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Russian multinationals expanding abroad: study
MOSCOW AFP — Russia's 25 most multinational companies have more than doubled their foreign assets, sales and number of employees abroad since 2004, according to a survey published on Tuesday. The study compiled by the Skolkovo Moscow School of Management and Columbia University in New York found that the...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, asset, multinational, Russia, SALES
Research articles 2007-12-10
The government signs a memorandum of understanding to work on Wimax technology and product development with multinationals
The government signs a memorandum of understanding to work on Wimax technology and product development with multinationals including Intel, NEC, Nortel Networks and German Wimax tester Rohde & Schwarz.
Tags: Government, MARKETING, multinational, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, WIRELESS
Research articles 2007-12-01
CEOs concerned about workplace wellness.
Mar 12, 2007 (Human Resources - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The PricewaterhouseCoopers Health Research Institute compiled a report with the World Economic Forum. It is argued in the paper that the increasingly sedentary nature of work is making employees worldwide sicker, less productive and more overweight....
Tags: multinational, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, workplace, World Economic Forum
Research articles 2007-03-12
Top multinationals pledge to cut carbon pollution
PARIS AFP — Some of the very corporations once vilified by environmentalists promised to reduce by 10 million tons annually their collective output of carbon dioxide, the main cause of global warming, the World Wildlife Fund announced. Sony, Nike, IMB, Polaroid, building-materials giant Lafarge and seven other top multinationals...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, emission, multinational, Nike Inc., pollution, treaty
Research articles 2007-02-01
Using an APA may help avoid an audit.
Byline: Mindy Piatoff Nov 13, 2006 (Tax Planning International Transfer Pricing - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Internal Revenue Service views transfer pricing and the offshore transfer of intangibles as among the biggest US tax compliance problems. The tax departments of multinationals treat...
Tags: audit, FINANCE, MARKETING, multinational, Pricing, Taxes
Research articles 2006-11-13
Oil nationalism makes life diffcult for multinationals
PARIS AFP — Russia's hard-nosed approach to foreign energy investors, Ecuador's threatening noises on oil contracts and Iran's reduction of Japan's share in a huge oil project reveal the weakness of multinationals faced with producing countries that want to dictate their own terms. "There has been a very significant change...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, Investment, Iran, multinational, president, Russia
Research articles 2006-10-21
Are American Multinationals Still "American?"
Are American Multinationals Still "American?"dichotomyI think that is the price of globalisation and to give confidence to others to do likewise.
Tags: multinational, American multinational
Discussion threads 2008-03-14
How Local Firms Beat Multinationals
Wal-Mart doesn't always win when it enters a new market. In business, David can beat Goliath, or at least maintain competitive advantage, by understanding weaknesses inherent in big companies and strengths to be derived from playing smart in your own backyard. The subject of...
Tags: Human Resources, Management, Workforce Management, Strategy, Knowledge, Multinational, Talent, Sean Silverthorne
Blog posts 2008-02-28
Are American Multinationals Still "American?"
In case you missed it, Claudia Deutsch of the New York Times had an excellent article about how General Electric is trying to become even more international than it already is. Many of America's top companies are making 50 percent of their sales offshore. United Technologies makes 60 percent of...
Tags: William J. Holstein, Management, Strategy, Sales, Globalization, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales Offshore, IBM Corp., Multinational
Blog posts 2008-02-19
INVESTMENT ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETING SET FOR MAY
According to Turkiye, the Investment Advisory Council YDK will convene for the third time in Istanbul on May 10-11. During the meeting chaired by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the government will work to encourage CEOs of large multinational to make more investments in Turkey. The International Monetary Fund and...
Tags: CEO, FINANCE, Government, IMF, investment, Istanbul, multinational, SOFTWARE, Turkey, World Bank
Research articles 2006-03-16
Multinationals: The New Masters Of The Universe - The Rise Of The Multinational Company Began In 1945, And Just Kept Going. Frances Maguire Looks At The Impact The Multinational Has Had On The Globalisation Of Banking And On Treasury And Cash Management S
The 100 biggest companies in the world control about 20% of foreign assets, and employ 6 million workers. Multi-national companies MNCs account for two-thirds of world trade, and one-third of world trade is intra-firm trade between branches of the same company. These MNCs account for more...
