Traditional online advertising increases by 50 percent 5. July 2007 by Thomas Jannot The turnover generated in Germany by traditional online publicity increased to 381 million Euros in the first half of 2007. According to the German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (BITKOM) this represents an increase of 50% as compared to the first six months in 2006. The figures mentioned are based on a …
Interesting study about European trendsetters 5. July 2007 by Thomas Jannot The recent international »Fashion« study by the GfK Custom Research market research institute analyses the fashion-consciousness of European and US citizens. It provides interesting facts to companies and merchants from the fashion industry. According to the study, in particular people from Paris dress according to the latest rage. One third of Europeans and Americans take …
Restrained optimism in chemical industry 5. July 2007 by Thomas Jannot Top managers from the chemical industry think that there is reason for restrained optimism with regard to global growth prospects for the chemical industry: only 44% of chairmen of the board from the chemical industry are truly convinced that turnover generated by their enterprises is going to increase over the next twelve months. This is …
50% of companies do not spend money on PR 2. July 2007 by Thomas Jannot Good PR increases the business opportunities of a company. However, small companies quite often lack the money needed for traditional publicity. More than half of all small companies (52%) therefore completely do without any PR. The percentage of such companies is particularly high in the service sector (60%).
Flexicurity is to improve work opportunities 2. July 2007 by Thomas Jannot In order to promote competitiveness and satisfaction at the workplace the EU Commission wants to combine flexibility and security for employees and companies while at the same time modernizing the European labour market. The buzzword is »Flexicurity« which is a coinage combining »flexibility« and »security«. An example in this respect is Denmark.
Online guide on terminology available 2. July 2007 by Thomas Jannot The EU authorities are not only famous for their heaviness and bureaucracy but also for their technical jargon and sometimes completely unintelligible terminology. This does not only cause problems to ordinary EU citizens, but quite often even to translators. From today, however, there is a database called InterActiveTerminology for Europe at your disposal which contains …
Consumer prices up by 1.8% in June 30. June 2007 by Thomas Jannot As was reported by the Federal Statistical Office the consumer price index for Germany will probably increase by 1.8% in June 2007 as compared to June last year. In May the annual increase had been 1.9%. Compared to May 2007 the index increased by 0.1%.
IT hardware and consumer electronics business growing 30. June 2007 by Thomas Jannot According to the German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (BITKOM) in the first quarter of 2007 Germany reduced its import surplus of information and telecommunication products by 34% to 2.5 billion Euros. In the previous quarter the surplus had been 3.8 billion Euros. The main reason for this development are decreasing imports …
Turnover in wholesale trade down by 1.8% 28. June 2007 by Thomas Jannot According to preliminary findings by the Federal Statistical Office, in May 2007 the turnover of German wholesale trade companies was down by 0.8% and 1.8% in nominal and real terms respectively as compared to May 2006. Compared to April 2007 the figure fell by 0.3% and 0.1% respectively.
Less new companies set up 27. June 2007 by Thomas Jannot In the first quarter of 2007 just about 42.400 companies were set up of which the legal form and number of employees indicate major economic importance. This figure corresponds to a 5.9% decrease as compared to the first quarter of 2006. On the other hand, the number of second employment businesses rose by 62.000 or …