The importance of Asia for Australian businesses has been a hot topic over the past few weeks. A delegation of Australian business peopl…

The importance of Asia for Australian businesses has been a hot topic over the past few weeks. A delegation of Australian business peopl…
More than 40% of Australian SMEs exporting to or importing from China plan to settle transactions in Chinese yuan (also called renminbi) ove…
In my last blog I looked at the role sport, especially soccer as the world and Asia’s most popular sport, could play in fostering closer com…
It’s less than two years until the launch of the AFC Asian Cup, to be held across Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and the ACT from Jan…
A small business group wants fewer regulations but more support for home-based businesses, which are being touted as “the way to Asia”, ahea…
Currency hedging is critical: it affects both importers and exporters. During the global financial crisis, when the Australian dollar plunge…
Twelve years ago, John Casella of Casella Wines turned the usual strategy of Australian wineries on its head. Instead of building up his win…
Casella Wines, the family-owned winery behind one of Australia’s most successful export wines, Yellow Tail, recorded its first ever loss as …
Regardless of the economic turmoil the US has undergone in the past four years, America remains a prized destination for many Australian ent…
“I’ve never found the government support for export assistance to be particularly useful.” That’s what Pat Boland, the co-owner of i…
I am often out and about meeting people, customers and suppliers and, of course, speaking to groups can take me to anywhere in Australia (an…
Australian café franchise The Chocolate Room has announced an ambitious plan to open 200 outlets in China, along with stores in Europe and …