World Cup and National Pride
The advent of the FIFA World Cup has provided us with a fascinating display of national pride, footballing skills and theatrics.
It also reminds us that football is a truly global game; participants from different socio-economic and political backgrounds from all over the world come together with one goal: to win the 2014 FIFA World Cup. I am looking forward to my sweepstakes team, the Netherlands, holding the trophy aloft.
Back in good old NZ what have we got to look forward to in addition to our “Rock Star” economy ? We have increases in the OCR and the election. So interesting times for us all.
Although initially you may not see many parallels between the World Cup and Lock Finance, putting aside footballing skill (and theatrics!) we do have two core similarities:
- National Pride: Lock Finance have been around since 1889 and is 100% NZ owned and operated.
- Our Global products: The lending facilities that we provide are used in 73 countries that have approximately 3000 providers of Invoice Financing type products. Total reported Global turnover in these products for 2013 reached $2.2 trillion Euro.
So the invoice lending and purchase order financing products we offer are truly global facilities that we put a local flavor on. If a client of yours is needing some additional working capital funding then do remember us.
Good luck to those that support a team remaining in the World Cup and I hope that your office sweepstake is worth the early mornings.
Craig Brown
General Manager Lending
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