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Winter Power Concern in NZ
Rain this week has bought a little time but the New Zealand electricity industry remains concerned about lake levels and is asking the public to do their bit to save power.Transpower said that hydro lake levels were still concerning and the industry was continuing with contingency planning to ensure...
Tags: Industry, Strategy, Management, NZPA
News items 2008-05-01
Michael Tucker: Entertainment Entrepreneur
Michael Tucker is President of Zia Entertainment, a company that manages and develops various talent in the production industry. Tucker talks about how he found his career and the importance of staying flexible in a diverse and competitive business climate.
Tags: talent, career, entertainment
Videos 2008-04-29
EU Probe Says Travel Web Sites Mislead Consumers
By Darren Ennis BRUSSELS (Reuters UK) - One in three European consumers are being misled or ripped off by Web sites selling airline tickets, the European Union's consumer chief said on Thursday, warning the industry to improve or face legal action. "It is unacceptable that one...
Tags: Web, Industry, Norway, Web Site, European Union, Web Site Development, Government, Brussels
News items 2008-05-08
Man Bites Dog: Former Merck CEO Blasts High Drug Prices
Most pharmaceutical companies insist that high drug prices are a natural consequence of the risky business of drug discovery, and that huge profits on marketed drugs are necessary to cover the costs of the 5,000 to 10,000 experimental drugs that fail for every one that succeeds. In fact, there are...
Tags: Industry, Dr., Merck & Co. Inc., Pharmaceutical Company, Drug, Pricing, Strategy, Marketing, Management, David P. Hamilton
Blog posts 2008-05-05
A Mini-Management Library
Newspapers aren't famous for their knowledge of management. But Jill Geisler, the management guru at the Poynter Institute, a news industry think tank and training ground, has put together a not-bad list of management books. For improving as a manager: "Understanding and Changing...
Tags: Michael Fitzgerald, Fisher, Robert
Blog posts 2008-04-28
Condensate Exemption Hits Woodside Hard
Woodside Petroleum Ltd has slammed the federal government's budget decision to remove a 30-year old tax exemption on extracting light crude oil from natural gas, saying it wasn't consulted about the move.Woodside says the tax exemption has underpinned the viability of the $25 billion North West Shelf Venture in...
Tags: Exemption, Industry, Natural Gas, Government, Vertical Industries, Telecom & Utilities, Enterprise Software, Software, AAP
News items 2008-05-14
China Denies Mulling Iron Ore Premium For BHP and Rio
By Alfred Cang and James Regan SHANGHAI/SYDNEY (Reuters UK) - Chinese steel industry officials said on Monday that China's mills are not considering paying a freight premium demanded by Australian iron ore miners BHP and Rio Tinto RIO, denying a media report. The demand has become...
Tags: China, Industry, Negotiation, BHP, Pricing, Strategy, Free Trade, Marketing
News items 2008-04-27
Some Travel Blogs to Watch
Starting today, I'm on vacation. Actually by the time this gets posted, I'll already be wandering around Peru. While I'm there, I won't be writing a thing, but through the magic of the internet, you'll still see a post here every day while I'm gone. Ok, maybe...
Tags: Industry, Blog, Blogging, Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, Investment, Finance, Brett Snyder
Blog posts 2008-04-28
Drug Firms Question Investment in UK
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Global drugmakers have started to question their investment in Britain, following a government decision to scrap a 50-year-old drug pricing scheme, the outgoing head of the country's industry body said on Thursday. Nigel Brooksby, president of the Association of the British ...
Tags: Drug Company, Investment, Industry, U.K., Britain, Government, Research & Development, Vertical Industries
News items 2008-04-30
China May Agree 85% Iron Ore Price Rise
China may concede to Australian demands to include a freight premium in iron ore price negotiations that could boost this year's price rise to 85 per cent, industry sources and a media report says.There is a strong view within the Chinese industry that miners will achieve the 85 per...
Tags: China, Industry, Negotiation, Free Trade, Strategy, Finance, Management, REUTERS
News items 2008-05-06
Winmark Rolls Up the Yard Sale industry
With the economy tanking and people concerned about the environment, recycled goods are hot. While eBay and Craigslist corner the used-stuff market in cyberspace, Winmark Corp. of Minneapolis turns kids' castoff cribs, hockey skates, prom dresses, and half-size violins into half a billion dollars in cash at more than 850...
