Managing director of GloBIS, Louise Kern, helps businesses make the right choice in international expansion. We refer to her as the “truth whisperer” on global companies.
In the following interview, Kern, who presented a fabulous wegginar® for us on avoiding scams,
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Everyone knows the classic adage, “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.”
But wegg® knows, “Give a woman a fish, and you feed her for a day.
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This past Wednesday, wegg® had the pleasure of hosting the Industry Segment Manager of Retail and Consumer Goods for UPS, Cristina Bandal. Bandal lead one of our free online wegginars®, which provide monthly, accessible education to women entrepreneurs everywhere. Bandal’s talk covered how to overcome the obstacles that people face when trying to sell their products to the global market.
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Panelists at the recent World Trade Organization’s Public Forum event in Geneva, chaired by UNCTAD Deputy Secretary-General Isabelle Durant, asked which data were necessary for formulating gender-responsive trade policies and how to improve their availability.
Analysis of global value chains – the complex international supply and manufacturing chains along which modern goods pass – can show the important part played by women in global trade but which is missed by trade statistics alone.
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As we are fully aware through our work at WEGG, opportunities for women entrepreneurs have been growing globally at a fast pace. Take India, for example, where the number of women entrepreneurs is mushrooming, but it is very small when compared to the opportunities the market has to offer.
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There are many things to think about before you sell and market your products or services overseas — from finding customers, to sealing a business deal, to getting paid. Yet, if you overcome the challenges to taking a business global, the rewards can be enormous.
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What do women entrepreneurs from Tajikistan and Milwaukee have in common? They both face common female-owned business challenges worldwide.
Tahmina Karimova owns Ozara, a handicrafts (as shown above) company in Tajikistan. She is one of four women from Tajikistan visiting Milwaukee,
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It is the objective of Synergy Systems Consults (UK) Limited, a company that specialises in promoting and identifying partnership and investment opportunities within Africa, to influence dynamic changes in terms of exporting international expertise that will enhance productivity in Africa. For example,
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International expansion offers growth and the opportunity to not only scale a business, but to diversify as well. And you don’t need a big investment to pull it off. Here are two cases to prove it.
Chris-Tia Donaldson, founder of Chicago-based Thank God It’s Natural,
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Women play a big role in regional, national and international trade, competitiveness and economic growth. Governments, private sectors and nonprofits such as WEGG can contribute and support women in economic leadership and global trade..
For example,
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