Top 5 Emerging Market Import / Export Centers in 2024
January 24th, 2024
Via The Business Year, an article on which emerging market countries are essential nodes in global trade in 2024? One way of looking at international trade is to see it as the cumulative exchange of goods and services across borders over time. Every component used in a finished product has been through the import/export process several times […]
Read more »Yamaha Taps School Music To Score Growth in India, Southeast Asia
January 19th, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, an article on Yamaha efforts to grow sales in emerging markets as Japan sales slide: For one New Delhi fifth grader shy of singing, a white, plastic recorder gifted by Japan’s Yamaha Corp. has been a potentially career-defining revelation. “I feel I’m better at playing the recorder and may even teach it […]
Read more »Tesla EV Plans Spur ‘Musk Pilgrimages’ From India and Southeast Asia
January 16th, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, an article on Tesla’s EV plans in India and Southeast Asia: Indian and Southeast Asian leaders are appealing directly to Tesla CEO Elon Musk to invest in their countries as the electric-vehicle maker weighs options for curbing its dependence on the Chinese market. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Musk in […]
Read more »Geely Eyes EV Foothold in Southeast Asia with $10B Malaysia Hub
November 8th, 2023
Via Nikkei Asia, an article on a Chinese automaker doubling down on its Proton partnership: Chinese automaker Geely has teamed up with Malaysian partner Proton Holdings to stage a comeback in Southeast Asia’s electric vehicle market, fueled by a $10 billion investment in Malaysia. One of the biggest attractions at last month’s Malaysia International Motor […]
Read more »Malaysia’s Petronas to Invest $1.6bn In Indian Green Ammonia
November 5th, 2023
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Malaysia’s Petronas’ plan to invest $1.6bn in Indian green ammonia: Malaysian state-owned energy company Petronas is set to invest $1.6bn in an Indian green ammonia venture, in a boost to New Delhi’s ambitions to export energy. The investment by Petronas’s Gentari renewables division will give it a 30 […]
Read more »Singapore Taps Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia for Low-Carbon Energy
October 29th, 2023
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, a report on Singapore’s plan to tap Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia for low-carbon energy: Companies in Singapore this week unveiled a number of projects aimed at importing low-carbon sources of energy, setting the tone for a transition to cleaner power to help fight climate change. Low-carbon energy sources include hydrogen, wind […]
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.