About the Speakers

Glenn Stoudt is the President of the International Division of Rochester Midland Corporation, a 110-year-old manufacturing company with a specialty in chemical products for industrial maintenance applications. The company is operating worldwide through distributors in more than 35 overseas markets.

Claudio Merkins is President of EcoSol, Inc., a manufacturing and trading company that specializes in equipment and bioremediation products for the oil industry. The company has operated through a network of distributors and representatives throughout Latin America since 1972.

Going Global: What Comes Next?

If you like what you hear at the June 20 training session, then you can learn more about this exciting -- and very profitable -- process by taking the next step and signing up for a package of three 4½-hour afternoon-evening seminars to be held at the World Trade Center and conducted by the Louisiana International Trade Center on July 9, 10, and 11 (or else the sessions on August 6, 8, and 13). Here you will learn step-by-step the "how-to" of international market research, preparing products for export & import, pricing strategies, terms of sale & quotations, export & import documentation, export shipping & import entry procedures, trade financing, and -- the bottom line -- methods of payment. Call the LITC at
(504) 568-8222 for details.

Sponsoring Organization

Louisiana Department of Economic Development

New Orleans U.S. Export Assistance Center

Louisiana International Trade Center/SBDC

World Trade Center of New Orleans

In Cooperation With

Ark-La-Tex Regional Export & Technology Center

Baton Rouge Center for World Affairs

City of New Orleans, Office of International Relations

Consular Corps of New Orleans

Foreign Relations Association of New Orleans

French-American Chamber of Commerce, LA Chapter

International Trade Council/Red River Region

Louisiana District Export Council

Louisiana International Trade Center/SBDC

Louisiana International Trade Commission

Louisiana Peace Corps Association

Louisiana Technology Council

Traffic & Transportation Club of Greater New Orleans

United Nations Association of Greater New Orleans

World Trade Club of Greater New Orleans

Advance registration required by June 19, 10:00 a.m. 
Registration Fee: $25 for members of the sponsoring organizations and $30 for non-members. If you are a WTC member, the registration fee can be charged to your account number noted on the registration form. 

Click here for driving directions to the WTC.