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		<title>Methods of Incorporating Manufacturing in Mexico</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mexico is well known for the varsity of products being manufactured in Mexico and this might be one of the reasons for Mexico manufacturers ranking 12th in the world economy. Mexico manufacturers produce both domestic level and international level products. Many manufacturers who started their manufacturing in Mexico with simple assembly operations have now turned [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-199" title="manufacturing in Mexico" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/manufacturing-in-Mexico.jpg" alt="manufacturing in Mexico" width="200" height="198" />Mexico is well known for the varsity of products being manufactured in Mexico and this might be one of the reasons for Mexico manufacturers ranking 12th in the world economy. Mexico manufacturers produce both domestic level and international level products. Many manufacturers who started their <a href="http://entradagroup.com/" target="_blank">manufacturing in Mexico</a> with simple assembly operations have now turned out into magnificent companies with complex manufacturing operations involved.</p>
<p>The products include television, automobiles and personal products. <a href="http://entradagroup.com/" target="_blank">Mexico manufacturers</a> are as good as China manufacturers, or even better skilled in some industry. The impact of Mexico manufacturers on US economy is the same as the impact of China manufacturers to the Asian economy. The ‘Bracero program’ which was signed between United States and Mexico started as the beginning of the manufacturing development in Mexico.<span id="more-198"></span></p>
<p>Mexico manufacturers used commonly five types for implementing the manufacturing in Mexico:<br />
<strong>1. Contract Manufacturing :</strong><br />
In this method, the firm <a href="http://businessleaf.com/business-develop/methods-of-incorporating-manufacturing-in-mexico.htm">manufactures product</a> on behalf of another firm. The contract will be usually predetermined and the payments would be fixed independent of the profit.</p>
<p>This method was preferred if the work required 25 or less individuals or if the work to be performed is sporadic kind. Manufacturers who look for high quality looked for firms which have the capability to meet their quality standards. In the beginning a minimal amount of work is assigned to the contractors. If the contractors continue to meet the standard, then large capital would be invested.</p>
<p><strong>2. Joint venture :</strong><br />
<img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-200" title="mexico business joint venture" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/mexico-business-joint-venture-297x300.jpg" alt="mexico business joint venture" width="200" height="228" />In this method, two or more related Mexico manufacturers establish an agreement and sets up operations in Mexico. The two manufacturers need not be of the same product manufacturers, but they can be related to a complex product in <a href="http://entradagroup.com/" target="_blank">Mexico manufacturing</a>. For example, the firm which markets transportation vehicles could joint venture with the firm which produces brake systems.</p>
<p>This method of implementation helped many Mexican manufacturers in achieving the objectives. But this method has lots of challenges involved. The organization culture must be synchronized. Goals and objectives should be clearly defined. If these challenges are met, then outcome would be definitely profitable.</p>
<p><strong>3. Wholly-owned subsidiary :</strong><br />
These form of manufacturers acts as single body. Manufacturers can establish itself in Mexico. A well planned and maintained subsidiary of this kind can be more productive. But, there is also a high amount of risk involved. For this type of manufacturing setup, the firm should have clear understanding of various customs, employment and labor laws. Professional advices should be taken for setting up the facilities. Investment should also look into the effort, time and the efficiency of the product.</p>
<p><strong>4. Shelter </strong><strong>Manufacturing </strong><strong>:</strong><br />
In this method also, the firm will have full access to their own <a href="http://businessleaf.com/business-develop/methods-of-incorporating-manufacturing-in-mexico.htm">quality and production</a>. For this type, legal presence in the country is not required. Investment in physical and human assets is reduced in this method.</p>
<p><strong>5. Outsourcing :</strong><br />
In this type, Mexico manufacturers hire people to work on foreign products. This method looks very similar to the contract based manufacturers except the fact that workforce is inexpensive in this method.</p>
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		<title>Important Terms of Account Receivable Factoring</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Invoice factoring is very important tool for acquiring the required working capital for any size of business.  In spite of the fact that the volume of factoring is increasing every year, there are many financial executives and the owners of the businesses who are still unaware of this kind of factoring.
