Aurélie MINETTI

Cépages & Terroirs du Monde is a small company composed by 5 people. They import and distribute wines coming from small French and Spanish wine makers.

Through the realization of the company's daily activity, I developed my knowledge concerning international purchase by carrying out the imports; I improved my marketing capacities by creating the presentation catalogue of the company and the products, and by working out the monthly newsletter containing the monthly promotion. Moreover, I took part in the customer prospection, the sales and the tasks relating to the back-office.

OW Bunker South Africa is a small structure which was created in 2001 so that this Scandinavian multinational group has a physical representation in this strategical port. The team is composed by 3 people.

During this training course, I could study the environment of the maritime fuel oil supply by discovering the position of trader, i.e. the fuel trade between the refineries and the ship-owners or brokers. Moreover, I carried out a customer prospection and I worked out the daily Market Report (in order to inform the customers of the price changes and the availabilities in the various ports).

Located in Paris, this cabinet of studies and councils in marketing is specialized in the stock exchange sector.

I carried out a comparative study of the various stock-broker web sites in order to make suggestions of improvement to a great group, and I took part in the organization of the general assembly of the GIFI group.

DesLis Chocolat is a family company. This small structure is specialized in artisanal and hand-made production of chocolates.

The purpose of this study, carried out into trinomial within the framework of my BTS International Trade, was to make it possible for this company to export its production in London. For that, we were in charged to find potential distributors, according to criteria's determined by our person in charge, namely the delicatessen. The study ended by one week displacement in order to meet the prospective customers most relevant, and gained the 2nd price during the "Great Price of International" in 2005.

OW China was an association directed towards the organisation of a specific events: The Conference "SME 2004, Implantation China". The mission of this Conference was to help the companies eager to be established in China, by providing them information (procedures, legislations, search for trade partners, experiments sharing...) and putting them in contact with specialists and professionals.

Within the framework of this experiment, I took part in the search of prospective customers likely to be interested by such a project, and in the sending of relative mailing in order to present them the details and the inscription procedures. Moreover, I carried out a comparative study of the prices concerning stals and visitor's badges. Finally I helped putting together a press file.

SWID is a company which manufactures and exports clothing collections for man-woman-child. So that, the designers works out the models in collaboration with their customers, and then seeks various materials to correspond best to their expectations.

This training course took place within the framework of my 1st year of BTS International Trade. They made me do a research of European trade partners, and I carried out some export files. Moreover, this experiment enabled me to observe the work organization within a Chinese company and to acquire my first multicultural experiment.

The company Daewoo Electronics France, whose head-office is located in Korea, imports household-electric appliances in order to distribute it to stores and great distribution.

During this training course, I took part in the import follow-up, in the improvement of the products presentation and I carried out a comparative study of the maritime transport companies from Korea.