Slow and Bumpy Ride On the Road to Global Economic Recovery

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According to BBC News, the global economy recovery will be slow and bumpy.

(April 28, 2013):  Last week, data showed that the US economy, the world's biggest, expanded by 2.5% in the first quarter of the year. That's lower than the 3% growth many analysts had forecast.

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To Go Global, Start Making Baby Formula

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Major retailers in Germany this year began rationing sales of leading brands of baby formula. Parents in Britain, the Netherlands and Hong Kong have faced similar restrictions.  So much for globalization.

Part of the reason for the scarcity?

Parents thousands of miles away in China have been using the Internet or tapping friends and relatives in Europe to buy up stocks of high quality European-produced formula — often paying much higher prices than they would here.  Chinese demand for foreign brands soared after drought in Australia and New Zealand cut supplies from China’s major sources of imported baby formula. 

Read more here.

Meanwhile, start making premium baby formula for export.

Horses Know

Photo courtesy:  ©2013 Laurel Delaney.  "Wood Horse Sculpture in Chicago"

He knows when you're happy
He knows when you're comfortable
He knows when you're confident
And he always knows when you have carrots.
~Author Unknown

Launch Your Global Career Before May 5th

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Hult International Business School offers scholarship opportunities for chosen MBA candidates. Students are selected based on their abilities to perform in a dynamic classroom environment and for their business leadership potential and are considered upon submission of the online application.

The standard essay length is 500-750 words and in each category (as noted below), you must address 3-4 critical questions.  Creativity is encouraged.

1. Academic Excellence Scholarship
2. Global Innovation Scholarship
3. Global Leadership Scholarship
4. Global Project Management Scholarship
5. International Finance Scholarship
6. Social Entrepreneur Scholarship
7. Women in Business Scholarship
8. Your Talent Professinal

As Hult says, "Get plugged in to the world."  More about Hult here. 

Deadline on scholarship opportunities is May 5, 2013.  Go here to apply.  Good luck! 

Related article:  "How to Get An Education Fit For a Life in Global Trade"

Rhythm of Africa: Exotic and Bashfully Sexy Tiffany Amber

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Iconic African fashion brand, Tiffany Amber has embarked upon it’s global expansion plans with three new retail outlets launching in the second quarter of this year.  The collection will be sold at Italy’s leading department store – la Rinascente.

La Rinascente was the first department store to open in Rome in 1887 and now owns a chain of 11 department stores located in several Italian major cities.  La Rinascente carries the world’s most luxurious brands and has a flagship store in the fashion capital of the world – Milan. 

Learn more here.

Who Are the Mobile Consumers in Our World?

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Do you have questions about the mobile consumer in our world?  Our Mobile Planet has answers. Learn about smartphone adoption and usage across 40 countries. Develop your mobile strategy now.

Our Mobile Planet

Small Business Owners Are Driving Smartphone Domination Globally

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A new Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update projects that by the end of this year, there will be more mobile-connected devices than there are people on earth, and by 2017 there will be nearly 1.4 mobile devices per capita.

Who is driving this device domination?  Small business owners.  

According to the survey conducted by eVoice, more than one in three small business owners (36 percent) use three or more mobile devices to run their business. 

Read the entire article here.  Are you ready for a mobile world?