by Gabriela | Jan 13, 2015 | General
Greetings from a very grey Suffolk! That wasn’t what regular readers of this blog were expecting, surely, but here we are. In the last of three weeks of my UK visit. Lots of déjà vu moments, as you can imagine, and lots of tiny details you notice only once you’ve been...
by Gabriela | Nov 21, 2014 | Chile, Doing business
Santiago de Chile is a city I always look forward to travelling to on business. Crossing the Andes is the highlight of my two-and-a-half hour flight from Montevideo, but there’s so much to look forward to when I arrive in Chile’s capital. So what is it...
by Gabriela | Nov 4, 2014 | Manufacturing, Uruguay
Tienda Inglesa (which actually means “English store”) is a well-known supermarket in Uruguay, and one of the things it’s well-known for are its country events: we had the German event recently and now it’s time for the Brits. But before we go any further, you...
by Gabriela | Nov 3, 2014 | Energy, mining & infrastructure, Uruguay
Last week I had the pleasure of having a good chat with former schoolmate of mine and now lawyer Pablo Diaz here in Montevideo. He introduced me to Gonzalo Irrazabal, a fellow practice member who specialises in renewable energy. Gonzalo has participated in the set up...
by Gabriela | Oct 29, 2014 | Doing business
Jobs fascinate me. Why people do what they do, why and how they get paid, the choices they make. When you’re entering a new market, or developing your sales in it, you don’t need a PhD in labour economics, but paying attention to how things actually work in the labour...