Weekend Reading, 6/26/15

China (71%) and Brazil (66%) are the two emerging markets clearly most favored as being “very attractive” to US marketers, per results [download page] from a survey conducted by Charney Research and Research Now and commissioned by the NY American Marketing Association. Interestingly, the survey of 315 brand owners (61% of respondents) and agencies (39%) finds that small companies (sales under $100 million) are about twice as likely as large ones (62% vs. 32%) to be planning to enter one or more emerging markets this year. (more…)