There’s Gold in Them Hills

In December, while flying back from my first visits to the NPES offices in China and India, I considered this similar potential for NPES members. After a 16-day trip to Shanghai, Beijing, Mumbai and New Delhi, it became apparent to me that opportunities and, indeed challenges, exist for companies willing to venture out into those territories. I’ll spare you the multitude of photo ops of me cutting ribbons and gripping n’ grinning, because it was during my one-to-one discussions at shows, visits to equipment manufacturers, printers and designers, that I realized if NPES doesn’t do a better job of engaging members internationally, both members and NPES will be completely left out of this “gold rush.”