Tech companies big and small are expanding globally. From increasing sales to decreasing costs to filling a market need, there are a myriad of reasons why tech companies go global.
Environment, health and safety (EHS) compliance requirements in new countries are often unforeseen obstacles to a tech company's expansion plans, especially when there are limited EHS resources to begin with. Navigating these new requirements, in different languages and cultures, can be tricky.
Here we dive into some of the most common EHS compliance challenges global companies face as well as tips for overcoming them.
At the Creating Shared Value Global Forum in Abidjan, Nestlé announced the winner of the Creating Shared Value [CSV] Prize 2016: Agro-Hub from Cameroon is the new prize laureate and Natural Extracts Industries from Tanzania the runner-up.
Joint venture between TransCanada and IEnova, Infraestructura Marina del Golfo (IMG), has been chosen to build, own and operate 800-km (497-mile) pipeline from the Gulf of Mexico (Brownsville, Texas) to the state of Veracruz in Mexico.
I don’t know if we will ever be able to make sense of the tragic events that took place in Orlando this weekend. Like most people, I am struggling with frustration, grief, anger and the senselessness of it all.
The EU is one of the world’s largest trading bodies, accounting for 16.5% of the world's imports and exports. The EU has become a centralized market for products that contain conflict minerals. Conflict minerals are key components of products like jewelry, cars, phones, laptops and medical devices.