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Our blog posts are designed to bridge the gap between your business and Latin America to help you make informed and timely business decisions. We are based on the ground right here in the region so we use our daily experience of working directly with local companies to give you up-to-date and relevant news and valuable business and cultural insights.
7 tips for Latin America-proofing your social media
A recent Made in Britain event on Twitter (it’s called Made in Britain hour and you can learn about it following them @MadeinBritainGB) prompted me to write a short blog post on ways in which you can improve your social media to make it more export-friendly. Clearly,...
British manufacturing in Uruguay: lessons for exporters
In a recent blog post, I controversially mentioned that I have a weakness for cable cleats and I must explain myself before you think I’m (way too) weird. It all started about 9 years ago when I visited Ellis Patents in Rillington (near Malton in North Yorkshire) – I...
Pure water for everyone: Lifesaver launches in Uruguay.
More often than not, we work with technical products that most of you out there hardly get to see: cable cleats, pollination bags, nutrition products for animals, cleaning products for farms, power-transmission equipment, and so on. We often work in market research,...
Why does translation cost so much?
As our readers will know, we are firm believers in the benefits of professional translations. But clients often ask why translation costs so much. So this month we've invited Paul Bondsfield and Antonios Koutsounouris from Planet Languages, a full-service translation...
What you can realistically achieve in Latin America in 2021
We don’t know when a COVID-19 vaccine will be available in each of the 20+ countries in the region, or the way in which it will be phased out. We don’t know when international business travel will be back to normal to, from or within the region. We know our economies...
Going solo: your very own market visit to Latin America
Taking part of a group trade mission to a foreign market has many benefits, such as getting to know other exporters back home, learning from each other’s experiences, and usually being able to split the bill and reduce costs. We recently wrote about organising trade...