Global Industry: The Big Eight Industrial Groups - Twenty Years Later... As the children's story "Alice in Wonderland" says, "It takes all the running you can do to stay in one place, but to get somewhere else you have to run at least twice as fast!" This phrase best describes what's happening in the global economy today. #Russia, which has made a significant leap in its own industrial production over the past 20 years, has only managed to maintain its global share (2%). South #Korea and Mexico