by Gabriela | Sep 23, 2011 | Doing business
Learning a foreign language has been going out of fashion in British schools, lately. What does this mean for our export potential? Tim Hiscock, aka The Accidental Exporter, answers this question for the Sunny Sky Solutions blog. “I’ve never been any good at...
by Gabriela | Sep 19, 2011 | Trade Shows
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of travelling to Cologne (Germany) for the Kind und Jugend trade show. This is probably the largest trade show for the nursery/early years sector in the world, with 850 exhibitors from Europe and beyond. Some British businesses in the...
by Gabriela | Sep 4, 2011 | Doing business
Can British businesses win over Latin American consumers with products that are cheap, cheerful and plentiful? We all doubt it, mainly because: – The margins would be too low to make the effort worthwhile – no business will have an incentive to...
by Gabriela | Aug 23, 2011 | Doing business
When UK businesses start thinking about expanding into South America, one of the first things they realise is the vastness and diversity of the continent. South America has 13 countries (including Guyana, Suriname and French Guyana), each with its own legal system,...
by Gabriela | Aug 13, 2011 | Doing business, Uruguay
Following from our recent popular blogpost on “ten things I do every week in Britain that I wouldn’t have done in Uruguay”, here comes the most unexpected version… the things that remain the same, here, there (and everywhere?) 1- Hearing people complain...
