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  • Leopard Capital Investors Conference, Vientiane,
    16-17 May 2011: Intergro teamed up with Leopard
    Capital organizing a conference for more than 20
    investors from the USA, Europe and Asia to tour and
    learn about investment opportunities in Laos. Leopard
    Capital is a private equity firm specializing in frontier
    (pre-emerging) markets, with operations in
    Cambodia, Laos, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The two-
    day event include touring a hydropower dam, a
    cassava processing plant, Lao Securities Exchange
    and a half-day sit-in forum with presentations by a
    government official, private economist and a host of
    private companies from mining, energy, processing
    and financial sectors.





















Research & International Conferences:

  • Dr. Mana Southichack, Intergro's Director, Economist
    and Business Advisor, co-authored a paper with Dr.
    Manoj Potapohn, Professor of Economics and
    Assistant Dean for Research, Chiang Mai University,
    Thailand, on "Socioeconomic consequences of large
    land concessions in northern and southern villages of
    Lao PDR"; presented at the IASC 2011, Hyderabad,
    India, 10-14 January 2011.
  • Dr. Mana Southichack, Intergro's Director, Economist
    and Business Advisor, was invited to present a paper
    titled "Dynamic Cost-Based Dairy Pricing System: A
    Solution to Hawaii's Dairy Industry?" to an
    international audience at the Oxford Business and
    Economics Conference 2010, St. Hugh's College,
    Oxford University, United Kingdom, 28-30 June 2010.
  • At the Third International Conference on Lao Studies,
    Dr. Mana Southichack, Intergro's Director, Economist
    and Business Advisor, presented a paper titled
    "Economic Convergence inside Laos?" at the Khon
    Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand, 14-16 July
    2010.
  • "The Lao Coffee Economy: A New Growth Path on
    the Horizon?, by Dr. Mana Southichack, Intergro's
    Director for Business and Economics.
Updated: 13 Mar. 2012
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Picture taken at the front steps of the Lao Securities
Exchange (LSX), with Leopard Capital Managing Partner
Mr. Ken Stevens (front left), Chairman of the LSX Mr.
Dethphouvang Moularat (front center), Director of Lao
Intergro Dr. Mana Southichack (front right) and investors
from USA, Europe and Asia.
In early April 2011, as part of our company's effort to contribute to society, Intergro's Director, Dr. Mana
Southichack, volunteered to do a recruitment presentation for the Department of Economics, University of
Hawaii-Manoa, USA, at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, National University of
Laos. The recruitment is for studying Masters and PhD degrees in Economics at UH-Manoa, where Dr.
Mana received his PhD in 1998. More than 50 students attended with much enthusiasm.

Intergro's monthly letter for people who never stop
upgrading. It's where important business, financial and
economic events, matters and thoughts are gathered and
presented in a time-saving fashion.
Available since January 2011.

The world keeps changing, and so do matters within human society that are critical for conducting
businesses and carrying out projects.  In addition to providing research for our clients on a
project-by-project basis, to stay up-to-date with the present, to build our own knowledge base, Lao Intergro
regularly monitors economics and business key indicators and conducts research on various topics and
evolving issues related to investment, business operations, economics, finance, the environment and
natural resources. We use the most up-to-date research methods, to obtain accurate and reliable
information, and computer software for data management and data processing. We maintain the capacity
to develop the best-possible, most accurate and easily understandable interpretation of the problems. So,
regardless of the level of complexity and the nature of the challenge at hand, Lao Intergro will come up with
the most appropriate and cost-effective way of addressing it.

Our obsession in conducting research is to make the complex understandable and the challenging
doable.
OUR RESEARCH
Policy Research
Lao Intergro assists policy makers with high quality
research to assess the economic, social and
environmental impacts of policies, regulations, rules
and laws needed to guide the proper and timely
adjustment of the design and implementation of these
policies leading to higher economic outcomes.
Lao Intergro's services:

  • Research (economic policy, economic impact, market,
    feasibility)
  • Business solutions (finance, management, market
    development)
  • Agricultural solutions (finance, technology, supply
    chain linkages)
In late November 2011, Lao Intergro, together with
our friends--Aloha United Soccer Team (from
Hawaii, USA), McCullagh (Laos), Update Magazine,
Khobchaideu Restaurant, Anou Construction
Enterprise, Viettien, and Sengathit
Development--organized a mini charity soccer
tournament in Pakse to assist flood victims in
Champassak Province. Together, we donated
$3,000 in cash and more than kip5 million of
clothing and rice to assist flood victims, plus two
dozen pairs of soccer shoes for young athletes.