Factoring
Factoring is a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-193" title="Invoice Factoring" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Invoice-Factoring-200x300.jpg" alt="Invoice Factoring" width="180" height="220" />The Invoice factoring is very important tool for <a href="http://financesyn.com/capital/utilizing-construction-factoring-facility-to-overcome-capital-bottlenecks/">acquiring the required working capital</a> for any size of business.  In spite of the fact that the volume of factoring is increasing every year, there are many financial executives and the owners of the businesses who are still unaware of this kind of factoring.</p>
<p><strong>Factoring</strong></p>
<p>Factoring is a form on instant cash in the form of sale of the company&#8217;s business to the account receivable business at a discount.   It is very important to note that the type of the products sold or the services rendered must be for the creditworthy customers of the business and not to the individuals.<span id="more-192"></span></p>
<p>Let&#8217;s discuss some of the important terms or the components of the accounts receivable factoring:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Factor</strong> &#8211; It is a funding source for the transactions of factoring.  Many of the companies are just occupied with the factoring business and similar kind of services like the funding of the purchase order.</li>
<li><strong>Reserve</strong> &#8211; Reserve means the total <a href="http://bizse.com/finance/invoices-factoring-financing-your-business-cash-flow/">invoice amount factored</a> minus the funds advanced by the company which is factoring.  The amount of reserve gets remitted to the client on collection of the invoice minus the fees of factoring.</li>
<li><strong>Advanced Rate</strong> &#8211; Amount of funds given by a factoring company to the customer is expressed in the form of percentage of the total of the invoices.  Generally the advance rates are anything in between 70 to 85 percent.  This again depends on a lot of factors like the credit standing of clients and type of industry of the client.</li>
<li><strong>Letter of Intent</strong> &#8211; Once the factoring company receives the application and all the other required documents from the projected customer and it also appears to have a positive outcome with the client, then the letter of intent gets issued.  This letter of Intent specifies the relationship terms that is subject to the due diligence.</li>
<li><strong>Filing of the UCC </strong>- The one and only security of the relationship of factoring is the business receivable.   Therefore, the company that is factoring will file a blanket UCC for protecting its own interests.   When the UCC filing is done, the factoring company gets lien against the receivables of the company in case of bankruptcy.</li>
<li><strong>Fees of Factoring</strong> &#8211; It is a cost to be borne by the client for <a href="http://financesyn.com/financing/financing-international-sales-orders-with-trade-factoring-facility/">factoring service</a> which is generally expressed in the form of percentages of the receivables that are factored per month.  The fees range from anywhere between 2 to 4.5 percent.  This depends on the perception of the risk involved of the receivable account.</li>
<li><strong>Due Diligence</strong> &#8211; Whenever an enterprise applies for the factoring agreement, the source that is funding investigates whether the liens on receivables are in question, validate the contents of the information provided, and verify the credentials of the customers of the client.</li>
<li><strong>Agreement of subordination</strong> &#8211; The factoring company would have a right of lien in the proceeds of the receivables in case of default in the payment due to the blanket lien on accounts receivables.  If some other person also has lien on receivables, then the factoring company will also require the taxing authority, bank, or the individual to release encumbrance.  The document that fulfills the release of the lien is called as the agreement of subordination.</li>
<li><strong>Notification to the debtor</strong> &#8211; During the beginning of the relationship of factoring, the factoring company sends the letter to every business customer of its client.  The letter gives an explanation that the company that is factoring   has gone ahead with the agreement for managing the client&#8217;s account receivables.  It also states that the payments have to be given to this new address.  The debtors will then send the payments through a lock box which has complete control of factoring company.</li>
<li><strong>The Spot Factoring</strong> &#8211; Many <a href="http://businessleaf.com/business-tips/important-terms-of-account-receivable-factoring.htm">contracts of factoring</a> need minimum volume of factoring amount every month from its client.  There are several other factors that permit clients to factor the invoices only when they are needed.  This kind of funding is termed as spot factoring.</li>
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<p>Before entering in the factoring agreement, you need to understand these terms properly.  This kind of contract is typically of one year and therefore needs to be properly studied before agreement signing.</p>
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		<title>Cold Calling Confidently with Positive Thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some marketers are afraid of cold calling. They think that nobody wants to buy something from someone that they don&#8217;t know yet. Well, they&#8217;re right. That&#8217;s why you need to do the cold calls before you sell something.
