🚀 SOMETHING BIG IS COMING TO FUEL THE HUSTLE!

Date: July 4, 2025 Status: Confidential Location: Behind the scenes at HW&CO HQ

The HW&CO Hustle Podcast is setting sail with game-changing conversations at the intersection of global trade, supply chain strategy, business policy, and hustle.

🔥 Don’t miss our Saturday Signal on July 26! We’re about to drop sharp insights, frontline strategy, and raw conversations from the voices shaping the industry.

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HW&Co = Solve + Save

We are a strategic management consulting firm specializing in supply chain consulting, operations rationalization, and strategic business planning and training, with a commitment to excellence and innovation, we strive to help organizations achieve operational efficiency, velocity, cost reductions and sustainable growth.

HW&Co leverages evolving technology, Ai, (IoT), Lean Six Sigma methodologies, Total Quality Management principles, and industry expertise. We facilitate with a practical holistic approach geared toward an excellent client experience.

SOLVE & SAVE

Portfolio Solutions

Supply Chain Consulting

Digital Transformation, Conversion & Integration • End to End - Network Planning, Design & Resiliency • Multi-Mode Rate and Contract Optimization • Carrier Selection, Analysis & Performance

Operations Optimization & Rationalization

Advanced Analytics and Predictive Modeling • Business Process Improvement (Sales to Order Execution) • Customer Service Execution and SLA Performance • Sales & Operations Planning (SO&P)

Strategic Business Planning & Education

Business Strategy & Implementation • Competitive Analysis, Positioning, Marketing & Branding • Change Management & Transformation • Supply Chain Development & Training

The Unsettled Terrain of Global Trade

The World Trade Organization’s latest report is a wake-up call. Between October 2024 and May 2025, new trade restrictions surged to a record $2.73 trillion in coverage—up 36% from the previous year. Nearly 1 in 5 goods traded globally is now impacted by some form of trade barrier.

This isn’t just about policy—it’s about ego-fueled decisions and reactive politics. When trade becomes a tool for posturing rather than progress, the result is growing uncertainty, supply chain disruption, and economic drag.

The WTO warns that further escalation—especially from the U.S.—could shrink global trade by 1.5% this year alone.

What’s needed isn’t more bravado but measured leadership, collaboration, and reform. Global trade can’t afford to be a casualty of short-term thinking.

📌 Andre C. Winters is the Founder and Principal of HudsonWinters & Co., focused on resilient logistics, policy insight, and economic equity.

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+1.507.782.0155

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hudsonwintersco@gmail.com

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St. Paul, MN 55124

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