With recreational marijuana use permitted in a number of US states, cannabis is moving from the margins to the mainstream of society. It’s rapidly shedding its image as the drug of choice for disillusioned, disenfranchised ...
South African enterprises are moving toward multi-faceted power plans as the power crisis shows no sign of coming to an end in the foreseeable future, say power sector experts on the POWER-GEN Africa Advisory Board. ...
The world of finance has witnessed in the last five years an remarkable change in the form of finance market, banking and the concept of finance itself, due to the problems faced by the global ...
Demographic change means that companies today are facing a previously unknown challenge: the battle over the best employees. Only companies that are able to keep good employees are able to increase productivity, grow and survive ...
We believe that a lower oil price is a clear positive for the US economy because of its impact on the consumer, while lower input costs should be supportive to companies. In US dollar terms, ...
Following recent wave of $1bn valuations, the founder of the $2.7bn commerce specialist believes the global investment spotlight has fallen on the UK London, 29 January 2015: As the UK shows signs of establishing its ...
Time will tell whether the European Central Bank’s (ECB) €1.1 trillion quantitative easing (QE) package will have the desired impact on the real economy. Beating deflation is the paramount objective – how many times does ...
London is the most attractive hotel investment destination in Europe, according to a new survey of senior hospitality industry figures by Deloitte ahead of the 26th Deloitte European Hotel Investment Conference.Over half (51%) of respondents ...
European officials have expressed unconcealed relief at Scotland’s vote against independence from Britain. In Brussels, the European Commission said the Scottish vote was good for a “united, open and stronger Europe”. EU Commission President Jose ...
Alibaba Group is a Chinese e-commerce company that provides consumer-to-consumer, business-to-consumer and business-to-business sales services via web portals. It also provides electronic payment services, a shopping search engine and data-centric cloud computing services. The group ...
Larry Page and Sergey Brin named the search engine that they built “Google”, a play on the word “googol”, the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google Inc. was born in 1998, ...
Founded in 1886 by pharmacist Dr John S Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia, The Coca‑Cola Company is the world’s leading manufacturer, marketer and distributor of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups, and it produces more than 500 ...
With 13,718 employees worldwide, SAS Institute is the world’s largest privately held software business. Based in North Carolina, SAS develops and markets a suite of analytics software (also called SAS) that helps manage, access, analyse ...
Needing little introduction, Apple is an iconic brand that is synonymous with innovation in technology. It designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, online services, and personal computers. Its best-known hardware products are the ...
Rosneft is the leader of Russia’s petroleum industry and the world’s largest publicly traded petroleum company. Its activities include hydrocarbon exploration and production, upstream offshore projects, hydrocarbon refining, and crude oil, gas and product marketing ...
Novartis is a Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel that ranks number one globally in terms of sales in its industry. Novartis was created in 1996 through the merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz, two ...
O2 is the commercial brand of Telefónica UK Limited and is a leading digital communications company with the highest customer satisfaction for any mobile provider according to Ofcom. With over 23 million customers, O2 runs ...
Dubai-based Chalhoub Group is one of the leading forces in the luxury business in the Middle East. Created by Mr and Mrs Michel Chalhoub in 1955, the group specialises in the retail and distribution of ...