Bulgarian SMEs meet EU standards 11. July 2006 by Thomas Jannot There is good news for SMEs doing business in Bulgaria : As was reported by the bulgaria.de portal, companies with an annual turnover not exceeding 49 million Euros and with less than 250 employees are categorized as small and medium-sized entities (SMEs) from now on. This is laid down in two amendments on SMEs which …
ODF OpenDocument format prevailing 8. July 2006 by Thomas Jannot Business documents have to be stored for a period of at least six years, certain documents which are important for fiscal reasons even ten years. We already reported on this in the past. By IT standards such periods represent quite a long time. Over the last decades many data formats have ceased to exist together …
PR Blogger reports on MittelstandsBlog.DE 8. July 2006 by Thomas Jannot In the course of the “999 Blogs” serial Mrs. Verena Schmunk, who is a writer, in the 24th place also reports on our MittelstandsBlog:
IT security expert advises to use Apple computers 7. July 2006 by Thomas Jannot Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant with the security specialist Sophos, recommends using Apple computers, as was communicated by the Pressetext news agency. His recommendation was given on the occasion of the presentation of Sophos´ half year report on virus infected computer programs and their spreading.
M’Blog quotes entrepreneurs, decision makers and professionals 6. July 2006 by Thomas Jannot Each time the MittelstandsBlog.DE homepage is uploaded, on the right hand side there will appear a quote chosen at random in the “O-Ton vom Experten” box. The text will change once you reload the related page. Given that the quotes are chosen at random, it may be necessary to reload several times in order to …
Pleasant work atmosphere more important to executive assistants than money 6. July 2006 by Thomas Jannot A clever entrepreneur is said to be the brain of his or her company with the secretary ideally being its heart without which nothing would run smoothly. That is why the bosses of small and medium-sized entities (SMEs) are looking for true magic women for their offices. Once such a super woman has been found, …
Being more efficient using telecommunications 6. July 2006 by Thomas Jannot A new highlight of our series of informative brochures for small and medium-sized companies is ready for use: M’BlogDocument 0607 – Being more efficient using telecommunications. Author of this brochure is Dr. Jürgen Kaack, who is managing director of the STZ-Consulting Group.
IT salaries rising 6. July 2006 by Thomas Jannot For the first time in many years IT salaries are rising again, as was reported by the PersonalMarkt.de salary consultancy. According to the consultants, it is in particular data base administrators who are profiting from this development. One reason for this is the fact that retailers, craft businesses, groups of companies and banks make increased …
1000 SMEs have found company successor 6. July 2006 by Thomas Jannot According to the operators of the nexxt-change internet site on average 40 companies per week find a successor thanks to this medium. Since the online start of the site in January, about 1000 small and medium-sized companies, which would otherwise have had to be closed down, were provided with successors. Thus, nexxt-change is making an …
EU facilitates access to small loans and mezzanine capital 6. July 2006 by Thomas Jannot On Friday the European Commission presented a package of measures aimed at supporting SMEs during their setting up and expansion phase by facilitating their access to loan capital. The Commission´s objective is to triple annual early phase investments within the EU from currently two billion Euros to six billion Euros by 2013.