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Karen Alweil: High-End Retail Visionary
Karen Alweil Studio represents high-end gift and furniture manufacturers to retailers. Owner Karen Alweil talks about how she finds the best talent and markets their products in a way that gives her an edge over the competition.
Tags: Visionary, Karen Alweil Studio, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Karen Alweil, high-end, gift, furniture, manufacturers, retailers, talent, markets, products, competition
Videos 2008-04-10
Pricing Electronic Mail to Solve the Problem of Spam
Junk e-mail or spam is rapidly choking off e-mail as a reliable and efficient means of communication over the Internet. Although the demand for human attention increases rapidly with the volume of information and communication, the supply of attention hardly changes. Markets are a social institution for efficiently allocating supply...
Tags: Attention, Pricing Strategy, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Markets, Pricing, E-mail, Marketing Research, Marketing, Online Communications
White papers 2005-06-26
Myths and Realities Shaping LNG
Picture this scenario. It's winter 2003-2004 and domestic natural gas supplies are tight as a drum. Storage is testing record lows, the Arctic fronts are swooping in from the north and Canadian exports are woefully unable to keep up. Stranded local utility systems need additions desperately. Or, the scenario could...
Tags: America, Natural Gas, Markets, Telecom & Utilities
White papers 2003-04-01
Capitalising on the Growing Awareness and Demand for Navigation
Markets are changing rapidly and SBD has the resources and insight to keep customers up-to-date with key trends in technologies, standards and consumer requirements - information that is crucial in making the right business decisions. This whitepaper provides an overview of the changing landscape of the navigation markets in Europe...
Tags: Navigation, SBD, Markets, Quality, Business Operations
White papers 2006-06-01
Compensating Your Sales People Effectively
From the executive summary: ‘Even though the last couple of years have been good for many companies, most will admit to a general uneasiness about the demand for their products. Markets are leveling off, and customers are much more conservative than they used to be. Constant change, growing competitors, and...
Tags: Sales People, Derby Management, Markets, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales
White papers 2003-01-01
Who Benefits Whom in Daily Newspaper Markets
Markets are generally thought to avoid problems, such as tyranny of the majority, that arise when allocation is accomplished through collective processes. Yet, with fixed costs, differentiated product markets deliver only products desired by substantial constituencies. When consumers share similar preferences, then additional consumers will bring forth additional products or...
Tags: Consumer, Social Science Electronic Publishing Inc., Markets, Product Market, Benefits, Human Resources
White papers 2000-01-01
Starbucks Rises After Results
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Starbucks Corp SBUX jumped 1.5 percent to $20 after the bell on Thursday as the coffee chain operator posted its quarterly results.Reporting by Ellis Mnyandu
Tags: Starbucks Corp., Markets, Us
News items 2009-11-05
FTSE Pares Losses After Data
LONDON (Reuters UK) - The top share index pared losses and gilt futures slipped on Thursday after data showed British manufacturing output rose faster than expected in September, lifting optimism on the economic outlook.The Office for National Statistics said that factory output rose by 1.7 percent in September, increasing from...
Tags: London, FTSE, Manufacturing, Markets, Oukbs
News items 2009-11-05
Nikkei Slips as Exporters Sold
By Elaine LiesTOKYO (Reuters UK) - Japan's Nikkei stock average lost 1.2 percent on Thursday with Canon Inc and other exporters slipping as investors, prompted by a slightly stronger yen, locked in profits ahead of U.S. jobs data.Sanyo Electric Co lost a fifth of its value after Panasonic...
Tags: Nikkei, Yen, Financial Accounting, Finance, Global, Markets, Oukbs
News items 2009-11-04
Oil Jumps on Economic Optimism
By Alex LawlerLONDON (Reuters) - Oil jumped more than 2 percent toward $74 a barrel Monday, the highest in over six weeks, on optimism about the pace of global economic recovery and indications of stronger oil demand.Crude gained 2.6 percent last week, bolstered by a falling dollar. The International Energy...
Tags: Stock, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Markets, Oil, Us, US
News items 2009-10-12
Tata secures private funding for Jaguar and Land Rover
India's Tata Motors yesterday said it had secured private funding for its Jaguar and Land Rover marques, ending state aid talks with the UK government.Shares in India's biggest vehicles maker rose 6.81 per cent on the Bombay Stock Exchange following the news, in a clear sign that investors feel...
