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The concept of ExportDepartment.com was born out of the fact that many companies have good products and services that can bring them export profit but lack the international experience, global contacts, foreign language skills and international trade knowledge that is important for exporting success.
ExportDepartment.com provides the experience, knowledge and contacts of 18 years in international markets, and packages methodologies based on that experience so that companies without international skill sets can foray into exporting, minimize problems and delays and ultimately profit and continue to expand their markets.
Laura Kolbe
Cheif Executive Officer
Driven by a passion for business and languages, Laura Kolbe has over 18 years experience developing international market expansion strategies for an impressive list of U.S. and international companies, including IBM, GTE, Daimler-Benz, General Dynamics, Cooper Industries and Weather.com.
Her innovative international business expansion program "The Trade Mission You Don't Go On" was profiled in the
Wall Street Journal. It also received rave reviews from The United States Department of Commerce.
Her contribution to client companies has included identifying and developing international business opportunities as well as assisting the client companies with the export logistics marketing and distribution steps necessary to effect sales in new markets.
Ms. Kolbe has international business contacts in more than 67 countries, and specializes in European, Latin American, Asian and African business environments. Her circle of global contacts combined with Ms. Kolbe's expertise in international market research, development and export logistics has been the key to her clients' success in identifying and penetrating new markets. She is well versed in the dynamics and structures of international companies, international organizations, trade and industry associations.
Ms. Kolbe has served as Deputy U.S. Trade Consul for the Department of Commerce, and as the Director of Business Development for the State of Florida. She has a M.A. in International Economics and International Studies from the University of Toronto and a B.A. from McGill University. She is European by birth, and both a naturalized Canadian and American. She speaks six languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.
As part of her commitment to win-win interaction with international markets, Ms. Kolbe regularly contributes to international revenue growth articles in foreign media. See some of Ms. Kolbe's recent articles for the Italian marketplace at Imprenditori.
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