Assets Of The Ayatollah
November 12th, 2013
Courtesy of Reuters, a very interesting multi-part look at how Khamenei’s conglomerate thrived as sanctions squeezed Iran: Part 1: A Reuters investigation details a key to the supreme leader’s power: a little-known organization created to help the poor that morphed into a business juggernaut worth tens of billions of dollars. The 82-year-old Iranian woman keeps […]
Read more »Mongolia’s Mining Sector
November 12th, 2013
Via Mining.com, an interesting article on Mongolia’s mining sector: On November 3 Mongolia’s new, friendlier foreign investment law came into force. Probably not a day too soon. The Asian nation of three million citizens, dependent on the mining sector to fuel growth, is desperate to turn around the slump in its economy and the steep […]
Read more »With ASEAN Integration On The Horizon, Cambodia Coaxes Investors
November 6th, 2013
Via Emerging Frontiers, a look at Cambodia: As the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) prepares for its single-market Economic Community in 2015, Cambodia is poised to benefit tremendously from this unification. With President Barack Obama in attendance, Cambodia played host to the 2012 ASEAN Summit in Phnom Penh in November. The most salient […]
Read more »The New Emerging Market Multinationals
November 5th, 2013
Via the European Financial Review, an interesting look at four strategies for disrupting markets and building brands being used by emerging market multinationals: In the past decade, a new breed of challenger businesses and brands has burst upon the world stage. Below, Amitava Chattopadhyay, Rajeev Batra, and Aysegul Ozsomer discuss how emerging market multinational corporations […]
Read more »KFC Goes Missing In Syria
October 31st, 2013
Courtesy of The Atlantic, a report on KFC’s decision to give up trying to do business in Syria: Syrians eat at a KFC outlet in Damascus in 2006. It closed its doors this month. In 2006, Kentucky Fried Chicken opened Syria’s first American restaurant in Damascus. The franchise weathered more than two and a half […]
Read more »North Korea: The Next Thailand Of Asia?
October 31st, 2013
Via NK News.org, an interesting report on North Korea: Nearly all communist states tended to have a “main construction project,” an impressive undertaking where, if the newspapers were to be believed, the workers’ enthusiasm for labor produced amazing feats and whose eventual completion would bring an era of unparalleled prosperity. North Korea is no exception. […]
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.