As economies rebuild for a more sustainable future, opportunities abound

WITH the Covid-19 pandemic still raging on around the world, companies in Singapore - both the big boys and the smaller players - are feeling the effects of the vast disruption caused to their businesses and industries.

Still, there are many opportunities for firms here to internationalise, as well as to speed up the pace of their digitalisation efforts.

Clarence Hoe, global market director (Americas and Western Europe) at Enterprise Singapore (ESG), gives his take on why companies should go global even in an economic downturn, and how they can take advantage of the European Union-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (EUSFTA) to penetrate the lucrative European market.