Luxury: 5 top tips for exporting internationally

By Ludivine Chotard

When it comes to the luxury sector, France doesn’t have much to worry about. Topping the table with a 25% global market share, the country’s high-end brands like Dior, Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Hermès set the tone for the rest of the international luxury market.

But France isn’t the only country to excel on the luxury market… Italian leather and haute couture are popular in the United States, the Brits continue to charm with their fine porcelain tableware, the Northern Europeans [...]

6 tips for starting out in international tourism

By Ludivine Chotard

Whether you’re a seasonal rental travel agency that manages a mobile application connecting travellers around the entire world or something else entirely… Whatever your concept, there are some basics you must take into account if you want to get started in international tourism. A sector with strong growth worldwide, tourism is full of business opportunities with 7% average progression per year. But it is also a sector subject to many variations dependent on the season, politics/economics, new travel destination expectations [...]

Brexit: 2 Years On, Where Do Companies Stand?

By Ludivine Chotard

It had 28 members on Thursday 23 June and awoke on Friday 24 June 2016 with the prospect of losing one of those 28. On that day, after their vote in a referendum, 52% of the British electorate had officially recorded their desire to exit the European Union, thus potentially sealing the fate of thousands of national and international companies. Two years on, doubt and uncertainty still reign in the UK: so, should companies leave to pre-empt the inevitable, stay [...]

5 Things You Should Know Before Entering the Dutch Market

By Ludivine Chotard

The Netherlands may well be a small country, but it doesn’t stop it from being one of the world’s major economies. Covering 41,543km2 of land with a population of 16,947,904 according to a census in 2016: that’s 408 inhabitants per km2 (one of the highest figures in Europe), this “doorway to Europe” houses 51% of all European distribution centres.

A population of qualified polyglots, pragmatic legislation, a business culture and its strategic geographic location are all key factors which have made the [...]

#ChooseFrance: what are countries doing to attract foreign investment?

By Ludivine Chotard

Posted on 29/01/2018

Ahead of the Davos Forum, a few days ago in Versailles, the “Choose France Summit” took place. This was an opportunity for French president Emmanuel Macron to meet the heads of various multinationals and promote “Made in France”.

A well-proven and marketed operation; #ChooseFrance quickly became very popular on Twitter during the day of the summit and more than 3.5 billion euros of investments were announced by companies such as Toyota, Facebook, SAP, Manpower, Google and others.

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