by Gabriela | Jun 23, 2011 | Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Doing business, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay
The Copa América, the football tournament that brings together all South American national teams, starts on 1st July in Argentina. Ten South American nations will be represented as well as Mexico and Costa Rica (Japan had to pull out). We have chosen just one...
by Gabriela | Jun 8, 2011 | Doing business
Is there a market for British luxury consumer goods in Latin America? We have recently been approached by two very different British manufacturers of luxury consumer goods wondering if there is a market for their high-end products in Latin America. Clearly, the answer...
by Gabriela | May 8, 2011 | Colombia, Doing business
Tony Cleaver (Senior Teaching Fellow in Economics/Finance & Chair of the Undergraduate Board of Examiners at Durham University) will soon be relocating back to Colombia. Here he shares his views about life and work in Colombia with Gabriela at Sunny Sky Solutions....
by Gabriela | Apr 6, 2011 | Doing business
Spain and South American countries have been trade partners since South American countries gained their independence in the early 1800s. Cultural and emotional links between “La Madre Patria” (Spain) and the former colonies are strong. In the same way that Americans...
by Gabriela | Apr 3, 2011 | Doing business
In “How To Sell” (Hamlyn, 2004), Robert Ashton devotes a section to “selling overseas”: “The greatest barrier that you will have to overcome is language. English is widely spoken as a second language, so communication is usually possible […] but you need to...
by Gabriela | Apr 1, 2011 | Doing business
I find that people often think that travelling say between Bogotá and Montevideo, or Caracas and Santiago de Chile is fairly straightforward. Must be. They are all in the same continent, they all speak the same language. OK, there’s the Amazon in the middle to...
