Reduce Employee Holiday: here is the solution proposed by German employers to offset the lack of labor in small and medium enterprises. "We must reduce our gains and build only four weeks of leave if we are to sustain growth," today called Ursula Frerichs, president of the Association of SMEs in the daily Bild. [...]
Aug
4
BIC provides a moderate growth in sales in 2010 because it anticipates a slowdown in the second half. The first part of the year was solid with improved operating margins in 2010 compared to 15.3% in 2009.
The specialist pens, lighters and razors in a statement reported a 41.3% jump in net profit [...]
Jul
13
Prudence on Asian stock markets on Tuesday. Following a meeting in the green, the financial centers of the region are more conservative. The closing slightly higher on Wall Street yesterday explqiue partly this lack of insurance investors. The U.S. stock market appears wait while the quarterly beginning, Alcoa has presented his findings yesterday, and [...]
Jul
1
New session in the red for the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the largest in the Asia-Pacific. On Thursday, the Nikkei index lost another 2.04% to end at 9,191 points, its lowest level this year.
The bad behavior of Wall Street the day affects the morale of investors. Especially in the Standard & Poor's 500, [...]
Jun
12
European banks have passed the tests of strength by Moody's. The rating agency has increased the stress tests to thirty European banks from ten countries and has concluded they have a level of capital sufficient to take further losses. The concerns related in particular to the ability of these institutions to cover potential losses [...]
Jun
1
Change of era at the head of the galaxy Auchan. At 65, Christophe Dubrulle, chief executive of Yankee distributor since 1996, announced Wednesday his retirement. The current chairman of the supervisory board, Vianney Mulliez, succeeds him. A "non-Mulliez" therefore gives way to a Mulliez, cousin of Gerard Mulliez, founder of the now eleventh worldwide [...]
Apr
23
Ingenico believes to be on track to meet its financial targets in 2010 after seeing its sales on a constant increase of 8.8% in the first quarter.
Sales of specialist electronic payment terminals totaled 173.2 million euros against 153.3 million a year earlier, a growth that the group deems consistent with its expectations. [...]
Apr
9
Headline earnings Thursday on Wall Street are reflected in the increase in market indices in Asia on Friday morning. If the Nikkei earns only 0.05% at 11,173 points, after having slid more than 1% yesterday, the Hang Seng in Hong Kong rises, her, 1.35%.
In China, the Shanghai index up 0.58% at 3366 [...]
Apr
8
Far from the torpor on the United States and Europe, emerging Asia is in great shape. "Largely thanks to China, regional output, exports and employment have recently regained their pre-crisis levels," notes the World Bank in its half-yearly report on East Asia and the Pacific, published Wednesday. It is therefore auspicious that takes place [...]