by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | May 19, 2021 | Doing business, General
Many years ago, I met Richard Garfield at a lovely coffee shop in Montevideo called Amaretto (it no longer exists but the memory of its dulce de leche milkshake lingers on). Richard is probably the most experienced British consultant specialising in Latin America that...
by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | Mar 31, 2021 | Doing business, General
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,...
by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | Mar 22, 2021 | Doing business, Energy, mining & infrastructure, General, Manufacturing, Mercosur, Uruguay
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...
by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | Mar 22, 2021 | Doing business, General, Mercosur, 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,...
by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | Feb 7, 2021 | Doing business, General
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...
by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | Dec 8, 2020 | Doing business
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...
