Trent Limited expands from India into Spain in 10 days

The challenge: hiring in Spain from India without a local entity

Trent, one of India's leading retail companies, identified a strategic opportunity to build a design team in Spain while operating from India. But compliance, payroll, and employment law quickly turned into a real headache.

Without an entity in Spain, Trent couldn't directly hire or run payroll locally. Coordinating a patchwork of external legal advisors, HR partners, and payroll vendors across borders added friction where speed mattered most.

On top of that, Trent was also managing a growing global contractor workforce, piling on more complexity around payments and compliance visibility.

The business needed a way to bypass entity setup and hire in Spain, while bringing contractor and employee management under one roof.

The solution: one global employment platform for all workforce needs

After 10 months without a scalable path forward, Trent turned to G-P’s Global Employment Platform. Our platform gave Trent a unified solution to hire, pay, and manage both employees and contractors across borders.

G-P's employer of record (EOR) solution — one of three products that make up our Global Employment Platform — was Trent’s entry point. With G-P EOR, Trent was able to hire employees in Spain without setting up a local entity or engaging external legal counsel.

G-P acted as the legal employer, managing compliant contracts, payroll, benefits, and labor law obligations on Trent's behalf. Months of stalling was resolved in 10 days.

At the same time, Trent used G-P Contractor to manage their growing contingent workforce. For the first time, cross-border payments, onboarding, and compliance requirements were unified on a single platform, replacing separate tools and disjointed processes.

“The biggest benefit with G-P is having all reports and inputs in one single place, whether it's managing variable pay or contracts,” said Ishan Pandya, New Business and Strategy Manager at Trent. “Another advantage is their extremely fast onboarding process.”

The impact: faster hiring, lower costs, and easier expansion

Trent can now enter new markets and operate globally without the complexity that once slowed them down.

• Hiring speed increased 5x. New-market hires are now completed in under two weeks.

• The company saved an estimated USD 75,000 in entity setup and external legal costs during the expansion into Spain.

• Team productivity increased by 40%, driven by more streamlined global hiring and onboarding processes.

Today, Trent has a single system for all global employment needs, and a repeatable model for every market that comes next.