Another barter success story from the files of Barternews…

Dean White (former owner of Whiteco Industries of Merrillville, Indiana) was #287 on the Forbes 400 Richest Americans list last year worth an estimated $1.3 billion.

He built the nation’s largest private company in the billboard business and then he sold out, in 1998, to Chancellor Media for $960 million. (Whiteco Industries had 21,800 displays in 34 states.)

Needless to say the 83-year-old founder is proud (more…)

Michael Bloomberg, the founder of Bloomberg News, a New York financial news and information provider, has been pushing his $1,225-a-month data terminal to the financial industry for almost two decades.

Today he’s fabulously successful and wealthy (reportedly worth close to $20 billion–the value of his 76% stake in the privately held Bloomberg empire), and the mayor of New York City.

Bloomberg candidly admits that it was his pro-active use of barter in his (more…)

Richard Branson, the flamboyant English showman and Europe’s best-known entrepreneur has built an empire of more than 200 companies. Billionaire Branson unquestionably harnessed a barter strategy that enabled him to launch a myriad of businesses with minimal (more…)

Back in 1983, and having been fired from seven previous jobs, Rush Limbaugh was a public relations man for the Kansas City Royals baseball team. He was admittedly scraping by on $18,000 a year…buying convenience store snacks on a credit card that was near its limit.

Only ten years later Limbaugh’s talk radio audience was the largest in (more…)

With regulatory approval now behind them, a tax-free, all-stock merger of equals (with a combined enterprise value of $11.4 billion) has taken place between Sirius and XM, thus creating a single satellite-based giant of radio (more…)

There’s more than one way to use the services of a trade exchange. How about the idea of selling your future production or services and immediately utilizing the needed services (or products) obtained!

This can be done rather easily by securing a barter line of credit through your trade exchange. Such a line of credit will be provided (with a lot less hassle and paper work than through a bank–especially in today’s environment) to a member of the exchange who has a valued (needed) product or service that the other member of the exchange desire.

Best of all–you pay back the (more…)

Here is another example of why the world’s richest man, Bill Gates, and the world’s 8th richest man, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, are so successful. They’re always thinking ahead.

A year ago Microsoft Chariman Bill Gates and Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, along with Four Seasons hotels chief executive officer, agreed to have the (more…)

Top corporate headhunters excel in attracting established major companies to risky but promising start-ups. And a decade ago, then 32-year-old David Beirne of Ramsy/Beirne Associates hit a “grand-slam” home run.

Beirne’s coup was (more…)

Here’s a story that happened a few years ago…it illustrates the point that how you look at what you have, in this case empty Navy warehouses, is creativity at its best.

A decade ago Admiral William “Bud” Flanagan was the commander of the Atlantic Fleet. As the czar of the 55-square-mile Norfolk Naval Base he oversaw an $11 billion budget, and he busily charted a course that changed the U.S. Navy…by embracing the ever-expanding use of barter.

Under the Navy’s new rules, a commander who (more…)

When an American firm sells military equipment it must provide “offsets” against the cost of the contract.

To see how barter plays a dramatic role in the real world of big business (more…)