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• Consumers are not so shy after all.

  - 2005-05-22

  May 22, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Australian consumers are willing to be the recipients of direct marketing efforts. This is according to a survey of 1,012 Australians conducted by Taylor Nelson Sofres and the University of New South Wales ...

  Tags: MARKETING, SALES, Taylor Nelson Sofres Plc., University of New South Wales

• Christmas card debt slows down.

  - 2003-01-31

  Jan 31, 2003 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) Australians' household borrowing fell by a seasonally adjusted 0.1 per cent in December 2002. Reserve Bank figures show that household borrowing for personal loans and credit cards was slightly below the December 2001 figure. Westpac...

  Tags: bank, SALES, University of New South Wales

• Heavyweight obsession.

  - 2003-01-29

  Jan 29, 2003 (Far Eastern Economic Review - ABIX via COMTEX) The number of Asians who are overweight is growing fast. Unscrupulous manufacturers are eager to profit from the gullibility of some consumers. Weight-loss products are often of dubious quality. Big money is involved....

  Tags: gullibility, nutrition, SALES, University of New South Wales

• Banks to pare back reward schemes.

  - 2002-08-27

  Aug 27, 2002 (The Advertiser - ABIX via COMTEX) Credit card reward schemes in Australia could be slashed after the reserve bank moved to cut merchant fees. With commissions, or "interchange fees", down by 40, so too will loyalty programs decline, one analyst advised....

  Tags: SALES, University of New South Wales

• Apathy on solvency hard to credit.

  - 2002-04-30

  Apr 30, 2002 The Australian Financial Review ABIX via COMTEX -- At present, margin lenders in Australia are not required to investigate the financial stability of a potential client. There are no regulations that require them to ascertain that a borrower has sufficient income...

  Tags: Australia, FINANCE, income, SALES, University of New South Wales

• People On The Move Within The Industry

  - 2000-02-01

  Forbes, Inc. has announced that Anne Mintz has assumed the newly created position of Forbes' director of knowledge management. She had previously held the title of director of information services since joining the company in 1986. During her tenure at Forbes, Mintz has been responsible for automating and restructuring...

  Tags: American Library Association, director, Forbes, librarian, president, SALES, SOFTWARE, Strategy, University of New South Wales, University of Pittsburgh

• Biomass yields commercially viable products

  - 1999-02-01

  The aim of the Fractionated Biomass Program at the Cooperative Research Center for Food Industry Innovation (CRC, University of New South Wales, Biotechnology Department, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia) is to develop production processes for microbial products that have been identified as having commercial potential and to perform the scale-up production...

  Tags: food, Manufacturing, SALES, University of New South Wales