Tags: Tata Motors, Land Rover, Tata, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Investment, Sales, Finance, Company News, Equities, Government Grants & Subsidies, Government News, Market News, Marketing, Markets, Financial Times
External links 2009-08-11
China's Concerns Over U.S.
The separate economies of the United States and China are extremely co-dependent upon one another, which has sparked greater concern over the worldwide recession. Barry Petersen reports from Beijing.
Tags: U.S., China, Concern, MoneyWatch, Evening, World, Politics, Business, Communism, Capitalism, Socialism, Corporation, Economy, Recession, Depression, Finance, Markets, Trade
Videos 2009-03-19
World Markets Tumble
Financial experts say investors need a clearer sign from Washington before committing capital, now that the Dow has dropped 19 percent since January.
Tags: The Dow Chemical Co., MoneyWatch, Financial Accounting, Finance, markets, dow, wall street, tumble, banking, harry smith, 7000, recession
Videos 2009-02-24
How to Manage a Crisis, Any Crisis
Market bubbles burst, companies crash and burn, investment portfolios become worthless overnight. Why? Overconfidence, greed, irrational exuberance, mass stupidity. Whatever the cause, the result is the same: Crisis. Crisis can be an opportunity or a threat. That's why how you behave in a crisis, how you manage a crisis, is...
Tags: Crisis, Markets, Swot analysis, Crisis Management, Leadership, Team Management, Games, Marketing, Marketing Research, Management, Personal Technology, Steve Tobak
Blog posts 2008-10-02
Investors favour nuclear power utilities
The pro-business credentials of Germany's incoming coalition government gave a modest boost to the country's equity markets yesterday, with investors quick to judge that some of Europe's biggest power generation companies would be among the corporate winners from Sunday's general election.Shares in Eon and RWE, the utility companies, led...
Tags: Coalition, Nuclear Energy, Germany, Solar Energy, Investor, Government, Telecom & Utilities, Vertical Industries, Equities, General News, Government News, Market News, Market Reports, Markets, Nuclear Issues, Financial Times
External links 2009-09-28
Goldman's private equity arm plans to invest in Geely
A private equity unit of Goldman Sachs is poised to invest around $250m in Geely Automobile Holdings, China's largest privately-owned car maker, according to a person familiar with the matter.Goldman Sachs Capital Partners will buy convertible bonds and warrants issued by Geely's Hong Kong-listed subsidiary. People familiar with the...
Tags: Private Equity, Goldman, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Bonds, Company News, Corporate Finance, Expenditure, Market News, Markets, Shareholdings, Financial Times
External links 2009-09-20
Footsie closes over 5,000 for the first time in year
Rumoured takeover target Lonmin underperformed yesterday as the FTSE 100 pushed on to close above 5,000 points for the first time in almost a year.The South African platinum miner closed 2.8 per cent lower at £16.64 after Merrill Lynch called time on its recent strong run. Lonmin shares have...
Tags: FTSE 100, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Lonmin Plc., Rumour, Company News, Equities, Market News, Market Reports, Markets, Financial Times
External links 2009-09-09
Flurry of mining interest revives flagging Footsie
Bid hopes lifted Lonmin yesterday as the mining sector gave the FTSE 100 its first gain of the week.The platinum specialist was up 9.4 per cent to £15.78 after Exane BNP Paribas added its weight to speculation Xstrata will make a second bid approach.Xstrata, Lonmin's 24.9 per...
Tags: Xstrata Plc., Lonmin Plc., Financial Accounting, Finance, Equities, Market News, Market Reports, Markets, Financial Times
External links 2009-09-04
Bullion demand at 5½-year low
Demand for gold sank to a 5½-year low in the second quarter of 2009 with jewellery buying weakened by global economic recession."The global economic downturn has had a major impact on the purchasing power of gold consumers, as have high local prices and dollar volatility," said Aram Shishmanian, chief...
Tags: Quarter, Price, Investment, Finance, Economic News, Global & International Economics, Market News, Markets, Metals Markets, Recession & Recovery, Financial Times
External links 2009-08-19
India purchase adds to bullion price surge
Gold extended its record- breaking run yesterday, pushing towards the $1,100- an-ounce level following Tuesday's news that India's central bank had bought 200 tonnes of bullion from the International Monetary Fund.Gold hit a record $1,095.40 a troy ounce, up 3.4 per cent since the news from India broke, and...
Tags: India, IMF, Financial Services, Finance, Market News, Markets, Metals Markets, Financial Times
News items 2009-11-04