In a recent survey conducted by Woolcott Research, eighty four percent of business owners said they fear their business will experience crime at some stage. Sixty percent said they had already experienced crime - ranging from burglary, vandalism, graffiti or shoplifting.
Yet a surprising number of businesses - and small businesses in particular - remain completely [...]
A number of changes to business tax filing and accounting rules have been announced in a joint Budget statement from Finance Minister Michael Cullen and Revenue Minister Peter Dunne.
“Compliance costs will be reduced by raising a number of tax thresholds,” they say. “That may mean fewer tax returns for businesses to complete, a reduction in [...]
Rich-List property developer Simon Henry is diversifying into chemical and dangerous goods storage and eyeing bank-managed mortgagee sales around New Zealand.
The owner of the South Island’s largest office building, leased to the IRD, and a host of other properties including Christchurch’s the Link Centre, says he has been happily in talks with banks.
NBR’s 2007 Rich [...]
United Business Media, the specialist publishing and events group, Business Quotes is abandoning the UK after 90 years to take advantage of the more favourable tax regime in Ireland.
The move by the company is the second snub to the UK’s tax regime in a month following the decision of drugs group Shire said to move [...]
Manufacturing Journalist TR Cutler Reports on Tier 1 Food Distribution
QC Software is the leading provider of Tier 1 warehouse control systems to the warehousing and distribution industries. Since 1996, QC Software, utilizing state of the art technology combined with extensive research, development, and rigorous testing, has developed the QC Enterprise suite of products. [...]
Gary Spector quit the auto insurance industry nearly 15 years ago to help injury victims fight for their statutory accident benefits.The former claims adjuster encountered a mountain of paperwork in his new role as advocate, and a molehill of respect.He expects more respect May 1.That’s when he and nearly 1,900 other nonlawyers in Ontario will [...]
GENEVA%26ndash;The World Trade Organization will rule against the European Union next week in a 12-year-old dispute with Canada and the U.S. over beef treated with hormones, according to a summary of the ruling obtained today by The Associated Press. The ruling will [...]
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has promoted Brady Kelley to chief financial and business strategy officer, a new position.
Kelley had been the organization’s business strategy officer, spokesman Scott Holeman said. CFO Jeff Johnston recently left the organization, which combined the jobs to create the new position.
Kelley will lead and manage Kansas City-based NAIC’s business [...]
New e-learning courses help U.S. and Canadian real estate professionals protect customer and client identity, financial details, privacy compliance and their own sensitive business data.
Toronto,Ontario,March,20,2008 — With identity theft, privacy breaches and personal safety issues reaching an all time high in North America, it is crucial that real estate professionals learn how to safeguard information [...]
newsmaker For a man who just got fined more than a billion dollars for antitrust violations, Steve Ballmer is feeling plenty of competitive heat.
In an interview, the Microsoft CEO pointed to tough competitors in every part of the business. Longtime foes like Oracle and IBM remain, but Google, Apple, and Linux all loom large.
Against that [...]
