No doubt is the agricultural sector in many countries in Africa an untapped sector for real economic progress and job creation. When we have been travelling in East Africa (for example) we can see many producers of high quality agricultural products such as coffee, tea, fruit and more that have a hard time to reach […]
Important to follow ICT developments in both East and West Africa
We here in Scandinavia rely a lot on information technology and digital services. It is an important part of your economy and infrastructure. That is also a reason we are leading within R&D and create many new innovations. We here in Scandinavia are very early adapters to new technology but we also need to export […]
Sustainable housing for many, Sweden now build 6 floor high mulihome building all in wooden
Västerås is a nice medium size city in Sweden some 1.5 hour drive from Stockholm. We can today read from a press release that the building company Mimer has today announced they have started to give out keys to the first customers who are ready to move in to Västerås highest wooden houses that have […]
ICT & Healthcare opportunities in Africa
We here in Scandinavia have many interesting and innovative companies offering IT and healthcare solutions, sometimes in the form of medical devices or digital solutions, so called D-Health solution. Africa is developing fast but also face healthcare challenges. As we have travelled in both South East Asia and in Africa we can see needs for more […]
Mobiles and broadband boom in Africa
Mobile phone sales and access to mobile broadband and internet are really booming and growing in a very rapid rate in many parts of Africa. Today we can read in New Times Rwanda that mobile phone subscribers in June went up to 8.9 million users of a population of close to 12 million. TIGO (part […]
ECO grow your business in Europe
For a long time have been taught that ecological food is better than conventional produced food as conventional means that the producers have over the years used more and more pesticides and more fertilizers to create a more cost effective food production. Some researchers say the positive effect of organic (ecological) food and food production […]
Can you show your CSR investment and work in the balance sheet?
Our company took part in an interesting conversation with some people from large Swedish Enterprises about CSR (corporate social responsibility) work and if you really can measure the value for how much you invest in CSR or not? I am sure there are papers and thesis that can show ways to measure it but for […]
Midsummer show how important ecological and fair trade has become in Sweden
Midsummer shopping shows us how important ecological and fair traded goods are to consumers in Scandinavia. Tomorrow we here in Sweden will celebrate Midsummer, a very important holiday that are included mention in early Icelandic (Viking) tales but also written about by the priest and diplomat Olaus Magnus in 1555 as he describes this holiday […]
Swedish enterprises best in the World for sustainable business
We could yesterday read that WWF together with Pesticide Action Network (PAN) and Solidaridad released a report mention Swedish IKEA and H&M as some of the best in the world for sustainable cotton business even if WWF find room for further improvement. The top brand singled out in the report was IKEA, C&A and H&M […]
Partners or Business Associates in Sweden
We are a business consulting firm in Sweden working with international business development, strategic business advisory (involving market expansion, market diversification, strategy, integration and transition) and management. Most of our works are with growing entrepreneurial companies that are interested in international trade to or from Scandinavia. We work with both the commercial and legal side […]