Negative financial expectations and positive results yielded by applying procurement practices to travel management are accelerating interest in what companies decide to measure, the models of measurement they devise and the tools they use to do so.
Business Travel News’ 2008 Procurement Practices study examines how and how much such practices are being applied to travel. [...]
GE, the second-largest US company by market capitalisation, had no immediate comment on the report, said spokesman Jeff DeMarrais.
The company has hired Goldman Sachs to advise on a possible sale, the Journal said. Goldman officials declined comment.
While GE’s appliance unit, which makes refrigerators, stoves and other so-called “white goods”, is one of its most visible [...]
Fairfax Media Ltd said its online arm had entered into a joint venture with Melbourne IT Ltd to give small businesses access to online marketing services as an alternative to traditional advertising.
The Advantate joint venture between Fairfax Digital and Melbourne IT - an online service provider - will provide small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) [...]
Australia’s flagship airline is preparing to smash its unionised engineering workforce with non-union labour recruited in Asia and the Pacific, in a move that echoes the epic maritime dispute that rocked the waterfront a decade ago.
Documents seen by the Sydney Morning Herald show Qantas has engaged a labour hire company, Newport Aviation, to recruit the [...]
The San Antonio Business Journal announces the winners of its third annual “Best Places to Work Awards,” which highlight companies with the best workplaces in the San Antonio area (Bexar, Guadalupe, Wilson, Comal and Kendall counties).
The winners were selected based on the results of online confidential surveys completed by the companies’ employees.
More than 200 companies [...]
It epitomised the hippie dream of free love and easy living in the Sixties. Songs, films and books mythologised it. But with the advent of powerful new strains such as skunk, cannabis is increasingly associated with feral youth, psychosis and violent crime. As the government prepares to reclassify the drug, is its decision borne of [...]
Ivan Vassilev (45) has been TNT Bulgaria’s general manager since the company registered here on January 1 1996. TNT Bulgaria has been an active member of UN Global Compact (GC) in Bulgaria since 2002, as well as of the Bulgarian Business Leaders Forum (BBLF) and a member of its board since 2002. In 2003, TNT [...]
By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON, USA (Reuters): Development ministers from around the globe on Sunday called for urgent action to stem soaring food prices, warning that social unrest will spread unless the cost of basic staples is contained. World Bank President Robert Zoellick and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown have said the issue of skyrocketing food [...]
By Daniel Bases WASHINGTON, USA (Reuters): A doubling of food prices in the last three years could potentially put 100 million people in low income countries deeper into poverty and raise the global poverty rate as much as 3 to 5 percentage points, a senior World Bank official said on Thursday. %26quot;When it doesn’t include [...]
