A dusty street vendor taps on the taxi window. He’s not peddling flowers along the thoroughfare in Myanmar’s business capital of Yangon. He’s touting homemade copies of the country’s foreign-investment law and import-export regulations. Myanmar is open for business. After two decades of isolating sanctions, this Southeast Asian country represents one of the few places […]
Global titan WPP aims to ‘shake up’ the market
June 16, 2013 by
WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell and Michael Lim, chairman of TODAY Ogilvy & Mather, discuss their plans for Myanmar on June 4. (Kyawt Thiri Nyunt/Myanmar Times) The holding company that manages more than US$70 billion of advertising globally a year for its clients, including Coca Cola and Unilever, has accelerated its drive to establish itself […]