Result, Europe’s leading growth partner for entrepreneurial companies within Internet, Telecom and new media, today in a press conference in Beijing launched a Joint Venture with Symbio, a leading Chinese innovation partner with 1200 employees in 7 offices in Asia and 6 offices in the US with clients like IBM, Microsoft, HP and Dell. Result Symbio will focus on helping European companies enter Asia by building a bridge between Result’s 14 European and South American offices and Symbio’s asian operations.

- Together we will be able to offer [Swedish] and European companies a Chinese market entry with everything from strategy to finance, technology development, local adaptation and also operational teams to drive local operations, says founder and CEO of Result, Ola Ahlvarsson.

- There are several European companies that have proved their business model in Europe that could take the step into the Chinese market, but to get the best conditions to succeed you need a strong local partner, continues Ahlvarsson.

About Symbio

Symbio leverages China outsourcing teams to help companies become global leaders. It helps organizations accelerate their software development and testing cycles by optimal application of its global resources and delivery models. Symbio also localizes and supports technology products for any language or locale. Founded in 1994 by a group of engineers from IBM’s international research and development labs in Asia, Symbio now functions as a cost-effective and highly efficient extension of an organization’s development, testing and globalization teams. Symbio’s clients include AOL, BMC, CA, Citigroup, EMC, FileNet, BIM and more. For further information on Symbio, visit www.symbio-group.com

Result is the European leader in helping companies expand internationally and has during the last 9 years helped over 130 companies to expand internationally. Result’s clients range from giants like Google to hot start-up companies including Xing, Fon, Rebtel and Web Power. Result also owns the SIME conference, norther Europe’s largest conference on digital possibilities.

Brazil has evolved in many areas in the last 10 years, since 1998. The numbers below give us a better vision.

Subject            1998  ==> 2008

Population      141,3 M   191,8 M

Voting POP    75,8 M     127,5 M

GDP (R$)       1,55 Tri    2,63 Tri

GDP/capita     10.973      13.718

Poverty           20.9%       11.4%

Gini index       0.62          0.57

Export(US$)   33,8 Bi    182,8 Bi

Inflation          980%        4,5%

Result is working together with Datadistic Holdings to expand it worldwide. Datadistic is a company founded in Argentina in 2003, expanding into several other markets with its network platform which provides accurate information for decision makers in the business of football: coaches, clubs, agents, investors, speakers, media companies and professionals in general.

The company provides statistics on games, personal and professional data of the players and referees in order to support the whole industry, including media companies, to enhance their business related to football. It also displays video images of some of the plays of the public games, to assure its information is the reality of the facts.

From 2006 to 2007 most of the largest exporting Brazilian companies faced high growth selling to international markets. The 6 biggest exporters were:

Company        2007 Export Sales      Growth from 2006     Sector

Petrobras         US$ 13.6 bi                +23%                    energy/oil

Vale                US$ 7.9 bi                  +32%                    mining

Embraer          US$ 4.7 bi                  +45%                    aircraft

BUNGE             US$ 3 bi                     +35%                    food

VW                 US$ 2.1 bi                  – 7%                   automobiles

Sadia               US$ 2 bi                    +19%                    food

As we can see, most of them faced double digits growth mostly driven by their sales to emerging markets (Asia and East Europe). During 2008 growth rate shall continue, but not as high due to smaller activity in the USA (with impact to emerging markets).

Our team is committed to find great opportunities to help the South American markets to evolve, and also to help Brazilian and Argentinean companies to better understand what is likely to be ahead of us.

This time Marcos J. Sousa and Fernando G. Martinez are invited to participate at the excellent SIME Innovation Day on February 7 in Stockholm on behalf of Result and Datadistic. Please visit www.sime.nu

Sponsored by Google, Ericsson and Telenor, SIME Innovation Day connects 100+ top selected companies to cooperate in their future business. CEOs and leading executives of the sponsors and participant companies work together to enhance and share their vision, to learn about what is trendy in the market, and perhaps to set up strategic partnerships.

Visit www.sime.nu to learn more about SIME Scandinavian Interactive Media Event and why we believe this is important to your future digital initiatives. If you like to consider going to SIME 2008, please contact us.

This is a quick and nice explanation of why business opportunities should be more tangible in Brazil than in other BRIC markets. It is made by a consultant in the field of sustainability for large corporations. See the comments:

1) Brazil is the “most western” of the BRIC countries, since its colonization by European people (primarily by Portuguese, followed by British, Italian, French and German) and recently under influence from USA.

2) When we mention Brazil, Russia, India and China, what they have in common are the enormous population and need of big infrastructure to be built. If money is given to these people, the entire world commerce will change (like we are seeing already in part of their population).

3) Brazil is different because there are lots of opportunities, clean energy, stable and solid democracy and reliable transparent institutions already working, such as Federal Agencies (for telecom, energy, aviation, transportation, etc).

4) In order for China and India to grow, there is a high cost to the environment and to several other natural resources because most of the future growth is still based on traditional increase of consume, demanding bigger access to raw-material, which will increase problems.

IDGNow released an article predicting that the number of activated cellular lines in Brazil will reach 141 Millions by the end of 2008, considering similar amount of new net lines added to the system than 2007. The entrance of carriers into new markets (such as Oi start in Sao Paulo) and the arrival of 3G networks will have a relevant impact on keeping up with high annual growth rate for this year (aprox. 17% over end of 2007).

Women account for more than half (54%) of the total number of mobile users in the Brazilian market. Out of the 120 millions of mobile lines to be activated at year end, almost 65 millions will be used by women. This is a large change from 2002 numbers, when women accounted for only 43% of total cellulars in country (which was around 15 millions by that time).

On average, women acquired around 8 millions of mobile lines per year since 2002. Research shows that 41% of those lines are usually received as gifts from husbands and parents, which explains the high growth during XMas and other holidays.
The recent study also shows that 36% of the women is between 19 and 32 years old, and 30% between 33 and 50. Out of the 36 million Brazilian women without a mobile phone, 15% plan to get one soon, specially those older than 51. The key factors is still price (for 74% of people), followed by the carrier (ie brand, with 71%) and handset model.
Despite there are more women owning mobile phones, men still use and expend more, almost 50% per month more on average.
Both men and women have similar patterns in terms of value added services such as SMS (around 45% use), music, MMS and video (around 10%). Young women between 19 and 24 are the heavy users of special features on mobile phones: 88% use SMS, 45% use voice mail and 31% download games.   Source TI Inside