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Peter Milne

Peter is a global trade consultant with over four decades of experience in the supply chain industry. As founder of Peter Milne Consulting firm, he specializes in assisting small and medium-sized companies who are planning to import goods into Canada and the USA.
Import export companies’ long-term growth is being jeopardized by impatient stockholders

09/02/2016

Import export companies’ long-term growth is being jeopardized by impatient stockholders

In the pursuit of greater quarterly earnings, publicly owned import export companies jeopardize their long-term growth in two key ways: sacrificing talented, full-time employees for cheaper, part-time or flexible workers, and choosing unsustainable, unwise pricing and supplier agreements for the greatest immediate dividend.

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