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The numbers from the Grant Thornton International Business Report (IBR) paint an encouraging picture for Sweden and Finland. We explore how a collaborative environment helps this business community grow stronger together.

European businesses have a spring in their step. Data from our International Business Report (IBR) finds that business optimism across the EU sits at net 60% in the first quarter of 2018.

Our International Business Report (IBR) suggests that European businesses recognise that investment in technology and investment in future growth are synonymous.

Record levels of companies are set to give workers a pay rise over the next 12 months as global optimism hits an all-time high and business productivity is buoyant,

Grant Thornton’s International Business Report (IBR) finds that record business optimism is creating peak investment conditions

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Despite the rise of automation, record global business optimism (net 58%) will see businesses turn to people in 2018 to meet swelling order books.

Latest findings from IBR show that businesses cite ageing population as the biggest threat to the region over the next five years and concerns about territorial disputes still worry Asian businesses.

Grant Thornton’s latest quarterly business survey shows profit expectations falling in nine of the world’s ten largest economies. This deterioration comes alongside rising wage pressure created by a lack of skilled workers.

Our International Business Report (IBR) finds that while business optimism is rising to new highs in Q2 2017, a storm may be brewing in the shape of a skilled worker shortage.

The Eurozone has since been expanding steadily and it is on course for its third consecutive year of above-trend growth according to Grant Thornton’s International business report

Our International Business Report (IBR) survey finds an improving global economic picture.

In today’s fast paced, dynamic and turbulent business environment, leaders need to be kept abreast current regional and macroeconomic trends to support strategic business decisions.

Business leaders around the world, for the most part, enter 2017 in a positive frame of mind. Globally, business optimism stood at 38% at the end of 2016, representing a 5 percentage point jump from the previous quarter.

The US withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement and a review of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). What's the impact?

Findings from our most recent global survey of 2,600 businesses in 37 economies suggest that business leaders are putting a period of uncertainty around many major issues behind them heading into 2017.