Retail store chains invest while SMEs hesitate 21. August 2007 by Thomas Jannot Big retail store chains (with an annual turnover exceeding 25 million Euros) benefit significantly from the current economic revival and expect increased turnovers this year. As a consequence these chains plan to invest more in equipment and construction activities. At the same time staff is to be taken on. On the other hand, the majority …
20 percent more turnover in games downloads 20. August 2007 by Thomas Jannot Games downloads onto personal computer are becoming more and more popular. This year Germans will presumably spend 18 million Euros on such downloads which is 20% more than in 2006. Currently one fifth of computer game players above the age of 14 download games onto their PC. In most cases, however, these downloads are free …
One quarter of all vacancies for young researchers 20. August 2007 by Thomas Jannot In the spring 2007 it was above all product managers who were sought by personnel managers. Since then, however, companies have concentrated on an innovation oriented human ressource policy: the number of vacancies for researchers has strongly increased. While in January and April 2007 about 15% of all job vacancies were addressed to developers, this …
Leasing market grows by 10 percent 17. August 2007 by Thomas Jannot According to the Association of German leasing firms (BDL) the leasing business with regard to movables grew by 10% in the first half year of 2007 and thus developed very positively. The business in the second quarter developed particularly positively and grew by 11% as compared to the same quarter last year.
Ranking of foodstuff suppliers 17. August 2007 by Thomas Jannot The corporations Nestlé, Vion and Procter & Gamble are at the top of this year´s list of major suppliers to the German foodstuff trade, as was reported by Lebensmittel Zeitung in its latest edition. The top 80 of this list have an aggregate turnover of 74 billion Euros and the ranking also shows that there …
Early warning systems for SMEs available free of charge 17. August 2007 by Thomas Jannot Researchers and experts of an EU joint initiative called EQUAL have compiled an outstanding collection of software tools and information for early warning systems for small and medium-sized entities (SMEs). The tools are availalabe free of charge online in the form of a toolbox CD. This CD is taken care of by the chair of …
Ifo economic climate brigthening up once again 17. August 2007 by Thomas Jannot The ifo economic climate in the Eurozone has once again brightened up over the third quarter in 2007. This applies to both the current economic situation, which hit a six year high, and the long-term economic outlook. The latest provisional findings of the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES) forecast a sustainable economic upswing in the …
Social Networking more and more popular within companies 16. August 2007 by Thomas Jannot A survey conducted in spring this year by the “Institute for Corporate Productivity” on the issue of “Use of Social Networking” revealed that employees also make use of Social Networking in their daily work.
Online market for computer games booming 16. August 2007 by Thomas Jannot Computer and video games have become very popular. In particular the interest in playing games over the internet is increasing strongly. More than one third (38%) of all PC gamers play games online and among PC gamers aged between 14 and 29 this percentage even amounts to 58%. Particularly popular are card and chess games, …
Economic growth in the EU loses momentum 16. August 2007 by Thomas Jannot Europe´s GDP has grown much less in the second quarter than expected. Thus, GDP grow by just 0.3% in the Eurozone (EZ13) as compared to the first quarter and by only 0.5% in the EU27. In the first quarter of 2007 the growth rate had been +0.7% in the Eurozone and the EU27. These figures …