The Institute of Export and International Trade’s (IOE&IT) membership continues to expand, with over 7,500 businesses and individuals in our community.
Below, you’ll find a selection of the new members who joined in July 2023, including businesses and individuals. To those of you who have joined us recently, we’d like to extend a warm welcome to you all.
We’d also like those of you who haven’t yet shared your story with us to do so. IOE&IT always enjoys building member’s connections and this is a great chance to get yourself in front of our network.
Businesses
B&H Worldwide
Since 1988, B&H Worldwide has worked in the specialised aerospace logistics. With a global presence spanning three decades, the company operates from ten strategic aerospace hubs worldwide.
Serving diverse clients like airlines, spare part stockists, MROs, and repair vendors, B&H offers comprehensive core services, including: 24/7 AOG and critical logistics, warehousing, FSL and inventory management, on-board courier, trade compliance, airside transport, LLP control towers, engine transportation and storage, and worldwide air charter.
Backed by in-house IT solutions, B&H uses its FirstTrac software to assist clients.
TPS Global Logistics
TPS Global Logistics is an award-winning, independent, family-owned company, and has worked for twenty years in the industry to provide domestic and international freight forwarding services.
Products on offer include air, sea, road and rail freight, short and long-term storage solutions, warehousing and ecommerce fulfilment, UK and European transport, IT, broadcast and event logistics, same and next day courier services, and time critical
deliveries.
It offers both door-to-door and arrival-only delivery to and from the UK and worldwide. Other services include consular assistance, customs clearance, in house ATA carnet printing, and off-site global labour teams.
Tennants Fine Art Auctioneers
Tennants is a family-owned fine art auctioneer house, with offices in North Yorkshire and London. Established for four generations, Tennants remains a family business with twenty-seven specialist departments, offering a wide range and depth of expertise in the international marktplace.
Tennants has grown into a company with a global reach, and each year connects buyers and sellers in more than seventy countries.
TecQuipment Ltd
TecQuipment Ltd is a manufacturer of high-quality educational equipment for engineering disciplines. The products allow students and educators to perform practical experiments to illustrate engineering principles relating to aerodynamics, control engineering, process control, hydraulics and fluid mechanics, material testing and properties, structures, renewable energies, mechanics and dynamics, thermodynamics and heat transfer, along with electrical power systems.
Approximately 80% of its turnover is generated through export activities, selling to more than 70 countries in 6 continents each year.
Bexprt
A “Made in the UK, Sold to the World” award winner, Bexprt specialises in business transformation and provides cloud, ICT professional and cyber security services.
Now in its fifth year, it is based in Wokingham and has recently opened a new company in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and uses its expertise to help clients across four continents.
Pump Street Limited
Pump Street was founded in November 2010 by father and daughter team Chris and Joanna Brennan; the result of Chris’ years developing his skills as a self-taught baker and later chocolate maker, and Joanna’s enthusiasm for all things gourmande.
With a bakery shop located in Orford’s Market Square in Orford and a chocolate factory inBentwaters Park – both in Suffolk – Pump Street is a proud winner of a number of awards, including the BBC Food and Farming Awards Best Food Producer 2012 and the
Observer Food Monthly Best Food Producer in 2022.
Ettinger London
Ettinger is a luxury goods companies that still manufactures in the UK and prides itself in designing and handcrafting leather goods. It supplies retailers internationally and also has a separate corporate gifting division where company names and logos can be embossed onto each product and bespoke packaging can be supplied.
Cargo Partner
Founded in 1983 as an air freight specialist in Vienna, cargo-partner is now a global transport and logistics provider with 4,000 employees in 40 countries, and is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.
The company is a full-range info-logistics
provider, offering a portfolio of air, sea, land transport and warehousing solutions. It has teams based in 160 offices in 40 countries across the globe, creating fast and efficient solutions tailored to customers’ needs. Its aim is to streamline
processes along the entire supply chain, focusing on quality assurance and sustainable progress.
Renishaw
Renishaw is a engineering and scientific technology companies, with expertise in precision measurement and healthcare. The company supplies products and services used in applications as diverse as jet engine and wind turbine manufacture, through to 3D printing, dentistry and brain surgery.
The Renishaw Group currently has 77 offices in 36 countries, with over 5,000 employees, of which over 3,000 people are employed within the UK. For the financial year ending June 2022, Renishaw achieved sales of £671.1m, of which 95% was due to exports, with its
largest markets being China, USA, Japan and Germany.
Individual
Rubens Calo
Rubens is a bilingual professional (Portuguese and English) holding a BA in Business Administration, and has 12 years’ of experience in invoicing, conducting market research, handling pricing information, taking and approving orders and arranging shipments, as well as working with customer satisfaction and retention by performing a variety of tasks.
Claudia Stroe
Claudia is a customs specialist currently working on getting a full certificate in advanced customs compliance in order to progress my career in customs compliance. With over 3 years experience in customs, she has a deep understanding of customs processes and procedures - including imports and exports.
Dexter Gnamien
Dexter is an agribusiness specialist from Cote d’ivoire with experience including working with 19 cooperatives and more than 150 farmers to improve their incomes and allow them to be more resilient against climate change, and training them on topics such
as good agricultural practices, diversification and farm management.
For the last two years, Dexter has worked in the cashew sector, working with different actors in the value chain to build up cashew processing in Cote d'ivoire.
Laura Piovesan
A fluent speaker in Italian, Russian, English, French and Spanish, Laura has a experience in sales and customer service as well as a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of customs regulations and the overall import/export processes.
Two years ago, she started a new role in trade compliance, and is becoming more and more familiar with the customs regulations in the UK and abroad, often dealing with APHA regulations, the import/export of animal derived material and dual-use goods.
Laura is also trained for the shipping of dangerous goods (ADR) by air, sea and road.
Kerry Sproston
Kerry has been working in Irish exports for Boughey Distribution since late 2020. Since then, she developed a process that oversees the distribution and transportation of goods from the UK to Ireland.
From the initial order placement to delivery, Kerry is responsible for ensuring the right products are delivered to the right location on time and in the most cost-effective way with as little disruption from customs as possible, often times acting as the liaison with parties to ensure the smooth processing of shipping and custom clearance
Enzo Menta
Enzo is a newly established professional in the realm of customs and processing, but has sharpened his expertise through a specialized course in customs studies. His acquired knowledge now finds daily application in his work.
Bruno Genovese
Bruno is a global trade compliance and import-export specialist with over a decade of experience in the automotive and manufacturing industry and a strong understanding of import compliance and export regulations, customs procedures and licensing requirements.
He also has experience across a wide range of areas, including developing and implementing efficient import-export processes, driving seamless international transactions and establishing robust global trade compliance frameworks.