OCEANIA - AUSTRALIA 21/04/08

REGIONS OF OCEANIA

The regions of Oceania are broadly categorised according to the scheme for geographic subregions:

• Australasia: Australia, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, New Zealand, Norfolk Island.
• Melanesia : Fiji, Indonesia (Oceanian part only), New Caledonia (France), Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu.
• Micronesia :Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Marshall Islands.
• Polynesia: American Samoa, French Polynesia, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu.

Some countries important of the regions: Australia, New Zeland, Fiji and Papua New Guinea.

The traditions are very similar but doesnt have many of them, they have better an special lifestyle, acording to this, i will mentionted two of the most common ones:

1. The social rules of the round or shout are perhaps the most important of all social rules that need to be mastered. A round is where one individual will pay for the drinks of the other members of the drinking party. Once the drinks have been drunk, another member of the drinking party will get the next round. Every member of the drinking party must buy the same number of rounds
2. If invited to someone's home for a barbecue, etiquette stipulates that you make a contribution to the alcohol that will be drunk. At a dinner, wine is the appropriate alcoholic contribution made by guests.

Economy and lifestyle

• The homicide rate is 1.8 per 100,000 population.
• Newspaper readership, Australians read more newspapers than any other nation.
• Gambling , more money spent on gambling than any other place.
• Oceania-Australia country's expenditure on products ranks among the highest in developed countries.
• The average world population density is 117 people per square mile, In Oceania Australia country's is only 6.
• Employment - 80% service sector 14% manufacturing 5% rural.
  

Which are the most important enterprises according to the economy sectors in Australia?

• Food: AWB Lt., Burn, Philp Co. Ltd, Foster's Group Limited, Goodman Fielder Ltd, National Foods, Southcorp
• Insurance: AMP Limited, Insurance Australia Group Ltd, Promina Group Ltd, QBE Insurance Group Ltd., Reinsurance Australia Corporation Ltd
• Banking: ANZ (Australia & New Zeeland Banking Group), Babcock & Brown Ltd, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Macquarie Bank, National Australia Bank Ltd., St.George Bank Limited, State Bank of New South Wales, Westpac Bank
• Wood & paper products: Amcor, Gunns Ltd, Koppers Arch Wood Protection, Nufarm, Osmose, Stone Container Australia.

How Australia is promoting itself in different markets?

Invest Australia, the Australian Government’s inward investment agency, assists global companies to establish or expand their business in Australia. We are a promotion agency dedicated to the highest level of customer service and help businesses around the world utilise Australia’s competitive edge and capabilities to achieve their corporate objectives. We offer market intelligence, identification of investment opportunities, business matching, practical advice and ongoing support to foreign investors.

Invest Australia has offices in 18 locations worldwide, including London, Paris, Frankfurt, New York,San Francisco, Mumbai, New Delhi, Dubai, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Singapore, Tokyo and Seoul.

Some of the strategies that Australia has been using in the North East Asia are:

• Promote Australia as a business centre of excellence and proactively identify companies
  throughout Japan with likely prospects of establishing (or expanding) a business operation in Australia.
• Target client industries could include food; agribusiness; life sciences; ICT;
  infrastructure; financial services; environmental; renewable energies.
• Build a network of industry contacts and potential investors.
• Using a defined sales methodology, undertake company and market research, develop value propositions for individual companies, cold call using a targeted call list, establish contact and secure appointments with senior decision makers.

Source: http://www.transnationale.org/countries/auss.php

http://employment.australia.or.jp/docs/IATokyo_detailsandconditions.pdf