You could say that the first cold calls to introduce yourself to the prospects, and let them know [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-172" title="cold calling" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/cold-call-300x227.jpg" alt="cold calling" width="300" height="227" />Some marketers are afraid of cold calling. They think that nobody wants to buy something from someone that they don&#8217;t know yet. Well, they&#8217;re right. That&#8217;s why you need to <a href="http://businessleaf.com/business-develop/cold-calling-confidently-with-positive-thinking.htm">do the cold calls </a>before you sell something.</p>
<p>You could say that the first cold calls to introduce yourself to the prospects, and let them know about you and your products. You could also offer them free samples and ask them their address so you could send it to them. Simply put, the first cold call is the introduction of your series cold calls.<br />
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<p>The first one will contain soft pitch of product marketing. Don&#8217;t hard sell them by telling them that they need to buy this particular product or they could miss the best deals ever. People know that this kind of deals come and go very fast. You need to give them some proves of the benefits of your products.</p>
<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-173" title="free sample" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/free-sample-300x251.jpg" alt="free sample" width="300" height="251" />Offer them free trials or samples that they could try at home, and then, several days later, contact them and ask about their opinion about the <a href="http://businessleaf.com/tag/product/">products</a>. The customers would likely to give you their honest opinion. If they think that it&#8217;s not suitable for them, ask them who they would recommends that they think will be suitable for the product.</p>
<p>You could expand your customer base by doing this. Ask them whether you could use their name as the recommendation for other people. After that do the closing by asking them whether they want to buy one or two this month. They probably will say no, but it&#8217;s <a href="http://businessleaf.com/business-develop/cold-calling-confidently-with-positive-thinking.htm">not a hard task to ask</a> them again.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re not comfortable with cold calling, you need to do some practices first. Since you practically know nothing about the person that you want to call, make sure you learn about them while you do the cold calls. Get as many information as possible, and ties your offer using the information that you get.</p>
<p>For example, the person probably wants to buy it, but their spouses will kill them if they did. Entice your offer by telling them why their spouses won&#8217;t kill them if their buy your products or simply ask them to give the phone to their spouses and let you talk to them. You could even ask them to use the speaker phone so you could take to each other freely.</p>
<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-174" title="word of mouth marketing" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/word-of-mouth-marketing-300x198.jpg" alt="word of mouth marketing" width="300" height="198" />It&#8217;s important to talk to the spouse when you want to sell something. It&#8217;s because the spouse will affect the final decision of the people whom do you talk to. By talking to both of them, you could make them surer about the purchase that they would make.</p>
<p>Often, the people who do the cold call neglected the person that they called after they make a purchase. You don&#8217;t have to do that. You could keep <a href="http://businessleaf.com/business-develop/cold-calling-confidently-with-positive-thinking.htm">follow up your previous customers</a> and let them know about new products from your company and tell them how they could get it. This will make yourself get higher points in your customer&#8217;s eyes, that&#8217;s the <a href="http://businessleaf.com/business-develop/boosting-customer-service-quality-outsourcing-call-center.htm">customer service quality</a> ! And they eventually will call you back when they want to get additional purchases.</p>
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		<title>Realizing the Value in Wholesaler and Retailer Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anywhere in the world, wholesales and retails business never lose the fans. More and more people that realize the advantages of this wholesale and retail business start opening their own business. Some of them act as a middleman by supplying the retailers with goods that they purchased from wholesalers. They often get bigger profits when [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/e-commerce-wholesale.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-167" title="e-commerce-wholesale" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/e-commerce-wholesale-300x173.jpg" alt="e-commerce-wholesale" width="300" height="173" /></a>Anywhere in the world, wholesales and retails business never lose the fans. More and more people that realize the <a href="http://businessleaf.com/business-tips/realizing-the-value-in-wholesaler-and-retailer-business.htm">advantages of this wholesale and retail business</a> start opening their own business. Some of them act as a middleman by supplying the retailers with goods that they purchased from wholesalers. They often get bigger profits when they raise the wholesale prices and sell it to the retailers.</p>
<p>Other people act as the retailers. They bought a huge amount of goods from the wholesalers and then calculating the products prices and the profits that they want to get. <span id="more-165"></span></p>
