To ultimately succeed in developing economies, companies need mutually beneficial partnerships that give value to local suppliers and communities. CARANA’s Global Business Innovations (GBI) helps firms make the connections and capitalize on exciting market, product differentiation and sourcing opportunities.

Since 1984, we have specialized in economic growth solutions for international donors, governments and private firms, developing deep industry and country expertise on five continents, as well as an extensive network of contacts in agribusiness, IT, food service, apparel, logistics and other industries.

In 2011, we established GBI to tailor our exceptional business service platform to corporate clients and investors. See our brochure for a partial list of past and present partners.

GBI focuses on:

• Supply chain engineering—Improving performance by coordinating change across partners for product differentiation, faster response times, traceability, certification, and increased capacity of local suppliers. Click here for more details.
• Investment facilitation—Structuring and supporting greenfield, joint venture and expansion projects by securing and integrating local partners, financing, sites, workforce skills, logistics solutions and reliable suppliers. Read more specifics here.