Thailand is working diligently to develop high potential products in order to push for an export growth of 10-15% next year.

Export Promotion Department Director-General Srirat Rastapana (pictured) stated that her department and the Thai Chamber of Commerce had drafted strategies to develop many kinds of goods with high potential to help Thailand become production and export hubs. The products and services include textile, food, spa, and entertainment businesses. The strategies can be implemented next year onwards.

In addition, Ms Srirat said the private sector had an initiative to make Thailand leader of the women-led businesses as women currently played a more important role in businesses such as in India.

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Thailand:  Fashion exports to surpass 9% in 2010

Set to Drive ASEAN Fashion Industry

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Women Entrepreneurs GROW Global (www.womenentrepreneursGROWglobal.org) is honored to be featured among the “100 Best Blogs for Women in Business” under the International category.  We are in such good company!  This is our first recognition for WEGG.   Congratulations to everyone who made the list and let’s hope this is the beginning of many more “best” listings to come.

Thank you all for your continued readership!

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An international event is being organized by Mireille Goyer (pictured) — who got her pilot licence in 1991 — to mark and celebrate 100 years of women aviators.  The goal is to encourage other female pilots to introduce women to flying by taking them for a short flight, between March 6 to 12, and registering online at:

CentennialOfWomenPilots.com

As Goyer says:  “We’re still in a minority … a tiny little minority.”

The global rundown:

Over 100 women from 13 countries had signed up to take part as of last week, she noted.  Goyer, a native of France, plans to fly in Paris and Los Angeles for the event.  She’ll be recognized at the Museum of Air and Space in Le Bourget, France.

“I’m so excited about that, especially since I’m from France originally. It’s pretty emotional for me.”

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Women in Aviation and Space History

Women’s History Month 2010

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What drives women to become entrepreneurs and how do these motivations differ from those of men?  Some feel the greatest discrepancy lies in the work-family balance factor.

Snippet from article:

I’m beginning to wonder: maybe the glass ceiling that currently exists isn’t such a bad thing after all. It is allowing women to experiment and explore their own boundaries, which without this barrier may not have driven women to this economic frontier as fast as it has today. Women are destined to run large businesses and corporations and this will be the next step; women will soon be asked: “What is it that made you choose to grow your business into a global Fortune 500 company?” Instead of: “Why entrepreneurship?”. Women are currently at the centre of their household domains and are approaching the centre of their very own public corporate domain.

The future is definitely looking very bright for young female entrepreneurs …

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What’s your motivation for growing your business global?

Posted by:  Laurel Delaney