Insights from Frescobaldi
Can you briefly introduce Frescobaldi and its international history? Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi is a private, family-owned company rooted in Tuscany, with a history stretching back to the late 1800s. The current company was formally established in the late 1980s, when the family heirs chose to consolidate their agricultural and viticultural assets into a single, unified […]
Insights from Fermob
Today, you generate 50% of your revenue from exports. What were the major milestones of your international development? When my father took over FERMOB, he was looking for a company manufacturing a “clean” product – a finished good that could be exported worldwide. He bought the company on that exact premise. It ticked all the […]
Insights from Delfingen
What were the major milestones in your internationalization strategy that led you to generating nearly 95% of your revenue abroad today? Initially, our international expansion was driven by the need to manage economic costs. In the 1980s, we operated in a strictly European, or even purely French, automotive market, where our primary client was Peugeot. […]
Insights from CLS
CLS works with clients in 158 countries. How would you summarize forty years of international expansion? Right from the start, CLS had a global mindset. For political reasons, we were founded simultaneously in France and the US, as part of the collaboration between the French Space Agency (CNES) and the US around the Argos system. […]
Insights from South Carolina European Office
Your state has been courting European companies for half a century; how did it all begin? We are the Agency of the Government of South Carolina. Our goal is to create economic opportunities for the citizens of South Carolina by growing our economy and recruiting companies from around the globe to set up locations in […]