by Gabriela | Sep 28, 2011 | Doing business
Recently, following Kind und Jugend in Cologne, we asked the question “can the British nursery sector make it in Latin America?”. Here we consider the main obstacles faced by this industry and how to overcome them. The perception that British is expensive: this...
by Gabriela | Sep 23, 2011 | Doing business
Learning a foreign language has been going out of fashion in British schools, lately. What does this mean for our export potential? Tim Hiscock, aka The Accidental Exporter, answers this question for the Sunny Sky Solutions blog. “I’ve never been any good at...
by Gabriela | Sep 19, 2011 | Trade Shows
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of travelling to Cologne (Germany) for the Kind und Jugend trade show. This is probably the largest trade show for the nursery/early years sector in the world, with 850 exhibitors from Europe and beyond. Some British businesses in the...
by Gabriela | Sep 4, 2011 | Doing business
Can British businesses win over Latin American consumers with products that are cheap, cheerful and plentiful? We all doubt it, mainly because: – The margins would be too low to make the effort worthwhile – no business will have an incentive to...