Visa International today announced that the value of all purchases and cash withdrawals made with Visa Commercial payment solutions worldwide has reached US$317 billion for the four quarters ended June 30, 2006.
Only 33% of employees overall are satisfied with the quality and quantity of communications from their employer, according to a global study released today by Jack Morton Worldwide. The study also revealed that employers should be using experiential marketing - an increasingly prominent means of marketing to consumers - to engage and motivate employees, given the high marks staff give to live events.
Alcatel today announced it has won the 2006 Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership of the Year Award in the European fixed telecoms market category. The award recognizes the company's achievement in defining the network architecture for triple play deployments.
The emerging area of electronic waste (e-waste) recovery is attracting increasing attention as governments of several developed countries issue directives to address the environmental hazards posed by existing methods to dispose waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). Conventional methods, such as disposal in landfills and incineration, are both potentially damaging to the environment due to the leaching and emission of certain toxic substances respectively.
Now this could very well be the week when world oil prices drop below $US 60 a barrel but that prospect isn't going down well in the US or in some other markets.
Miners operating in or planning to enter the resources sector in the Asia Pacific will face higher political risk factors than other geographies as a direct result of the impact on the region of globalisation.
According to the National Retail Federation (NRF), one-fifth of all retail sales in the US (19.9%) occur during the holiday season, making it the most important time period of the year for the industry.
Siemens Building Technologies, Inc., announced today it has signed an agreement by which it intends to acquire VistaScape Security Systems Corp., of Atlanta, as a wholly owned subsidiary.
Kelley Blue Book releases the results of its 2006 Kelley Blue Book New-Vehicle Buyer Attitude Study on Vehicle Purchasing and Pricing. This year's study shows 37 percent of today's in-market car buyers find zero percent financing the most appealing incentive, up 11 points from last year. At the same time, the study showed that employee-pricing programs, popularized by domestic vehicle manufacturers in the summer of 2005, have become the least appealing offer with only 10 percent calling it the most attractive incentive.
The Department for Transport has today published National Statistics on public transport in Public Transport Statistics Bulletin: Great Britain 2006 Edition.
