In 39 years of doing international business, with one exception I have stayed away from the Middle East during summer and during Ramadan. So it was with some concern that I went to Dubai the first week of August 2011. Temperatures were well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit and humidity was not far behind. During Ramadan [...] Read more »
China Business – Summer 2011
In mid June 2011 I returned to China for the fifth time in a year. Over the past year our company has finalized several license agreements for US companies in China in the food and service sectors. Now we are seeking licensees for additional US food brands, another service brand and a retail brand in China. [...] Read more »
Where is EGS active globally in mid 2011?
EGS works exclusively for US companies taking them global through licensing. Our US Clients are in the education, food, retail and service sectors. EGS publishes a quarterly country ranking tool, GlobalVue™, which can be downloaded at the following link: http://www.edwardsglobal.com/GlobalVue_EGS.pdf Because we are very active in many countries seeking investors and licensees for our Clients, we [...] Read more »
2010 World Population Data Sheet
There are some very important population trends global business people should be aware of an should take into account when making plans to enter a country. The Population Reference Bureau (www.prb.org) has just released their World Population Data Sheet, which is actually a detailed report on population trends. Here are some trends to be aware [...] Read more »
China Today – July 2010
Many things have changed dramatically over the past 28 years since I first went to China. Some things about China will never change. This report highlights some of what China is today that is important for Westerners to know whether they are closely involved with China or just live in a world that has China [...] Read more »
Year Or Decade Of The Asian Tiger?
2010 is the year of the Tiger in Asia. It also may be Asia’s decade. This is true in many ways. Asia is leading the world out of recession, as the figures below show. A ‘1’ ranking is best. Countries with strong GDP growth will have businesses growing and adding jobs. A recent article in the [...] Read more »
Marketing to the Chinese and India Middle Class Consumer
A recent Business Week article suggested that it is time to focus more on the Indian middle class than on the Chinese middle class consumer. India has about 300 million in the middle class today versus 200-300 million middle class Chinese, depending on your information source. Business Week postures that India’s middle class will be [...] Read more »
The Coming Shift In Global Oil Usage
The International Energy Agency* projects that the global demand for oil will rise 23% from 85 million barrels a day in 2008 to about 106 million barrels a day in 2030. Oil demand by developing countries is projected to rise 62% to about 56 million barrels a day by 2030. In the developed world, however, [...] Read more »
Half The World Is Middle Class????
The February 14, 2009 edition of ‘The Economist’ magazine had a special section on the world’s middle class. If one defines the Middle Class as people with one third of their income left for discretionary spending after providing for basic food and shelter, new research -defined in detail in ‘The Economist’ – indicates that as [...] Read more »
Stirrings From China
China started applying its economic stimulus last November while the US was thinking about when the US Congress might act. And now we are starting to see articles in international publications such as ‘The Economist’, ‘Financial Times’ and the ‘Wall Street Journal’ that there is evidence the China stimulus is working on internal consumer and [...] Read more »
