Grim UN report shows half-a-billion people struggling to find work
ALMOST half-a-billion people around the world battle to find sufficient paid work, a UN report on employment and social trends shows.
The World Employment and Social...
Mo Ibrahim: Cleaning Up a Continent
Engineer, academic, expert, innovator, entrepreneur, and philanthropist: Mohammed Ibrahim is a rich and successful man who now applies his vast resources to fight corruption...
New ICC business guide demystifies international trade agreements
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the world business organisation, has released the first volume of Business Guide to Trade and Investment, a nuts...
Mind your language! Rude company names are out
A FREEDOM of information (FOI) request found that 56,640 business names were rejected by Companies House between January 2019 and April 2022.
Nearly half (25,400)...
Bakkavor Looking To Serve Up Shares
Food supplier aims to fund international expansion by floating on stock market in a bid to raise £100m as it offers around 25% of...
Phony products are a rip-off — time to get tough
Counterfeiting is getting more common and more sophisticated: what’s a brand to do...?
By GEDIMINAS RICKEVIČIUS
WHEN it comes to counterfeit goods or IP infringement, we...
New Vice-Chair of ICC Commission on Taxation appointed
ICC is pleased to announce the appointment of Susana Bokobo as the new Vice-Chair of the ICC Commission on Taxation. Ms Bokobo will take...
World Bank Study: Entrepreneur Training Focused on Mindset Proves More Effective...
WASHINGTON, September 22, 2017–New World Bank study, jointly released with the National University of Singapore Business School, and Leuphana University today reveals that psychology-based...
Masayoshi Son: Great Business Visionary, or Deluded Dreamer?
He’s won, lost, then won a fortune again. Now he has amassed the gigantic ‘Vision Fund’ from which to spread investment around the world’s...
Too darned hot… how our inner thermostat affects behaviour
Could good air-conditioning be the key to better customer service?
IN THE summer of 2010, Moscow experienced its worst heat wave in centuries. Air-conditioning and...
