Trade sanctions are an increasingly common weapon. Against Russia, China, Venezuela, Iran, Turkey. In top of trade disruptions such as Brexit. And all of them constitute great opportunities, disguised as risks, provided the use of the proper methodology. Using Brexit as an example, this book provides such a simple and highly effective tool to be equally used by companies, industrial associations or even countries. The output, is always the same: a shortlist of the best business niches and the name of the main clients to focus on, among 140.400 alternatives (5.400 niches in each country multiplied by 26 EU countries). And where each opportunity niche represents hundreds of times a company's present turnover. Ravo BV in Netherlands, FlexNgate in Spain, Astellas in Ireland or BASF in Belgium are among the examples. This book is thus useful to whom wants to profit from Brexit or take advantage of the next trade war. Recalling Machiavelli recommendation of: never to waste the opportunities created by a good crisis

The book Opportunities During Depressions provides managers with examples and a methodology to find resilient businesses during economic crisis. Whatever their cause. During both the subprime and Covid crisis there were some highly resilient businesses: while some kept on growing, others even accelerated their growth. Thus within any industry there are some activities which constitute safe heavens companies should move into. And that happened across the economy: for instance, games and toys went from ± zero growth (in pre-crisis) to a +6% growth rate during crisis; the sports goods growth rate improved by +5%; and the production of protein crops including seeds accelerated by 11%. Furthermore, the empirical data confirms that the resilient industries and segments (among 615 in the economy) are similar between the Covid crisis (2020) and the subprime years (2008-2014). Thus, during recessions it is possible for any firm, in any industry to find safe heavens: resilient businesses to move into benefiting from marketing or/and technical synergies.