Gastronomy plans to fight ban on smoking 18. September 2007 by Thomas Jannot The German Association of hotel and restaurant busisnesses (Dehoga) supports a constitutional complaint filed by two restaurant owners in Lower Saxony and Baden-Wurttemberg against the ban on smoking. In both these Federal Laender the ban took effect on August 1st this year. According to Dehoga, its regional branches unanimously took the decision to fight against …
Turnover in music downloads increased to 60 million Euros 17. September 2007 by Thomas Jannot According to the German Association of Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (BITKOM), in 2007 Germans will download as much music from the internet as never before: turnover in music downloads onto computers is expected to rise to 60 million Euros. Thus, compared to last year the market will grow by 25% which creates a …
More employees in goods-producing industry 17. September 2007 by Thomas Jannot According to the Federal Statistical Office, the goods-producing industry has recently created more jobs. By the end of July 2007 companies in the goods-producing industry with at least 50 staff employed almost 5.3 million people which is about 100.000 people or 1.9% more than in July 2006.
Turnover falling in hotel and restaurant industry in July 2007 14. September 2007 by Thomas Jannot According to the Federal Statistical Office, turnover in the hotel and restaurant industry fell by 2.9% and 5.1% in nominal and real terms respectively in July this year as compared to the same month in 2006. Compared to June 2007 turnover fell by 0.5% in nominal and by 0.6% in real terms in July.
Retail trade businesses suffer from corporate tax reform 13. September 2007 by Thomas Jannot According to the Association of German chambers of industry and commerce (DIHK) and the association of the German retail trade (HDE), the corporate tax reform has had serious effects on the German retail trade business. All in all, due to new trade tax regulations, the burdens on trade businesses have increased. This is true irrespective …
Policy makers called upon to liberalize frequencies for new telecommunications services 13. September 2007 by Thomas Jannot The German market for information technology, telecommunications and digital consumer electronics (ITK market) has not been growing homogeniously in 2007. While the information technology and digital consumer electronics segments have been growing by between 3 to 6 percent so far, the telecommunications sector suffers from turnover drops due to sharply falling prices, said the German …
EU Commission curbs ecomomic growth optimism 12. September 2007 by Thomas Jannot In its latest autumn interim report the EU Commission forecasts less growth of the European economy. Thus, for the second half of 2007 it forecast just 2.8% of growth in the EU and 2.4% for Germany. Both these figures differ by 0.1% from the values expected in the Commission´s previous report published in spring this …
Working abroad fascinates the young generation 12. September 2007 by Thomas Jannot More than half (56%) of young Europeans prefer applying for a job abroad, if there is the possibility to do so. This is the finding of a study which looked into the issues job seekers aged between 16 and 25 years attach importance to.
Textile & fashion industry comes to an agreement with China in order to fight counterfeiters 12. September 2007 by Thomas Jannot According to the Federal Ministry of Justice, the German Association of textiles and fashion came to an agreement with China on the protection of intellectual property. Additional agreements were concluded with India and Russia. The objectives of these are stricter controls on trade fairs in order to fight counterfeiting as well as raising awareness in …
Small enterprises hardly receive public research grants 12. September 2007 by Thomas Jannot Small and medium-sized entities (SMEs) miss out when it comes to receiving public research funding. This fact was revealed by a study conducted by the »Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Consult« (IW Consult) in Cologne. According to this study, just 8% of small companies (those generating up to 1 million Euros of annual turnover) received …