by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | Oct 29, 2021 | Argentina, Doing business, General, Uruguay
We make you feel at home: former Argentinean first lady Juliana Awada welcoming the Chinese first lady to a G20 reception in Buenos Aires in 2018 in her very relaxed style (source: Alamy). Both Awada and husband Mauricio Macri are also renowned business people. Most...
by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | Sep 30, 2021 | Doing business
Inflation, Covid, container shortages, Brexit, raw material price hikes… For some very complex and intricate reasons, UK manufacturers (and some further afield) are being forced to increase prices more often than usual. Latin Americans are very used to price increases...
by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | Jul 22, 2021 | Agrifood, cannabis, forestry, Argentina, Doing business, General, Manufacturing, Mercosur
We often encourage clients and those attending our training and capacity building sessions to look at Latin America laterally. One of the ways of doing this, is to focus on regions rather than countries. This is particularly the case for big and high complex markets...
by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | Jun 4, 2021 | Doing business, General
Today we welcome Simon Dexter from GWCI to discuss due diligence and exports, with a focus on our region. Latin America is a hotspot for investment and opportunities to trade. Companies wishing to export to Latin America must do so with caution, as they may come...
by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | Jun 3, 2021 | Doing business, General
One thing that often perplexes business people from outside Latin America, particularly from countries like the UK, Ireland, or New Zealand, to name a few, is how disruptive elections often are across Latin America. Why are elections such a big deal in Latin America...
by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | May 19, 2021 | Doing business, General
A British client recently complained that it’s becoming increasingly more difficult to spot and recruit good distributors across Latin America, definitely a lot harder than a few years ago. “The best ones are taken”, he said, “they are already working with competitor...
