Online market for singles booming in Germany 5. June 2007 by Thomas Jannot According to experts the online-market for finding a parter for life is developing into a particularly lucrative business. In 2006 Germans spent 65.6 million Euros in order to find a mate on the internet. This corresponds to an increase of 49% as compared to the year 2005. For the year 2007 the Jupiter Research market …
Conference on Europe and SMEs to be held in Würzburg 4. June 2007 by Thomas Jannot Small and medium-sized entities (SMEs) are the backbone of the European economy. They account for 90% of all companies in Europe and employ about two thirds of all working people. Nevertheless, European lawmakers quite often do not take into account the legitimate demands and requirements of SMEs. Numerous standards of the labour and business law …
Lack of engineers on the rise since 2004 4. June 2007 by Thomas Jannot The Association of German Engineers (VDI) thinks that there are not just good aspects to the positive figures on the German labour market recently published by the Federal Employment Office. Even though Dr. Willi Fuchs, who is VDI director, is happy to learn about a falling rate of unemployment, it is, however, a reality that …
BITKOM cautions against to much surveillance of the internet 4. June 2007 by Thomas Jannot The German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (BITKOM) on Friday protested on behalf of the entire high-tech industry against calls by the Upper House of German Parliament to increase surveillance of telecommunications and the internet. In the opinion of BITKOM, particularly problematic are online searches. The government’s task, on the contrary, would …
Retail trade turnover down by 0.6 percent in April 4. June 2007 by Thomas Jannot According to preliminary findings by the Federal Statistical Office, turnover in the German retail trade was up by 0.4% in nominal terms and down by 0.6% in real terms as compared to the same month in 2006. One year ago, however, the Easter shopping took place exclusively in the month of April whereas this was …
Wholesale trade turnover up by 3.0 percent 31. May 2007 by Thomas Jannot The Federal Statistical Office reported that wholesale trade turnover increased by 4.8% in nominal terms and by 3.0% in real terms in April 2007 as compared to April 2006. Compared to March 2007, however, it increased by 1.5% less both in nominal and real terms. Most turnover was generated in the wholesale of machines, equipment …
Unemployment down by another 20.9 percent compared to 2006 31. May 2007 by Thomas Jannot Today the Federal Statistical Office reported that the number of gainfully employed people rose by 1.4 percent (560.000 people) in April 2007 as compared to April 2006. At the same time the number of jobless people fell by 730.000 in April 2007. This corresponds to a decrease in unemployment of 20.9% compared to April 2006. …
Consumer prices up by 1.9% as compared to last year 30. May 2007 by Thomas Jannot As is reported by the Federal Statistical Office, the German consumer price index for May 2007 will probably be 1.9% higher than in May 2006. As compared to April 2007, however, the increase is just 0.2%. The moderate price increase since April 2007 is due to falling prices for seasonal foods.
Investment by the construction industry on the rise in the first quarter of 2007 29. May 2007 by Thomas Jannot The situation in the construction industry has been further improving since the beginning of this year. According to the Federal Statistical Office, the adjusted-for-price figure for investment by the construction industry rose by 15.3% in the first quarter of 2007 as compared to the first quarter of 2006. The figure adjusted for season reflected a …
Market for downloads set to grow by another 20% 29. May 2007 by Thomas Jannot This is the forecast made by the German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (BITKOM). In 2006 the number of songs, audiobooks, videos, games or software packages downloaded was higher than ever before. In total legal downloads in Germany amounted to 31 million while turnover reached 131 million Euros. For this year BITKOM …