Coffee In A Land Of Tea: Starbucks Arrives In India
October 21st, 2012
Via The Financial Times, a report on Starbucks’ entrance to India: In few countries would the opening of a coffee shop be treated as headline news, but that’s exactly the treatment Starbucks’ 4,500 square foot flagship Indian store in Mumbai received on Friday. Throngs of journalists converged on the restored heritage building owned by the […]
Read more »The 31 Fastest Growing Cities On The Planet
October 19th, 2012
Via the Business Insider, a list of the fastest growing cities on earth: More people in history live in cities than ever before in our planets history. Urbanization rates have increased dramatically in the last decade, according to a new report by the U.N. Settlements Program, UN-Habitat. But the way people are urbanizing are changing. People […]
Read more »Africa’s Economy: Bulging In The Middle
October 19th, 2012
Courtesy of The Economist, a report on Africa’s economic growth: AFTER giving a speech at a business conference in London a young analyst chatted with investment executives in the audience, then followed two of them to a nearby hotel lobby. Over glasses of Chablis the executives raved about their company’s worldwide network of extravagantly decorated […]
Read more »India’s Emerging Cities
October 19th, 2012
Via The Financial Times, a look at India’s emerging cities: India’s established metropolises are saturated with investment activity. Now, tier-two and tier-three cities are emerging as investment destinations and a new report from Cushman and Wakefield explains how much money is going into what – and where. India’s 2011 census recorded 53 urban centres, each […]
Read more »India: Common Consumer Market Pitfalls
October 19th, 2012
Via Harvard Business Review, some thoughts about common misconceptions about India’s consumer market: Procter & Gamble’s India sales grew by over 21 percent in the second quarter of this year. India’s largest consumer products company, a unit of Anglo-Dutch Unilever, PLC, reported that its sales were up 9 percent. Michigan’s Amway registered an annual growth […]
Read more »Government, Geography, And Growth: The True Drivers Of Economic Development
October 18th, 2012
Via Foreign Affairs, an interesting article by Jeffrey Sachs on the true drivers of economic development: According to the economist Daron Acemoglu and the political scientist James Robinson, economic development hinges on a single factor: a country’s political institutions. More specifically, as they explain in their new book, Why Nations Fail, it depends on the […]
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.