guarantee collection of payments for goods and services rendered. Our job is to help you build solid relationships so that your business grows internationally, exponentially.
For more information, please contact:
Brian Everling, Chief, Facilitator
Alabama Trade Station
1221 Chilton Co. Rd. 54
Montevallo, AL 35115 USA
Western Hemisphere Operations, Headquarters
Brian.Everling@alabamatradestation.com
+1 (205) 370-1786
Alabama.Brian SKYPE
Developing Relationships and Trade-Ties:
1) Valparaiso and Santiago, Chile
2) Essen and Stuttgart, Germany 3) Istanbul, Turkey
As of November, 2010, we have familiarized ourselves with IncoTerms®2010. During 2010 we extended relationships with Alabama farmers, real estate brokers, business owners, investment groups, educational communities, international organizations, and governmental resources. We are currently searching for a parcel of property to establish a Business Headquarters, and we are formulating specific target goals for the company for 2011 - 2014.
December 2010 began with a trip to the Ronald Reagan Building, Washington DC to meet with members from The Manufacturing Institute, a division of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). Continuing relationships with organizations such as NAM and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), with university professors and executive members, with federal and state officials, and with the new Small Business initiatives set up underneath the 2010 National Export Initiative, Presidential Executive plan for increasing exports, especially for Small Businesses, should together help us to enter 2011 with a full team of support, heading in the same direction, "out the ports."
Schedule & Planned Schedule
2012 Connections:
Chile,
Colombia,
Panama,
Germany, Switzerland,
Turkey.
Alabama Agriculture,
Machines & Machinery, Alabama manufactured goods, and
Trade Services.
** February 2012:
Attended: Alabama Economics
Summit; Discussions with AL Economics Group: AL Insurance Futures; SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers) tour Nucor Tuscaloosa.
** March 2012:
* Announced participation with StartUp America, Alabama Region.
Initiate participation with EDPA and a
small group of entrepreneurs to start-up the Alabama Region.
* Participated in the
Urban Birmingham, Whitehouse Forum.
* 03/09/2012 - 03/12/2012 Road-Trip through Montgomery, AL; Auburn, AL; Tyrone,
GA; Columbia, SC; Virginia Beach, VA; Washington, DC; return to central Alabama.
* Mar 29 - April 2 Barber MotorSports, Alabama Germany Partnership Annual
Dinner 03/29, Barber MotorSports
Indy, 3rd Annual Grand Prix of Alabama, CampSite host.
April 2012:
* Attend ASU Alabama State
University College of Business Administration seminar.
Hosted by ASU, US Department of Education, US
Commercial Services, and the Alabama Department of Commerce: ASEAN MARKETS
* Chileno Business RFQ's: Tires, Drilling Rigs
Our initial commercial venture began with a one month trip from Feb 27, 2010 - Mar 26, 2010 to the Valparaíso district, including Viña del Mar and Santiago, Chile. El Terre Moto, additional temblores and multiple tsunamis added some turbulence to the flow of this inaugural adventure. For instance, the largest steel & iron ore conglomerate, CAP found itself under water, displacing production for up to 3 months. Amidst the chaos we were able to meet some very hospitable Chileans who are now good friends. We all faced a first-in-a-lifetime 7.2 - 8.0 and were challenged by unexpected quaking obstacles. We can now chalk another meeting with Mother Nature to past experiences that include being touched by devastating hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and heat waves.
While there, we met with several members from the entrepreneurial startup facilities located on the campus de la Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM). During our stay we discussed collaborative projects between universities in Chile and universities in Alabama, including initiating Engineering relationships designed to address the Mechanical, Materials, and Interdisciplinary Engineering Departments at University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB). International Business relationships were targeted to collaborate alongside the Brock Business School at Samford University and the International Trade team from AITC at the University of Alabama. Since then, we have found that developing Agricultural relationships is becoming a primary requisite.
An intriguing meet-up was hosted by a Mining & Minerals networking group. We called on over 50 engineering groups, metals & mining companies, and governmental trade entities. We spoke with a member from a US Commerce Department division located in Santiago, and we met Engineering & Business contacts representing fields as diverse as Lithium mining, Copper Mining, Machine Shops & Job Shops, Port Authorities, Food Brokers, and Highway Departments.
Thank you to those who helped us prepare for our trip. Y, Muchas Gracias to those Chileans who made that one month a lifetime full of memories - Special Thanks to Jose y Karen, proprietors AND to Karol T, UTFSM.
Product Manufacturer Sponsors for this trip include Custom Steel Plate products; steel pipe products (casing pipe, piling pipe, bollards); overhead cranes and hoists, including related products such as custom built crane workstations, heavy duty hoists and controls for industrial applications; steel products for mining & minerals; and specialty bolts.
Business Services
Services include: International Trade Team Building; Market Research & Sales Development; Alabama Commodities,
Non-Liquid Assets, Marketable Illiquid Assets, Real Estate.
Active participation includes the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME),
AL Economics Club, Samford's Brock Business School,
and the Alabama Germany Partnership.
We look forward to hearing from you when you
attempt to raise your International Sales team.
Please, take a moment to review our "Internet Marketing" services, including (SEO) Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing (SEM), and Branding.
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