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This month Franchising.com rounded up their international deals with reports on Dave and Buster’s, Hyatt, IHG, Jan-Pro, McDonald’s, Slim Chickens, The Habit Burger Grill, Twin Peaks, and Woof Gang Bakery… and how France is cracking down on influencers.
Check out how franchise brands continue to expand internationally as 2023 begins.
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Here are four tips that a global team can teach you about success.
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Listen to the latest episode #23 with Kat Borve on “BrassyBra: Lifting and Supporting Women Worldwide."
About Kat: Katherina (Kat) Borve, founder and CEO, Brassy, Inc., producers of a unique 97% cotton blend waterproof breast tape that lifts, shapes, and supports so you can rock a low-cut dress with ease and comfort, talks about why she started her company, where her products are made, and how she dealt with global supply chain issues during COVID-19.
The How She Went Global podcast is produced by Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global® and sponsored by Bluedog Design and Associated Bank.
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Discover what those three waves are and whether automation will impact jobs in the future.
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Learn how to simplify tech tools for global businesses.
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What do you use when you travel internationally to communicate with locals? If we missed any, please share!
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Climate change, geopolitical conflict, aging populations, developing technologies and the like are not issues that can be addressed in isolation by any one constituency and must be undertaken through collaboration, which is, of course, the mission of the World Economic Forum.
The WEF also suggests we move and act boldly while maintaining this bifocal vision. Increase your company’s recession readiness and position for near-term opportunities. Keep an eye on the longer-term forces shaping the future.
Learn more about how our world keeps getting more complex.
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The CCG released the report at the beginning of the new year, which summarizes and forecasts the trends and prospects of globalization in the coming year from ten perspectives, including China-US relations, the Ukraine crisis, the international financial system, the Belt and Road Initiative, international tourism, digital economy, and climate change.
Learn more about how China will continue to provide a strong driving force for the global economy in 2023, at least according to the think tank report.
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He goes on to give a sense of how it works with a specific example using the AI platform ChatGPT. Check it out. Making AI stick to the truth remains a serious issue.
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Rome-based Hydro Dynamics’ ShockWave Xtractor cavitation technology allows brewers to extract more of the oils in the hops used in brewing beer. The benefit of that technology is that it cuts down on the use of the hops, which is one of the most expensive parts of the brewing process.
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James M. Lindsay, Council on Foreign Relations, "My sense is that China has consciously decided over the last decade or so, to try to use media power to influence politics in other countries. Can you tell me a little bit about what China has been doing, and why it's pursuing these efforts?"©iStock/Oleksandr Siedov
Joshua Kurlantzick, author of Beijing's Global Media Offensive: China’s Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World: "Well, I think within the last ten years to twelve years, China, under Xi Jinping decided that the global discourse, both about China and about all sorts of events that relate to China, because virtually every event relates to China, the discourse or the discourse power, as China refers to it, are being dominated by liberal democracies and their media outlets."
Read the entire interview and Mr. Kurlantzick's complete answer here.
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“We are working through the registration, necessary training of our pharmacists, as well as evaluating our pharmacy network in terms of where we normally dispense products that have extra FDA requirements and will dispense these consistent with federal and state laws,” Walgreens said Wednesday in an emailed statement to Crain's Chicago Business.
The big questions are how much control will there be over the shadow (black) market on these pills and how will people who buy them be protected in terms of confidentiality? Watch closely.
Here's a look at WBA's global reach.
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Economists surveyed predicted a return to normal by 2024 when inflation begins to dissipate, but the rest of this year will likely be a long slog for the U.K. economy.
The U.K. is expected to see the largest economic contraction among wealthy nations due to the Ukraine war and the energy crisis.
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