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Request for Question Clarification by omnivorous-ga on 09 Oct 2002 11:18 PDT

Bren --

Good to see you using Google Answers so actively.  This is a fairly
tough question, depending on the circumstances of the company.  Some
strategies used have been:
*  acquisition
*  joint ventures
*  country-by-country and region-by-region strategies
*  reverse acquisition (being acquired by a larger or better known
company, but having the smaller company's management run operations)
*  sending home office personnel to start an operation
*  hiring foreign-country nationals to start an operation
*  using e-commerce as a way to circumvent "traditional" distribution
(see Amazon.com)
*  acquiring distribution channels (Ingram, a major book and software
distributor pursued this path in Europe)
*  licensing product for sale
*  franchising (as McDonalds did in Europe initially)
*  set up a venture investment operation (Softbank has acquired major
U.S. operations this way)

It would help researchers to have more focus in the question.

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

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Clarification of Question by bren-ga on 11 Oct 2002 20:08 PDT

I can't explain it any more I don't understand it so I will skip it.