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<div>I'm and spanish engineer site on Madrid. Although it is a little offtopic, I must talk about the problem you reprt a couple of manths ago. It was on June and the problem was that truckers were on strike, and they refuse to deliver any product (gas, food, computers :)...) for more than a week. The problem was that they placed their trucks in the main roads of entrance to the main cities (Madrid and Barcelona) and the supplies didn't arrive to te gas stations and so on. At last, and after a lot of problems during a week, police got a lot of them and they stopped their strike.</div>
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<div>So problem two months ago didn't have a direct relation with the economical situation. It's true the strike began in order to protest about the prize of the gas, but the problem wasn't that the gas stations couldn't afford to buy new fuel and trucks stop delivering, but the problem was that trucks stop delivering goods and then gas stations, altought they had enough money to buy gas, the gas couldn't get to the gas stations. </div>
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<div>I only wanted to point this in order to get a real information about the Spanish situation</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
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<div>Miguel</div>
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<div>PD: Sorry for my english. I used to write in 'technical english' and some terms could be used incorrectly in a normal conversation<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">2008/9/22 Trixter aka Bret McDanel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trixter@0xdecafbad.com">trixter@0xdecafbad.com</a>></span><br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 08:20 -0600, Ignacio Ramos wrote:<br>> Hello ppl, our company Codevoz with presence in Central America is<br>> analyzing the opportunity of open operations in Spain. One of our<br>
> engineers is moving to Barcelona and we would like to know if theres<br>> is potential oportunity there for:<br><br><br></div>probably although isnt their economy tanking about now? And hasnt it<br>been for a while? Does that not mean income would be a little harder to<br>
come by (businesses generally derive income from customers, who get<br>income from other businesses, who ... you see where I am going).<br><br>You may want to look into what some are reporting as the southern half<br>of the eurozone going into the toilet economically, countries by name I<br>
have heard mentioned (but havent investigated personally) are portugal,<br>spain, italy and greece. I dont know what their current state is, this<br>was about 2 months ago or so (the last ECB meeting discussing rates). I<br>
know that Barcelona had a fuel shortage, 40% or so of the gas stations<br>couldnt afford to buy any new fuel, which of course caused trucks to<br>refuse to deliver there for fear of not being able to refuel to get out,<br>
some panic buying on food, and a big grinding halt on the local economy<br>because there were no products to sell, that however may have corrected<br>itself completely by now, it too was 2 or so months ago.<br><br>Generally when the economy starts going down the only thing you can sell<br>
is a way to save money, which certainly some of what you listed could<br>provide that but the up front costs also have to be inline with what is<br>available.<br><br>With that said Barcelona is a fairly large city, and there are some<br>
businesses that are probably not suffering at all, especially<br>international ones who do not rely on the local economy to make a<br>profit, the key is knowing who can afford whatever it is that you want<br>to sell, how much they would be willing to pay, and market to them<br>
specifically.<br><font color="#888888">--<br>Trixter <a href="http://www.0xdecafbad.com/" target="_blank">http://www.0xdecafbad.com</a> Bret McDanel<br>Belfast +44 28 9099 6461 US +1 516 687 5200<br><a href="http://www.trxtel.com/" target="_blank">http://www.trxtel.com</a> the phone company that pays you!<br>
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