Benteler International Trading

About us

Benteler Trading International AG (BTI) is a leading Inventory ownership company. We buy, hold and sell inventory, offering inbound and outbound solutions to large global corporates. Our solutions delay asset recognition and payment until companies need goods, improving cash flow, profitability, supply chain resilience and balance sheet efficiency. We have purchased over $5bn of inventory in the last few years and pride ourselves on operating Just-in-Time inventory systems that help businesses build safety stocks and ensure manufacturing continuity. We are part of the Benteler Group family, with over 150 years of trading, manufacturing and supply chain experience. Our network of suppliers, manufacturers and buyers provides us with a deep understanding of supply chains and how they operate, meaning we can structure solutions that provide more value to our clients.

Facts & Figures
150
years’ Group experience
$5bn+
inventory purchased
26
countries served

Inventory trading

BTI provides solutions throughout the supply chain from inbound raw materials and work-in progress through to finished goods. All our solutions are tailor made to the needs of a company’s specific supply chain and comfort can be gained from our long-standing history and the volumes of inventory purchased in the last few years alone. BTI’s objective is to cause as little disruption to the existing flow of goods, relationships and contracts as possible, whilst still demonstrating that we own the goods. Our structures have been signed off by Big-4 accounting firms under IFRS, US GAAP and local GAAPs and are scalable for large volumes covering multiple suppliers.

Trade infrastructure solution

Capital expenditures on tools and machines negatively impact free cash flow and result in a build-up of fixed assets on balance sheet which are not generating returns until they are operational. BTI can capitalise this cost on a third-party balance sheet and can either sell the finished asset to the client just before production, or can continue to own the asset throughout production, with the client operating the asset on BTI’s behalf.