Fast forward to 2050 and what will the global logistics sector look like? Translink Corporate Finance, in partnership with the Stellenbosch Business School’s Institute for Futures Research has explored plausible futures for the industry in its latest sector report entitled Tomorrow: 2050 Alternative Futures for Logistics. Focusing primarily on the implications for M&A, these futures are based on two critical scenario-shaping factors impacting logistics globally: climate change mitigation and the development and adoption of new technologies.

The COVID-19 pandemic, global warming, the Russia-Ukraine conflict and global economic challenges. These are just some of the issues that are severely impacting the food and beverage industry across the globe. This, together with shifting consumer habits and lifestyle trends, is seeing this sector going through unprecedented change. While change within any sector is expected and par for the course, given the magnitude and pace at which the food and beverage industry is changing, what might this sector look like come 2050?

This year Translink Corporate Finance celebrates its golden anniversary since its founding by Dr Roland Schucht in 1972. At the time it was one of the first ‘small-to-mid-cap’ M&A firms to go cross-border. Dr Schucht’s global vision for the business has endured and today, Translink covers more than 35 countries spanning 6 continents. This month, 150 partners and colleagues from across the Translink Corporate Finance global group, gathered in Mallorca, Spain for a 50th anniversary celebration to remember.

The role of technology in the economy is an ever-expanding one, with digital acceleration bringing with it a plethora of opportunities. With the enormous benefits for consumers and businesses globally, Technology, Media and Telecommunication (TMT) has shown radical growth since the sector first emerged at the beginning of the 1900s.

What will healthcare look like in 2050? Will life expectancy be significantly longer? Will there be a slow, predictable shifting of the burden of disease, or will this accelerate in radical and surprising ways? Will the globalised world mean we experience similar disease patterns and, importantly, will the sector be able to apply nimble and agile technologies to address the needs? A new report by Translink Corporate Finance in partnership with The Institute for Futures Research at Stellenbosch Business School (IFR) explores the possible futures for healthcare by 2050 and the impacts on M&A.

Uncertainty about the future has dominated headlines in the last two years. On a global level, the COVID-19-related restrictions and, more recently, the Russia/Ukraine war have resulted in ripple effects and, in some cases, tsunamis that will be felt far into the future. The longer-term extent of these knock-on effects is unknown. Futurists therefore dedicate their work to scenario planning, to imagine plausible futures based on the so-called ‘known unknowns’. This is exactly what Translink and the Institute for Futures Research (IFR) has explored in the first of five sector reports entitled Tomorrow : 2050 Alternative Futures. The first iteration focuses on the futures of industrials.

50 years ago, in 1972, the great Watergate scandal kicked off in the US, chess maverick Bobby Fischer beat Russian grandmaster Boris Spassky, and Dr Roland Schucht founded a small Swiss cross-border M&A firm he named Translink Corporate Finance. Five decades on and Dr Schucht’s dream has grown into a truly global organisation that can proudly count itself as one of the leading firms in its class.