Emerging Markets: Redrawing the Map
November 23rd, 2011
Via SmartMoney, an interesting report on emerging markets When Taizo Ishida first set eyes on Bangladesh, he thought the images would stay with him forever. Posted there in the 1980s as a United Nations development officer, Ishida saw little but abject poverty wherever he turned. Lacking a reliable power grid or even the most basic […]
Read more »Welcome To North Korea…
November 20th, 2011
Courtesy of Michael Totten and PJMedia, an interesting look at North Korea: I would love to visit North Korea and write about it, but I can’t. Journalists are almost never allowed into the country. I would need to be one of the lucky few who are given a visa or I’ll have to wait for […]
Read more »Booming Chinese Brands That Could Take Over The World
November 20th, 2011
“When will the Chinese develop a truly global brand?” is a question that is frequently asked, and one that the Business Insider takes on in its report titled top “18 Booming Chinese Brands That Could Tkae Over The World”. While firms like Lenovo, Huawei, and Haier have been making their mark for some time, here […]
Read more »The ‘Avon Ladies’ of Bangladesh
November 20th, 2011
Courtesy of The Guardian, a look at the “Avon Ladies of Bangladesh” – a report focused on the social aspect of a business strategy that nonetheless offers keen insight into the techniques of some multinational corporations to reach the emerging markets of some of the least developed countries. As the article notes: “…A woman shouldn’t […]
Read more »Zhaikmunai Seeks A Full London Listing
November 20th, 2011
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report that Zhaikmunai, a Kazakhstan-based oil and gas producer, has become the latest company from the former Soviet Union to signal its intention to seek a full London listing that would quality it for entry into the FTSE 250 index. As the article notes: “…Frank Monstrey, the company’s leading […]
Read more »Kurdistan’s Oil Future
November 19th, 2011
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting look at oil-rich Kurdistan: “…I have spent the past few days touring the oil-rich semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq, visiting oilfields and interviewing its officials and foreign executives. It is boom time for Kurdistan, which optimists hope could soon produce more oil than some members of […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.