Wholesale prices up by 5.7 percent in November 11. December 2007 by Thomas Jannot In November this year, according to the Federal Statistical Office, wholesale prices were 5.7% higher than in November 2006. This means that prices increased much more than in October and September this year (+4.7% and +4.0%). In comparison to October this year wholesale prices increased by 1.0%.
German exports increased significantly in October 11. December 2007 by Thomas Jannot According to the Federal Statistical Office, in October 2007 exports and imports from and to Germany amounted to 88.9 and 70.1 billion Euros respectively. Thus, German exports increased by 6.3% and imports by 5.2% as compared to October last year. In comparison to September this year exports and imports grew by 0.6% and 0.2% respectively.
Roland Berger forecast boom in environmental engineering 10. December 2007 by Thomas Jannot Already today the global market volume of environmental protection engineering amounts to more than 1 trillion Euros and by 2020 this figure may increase to 2.2 trillion Euros. This is the forecast by a study which was carried out by Roland Berger Strategy Consultants on behalf of the Federal Ministry of the Environment and the …
Participants for study on production processes required 10. December 2007 by Thomas Jannot The Institut für Integrierte Produktion in Hannover and the International Performance Research Institute in Stuttgart conduct a study on the management of production processess. The study is to analyse how production start-ups can be made more efficient thereby shorting the time-to-market period. Small and medium-sized entities which have experiences in this respect are invited to …
6.3 percent more turnover in industry 10. December 2007 by Thomas Jannot According to provisional figures provided by the Federal Statistical Office, turnover in industry increased by 6.3% in real figures in October this year as compared to October 2006. In the same period domestic turnover increased by 3.4% while that with foreign buyers was up by 10.0%. In comparison to September this year turnover increased by …
Order inflow into German industry increased strongly 7. December 2007 by Thomas Jannot According to provisional figures by the Federal Statistical Office, the demand for industrial products has strongly increased by 4.0% in adjusted for price and season figures in October. Back in September the demand had fallen by 1.6%. The driving force behind this development are big orders from abroad. From these benefitted in particular the manufacturers …
Labour costs up by 1.1% in 3rd quarter 7. December 2007 by Thomas Jannot According to the Federal Statistical Office, labour costs in industry as well as in the service sector increased by 1.1% over the 3rd quarter 2007 as compared to the same period in 2006. In comparison to the second quarter the increase amounted to 0.3% in figures which were adjusted for season and calendar.
Entrepreneur´s day organized by the university of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt 6. December 2007 by Thomas Jannot Entrepreneurship is a driving force in our society and leads to innovation, new products and solutions which have positive effects on the labour market and prosperity of a region. On December 10th an “Entrepreneur´s Day“ organized jointly by the Centre for Entrepreneurship at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and the Centre for Business Start-ups in …
Lack of specialists costs more than 18 billion Euros 6. December 2007 by Thomas Jannot Even though, by international standards, German pupils receive good marks in the natural sciences, they do not seem to be motivated to take up corresponding study courses: the number of graduates of engineering study courses even fell from 50.000 in 1995 to 40.000 last year. Thus, recently the number of young university graduates of an …
In 2007 Germany once more world´s leading exporting country 5. December 2007 by Thomas Jannot On the occasion of the presentation of the “World Trade Report 2007″, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) presented provisional figures on this year´s world trade yesterday in Geneva. According to these figures, Germany once more won the title of being the world´s leading exporting county ahead of China. These figures are based on data for …