I'm a night-owl (and definitely not a morning person) by nature. One of the side effects of this is that I find myself lying awake in the middle of the night pondering random questions. Recently, one of those questions has been, "What defines an international trader?"
The people I meet (and I've met a lot of them during the recent consultation) come from a wide cross-section of backgrounds and industries. For every captain of industry there are dozens of small business people; behind every sales operation there is a logistics infrastructure; each manufacturer relies upon a network of service providers. I have come to the conclusion that the common factor is ambition. In entering international trade people look beyond the obvious and expand their horizons - exactly what the economy needs in the current climate. If our recent consultation has already demonstrated one thing it is that international traders are not sleeping through this recession, instead they have the ambition to be on the front line of the recovery!
Return to SITPRO News: Issue 69, Summer 2009
