The first economic opportunity in any emerging country is in the field of International Trade. Forbes Group has a long history of facilitating confidential trading opportunities between its client countries.

An early division of Forbes Group, operated through Rio de la Plata Casa Bancaria SA in Uruguay, specialized in commodities trading and mining in South America. Another division traded in the Far East. Currently all Forbes Group International Trade is managed from the headquarters office in the USA, with assistance from the Sao Paulo and Moscow team of International Trade Specialists.

The Company is currently negotiating the purchase of a gold mine in Brazil.

This new division of Forbes Group has been created to develop and manage real estate opportunities in the US, Russia and West Africa.

In 1969, the Company's founder, Lucien Edward Forbes, began trading lumber and silver from Hong Kong up the Yellow River into China. Fluent in ten languages, the founder continued trading around the world as his fishing businesses evolved. Global trade has taken the company from Asia to the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.

From 1970 to 1977, the Company partnered with Fincorp A.G., Zurich, Switzerland as financial and technical consultants. Projects included:

In 1977, Forbes House projects were centered in the Rio de La Plata Casa Bancaria SA, (Montevideo, Uruguay). Client companies included Reflex Ltd. which provided construction and construction systems for LDC's (Paraguay, Ghana and Brazil); and Freehold SA (Panama and Brazil) which included gemstone mining, cutting and export, and in Argentina, a fisheries development and export project.