International Trade Expert and Consultant
Author, Exporter and patriot
Gerry Bratley MIEx
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Gerald (Gerry) Bratley started in International Trade in 1967, with the blue chip company IMI-
At that time ‘the copper works’ was a very large exporter with over 50 deployed in the export department. Gerry joined in the quotations section where he absorbed the contract terminology, payment terms and modes of transport, some of the basic components of International Trade.
After 6 years Gerry left and set up his own Export House BNA-
- Salmaniya Medical Centre in Bahrain
- The Salalah Hospital in Muscat
- Aqaba Holiday Inn in Jordan
- Kuwait Water Towers
- The St George in Beirut
- Hilton Hotel Beirut
Gerry travelled to the Middle East on many occasions, negotiated the contracts, bought the materials and components, arranged for them to be consolidated into containers, arranged the shipping and prepared the documentation for payment against the letters of credit. It was at BNA that he gained most of his International Trade skills.
In 1979 Gerry was invited to join the sales team of another Blue chip company The Hepworth Ceramics Holdings plastics division. Here Gerry was responsible for market development which involved extensive travel to the Caribbean, Europe, The Far East, Africa and Australasia.
He visited 60 countries, some many times, and built up a long list of distributors and agents worldwide, and when local competition became strong, he set up factories manufacturing under license in South Korea, Malaysia and New Zealand, and he lived in Korea and Malaysia for many years.
Gerry joined Barnsley Chamber of Commerce in 1989, where he set up the Export Development Service, which is still in operation as a ‘not for profit’ community interest company.
The EDS was very successful and in the wake of the mining closures, the Department for Trade funded and extended the service to cover the whole of South Yorkshire
In 1993 Gerry was seconded into the Department for Trade as the Export promoter for Korea where he worked along side the diplomats and local staff out of the British Embassy in Seoul and along side the civil servants in London.
In consequence Gerry has been involved in International Trade from every aspect.
He is therefore well placed to ‘fast track’ you to reach your full potential in International Trade.
Since 1995 Gerry has been a founding Director of 11 companies set up to take advantage of International Trade opportunities. In these roles he exported, products and technology licenses and setting up a fibre optic plant in Korea, and was among the first to import reversing sonar for the UK automotive industry. In this time he was marketing many products from wind tunnel technology for the automotive market to soft toys and consumer products.
Gerald Bratley MIEx
