Bartercard Franchise
Bartercard
- trade exchange
Bartercard House
Brooklands Close
Sunbury
Middlesex, TW16 7DY
Telephone: 0870 920 5000
Bartercard Franchise
website
About Bartercard
As the world's largest business trade exchange, Bartercard Plc has proven an
essential business tool, enabling thousands of businesses to increase sales,
reduce cash expenses and improve profit. Founded in Australia in 1991,
Bartercard has an established formula of success as a business model in 17
countries, with over 120 offices and over 70,000 businesses turning over last
year global trade volume of over $1.3 billion.
Bartercard is a global business-to-business trading and marketing platform. It
is a business exchange system that allows member businesses to buy and sell
goods and services without using cash to pay for them. A completely
self-contained economy that operates along side the cash economy, Bartercard UK
has its own currency, Trade Pounds. Recognised legally by both the Inland
Revenue and Customs and Excise, the Trade pound holds the equivalent value to
the pound sterling.
Increasingly, small to medium sized companies are turning to this modern form of
bartering, which helps them save cash within their companies and find new
business at the same time. This trend reflects a growing 'trade exchange
culture' amongst SMEs, who are increasingly trading outside the 'cash economy'
in order to grow sales and improve their bottom line.
Nearly anything can be 'traded' today with member companies offering everything
from office furniture, maintenance and IT through to printing, marketing and
financial advice. Modern day bartering allows companies to sell any spare
capacity or unused products in return for goods and services they need for their
own business. Unlike traditional bartering however, exchanges like Bartercard do
not rely on direct swaps but on a system of credits and debits, which gives its
users freedom to trade at their own pace. Transactions are made using Trade
Pounds, which have the same pound for pound value as Sterling, avoiding any
confusion over prices.
Currently operating company owned operations in UK and Australia, Bartercard
also has licensees in USA, Lebanon, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Thailand, Jordan,
UAE, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Russia, Malaysia, Kuwait, Cyprus and most recently Qatar. | 
