by Gabriela | Oct 29, 2014 | Doing business
Jobs fascinate me. Why people do what they do, why and how they get paid, the choices they make. When you’re entering a new market, or developing your sales in it, you don’t need a PhD in labour economics, but paying attention to how things actually work in the labour...
by Gabriela | Oct 27, 2014 | Doing business, Uruguay
Current Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has won the presidential elections in Brazil by a very close margin (3%, which is roughly the population of the whole of Uruguay, to put things into perspective). So what does this mean to you? Practically speaking, British...
by Gabriela | Sep 14, 2014 | Doing business
It’s a tricky and sensitive subject. As a Uruguayan who lived in Edinburgh four fantastic years with her English husband, the referendum is close to my heart. Whatever happens next week, these are just some thoughts for Scottish exporters on doing business with Latin...
by Gabriela | Sep 8, 2014 | Doing business, Manufacturing
Food service is growing in Latin America and Asia more than anywhere else in the world. That was the first message of the Euromonitor International presentation I attended in Santiago de Chile as part of my visit to trade show Espacio Food & Service last week. In...
by Gabriela | Aug 11, 2014 | Doing business, Mercosur, Uruguay
Shopping in Montevideo It’s no secret that I’m rather fond of “retail research” or, as most people call it, shopping. And whenever I travel around South America, those of you who follow me on twitter (as well as our newsletter and blog readers) can have a glimpse for...
by Gabriela | Aug 6, 2014 | Doing business, Uruguay
Every export market is different. And when you return to your home country after 13 years abroad, you seem to develop a knack for spotting the singularities of a new (old) market. Take Uruguay, for example, and think just about the way in which people pay for what...
