Reply #7: No.

[MADem]

If twenty percent of the dough that is invested in the company, or comes IN to their company by way of purchases, comes out of Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, or other Arab nations, you're going to include Arabic in that bunch of languages. If a boat load of cash is coming out of Russia, a translation for the tovariches is going to happen. If you're getting a shitload of cash from Canada, you're gonna see English AND French, because that's how Canada rolls.

It's not "investor's language preferences' that are at issue, or even IPO investors--the question was about MULTINATIONALS. They know where their money is coming from day by day, year by year--that's what drives their train. They know where their retail assets are, and supporting those assets are personnel and infrastructure of varying sizes.

I'll bet WALMART does their fancy glossy "Yearbook" in a dozen or more languages. Same with TOYOTA. It's all about where you play.