Picking a winner is always tough…
Building a business isn’t easy. Starting up, finding your target market, increasing your sales, stealing a march on the competition…. That’s why it is so very important to celebrate our business achievements – to take stock, look at how far we’ve come and spend time with our customers and our staff who helped us along […]
Manufacturers respond rapidly to changing business landscape
Manufacturing will be the fastest sector to adapt to the emerging business landscape following the Brexit vote, according to a Shropshire international trade specialist. Nicole Gunter said recent figures, which showed the UK’s exports growing at a world-beating pace for the first time in nearly a decade, demonstrate the speed at which new markets were […]
Global Freight reports leap in shipped goods
Goods worth more than £24 million were moved around the globe by Global Freight in the last year. Nicole Gunter, an international trade expert who heads up Telford-based Global Freight, said the firm moved nearly double the value of goods in 2015 than it moved three years ago, attributing the rise to the expansion of the […]
Freight company takes the fear out of export
Our very own international freight expert, MD Nicole Howarth, is urging Shropshire businesses to seek specialist help to expand their overseas sales. While multi-nationals may be reporting a slowdown in international trade, Nicole said there are still plenty of export opportunities for the vast majority of small and medium-sized businesses. “In Shropshire more than 96 […]
Global Freight appoints its first apprentice
We are pleased to announce that we have appointed our first ever apprentice. Eighteen-year-old Joanna Jago has taken up the role of apprentice Freight Forwarder at our Telford headquarters. The former Thomas Telford School student will work within our existing customer service team, supporting new and existing customers to move products around the world via land, sea, […]
Global Freight furnishes a solution for Azerbaijan project
Award-winning Global Freight has successfully completed a major project for London-based “R Interiors” that involved the careful transportation of over half a million pounds worth of furniture to the Azerbaijan capital, Baku. From the contract start autumn last year, Telford-based Global Freight quickly worked with R Interiors to define the parameters of the project which included […]
New world record win….
Global Freight has a long association with the world of motorsport, and for the 2013 seasons, we’re backing Michael ‘The Blade’ Rutter. We’ve got an update from the Rutter camp, so you can see how he got on at the Isle of Man TT (although the headline is a bit of a giveaway!) and what’s […]
Companies urged to contribute to export research
Businesses are being urged to provide information for a national survey regarded as the most comprehensive barometer of the health of the UK’s export industry. Companies in the region have a chance to contribute to a survey which international trade expert Nicole Howarth says provides critical understanding for policy-makers and analysts into the performance of exporters […]