One of the biggest mistakes you want to avoid when setting up a business overseas is not first studying the market.
They're counting on gains in wealth and political stability to fuel expansion.
(TheDay.com) — Five years of fair trade on Bank Street. That, says Marcie Boyer, is an achievement she and partner David Lewis hardly could envision when they started out with an idea, a display tent and some fair-trade goods to sell at fairs and festivals. But over the years, they’ve persevered, moved twice along Bank […]
(Washington Informer) — Black Americans perceive the occupational roles and personality characteristics portrayed on American media about Africa as real or true to life. Operating under gross delusions, Black Americans think of themselves as “the world’s richest Blacks.” But, if African Americans took at look at Black Africans they’d see who’s moving ahead in building […]
(Chicago Defender) — Now that the mid-term elections are over and the politics of exaggeration appear to be catching less national attention, it is past time to focus on the economic condition and plight of 50 million African Americans. The devastating economic disaster of the Bush years has a lingering negative economic effect on everyone in […]
(AJC) — Mayor Kasim Reed travels to Amsterdam on Tuesday to try to lure more air cargo business to Atlanta. But he’ll be doing so amid new security questions after bombs were found last week on air cargo planes in England and Dubai. The bombs were destined for the United States. The Transportation Security Administration […]
(Inc) — Get an Early Start. “The first rule of thumb is to start thinking globally early,” says Allen Adamson, managing director of the marketing firm Landor and author of BrandSimple. The sooner you begin to do business abroad, the sooner you’ll be able to track metrics and gauge what is—and what is not—effective. Read More…
(Wall Street Journal) –An Australian hedge-fund manager filed a lawsuit seeking more than $1 billion in damages from Goldman Sachs Group Inc., accusing the Wall Street firm of fraudulently selling a “now notorious” financial instrument called Timberwolf. The collateralized debt obligation collapsed when housing prices tumbled in 2007, resulting in steep losses to the $78 million invested […]