Global Briefing

With recreational marijuana use permitted in a number of US states, cannabis is moving from the margins to the mainstream of society. It’s rapidly shedding its image as the drug of choice for disillusioned, disenfranchised stoners, and coming to be seen as a sophisticated inebriant for the open-minded and curious.

There is extensive political agreement in Greenland that the country’s mineral sector should be developed into a principal industry contributing positively to economic development and the creation of new jobs. This objective is a vital element of the plan for long-term economic development, which includes the development of business sectors…

The relationship between large organisations and their suppliers, particularly in the retail sector, has become headline news in the UK media in recent months.  At Board level, supplier relationships are moving up the agenda as procurement becomes intertwined with reputation management. The relationship between large corporates and their…

Demographic change means that companies today are facing a previously unknown challenge: the battle over the best employees. Only companies that are able to keep good employees are able to increase productivity, grow and survive amid the competition. But the very employees they are in search of, the young “Generation…

 South African enterprises are moving toward multi-faceted power plans as the power crisis shows no sign of coming to an end in the foreseeable future, say power sector experts on the POWER-GEN Africa Advisory Board.  Bertha Dlamini, Managing Director of EON Consulting and a member of the POWER-GEN…

We believe that a lower oil price is a clear positive for the US economy because of its impact on the consumer, while lower input costs should be supportive to companies. In US dollar terms, the oil price ‘windfall’ is as large as some of the major fiscal…