SCORE-ing big! How a cooperative approach to improved work conditions in...
Improving SMEs workplace practices can help them achieve better productivity. The ILO’s SCORE Training programme is helping companies in China improve work conditions, and...
New York’s blue-collar blues: if you can make it there…
Is paranoia over vanishing industrial heritage keeping the city that never sleeps awake? TONY LENNOX examines the changing face of commerce in The Big...
Italy and Pakistan forge bilateral trade alliance
Business ties between Rome and Islamabad continue to strengthen as the two nations look to capitalise on their respective talents
By Darren Parkin
A TRADE deal...
Commodity prices likely to rise further in 2018: World Bank
Oil prices to average $56 a barrel in 2018, up from 2017 average of $53/bbl
Oil prices are forecast to rise to $56 a barrel...
Kwon Oh-joon named VP of World Steel Association
Posco chief being lined up to lead steelmaking through potentially turbulent years ahead…
By Darren Parkin
KWON Oh-joon, CEO of South Korean steel manufacturer Posco, has...
Airbus strikes a deal with Bombardier
Just as the Canadian firm looked like it was being grounded by massive US tariffs, a European saviour with a long-term plan comes to...
World’s richest woman dies
Obituary: Liliane Bettencourt: 1922 - 2017
Controversy and questionable politics were never far away to divert attention from some remarkable skill at leading an industry...
Steel Merger Looks To Create Industry Giant
Two behemoths of the industrial world look to tie the knot and save thousands of jobs as they create one of the world’s largest...
VW Sticking to its Smoking Guns
Electric dreams are no threat to the diesel engine, according to the boss of Volkswagen. Has Matthias Mueller got a cunning long-term plan, or...
Building Blocks Of Success Are Proving Hard To Find For Lego
Beleaguered plastic toy firm is facing a fresh crisis as sales dip, profits slip, and jobs are shed…
By Darren Parkin
WHEN the Great Depression sent...
