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Rising interest rates, supply chain costs and geopolitical situations are going to put tremendous stress on companies across the region, especially those operating with low margins.

The Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona is one of the biggest tech trade shows in the world, and is an agenda-setting event for the mobile communications industry. After being canceled in 2020, postponed in 2021 and held on a much smaller scale in 2022, MWC 2023 has generated a lot of excitement this year, and is all geared to welcome over 80,000 attendees and over 2,000 exhibitors.

Globally 2023 is set to be a year of caution as vendors will rethink their portfolio of devices while channels will think twice before taking on excess inventory. While this article features all categories of devices, the main focus would remain on smartphones.

THE REFURBISHED MOBILES MARKET – A SEQUEL

The rise of e-commerce initially led to a shift in the way individual customers started transaction business online. Now this is also visible in how companies are transacting business.

The past few decades have been problematic for the brick and mortar retail globally. As a result of the rapid rise of e-commerce, hundreds of retailers have had to re-assess their store numbers, store sizes and business models.

The evolution of B2B e-commerce from a niche segment of the commercial market to where it will soon equal or surpass traditional channels has been underway for some time now.

Corporate Governance is one topic which has received much attention throughout our region as well as the rest of the world.

The raging pandemic should not become a cover or excuse for shoddy decisions and sloppy performance.

In a world of massive corporate frauds, values and ethics are an urgent concern.