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Joint venture of market leaders

Osec, the Federal Government’s export promotion agency, AmCham which is by far the largest Swiss Chamber of Commerce and the largest private export agency Fargate are doing things together. They are building a platform for organising private players helping companies on the path to globalisation.

New chamber chapter Switzerland-Chile

Trade between Switzerland and Chile has now become even more attractive due to the new Free Trade Agreement – a fact that was borne in mind at the time of founding a new chapter of the Chamber of Commerce. Fargate in its capacity as a Swiss export promoter with experience in Chile was one of its founder members.

Wanted: last mile of export promotion

The 80/20 rule can also be applied to the establishment of export ventures: this basically means that 80 percent of the challenges show up in the last 20 percent of the journey.  But at this juncture, neither the government export promotion agency nor any conventional export consultant can be of any help. The need of the hour at this critical stage is for entrepreneurial export development supervisors who would be available on-site.

Network or notwork?

Company structures designed like networks are the latest trend these days.  But most of them function only on paper.  Why is that so?