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Experience

Business French: language teaching portfolio (1995-2017) and levels

My portfolio of clients for French for Business to local businesses in Nottingham, Leicestershire and Derbyshire are:
* Beginner to Intermediate level:

Norbert-Dentresangle (HQ in Lyon – France): Business skills in supply chain management to a Transport & Logistic Managing Director and his strategic team for UK, Ireland & the rest of Europe
Laiteries H. Triballat: Operational French to UK representative including supply & quality control, strategic meetings, trade exhibition & product development.
UK Trade and Investment-East Midlands: “French language taster” to creative industry owners, prior to show and sell their work at an international trade exhibition in Paris.
URGO ltd: part of the French group URGO, contact with colleagues, regular presentation of activity & strategy.
Golder Associates, Capital One, Boots, Imperial Tobacco, Luxfer, St Gobain Ilkeston Branch, AstraZeneca, Royal Bank of Scotland.
* Beginners to intermediate, including “everyday situations” (shopping, hotel, restaurant, direction, transport, doctor, weather, etc), Business presentation, telephone conversation, sales meeting, cultural, geographical, economical & historical contexts, French Internet & emailing, etc.

British Geological Survey, Keyworth & Golder Associates: Advanced “everyday situations” French adapted to African countries, including bargaining, travelling & living in the desert and especially watching for landmines.

RayAl Ltd: Beginner to advanced level to M.D. and service technician of Company wanting to develop a market of their service, products and equipment in France, in the food hygiene monitoring sector.
Medical French: prepared a junior Doctor going to live & work in Madagascar. Including medical vocabulary related to tropical illnesses and introduction to local main dialect.
Preparing a dentist to work in Paris

* Advanced level up to Business Executive level
Eagle Scientific Ltd: Advanced level to marketing Director offering laboratories & training to the Algerian government. Including submissions to tender, negotiations’ skills, crisis solving.

Enterprise Rent-A-Car Ltd: Intermediate to advanced level to CEO prior to enter into French market, including strategic plan, employment laws, cultural differences and motivational relation with staff.

Grey-Blue Ltd: Intermediate to advance level to M.D. prior to a marketing campaign for new clients in France. Including French marketing plan, recruitment, financing, selling, negotiating, website design and W2 strategy.
Ecendex Ltd: Intermediate to advance level to M.D. to develop a marketing strategy in France.
Experian: prepared individual employees to FDA exam (from the Chamber of Commerce of Paris) & entry exam to MBA Fontainebleau Business School (ENSIAD).

HM Inspector of Railways: prepared an executive to work at the E.U. Commission.
Ministry of Finance: prepared (via Learn Direct on-line learning) a sub-contracted employee to have negotiating meetings at the French Ministry of Finance (Bercy office – Paris)

Antalis: advanced level to Marketing & Purchasing Director, including marketing strategy, negotiating, case studies, linguistic themes about the economy, politics, policies, pricing, change management, relocation, benchmarking, governments, environment, European enlargement, etc
JetPress Ltd: advanced French for selling & marketing in France. Including market research, selling & negotiating on a win-win outcome, pricing methodology adapted to France and handling complaints.
Eversheds Nottingham: advanced French to International lawyer working in Paris’ office.

* Start ups in France: advanced level, including Market research, Business Plan, Business statutes, recruiting, legislation, salesmanship, as well as:
- Making contacts with Banks, local Chamber of Commerce, Regional Economic Developments Agencies, commercial estate agents, etc
- Guiding research through specialised magazines, internet searches & study books.
1 client has started an Estate Agency in Centre-West of France.
1 client bought a large property for conversion to a Gîte with holiday activities.
1 client bought & runs a Hotel in the South of France.
1 couple bought a dilapidated farm and are now running it ecologically with accredited organic standard.

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“Language skills mean business”