CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS POSE CHALLENGES TO BEAUTY EXPORTERS, BUT MARKETS ARE GROWING
April 21st, 2015
Of all the countries that made up the old Soviet Union, the central Asian republics have proved the slowest to open up to the outside world. For the personal care product industry, this represents opportunities, but also significant hurdles and barriers.Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan straddle a belt of central Asia and all, to varying degrees, remain covered in permafrost when it comes to political, democratic, economic and financial development. They are also all, to greater or less extent, home to significant natural resources, ...
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