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Posted on 2/22/2012 at 8:45:08 AM
Accor, which has significantly increased its dividend for 2011, showed Wednesday confident for 2012, considering its favorable business opportunities with events like the London Olympics, trade shows in Germany and the European Cup football.
The fourth global hotel group, first in Europe, believes that the trends observed in the fourth quarter of 2011 continued [...]
Posted on 2/20/2012 at 10:15:24 PM
The Tokyo Stock Exchange closed up 1.08% on Monday, buoyed by a decision of monetary easing by the Bank of China and hopes to agree a new plan to help ; Greece.
The Nikkei gained 100.92 points to 9485.09 points after surpassing the 9,500 points for the first time in over six months. The Topix [...]
Posted on 2/18/2012 at 10:10:09 AM
The World Bank on Friday launched the process of selecting a new president to replace Robert Zoellick, whose term ends in June.
Countries wishing to present candidates must do so by March 23. The bank hopes to communicate his choice at meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in April.
The [...]
Posted on 2/15/2012 at 6:10:08 AM
Heineken, the world's third largest brewer, has launched a cost reduction of 500 million euros this year and put on the growth of its sales in emerging markets to offset higher prices of barley.
The manufacturer of beers Heineken and Amstel, who has saved 614 million euros in its latest plan to reduce costs [...]
Posted on 2/6/2012 at 7:25:07 PM
Longchamp, which saw its sales jump over 20% in 2011, anticipates a slowdown in growth this year with the deteriorating economic conditions in Europe.
The luxury leather goods, which has now updated its image with its collections of bags signed by supermodel Kate Moss, grew by 22% at constant currency in 2011, an increase [...]
Posted on 12/1/2011 at 4:50:11 PM
Nicolas Sarkozy said Thursday the Franco-German union deal with the unprecedented crisis hitting the euro, assuring the French that "control of their destiny" and their economic future depended primarily a Europe refounded.
In a speech of nearly an hour solemnly pronounced in Toulon, before some 5,000 people, the Head of State stressed that while [...]
Posted on 10/27/2011 at 7:10:08 AM
The operating profit of Volkswagen of nine months rose 86% to 8.97 billion euros, with a rate of double-digit growth in sales and a gain related to the merger with Porsche.
Shipments rose 14.1% to 6.17 million vehicles, the double-digit growth for "almost all regions," said Volkswagen, without detailing the sales figures by geographic [...]
Posted on 10/12/2011 at 1:45:07 PM
Despite the rule of non-replacement of a staff of two retiring, staff costs still represent over 40% of the state budget. This measure creates two times less than expected savings, according to a parliamentary report. View the Ministry of Economy and Finance at Bercy.
150,000: the number of jobs of employees who have been removed [...]
Posted on 10/7/2011 at 5:45:07 AM
The budget deficit of the French government came to 102.8 billion euros at the end of August against 122.1 billion a year earlier, according to data released Friday by the Department of Budget.
The evolution from one year to another is marked in particular by a deterioration in the balance of 10.3 billion special [...]
Posted on 10/5/2011 at 5:10:09 PM
German Beiersdorf has hired a new CEO in an attempt to fight against the erosion of its market share, in the person of Stefan Heidenreich, head of the Swiss food group Hero.
Heidenreich will be appointed to the Executive in January and will take office after the annual general meeting, scheduled April 26, the [...]
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