Tags: bank, banking, Diamond, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., multinational, payment
Research articles 2006-01-01
Global private equity majors eye cement units here.
Nov. 4--MUMBAI, India -- The Indian cement industry, the world's second-largest, is in the cross-hairs of global private equity giants as a booming economy spurs construction demand and small and mid-size companies look to cash in on the rising prices. Major foreign private equity...
Tags: cement, equity, FINANCE, India, Investment, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., multinational
Research articles 2005-11-04
The Forgotten Strategy
The Idea in Brief Multinationals' global operations consistently underperform their domestic operations. Why? These companies' strategies focus mostly on similarities across their markets: whenever possible, global companies standardize their business models to achieve economies of scale. They...
Tags: Arbitrage, Strategy, Multinational, Pankaj Ghemawat, Transportation, Financial Services, Molson, Difference, U.S., Harvard Business Review, In Brief
Articles 2007-11-02
Fear of foreign juggernauts speeds up China's anti-monopoly legislation
BEIJING AFP — China's glacially slow effort to introduce an anti-monopoly law is suddenly being sped up by concerns that foreign multinationals are gradually dominating key markets. Officials have agonized over the fine details of the rules for nearly two decades but the idea of Microsoft-style juggernauts rolling ashore...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, China, multinational, SOFTWARE, Strategy
Research articles 2005-01-30
China takes aim at multinationals with anti-monopoly law
SHANGHAI, AFP — A planned anti-monopoly law in China has taken on new urgency amid complaints that legislators are moving too slowly to ensure that multinationals do not dominate the fledgling Chinese market, state press reported. The Ministry of Commerce and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce are...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Branding, China, FINANCE, Investment, MARKETING, multinational, Strategy
Research articles 2004-11-14
U.S.-China Commission wants U.S. to act
The United States - China Economic and Security Review Commission spent a day in Akron, Ohio, in late September, conducting a field hearing on the health of the U.S. manufacturing sector. It was a dour event, with more than a dozen people describing the current situation using terms such as...
Tags: China, commission, FINANCE, Government, manufacturing, multinational, Ohio, SALES, U.S., U.S. Congress, World Trade Organization
Research articles 2004-11-04
The Future of Multinationals
Halliburton created a political kerfuffle last month when it announced it was moving its corporate headquarters from Houston to Dubai. But this article from the Economist says that several corporations are rethinking their strategies on where they should base their businesses. Here's what the article says about IBM boss Sam...
Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, Sales Strategy, Strategy, Management, Business Operations, Sales, Joseph De Avila, Globalization, Multinational
Blog posts 2007-04-06
Spanish delocalisation sparks concern as Levi Strauss moves out
MADRID AFP ? The growing trend to move business from high-wage markets to emerging countries has sparked a hot debate in Spain, where US jeans maker Levi Strauss this week joined numerous other firms in announcing it was pulling out for lower-cost climes. Once it closes its Spanish sites...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Benefits, Europe, Levi Strauss, multinational, Spain
Research articles 2004-06-05
Nicaragua offers to mediate after Shell, Dole, Standard Fruit told to pay millions
MANAGUA AFP ? Nicaragua's government has offered 80 farmers made sick by the pesticide nemagon on banana plantations in the 1970s to mediate with three US multinationals that have been ordered to pay 82.9 million dollars in fines. Attorney General Victor Talavera suggest to the parties they should negotiate...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Government, Litigation, multinational, settlement, Shell, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2004-03-04
Shell, Dole and Standard Fruit to pay millions for Nicaragua pesticides
MANAGUA AFP ? A Nicaraguan court ordered three US multinationals -- Shell Chemical, Dole Food and Standard Fruit -- to pay 82.9 million dollars to 80 farmers made sick by the pesticide nemagon on banana plantations in the 1970s, a court source said Wednesday. Managua civil court justice Vida...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Manufacturing, multinational, Shell
Research articles 2004-03-03
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