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Here at FITT we’re always on the go, be it updating our product and service-offerings, building new business partnerships or creating new ways for you to stay ahead of the curve in the international trade industry. Stay up to date on what we’re doing and how you can get involved!
10/06/2014
Like many before him—and some after as well—Dieter Hollweck learned how to do international trade from the ground up; through the school of hard knocks.
“Learning that way is very expensive, and can sometimes be deadly for your business,” says Dieter, the Forum for International Trade Training’s (FITT) founding father. “But everybody had an international trade horror story back then!”
30/05/2014
It doesn’t matter how much interest or how many orders your business is getting from buyers abroad if you can’t figure out how to get paid when you go global! Our next #TradeElite Twitter chat will help you navigate all things money. We’ll talk about methods of payment, which method to use and why, and how to implement different types of payment.
26/05/2014
It’s that time of the year again! The time when we recognize the talents, accomplishments and experiences of our FITT-trained international business students.
02/05/2014
You’ve decided to start selling your product in a market outside your own borders. Maybe it’s an emerging market, or perhaps you’ve gone with a market that’s a bit more established; but either way you’re going to need a system to get your product to market. You’re going to need to develop an international value chain.
28/03/2014
We’ll soon be hosting our third installment of our #TradeElite Twitter chat, getting international business professionals talking about the issues that matter in global trade today. During our last chat, Doug Taylor, CITP, led us in a discussion on how to get more SMEs involved in export.
21/03/2014
Have you ever wondered why international trade jobs aren’t more widely recognized and standardized as occupations? Us too, so we’ve decided to take action to change that. As far as we know, this is something that has never been done before by anyone else in the world!
11/03/2014
Two FITTskills graduates recently began 30-day Export/Import Cargo Agent internships with Icecorp Logistics Inc.
28/02/2014
We’re heading into the next installment of our popular #TradeElite chat for international business professionals. I hope you did not miss our previous chat which was very…
18/02/2014
Less than a year ago, an excited Megan Malone was selected to be an EDC-FITT intern. She had just graduated from Algonquin College’s FITT-accredited International…
31/01/2014
Starting in January, 2014, we’ve officially formed a partnership with the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Mexico (CanChammx) to offer Chamber members the opportunity to start building practical global business credentials using our self-led, online FITTskills courses.
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