In the second article of the series featuring successful U.S. companies that have been in a close connection with translating companies in order to gain advantage over their competitors on the world markets three other companies will be discussed. Established in the late 1970s, Portal Air grew rapidly and is now one of the largest U.S. companies to provide freight and cargo services to customers throughout the world. Based in Philadelphia, its senior management realized from the beginning that no business would be successful unless a translating help is provided in the contacts with customers from various countries, so they decided to hire the Philadelphia Translator to provide them with an expert assistance. As the company is constantly striving to diversify the range of services it offers, it now flies express cargo routes for many courier companies. Keeping an airline flying and the airport open in any weather is a hard task, so Portal Air has the capacity that allows it to excel at keeping its commitments to clients. Some of the values the company shares are trust, teamwork, safety of work, quality of services, fair treatment to employees and customer satisfaction.
With its headquarters in Saint Louis and retail stores in cities all over the world, Steel Hardware, Inc. is the second company featured in this article. In order to maintain the high quality service it offers, the company uses the services of the Saint Louis Translator that assist them in their business with the international customers. The local business persons that run every Steel Hardware store are passionate and hard-working and quite often get involved in events organized by the local community. Offering a wide range of hardware products, the Steel Hardware stores around the globe come in all sizes and shapes as they can be small urban stores, large rural stores and everything in between. The company was founded in 1944 by a small group of Saint Louis hardware store owners, and it enabled individual stores to buy goods in bulk to at low prices. By doing so, even the smaller stores could provide effective competition to the large stores in their area. For more than half a century customers have been able to find at Steel Hardware advice and products that would help them complete their projects as well as dependable service. At any Steel Hardware store, each private label product bears the stamp with a quality guarantee, which certifies that it can even be of better quality of the leading national brands if not as good as them.
One of the largest direct selling telephone communications companies in the world, BM-COM is the third company that is going to be presented in this article. The services that the company offers to its customers are always on demand. These are home security, satellite TV, long distance calls and DSL and wireless internet. Another service offered by the company is the video phone service which allows customers to have a face-to-face talk without leaving their office or home. The company was established in Brookfield in 1969, but in 1977 it moved to Milwaukee in order to be able the national and international markets. Harry Procter, Stan Dobson and Greg Stevenson, who were the co-founders of the company, realized that only by working in close cooperation with the Milwaukee Translation Services would they succeed on an international scale. Aiding victims of sexual harassment, restricting domestic violence, child wellbeing and abuse rehabilitation are only some of the good causes supported by organizations that have received money by BM-COM as part of their policy to give money to charity, which is what the company is also associated with apart from operating in countries around the globe.