Coming from a family of small business owners, Robert Seymour III was destined to start his own business. A graduate of N.C. A&T State University with a Dual Degree in Communications and Business Management. Robert became an Experienced Marketing and Sales Professional with twenty years of experience working for Fortune 500 firms in banking, telecom, radio broadcasting, real estate, beverages, food packaging, and apparel industries, Robert observed that some of the companies for which he had been selling domestically were facing increased competition from imports. He also noticed the large number of inquiries from other countries sometimes over 50 a month wanting to buy American products that were popping up in companies’ email inboxes, but since they did not have an international sales department set up these inquiries went unanswered. Sales were being lost and untapped markets were being neglected in the global marketplace.
Armed with that knowledge Seymour International Trade Group LLC an Export Sales Management and Trading Company was born in 2006 out of his apartment in Roxboro Northwest Section of Philadelphia, PA. Robert prepared a business plan, obtained business licenses, incorporated the business, set up a website obtained a business bank account. and then started knocking on doors. He was successful in obtaining clients but needed additional assistance.
Success came quickly because of his great Sales and Marketing Experience he applied these same skills in the Global Marketplace educating himself with every skill needed to help small American businesses grow and prosper in overseas markets. Soon he built relationships with international trade and marketing reps, custom brokers, freight forwarders and shipping companies, then started exporting American products in over 9 countries helping small businesses to stop just depending on the local markets and start to understand that 95 percent of consumers live outside the U.S.
In the last 17 years Seymour International Trade Group has grown to add an Experienced International Sales and Marketing Team and has introduced over 100 small business to import distributors that now successfully distribute American products in Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, South Africa, Bahamas and other territories in the Caribbean markets.
