Argentina
India’s Ybrant Digital acquires Argentine
Business Standard
Ybrant Digital, a Hyderabad-based provider of digital marketing solutions, has acquired dream ad, an Argentine advertising network company, in all all-cash deal for an undisclosed sum.
The acquisition, its fifth so far, will give Ybrant access to the Latin American region by adding four more countries – Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Mexico – [...]
Urban Indians ‘eating out’ more
Since Italian food is quite popular among young urban Indians, Argentina – with its large population descended from Italian immigrants and many of those in the food business, should be considered as source for packaged and frozen Italian foods. More potential to scale up and supply India’s needs for the next few decades.livemint.com
The Food Franchising [...]
Nuevo paradigma de relaciones entre India y Argentina
Ambassador Viswanathan writing about the “new paradigm of relations”, in advance of the upcoming Argentine presidential visit to India, which has been postponed in light of PM Singh’s heart surgery. Key takeaway is Argentina with almost the same land area as India (only about 10% less), and population equalling that of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and [...]
Argentinean biodiesel will get a $900 million boost
GreenMomentum –
Despite a drop in global prices for both crops and oil, the Argentinean biofuel industry projections remain optimistic for 2009 as multi-million dollar projects continue to move forward.Almost 900 million dollars are to be invested in the construction of new biodiesel plants by 2010, as well as in new sugar mill projects designed [...]
India and Latin America: Water Scarcity vs. Abundance
Total Actual Renewable Water Resources (TARWR)
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LatAm to reach 388 mln mobile lines by end-2008
Telecompaper
Latin America will reach over 388 million mobile lines in service at the end of this year, accounting for 9.6 percent of the overall mobile lines in service worldwide, according to the Information Society index (ISI) established by consulting firm Everis. Brazil is expected to end the year with 143.2 million phones, Mexico with 76.9 [...]
Argentina stimulates ethanol use in fuel
Before coming to Argentina, I did not even know they produced sugar. Brazil is LatAm’s powerhouse in sugar. Two weeks ago I was in Tucuman, Northern Argentina (Amazingly, Sikhs immigrated to NW Argentina, in the 1910s) – the center for sugar production. I smelled the odor of processed sugarcane while driving down the highway from [...]
Imagine a country the size of India…
well almost
with plenty of arable land – providing plenty of fruits, vegetables and grain
with abundant supply of fresh water
with diverse landscapes – from tropical forests to mountains to beaches to glaciers
with beautiful people
where you can thrive in spite of political machinations
and shrug off the financial crisis – been there, done that
but with the population of [...]
Indian textile firms look overseas for cotton
Business Standard
India has also begun importing [cotton] from Argentina, Brazil and the US on account of lower prices. As compared to domestic rates, the imported cotton offers a benefit of Rs 2,000 per bale to these textile companies.
Thanks to a 40 per cent rise in minimum support prices (MSP) for cotton, the domestic prices seem [...]
Boutique Wineries, Elite Wine Travels the World
Event Planner Spain
Small plots of land and a careful grape selection are the first steps that should be taken to produce “boutique wines”, a market in which Latin-American producers have surged ahead of the field in the past years. Even though is not an original idea from the New World, but French, since it emerged [...]
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