From Alan Mink: As you know, The Trade Banc was recently sued by Tradebank International in federal court in Georgia for alleged trademark infringement. The lawsuit is without merit, and we are eager to defend ourselves. As an initial response, the law provides for a motion to dismiss procedure, which we filed yesterday to challenge [...]
Turk Barter released a video on YouTube the other day. Unfortunately I don’t speak Turkish so I don’t know what the content of this video is, but I do know that the video production quality rivals any I have seen in the industry thus far. Good job Turk Barter.
Trading volume for ITNM was unusually high last week, averaging 9,325 shares daily for Tuesday through Thursday, which was 126% over its 3-month average daily volume of 4,111 shares.
On July 14th, 2010 the International Reciprocal Trade Association (IRTA) together with IRTA-Europe submitted a two page opinion letter to the European Union Commissioner for Market and Services to effectively protect the status of barter exchanges located within the EU. The EU is considering regulations in Settlement Financial Directive 2009/44/EC that if adopted could adversely [...]
Late last year we reported on a food exchange program in Scotland by a restaurant called Cookie. The essence of the program was to trade locally grown fruits and vegetables for the finished product in the restaurant. We are pleased to report that this program has been extended indefinitely. According to Allmediascotland.com, Cookie co-owner, Domenico [...]
BizX, one of the leaders in the barter industry video testimonial effort, released another video featuring Don Asher of Golden Gate Litho, which outlines his barter experience. The quailty of the production is striking…check it out.
Don Mardak was recently featured on Venture and discussed at length the retail and corporate barter systems and how they are faring and thriving now. Check it out.
Charleston, SC, based Barter Brokers International (www.BarterBrokers.com) and Savannah, GA, based NuBarter (www.NuBarter.com) announce that they will join forces creating the largest barter marketplace in the Southeast. Barter Brokers International, a 16 year veteran in the industry with offices in Mount Pleasant, SC, has a membership base throughout North and South Carolina. NuBarter, based in [...]
The Community Forge is making their community currency software available to the public on a donate-only basis. The software, which I had the opportunity of testing this morning, is a very basic transactional system, with a very bare search and find function. Probably not a great software for a barter exchange, but for a small [...]
The NATE conference held an additional honor for Oshry as he was awarded the Distinguished Service award. Other honorees included Sharon Connelly, Exchange Enterprises (Connecticut);Maurya Lane, Barter Business Exchange (North Carolina); Rachel Taylor Hooper, Alamo Barter (Texas). “It’s quite an honor to be named president of NATE’s board of directors and to receive the Distinguished [...]
