by Gabriela | Dec 30, 2016 | Doing business
Are thinking about targeting Latin America in 2017? Maybe looking at markets beyond the EU after Brexit? Here’s a quick checklist to get you thinking… In strategic terms, what you need to think for Latin America is similar to what you have to think for other markets,...
by Gabriela | Dec 8, 2016 | Doing business
(and what it means if you’re doing business with Latin America) The news story about a birthday party invitation for a 15th year-old girl called Rubi going viral in Mexico (thanks @katywatson @adowniebrazil for sharing) made me laugh today. You have to love Latin...
by Gabriela | Dec 1, 2016 | Doing business, Uruguay
#LaBajada is proving again a powerful hashtag on Twitter here in Uruguay. This article is all about explaining what it means – and why it should matter to you as a UK exporter. We need some context first. In South America, particularly in the Southern Cone (I can...
by Gabriela | Nov 27, 2016 | Doing business
I find myself in the following situations very frequently here in Latin America: – I arrange a face-to-face meeting with a manager to discuss some critical (very critical) issues. He knows it’s important. The conversation starts, he jumps from one thing...
by Gabriela | Nov 1, 2016 | Doing business, General
“Free-trade zone, also called foreign-trade zone, formerly free port, an area within which goods may be landed, handled, manufactured or reconfigured, and reexported without the intervention of the customs authorities. Only when the goods are moved to consumers within...
by Gabriela | Oct 26, 2016 | Doing business
This month we welcome Cecilia Lipovsek from MCL Interpreting to our blog. We met Cecilia recently in London (over some delicious Greek food this time, not Chinese as with Neil…) and I was personally humbled by the host of skills that interpreters need to deploy every...
