Daikin Bets on Africa with New Production Sites in Nigeria and Algeria
January 22nd, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, an article on one Japanese company’s revised strategy to compete with LG and Gree in Africa: Daikin Industries is bolstering its supply chain for home air conditioners in Africa, recently setting up a manufacturing site in Nigeria while also preparing to produce products in Algeria. The company had been expanding in Africa […]
Read more »Saudi Arabia’s Mining Push Is a Challenge for Everyone Else
January 21st, 2024
Via Bloomberg, a look at how the kingdom’s emergence will make it even harder for the US and Europe to secure access to commodities: Saudi Arabia’s plunge into the world of mining has caught the industry’s attention as the nation prepares to deploy vast amounts of capital to diversify away from oil and gas. The kingdom […]
Read more »Vietnam’s Lagging North-Central Region Sees Investment Boom
January 21st, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, an article on Vietnam’s lagging North-Central region which is currently experiencing an investment boom: Momentum for investment is finally building for Vietnam’s North-Central region, with key factors from global business support to domestic political backing falling into place in an area that has lagged in development until now. Quang Tri is an […]
Read more »Zambia Plans New Railway to Spur Trade With Africa’s Great Lakes
January 21st, 2024
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report on Zambia’s planned new railway: Zambia plans to build a new rail connection to link a Lake Tanganyika harbor to an existing line that runs to neighboring Tanzania, boosting trade with three other nations that share borders with the world’s longest freshwater lake. The southern African nation’s Transport and Logistics […]
Read more »The Red Sea Crisis Proves China Was Ahead of the Curve
January 20th, 2024
Via Foreign Policy, a look at how China’s Belt and Road Initiative wasn’t a sinister plot, but rather a blueprint for what every nation needs in an age of uncertainty and disruption: Over the past two months, a sudden surge in Houthi rebel attacks in the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait connecting the Red Sea to […]
Read more »Top Organizations Unlock New Investments to Support the World’s Most Vulnerable
January 19th, 2024
Via Modern Diplomacy, an article on the HRI Initiative which is focused on launching three new collaborative actions that will build and mature selected frontier markets, scale action at the intersection of climate and humanitarian impact by designating eight cities as focus hubs for innovation in key sectors: Accra (agritech), Lagos (fintech), Dakar (tourism and […]
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.