LOIRE SWANS France

"If we share an apple, we both eat a part of the apple. If we share an idea, we both have the complete idea": Christian SIGUIE as LOIRE SWANS' head has quickly put theory into practice. Together with his company he has explored and developed various fields, including training exporters and managers to the technical and cultural specificities of international business, based on 25 years of uninterrupted practice. Christian SIGUIE speaks English and German fluently. He has good knowledge of Spanish, Japanese and Mandarin Chinese languages. During 3 years devoted to the export of delicatessen products aimed at the german market he sets up a coherent distribution network and installs a liaison office south from Saarbrucken, Germany. He thus doubled its exports within 3 years. In 1988 he joins the Chamber of Commerce of Nantes, France, to advise regional companies, to teach and train future export managers. There he develops a European module meant to encourage Smaller and Medium Companies toward new ways for international co-operation. He followed up more than 120 export projects for its regional CPCI Training Center. From 1998 to 2000, he intervenes as a free lance consultant councelling and supporting export operations of regional companies. Specializing on asiatic markets he co-organized "Nantes Fair" exhibition, which welcame no less than 25, 000 visitors in the town of NIIGATA, Japan. He created his own company in october 2000, named after the river that crosses and symbolizes his home region. LOIRE SWANS is quickly bound to the japanese company mondel international MDI as well as to several public and private partners spread over eastern Asia and South-Eastern Europe. Together with a company specialized in seeds and tropical gardens he has also developed a new environmental sector around the use of surface water for agricultural purposes in dry to arid climates. During 1st term of 2006 LOIRE SWANS joins Multi-Planning company, to distribute in a multilevel B-to-B network safe mobile offices. It thus enables even smallest internet-linked companies to access their corporate data anywhere and anytime. This formula encountered success mostly among doctors and employees of the Health sector, enabled to permanently exchange patients' data at the speed of Internet. Last but not least Christian SIGUIE joined 3 support missions for the economic redevelopment of Kosovo, from where he launched in 2003 the "I. E. P. " International Exhibition for Peace. In cooperation with the local national "GAK" Gallery of Art of Pristina and his artist friend from Tokyo: Emiko Horimoto. He is now striving to establish favourable conditions for permanent exchanges between France and this quickly developing part of Europe, at the heart of Balkans.