Personal and company history

Grey & Green start-up

Nov 10, 1979

Martin Grey and his cousin John Green set up their international trade company.

Personal and company history

Period: Nov 10, 1979 to Nov 10, 2013

Grey & Green moved its offices.

Aug 18, 1985

The company decided to move its offices to a business area where they paid less taxes.

The company started to expand rapidly.

Nov 21, 1990

The company started doing excellent business. They hired more than 50 people in this year.

Trade with African and Asian countries began.

Oct 10, 1995

The company made deals with companies under a special incentive programme for international trade in Africa and Asia.

The company hired me.

Dec 1, 2000

I started working for the company as a junior manager.

New ideas changed the company culture

Jul 30, 2002

More innovative ideas helped the company to grow and to change its past old-fashioned working system.

I became general manager for the African region.

Dec 5, 2007

I had very good connections with companies located in Africa, so the company decided to promote me to the position of general manager for this region.

The company merged with Global Trade Inc.

Aug 12, 2012

The two companies decided to merge in order to improve their profits and beat their competitors.