Build Future Value for your Organisation
If you are a business owner, you need to break away from the past and concentrate your preparation on what the future of the business might look like in the hands of a much more capable and better-resourced buyer. Then go find those buyers who can best exploit the potential in your business. By setting them up in a competitive bid, you will be able to extract the best price for your business.
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Is "Going East" in your 2010 plans?
One of India’s wealthiest business leaders, Anil Ambani, invests $325 million in Steven Spielberg’s movie studio DreamWorks – something unimaginable just five years ago. In turn, Warren Buffett invests $230 million for a 10% stake in Chinese electric car manufacturer BYD, the same investor who shunned technology investments earlier this decade. It’s obvious the top entrepreneurs and investors understand that India and China are the future of our global economy. Do you?
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The Great Escape – how Australian exporters survived and even thrived in the GFC
This year – the year of the global financial crisis (GFC) - was meant to be the year of trade Armageddon. The economy was supposed to decline, the labour market was supposed to fracture and we were meant to see a large rise in unemployment... Tim Harcourt details what actually happened and why Australian export volumes held up.
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Focus on China
Chinese firms are focused on building competing quality products that will challenge even Germany’s lead in many export areas – and that they are building factories in Germany and the U.S. and other parts of the world. They want to get “in our backyards” before we get in theirs! With over $2 trillion in surplus cash (vs. the U.S. $9 trillion deficit), they have the financial muscle to do it.
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The Great Escape – how Australian exporters survived and even thrived in the GFC
This year – the year of the global financial crisis (GFC) - was meant to be the year of trade Armageddon. The economy was supposed to decline, the labour market was supposed to fracture and we were meant to see a large rise in unemployment... Tim Harcourt details what actually happened and why Australian export volumes held up.
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