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“Ongoing political uncertainty, exports slump, rising household debt and a lack of reform momentum are now increasingly seen as likely to undermine Thailand’s economic growth. Thailand’s sluggish economic recovery and the depression in the global economy have prompted the Bank of Thailand to cut its GDP growth forecast for the full year to slightly below 3% “In the second quarter of ...

Geo Strategy Partners Managing Director, Mark Towery greets new Director of the Thai Trade Center for the Southeast US. Mr. Towery serves as the Honorary Trade Representative for Thailand for the region.

In the premiere episode of Geo Strategy Partner’s new video series, B2B LeaderBoard, we hear from the Director of Marketing at WinCup, a U.S. manufacturing company, on the importance of understanding the needs of the customer and the end user, as well as differentiating through customer intimacy. Please enjoy and check back to our blog for episode 2, coming soon!

To all of our Geo Strategy Partners and clients in the Caribbean and Latin America, Happy Carnival! Credit: CurWiz Credit: Dioses Ancestrales by Hugo Moncayo

  Not the traffic analysis indicating the canal is unnecessary? Not the financial analysis indicating it won’t pay for itself for decades? Not the environmental and societal impact reports which the company purports to have done but will not make public? Not the outrage of the Nicaraguan people whose homes and lives will be perversely disrupted by the canal? Why ...

Nestlé recently announced the opening of a dairy farming institute in Shuangchen (Heilongjiang Province) China1.  At a value of $31 million, the institute will be one of Nestlé’s largest dairy investments in China.  Nestlé’s stated intention was to modernize dairy farming practices in China and encourage the responsible production of safe, quality-assured dairy products.   The company, pointing to growing demand ...

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Study results recently released by the National Bureau of Economic Research indicate the source of an innovative idea matters.  Authors of The Acquisition and Commercialization of Invention in American Manufacturing: Incidence & Impact① indicate that “of the 18% of the manufacturing firms that innovated (i.e. had introduced a product that was new to the market) between 2007 and 2009, 49% ...

Does a focus on product improvement (incremental or disruptive) come at a cost to process innovation?  It shouldn’t.  Companies should do both. Product innovation done right drives sales.  Process innovation done right has the potential to do more: reduce defects (increasing customer satisfaction), increase throughput without capacity expansion, reduce unit cost, decrease energy costs, reduce inventory (raw materials/finished goods), and ...

Early last year, two studies brought us face to face with Petrobras and PEMEX.   Both market opportunity projects were commissioned by global OEMs interested in selling product into the oil & gas industry.  In Brazil, we green-lighted the opportunity and highlighted strategies most likely to result in sales success with Petrobras (unique and differentiated product, an understanding of local content ...