Culture / Music
Sound factory
Rough Trade, London.
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Business / Retail
Stock in trade
With a presence in Russia since 1989, Finnish retailer Stockmann faces its biggest setback there yet after its Moscow department store was forced to close. The unfazed CEO Hannu Penttilä explains why he is sticking to his…
Business / Business Hubs
Trade secret
George Town, on the Malaysian island of Penang, was a colonial trading hub but after the Second World War it lost out to Hong Kong and Singapore. Now its faded Art Deco villas and relaxed pace of life are luring a new…
Business / Food & Drink
Tills and Thrills
From futuristic cash-register technology to staff trained as vegetable sommeliers to exhibitors promoting their concoctions, Japan’s Supermarket Trade Show had the highest turnout yet and offers new ideas for an increasi…
Edits / Transport
Expo 42: Trading places
Egypt is swept up in a wave of euphoria as it takes bold steps towards democracy following the fall of Hosni Mubarak. But part of any future success relies on the Arab giant harnessing the potential of the Suez Canal – and…
Edits / Society
Expo 21: Trading places
Syria is moving away from the staunch socialist principles that dominated the country for decades. President Bashar al Assad has created a new merchant class and forged business links with neighbour Turkey. Nowhere has…
Edits / Music
Monocolumn
Tuesday 8 November
Posthumous albums do a roaring trade
Lioness: Hidden Treasures will be the last Amy Winehouse album.
Business / Manufacturing
Toy story
This issue our regular Fairplay series on trade fairs from around the world makes a return. Here we visit the Toys & Games Fair in Hong Kong, the second largest exhibition of its kind in the world, where serious-minded…
Business / Society
Monocolumn
Friday 17 February
Trade shows are a one-stop guilty pleasure
Ah, the trade show. That ever-present feature on the global calendar of industry events. The concentration of all forces singularly focused on one thing: selling stuff.
End Point / Soft Power
Observation
How can a nation get its voice heard on the world stage and encourage trade and tourism? If you don’t have resources and the weight of numbers on your side, then maybe it’s time to wield some ‘soft power’. By Tyler Brûlé…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Friday 4 March
Maghreb focus: Time to pull together
One of the sparks for the political unrest that has erupted across North Africa was frustration over the lack of jobs and the rising price of food
Business / Investments
The next Shanghai
Kunming is an unpolluted, diverse city that offers a high quality of life. Infrastructure projects, including new train routes and an international airport, are providing links with south Asia, boosting trade. It’s even…
Affairs / Urbanism
Asia briefing
New flights from Tokyo to Yangon, why the French are lighting up Cambodia, and Japan gets creative.
Affairs / Industry
Americas briefing
Tourism in the Caribbean and trade links between the Middle East and Latin America.
Business / Industry
Fishy business
If you can’t secure a job as an urban planner by day you can always become an ornamental fish hobbyist by night and engineer a perfect underwater world. At the heart of the €10bn international trade in ornamental fish is…
Affairs / Economics
Chinese Cheques
All over Africa, Chinese labourers are hard at work building railways, roads and national stadiums. In return, the continent’s developing countries are selling their oil and iron ore to the Chinese. The figures are stagg…
Affairs / Politics
Tajikistan: Bridging borders
The Tajik-Afghan border is one of the most dangerous in the world because of its central role in the heroin trade. EU- and US-backed agencies are stepping in to help control the borders and initiate projects to stimulate…
Design / Fashion
Capsule time
For many, Paris remains the true home of fashion – and a clutch of well-timed, small-scale trade fairs are giving events like Italy’s Pitti Uomo a run for their money.
Business / Industry
Monocolumn
Monday 3 May
The ‘no-frills’ shipping format arrives
When the Taicang Dragon docked in the Port of Los Angeles yesterday at the end of a 16-day voyage across the Pacific and unloaded its cargo of Chinese bicycles, woolly blankets and umbrella strollers, Oslo ship-broker Jakob…