Award ceremony for best human resource managers 20. September 2007 by Thomas Jannot For the fifth time already the renowned BestPersAward will be confered this year. The event is organized by the Institut für Managementkompetenz (imk) and the Personalmagazin. The BestPersAward is confered for outstanding and successful concepts in personnel management of small and medium-sized entities.
Invitations for public tender now pooled 20. September 2007 by Thomas Jannot For small and medium-sized entities (SMEs) it is much easier now to find the most recent invitations for public tender. On www.vergabe24.de companies will find any invitations for public tender which are published officially in the Federal Laender and which amount to more than 250.000 each year. Only a co-operation between the official tender agencies …
Federal Reserve lowers key interest rate by 0.5 percent 19. September 2007 by Thomas Jannot In order to sooth the repercussions of the US mortgage crisis on the US economy the Federal Reserve lowered the most important key interest rate by 0.5% to 4.75%. Another key interest rate was lowered by 0.5% to 5.25%. Back in August, this latter key interest rate had already been lowered by half a percentage …
Information day about company succession 19. September 2007 by Thomas Jannot More than 60 German chambers of commerce and industry (IHK) will organize an information day on September 20th giving information and advice on the issue of company succession. What happens if the boss of a company meets with an accidence? Who will lead the company, if the boss is ill for a longer period of …
SMEs expect economy to slow down in 2008 19. September 2007 by Thomas Jannot According to the majority of small and medium-sized entities (SMEs), the cyclical economic upturn is going to continue in 2008 even though at less pace than in 2007. A survey commissioned by the impulse economic magazine which was recently conducted among 238 companies being a member of the “Die Familienunternehmer-ASU” association revealed that 61% of …
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 …