by Gabriela | Mar 1, 2014 | Argentina, Chile, Doing business, Uruguay
Happy New Year! Yes, it’s March. And if you live in Uruguay (or in Argentina, Brazil or Chile, actually), you will know what I mean. The year starts in March, there’s no question about it. You don’t agree? Let me explain. December: schools finish in mid December, it’s...
by Gabriela | Feb 28, 2014 | Doing business
Florencio Sanchez (1875-1910) was a famous Uruguayan writer. One of this works was “”M’hijo el dotor”, which I find hard to translate, let’s say it’s something like “My son, the doctor”, but badly spelt. In Uruguay, we still use this phrase when we...
by Gabriela | Feb 21, 2014 | Doing business
This blog post originally appeared on the FITT (Forum for International Trade Training) Canada blog, Trade Ready – International Trade Matters. After 13 years in the UK, coming back to live and work in my native Uruguay has meant re-adjusting to business culture...
by Gabriela | Feb 14, 2014 | Trade Shows
2014 is kind of just starting here in South America. I mean, it’s summer, you know, kids are just going back to school (10th March here in Uruguay, and counting) and we kind of have to all pull it off in March. I work with British companies, so I don’t have that...
by Gabriela | Feb 12, 2014 | Doing business
Travelling around South America on business, I started noticing some changes to a premium British food export. Suddenly, it was hard to find some of the products in stock (British friends rang the alarm bells, I tell you!) and, shock horror, when stocked, the...
