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Philips CEO on expanding globally

September 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

Last week I said I’d love to see more profiles of global-minded business execs and, sure enough, the Journal delivers. Here’s an interview with the Philips Electronics CEO Gerard Kleisterlee. According to the article, the company’s emerging-market sales increased 29% in the second quarter from a year earlier and now make up 34% of the company’s [...]

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Tags: Business globalization · Web Globalization

Hotels.com and its global growth spurt

August 30th, 2010 · No Comments

In the 2008 Web Globalization Report Card, Hotels.com ranked close to last place in the web services category. In this year’s Report Card, Hotels.com ranked only behind Google and Wikipedia — an impressive turnaround. In just two years, Hotels.com added 19 languages, improved global consistency, and, most important, improved local relevance. It’s nice to see [...]

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Tags: Web Globalization · Web Globalization Report Card

Best global retail web site: IKEA

August 26th, 2010 · No Comments

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted findings from the 2010 Web Globalization Report Card, but I did want to include a brief note on the retail sector. We define this industry segment to include those retailers (and a few food/beverage chains) that have a physical presence in the countries in which they do business. This excludes [...]

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Tags: Retail globalization · Web Globalization · Web Globalization Report Card

Interview: The Globalization of an Auctioneer Web Site

June 29th, 2010 · No Comments

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, the world’s largest auctioneer of heavy equipment and trucks, recently launched a redesigned (and more global) web site. Auction web sites are much like ecommerce web sites — that is, quite complex. You’ve got currencies and time zones and legal issues to navigate. And, in the case of Ritchie Bros, you’ve also got real-time [...]

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Speaking in Tongues: What’s the most multilingual religion web site?

June 22nd, 2010 · 3 Comments

Awhile back, Anirvan Chatterjee, founder of BookFinder. emailed me to ask if I knew of any other religion web site that supported more languages than the site of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. I didn’t. As shown in the screen grab below, the Jehovah’s Witnesses site supports nearly 400 languages! In comparison, Wikipedia supports only 272 languages. [...]

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Tags: Web Globalization