Corporate Overseas Expansion.Indd
A report from The Economist Intelligence Unit CORPORATE OVERSEAS EXPANSION Opportunities and barriers Sponsored by: Corporate overseas expansion: Opportunities and barriers Contents About this report 2 Executive Summary 3 Introduction 5 Chapter 1: Strategy and approach 6 Chapter 2: Operational challenges 12 Conclusion 18 Appendix: survey results 19 © The Economist Intelligence Unit Limited 2015 1 Corporate overseas expansion: Opportunities and barriers About this report Corporate overseas expansion: Opportunities and barriers is an following individuals and their organisations (listed Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report, sponsored by TMF alphabetically) for sharing their insight and experience: Group. It investigates the range of practical issues companies l Kelvin Au, managing director, Metail face when they start setting up operations in a foreign country and how they deal with those issues. l Jerry Buhlmann, chief executive, Dentsu Aegis Network l Sally Campbell, group head of mergers and acquisitions, In August-September 2015 The EIU surveyed 155 senior Hiscox executives who have some or very good knowledge of the issues involved in their company’s expansion into foreign l James Kidd, CFO, AVEVA markets. Survey respondents included 33 chief financial l Nicholas Nash, group president, Garena officers, 31 chief operating officers, 31 general counsels or l Brian Pallas, founder and chief executive, Opportunity chief legal officers, 30 chief procurement officers and 30 heads Network of payroll or senior payroll professionals. l Jose Papa Neto, chief executive, WGSN Geographically, 46 respondents were drawn from North l Gilles Raymond, founder and chief executive, News Republic America, 46 from Europe, 47 from Asia-Pacific and 16 from rest of the world.
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