The Sixteenth-Largest Economy
A 1" bite that looks modest and lands like an argument — small in the hand, undeniable on the palate
$1.8 trillion in total GDP would rank business events as the sixteenth-largest economy on earth — ahead of Turkey, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia.
Why this bite? Her Oxford Economics study made the invisible industry undeniable. This small bite looks modest and lands like an argument you can't refute.
The Story
The EIC's 2026 Global Economic Significance study, produced with Oxford Economics, is the most consequential argument the seventy-five-year-old coalition has ever made: 1.65 billion participants, $1.8 trillion in total GDP, 24.2 million jobs, a sector that would rank as the sixteenth-largest economy on earth. Research is not a report — it is a weapon, built so every CMP in every conversation has a number, a source, and an argument they did not have to build themselves. This bite is the same: modest in the hand, undeniable on the palate — small, sourced, and impossible to ignore.
Read Full Story →Ingredients
- Seared foie gras or chicken liver mousse
- Brioche (cut into 1" rounds)
- Fig jam
- Maldon salt
- Aged balsamic
- Thyme
Preparation
- 1.Toast 1" brioche rounds until golden.
- 2.Spread a layer of fig jam.
- 3.Top with a small quenelle of liver mousse.
- 4.Finish with aged balsamic, thyme, and Maldon salt — small, but decisive.
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