Tags: Resale, Industry, Winmark Corp., Plato, Computer Program, Productivity, Sales Strategy, Strategy, Sales, Management, Lisa Everitt
Blog posts 2008-05-01
Congress Might Mandate a Federal Drug-Tracking System
Over the past few years, a rise in counterfeit versions of name-brand drugs has generated a fair amount of concern within government and the drug industry. (The growing scandal over tainted heparin, while a separate issue, hasn't helped.) And yet drugmakers have balked at current plans to track genuine drugs...
Tags: Industry, U.S. Congress, Pharmaceutical Company, David P. Hamilton
Blog posts 2008-04-30
Iraqis Aim to Learn From Northern Ireland on Investment
LONDON (Reuters UK) - A panel trying to encourage investment in Iraq's southern province of Basra will tour Northern Ireland this week to learn how a region's economy can recover after years of conflict, its members said on Monday. The Basra Development Commission, made up of...
Tags: Commission, Investment, Industry, Sales Force Management, Sales, Oukbs
News items 2008-04-28
Digital Ad Growth Helps industry Revenue Rise 8.6 Percent
Ad Age put out its revenue numbers for the industry as a whole for 2007, and found a surprising 8.6 percent jump in growth. With a slumping print industry continuing a multi-year swan dive, that growth was bolstered by a lot of digital. From Ad Age: While it comes...
Tags: Revenue, Advertisement, Industry, Jake Swearingen
Blog posts 2008-05-07
Auto Retailers Struggle to Offset New Car Slump
By Kevin Krolicki DETROIT (Reuters) - Major U.S. auto retail groups on Tuesday posted quarterly results that underscore their mixed success in offsetting pressure from slumping new vehicle sales through sales of used cars, financing and service operations. Penske Automotive Group Inc PAG,...
Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Financial accounting, Penske Automotive Group Inc., Sonic Automotive Inc., service operation, earnings forecast, dealership, financing, housing market, Detroit, earnings, retail company, sales, same-store sales, consumer confidenc
News items 2008-04-29
E-Commerce And Web Marketing In Furniture industry
Data and information are provided on: spread of the Internet and online purchasing trends, use of the Internet by furniture consumers analysis of the online furniture purchasing process, furniture distribution on the Internet between furniture manufacturers and distributors, e-procurement between furniture manufacturers and suppliers to the furniture industry. It also...
Tags: Manufacturing, furniture, e-procurement, manufacturer, Internet, supplier, e-business, analysis, industry, Web
White papers
Investment Benchmark Reports
Investment Benchmark Reports are the most comprehensive, insightful and authoritative reports in the industry, with aggregate statistics from over a thousand private equity funds, analyzed by Venture Economics' leading researchers and analysts. These easy-to-use reports will enable you to analyze the performance of the entire spectrum of the private equity...
Tags: Financial services, Investment, Thomson Corp., private equity, performance, industry
White papers
Supply Chain Performance Management in the Energy industry
Despite relatively buoyant and rising energy commodity prices, the push for reduced costs and increased efficiencies across the oil & gas, petrochemicals, and utilities industry is as strong as it has ever been. Today, an energy company – whether it be involved in exploration & production, refining, petrochemicals, retail or...
Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), SeeCommerce, energy company, supply chain, value chain, industry
White papers
Ultracapacitor System Design: Optimizing Hybrid Electric Vehicles With Fuel Cell Power
The automotive industry's recent push towards developing electric and hybrid electric vehicles EV and HEVs is a direct response to the growing global pressure to improve the environment and has resulted in a search for significantly cleaner and more efficient vehicles. So far, the outcome of this search has not...
Tags: Fuel cells, fuel cell, environment, industry
White papers
Comics on the Internet
This white paper will examine the business of comics publishing and the effects of the Internet, current and potential, on this industry. Currently, the comic book publishing industry is trying to pull out of a depressed market, where it has fallen for the past few years. While the early to...
Tags: industry, Internet
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