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Recent estimates put the number of native English speakers in the world at about 375 million, while a staggering 1.125 billion people globally speak English either as a second or foreign language. In the English-speaking world, though, a comparable ability with foreign languages is rare.
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Japan’s business culture is mastered with patience and exactitude, says Travelex’s Adam Tiberi.
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Between Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck in Hong Kong’s Disneyland you might spy an Australian bottle tree or two. It’s a little taste of Australia in the luxury landscaping project, for which Australian company Birkdale International supplied 800 40-foot sea containers filled with full-size trees, plants and shrubs. “It was a major logistical operation,” Barbara [...]
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“I’m 71 but I feel the same as I did when I was 20,” says Vivienne Lipke, CEO and co-founder of Queensland’s Icecraft International. Icecraft is a 2010 Australian Export Hero that sells ice sculpture moulds in 117 countries around the world. Lipke works a 19-hour day and has only started using an answering machine [...]
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From fairy queen on the stage to kaftan princess of the catwalk, Camilla Franks epitomises glamour. The designer, name and face of Australian fashion label Camilla launched her first collection in 2005 and has seen her label grace the racks of department stores as far afield as Dubai, Greece and Japan. With agents in Paris, [...]
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Australian Tourism Export Council (ATEC) chairman John King announced the appointment of six new board members for 2011. The new board will work closely with incoming managing director Felicia Mariani to improve the organisation’s revenue base and expand its role in business development activities, Mr King said. He said the new appointments made at the [...]
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“If there’s a mistake to be made, we’ve made it,” Helen Armstrong, co-owner of Apsley and Company, says. It’s not a statement one would expect from the co-owner of a successful Australian business now exporting fragrance products to 30 countries but when Armstrong and business partner David Dash bought the business it was tiny and [...]
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As the economy strengthens and market conditions rebound, businesses should focus on strategic travel management to drive cost and time efficiencies. For exporters conducting business across borders, a strategic approach to travel management will help to create savings as the market shifts into a new cost-cycle phase, following the Global Financial Crisis. The most effective [...]
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One person can take on the world. Microbusinesses, long considered merely the seeds of bigger businesses, are now doing it for themselves. Characterised by their minute size—by definition, businesses with five or fewer staff—microbusinesses tend to lack the resources of their larger counterparts, however, successful microbusiness owners turn this around through greater innovation and efficiency. [...]
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Business conditions have changed in China since the GFC. I’m constantly being asked “What are we seeing on the ground right now in China and across Asia?” During the recent economic downturn, China, along with governments around the world, unleashed massive economic stimulus programs. Since then, the global economy has been showing encouraging signs of [...]
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