Everyone wonders if barter will work. It works!

"Americans are discovering whatever business they're in, whatever they buy and sell, make or fix, there is a way to get what they need without spending cash...for most barter means new business."
                CBS Evening News Eye On America

The figures are impressive; economists have estimated corporate barter to be presently around $55 billion annually.

COMPANIES THAT BARTER, GROW. DOES YOURS?

• According to the International Reciprocal Trading Association, 1.2 million businesses in North America will be engaged in barter within the decade.
• According to National Association of Trade Exchanges, 65% of companies on the N.Y. Stock Exchange engage in barter.
• International Reciprocal Trading Association estimates that barter between U.S. companies reached $7.6 billion in 1994 and is still growing.

Textron Inc. traded milling supplies to Poland for copper and brass, a $55 million trade.

Coca-Cola has traded for everything from Korean toothpick frills to Bulgarian forklifts to penetrate foreign markets.

Occidental Petroleum built a chemical plant and provided material in exchange for $20 billion worth of ammonia from Russia.

Eaton Corp. bartered truck transmissions for axles.

GM barters in more than 30 countries; it traded locomotives for tea in Sri Lanka, then sold the tea for cash to an English tea dealer.

General Electric's bartering revenues are reportedly near half-a-billion dollars.

McDonnel-Douglas bartered DC-9s and DC-10s to Yugoslavia for crystal glassware, cutting tools, leather coats and canned hams. It sold the hams to it's employees.

Pepsico trades syrup and technology for Russian vodka.

Ford traded cars, trucks, and vans to the Olympics for promotional rights.

Also: Pitney-Bowes, Turner Broadcasting, Standard Brands, Mitsubishi, Xerox, and hundreds of other Fortune 500 companies.

Hundreds of local members of BXI network with over 35,000 companies nationwide in similar exchanges. Together, barter exchanges quickly and efficiently match buyer with seller to provide a wide variety of goods and services.

WHO BELONGS TO THE BUSINESS EXCHANGE INTERNATIONAL?
PROGRESSIVE, VITAL, FORWARD-THINKING COMPANIES & BUSINESSES.

"During the past 14 years, we feel that the Trade Exchange has helped in the growth of our business, Val Pak Coupons, and has helped us achieve a name awareness in the marketplace that would have been hard to reach without our ability to trade for advertising. . ."
-Donald R. Duncan, President, Val-Pak Coupons