Food security is making the headlines again. On Thursday the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Food Price Index showed global food prices at the highest level since records began
ContinueLast weekend bankers, including Goldman Sachs’s big guns, were actively courting GroupOn to lead its speculated IPO this year. This week Goldman (again) announced that it had raised a US$
ContinueLook out for our January 2011 GT Briefing, which gives you a single source to find some of the more interesting and important trend forecasts and predictions for 2011. There’s
ContinueDuring a recent round of interviews with Chinese CEOs, one executive made the following comment on the difference between business in China and in the west. “People from the West
ContinueThe holiday season, particularly in Western developed economies, is the retail high spot of the year, when sales surge and high-ticket items get bought. For the shoppers it is also
ContinueBut are the streets paved with gold? Interesting research has come out in the last few months focusing on the potential opportunities and influence of emerging and established urban markets.
ContinueBetween them, the top UK high street banks received a staggering 11,000 customer complaints per day in the first half of 2010, according to figures which the banks were forced
ContinueWriting from the shores of Lake Geneva, the snow has come down to lake level early this year, bringing to mind scientists’ recent suggestions that melting polar ice would lead
ContinueLast month the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) published its annual Living Planet Report. In these reports, the scariest figure is always how many “Earths” the human population is consuming in
ContinueIn my last blog post I said we would be watching the outcomes of the G20 Summit in Seoul with interest. Unfortunately there is little of interest to report in
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