Results tagged “CSR” from Birmingham Post - Business Blog

Please excuse any typos in this blog posting. It may be because of margarine on my fingers or keyboard.

Collecting the 'cooking for schools' vouchers is a messy business.

I don't know whether its since my children have been of school age that I have noticed this more, or whether it has been a recent trend - but a growing number of companies seem to think the way to win our hearts and minds is to give things to local schools.

The last few months have been very gloomy across western economies. The US has been in meltdown and more remains to some based on most commentators.

Europe has continued to perform strongly but has suffered form a lack of structural change which has left cost structures in the Byzantine era. This is made worse by the newly found nationalist sentiment in France and Germany in particular.

So where is there any good news and what hope can we in the UK have for future economic growth?

Emerging Markets have long been touted as the key area for growth, with Eastern Europe, Asia and the Middle East being the preferred examples. This either because they have vastly growing middle classes such as in India and China or favourable locations for locating manufacturing facilities such has been the case in Eastern Europe.

The problem with all these assertions though is that they fail to understand the basic opportunities that emerging markets provide.