Cranganore sifts through economic trends, providing insight on the competitive setting across an erratic world. We assess whether industries are attuned to shifting cross-border themes.
Event marketing once related to the Super Bowl or a Bruce Springsteen concert. The term now applies to Hollywood blockbusters. In July, Universal started selling tickets for its opening of the movie “The Odyssey,” scheduled for 17 July 2026. Certainly…
The Natural Diamond Council focuses on colored diamonds to differentiate natural stones from lab-grown ones. Buoyant auction prices for vivid and intense stones—supported by global economic turmoil—draws further attention to this segment of the business. As the trade group for…
Walmart shuttered its health clinics and sold-off its telehealth business in recent months, amid widespread industry surprise. The convention was that the retail giant had deep enough pockets to make the business strategy work. Apparently, it was unwilling to hemorrhage…
In the UK, a Yorkshire-based recycling company tackles textile waste by recognizing used clothing as a profit center. MyGroup is now investing heavily in an approach for collecting, processing, and re-designing worn goods. This plant—and others like it—could work as…
America has lost a major logistics player. The sudden closure of Yellow Corp. may be easy to decipher in context, what 30,000 now-former employees will do for household income is less obvious. Perhaps the only good news in this story…
Legislation now in play in Washington aims to provide as much as $52 billion in loans, guarantees, and other incentives to technology companies for retrofitting US-based chip manufacturing. That seems logical, if not politically expedient, at a time when US…
The actor playing the lead character in the hit movie Black Widow has sued Disney for breach of contract. The lawsuit is more than another Hollywood actor fussing about their oversized payout. Rather, it will set the pace for A-list…