Barter Seemed Like a Concept

Barter seemed like a concept from another era and instead, thanks to the crisis, it has come back into fashion to stimulate an entrepreneurial fabric in difficulty. An example of how the crisis is bringing out new ideas but also reactivates and renews dated ideas. We talked about Corporate Barter last year, reporting it as a curiosity: today it is becoming a method, if not exactly widespread, at least experimented in some realities, a phenomenon to be known and understood better. We are talking about a commercial practice between companies for the multilateral exchange of goods or services in compensation to facilitate local economic circuits and encourage the exchange of goods between local companies. A practice therefore where the ability to create and manage relational networks is fundamental. Exchange operations between companies within a barter circuit have the advantage of being able to purchase raw materials, semi-finished products, finished products, services even in the absence of liquidity, paying for what has been purchased through products and services that are part of the core buyer's business. In a period where liquidity is lacking, banks are unwilling to grant credit and the quantity of unsold goods is growing, the barter can represent an opportunity: it allows you to purchase goods and services without using liquid resources but by selling your own goods and services even at a later time, a real deferred payment with the difference that, compared to other means of financing, it is free. A financial leverage that allows both to increase the company's investment capacity, avoiding the use of debt, and to face periods of stagnation in demand, opening up new market prospects