April 14, 2012

As advanced economies around the world continue to recover from the Global Financial Crisis, Asia's consumers continue to drive global demand in everything from commodities to the travel industry. Benefiting both emerging homegrown champions and established multinational firms, driving retail expansion and cross-border dealmaking, the tastes and spending of 2.3 billion Asian consumers are now central not just to the region but to the direction of global business, law and markets.