I [Laurel Delaney] and the COO of wegg®, Bob Marovich, had the great pleasure and opportunity to recently visit with Linda Bi (pictured left in photo below), President of Chicago Expert Importers (CEI). Linda is also a wegg Board Member and wegg Angel.
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As economist Marc Levinson writes in his superb book (2006), The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger:
In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston.
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Average container schedule delays have doubled globally, and increased 6X on the Far East and North America trade. It is predicated that container freight rates will remain elevated throughout most of 2022 while the containerized logistics disruption persists.
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A conversation with Lisa Victoria Waller, VP, BDG International, Inc., on how to achieve a successful international shipment.
This past Wednesday, wegg® had the pleasure of hosting the Industry Segment Manager of Retail and Consumer Goods for UPS, Cristina Bandal. Bandal lead one of our free online wegginars®, which provide monthly, accessible education to women entrepreneurs everywhere. Bandal’s talk covered how to overcome the obstacles that people face when trying to sell their products to the global market.
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Think your business is too small for globalization? If so, change your attitude because according to Jeremy Melis, Director of Small Business Marketing at UPS, size doesn’t matter.
“The world’s electronic commerce system has transformed retailers into e-tailers,
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Rebecca Herwick is the President and CEO of Global Products, Inc (GPI). She has over 35 years experience in distribution and manufacturing of promotional and licensed products and over 19 years experience in international distribution of non-refrigerated commodities.
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How can we make trade safer, cheaper, simpler, and faster for American businesses? Easy. The newly minted Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) is a game-changer for the way goods cross borders and move around the world. What is the TFA?
TFA creates mechanisms that bring all 164 WTO member countries to a higher standard for how goods cross borders.
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Vietnam-born businesswoman Ms. Lily Tran grew up in an entrepreneurial family in Iowa in the United States. She began working in her family’s retail and trading businesses when she was 14 so she knew what hard work and dedication meant to making a success of the family business.
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