The Vancouver fur trader's story

Business Centre's advertisements in international newspapers have resulted in many strange responses from places all over the world, including the hinterland of Brazil, Pacific islands, Zanzibar and a scientific station near the South Pole. One of the strangest involved the CEO of a large, quoted, fur trading company, who picked up his favourite newspaper in Paris, saw the advertisement on the flight to Toronto, kept it during a weekend stopover and picked up the telephone to respond to it when he finally arrived at his vacation home on Vancouver Island. By that point, the trader had lost all track of time.

The telephone in our London office was answered by one of our staff working overnight on a computer task. When the trader realised that it was 3 in the morning on a Sunday in London, he was so impressed that he signed up for Business Centre's services as his European office there and then - and that was twelve years ago !

We provide his company with its London address, accept their mail, open and sort it to their instructions, provide telephone answering and e-mail services, give them an office when they need it, talk to their fashion trade clients in English or in French, make many of their business and travel arrangements, and do their UK accounts - all for a fraction of the cost of having their own staff and premises in London.

Another example of "You run your business, We run your office".

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