User:Agucac

Augustin Tomas Caceres, 6'5" - Florida, USA

Agustin is 6'5 about as well-traveled as it gets, which is not easy when you are that tall, anyhow he’s the perfect guy to help businesses realize their international aspirations.

“I love selling worldwide,” says Agustin Caceres of Le Group Industries, a company that assists manufacturers with expanding their businesses beyond their national borders. Le Group Industries, www.legroupindustries.com which was established in Miami by Caceres, provides marketing, certification, accounting, and import/export and international finance services to companies producing everything from sugar to bikinis. "We do anything related to international business, besides producing,” Caceres says. It’s a job he’s exceptionally well-qualified for. The Argentinean-born business man was raised in Brazil, and got his business education in both countries as well as in Germany. Since then, he’s managed to see the better part of the world, traveling throughout the US and South America as well as to China and even more exotic locales. “I speak English, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese,” Caceres admits. “And a little French and German, too.”

Caceres has always been fascinated by the world of international business, working in it in various capacities for years until starting Le Group Industries. Caceres quickly formed partnerships with manufacturers in Brazil and in Argentina who were eager to break into new markets in the US and further afield, but didn’t have the expertise they needed to negotiate the tricky waters of import/export laws and finance. But he won’t work with just anyone.

“All our supplies are selected based on their honesty, human rights policies, and cost-effective structure,” Caceres says. And when he says “human rights”, he doesn’t just mean the way the factories treat their laborers – though that’s definitely part of the picture. It’s also about the products themselves. Caceres believes that the end consumer has a “right” to high-quality goods, and puts his business practice where his mouth is.

Currently, Le Group Industries markets soybeans, soybean meal, rice, evaporated milk, and sugar. You’d think with all that traveling, the last thing Caceres would want to do in his free time is hit the road – but you’d be wrong. The entrepreneur is an incorrigible tourist, and loves documenting his journeys by camera. Those of us stuck at home can enjoy the fun vicariously through his postings on the travel website Territorios.com.br.

About his height he is very happy about that. He just doesn't like much to be a minority since the world is built for shorter guys but he loves it to be tall and it helps in his business, specially in trade shows and events because you call more attraction, you are easily seen, and remembered. One thing he is always careful too and he recommends every tall guy to do is be conscious about what to wear. We are too tall, we cannot wear anything we want. We can look like a curtain or we our shoes can look like boats if we chose the wrong textures. Low profile is always recommended if you are too tall.

At the end of the day, he’s happy to be tall and to be doing business through the offices in Miami and Port Everglades Free Trade Zone. “This city is a tremendous window to the world,” he says. And he’d know.