<p>One of the problems that you&#8217;ll likely to face when you want to be a middleman or retailers is that finding a great wholesaler. It&#8217;s really hard to find a great wholesaler, especially if we don&#8217;t know where to find them.</p>
<p>A great wholesaler will provide you with excellent products and <a href="http://businessleaf.com/tag/service/">customer services</a>. If you know them, it would be much easier for you to negotiate about the payment or purchasing plan. It&#8217;s much easier to work with someone that you know.</p>
<p><a href="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/worldwide-wholesale.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-166" title="worldwide wholesale" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/worldwide-wholesale-300x283.jpg" alt="worldwide wholesale" width="300" height="283" /></a>If you know no one in the wholesaler business that having the goods that you want to buys, you could check it out on the internet. Internet provides you with tons of <a href="http://businessleaf.com/business-tips/realizing-the-value-in-wholesaler-and-retailer-business.htm">wholesalers around the world</a> that you could work with. Most of them have their own page in alibaba.com. One thing to remember, you may want to do the test buy with these wholesalers because not all of them is honest and great to work with.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t forget to do the test samples several times before you decide to establish profitable relationships between you both. Try to increase the amount they you order every time to see their responds and checking the <a href="http://businessleaf.com/tag/quality/">products quality</a>.</p>
<p>Another way to get the wholesalers is by asking recommendations from your business friends or checking the newspapers and magazines. Friends and families usually will be honest with you and telling you why they use this wholesalers and not those one. However, the final decision will be yours. So, you need to do your own due diligences before you choose.</p>
<p>As you probably know, <a href="http://businessleaf.com/business-tips/realizing-the-value-in-wholesaler-and-retailer-business.htm">dealing with wholesalers</a> could give you lower prices when you buy the products in bulk. No matter what products you buy, starting from clothes, shoes, and other products, the principal is the same. The more you buy, the lower the prices.</p>
<p>If you really want to get into the <a href="http://bizse.com/sectors/the-next-leap-venturing-into-retails-business/">retails business</a>, make sure you have enough capital to start your business. This capital will mostly used to buy the products in bulk, and then selling them in the retail prices. That&#8217;s where your profits are. So, don&#8217;t forget to structure your price carefully so you will get more profits instead of more losses.</p>
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		<title>Boosting Customer Service Quality &#8211; Outsourcing Call Center</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Call center business is getting bigger and bigger during the time. Since more and more business established, they need more people to do the customer services and also follow up existing customers to keep them in the active buyer lists. Having your own call center for your business is a good thing. However, if you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/call-center.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-158" title="call-center" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/call-center-300x248.jpg" alt="call-center" width="300" height="248" /></a>Call center business is getting bigger and bigger during the time. Since more and more business established, they need more people to do the customer services and also follow up existing customers to keep them in the active buyer lists. Having your own call center for your <a href="http://businessleaf.com/tag/business/">business</a> is a good thing. However, if you can&#8217;t anticipate additional costs to pay the employers, you need to think twice.</p>
<p>Businesses, especially start-up ones usually have big costs that will be divided in several departments, and they often don&#8217;t have much money left. There is an alternative for people who don&#8217;t have much money but still want to have a call center for their product, they could use the outsourcing call center.<span id="more-157"></span></p>
<p>If you just start your business, you could act as your own <a href="http://businessleaf.com/business-develop/boosting-customer-service-quality-outsourcing-call-center.htm">call center to collect some questions</a> that your customers have. You could then creating the training materials of your products based on these questions and eases the burden of your future outsourcing call center.</p>
<p><a href="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/callcenter-outsource.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-159" title="callcenter outsource" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/callcenter-outsource-300x221.jpg" alt="callcenter outsource" width="300" height="221" /></a>Outsourcing call center will handle all of your products, business, even follow ups to your customers just like your own call center. This outsourcing call center often located in different countries like India or Philippines. Both of these countries are widely known for their abilities in English and handling customers. The price of this outsource call canter often cheaper than the ones that you could find in US.</p>
<p>However, you&#8217;re still need to provide a good training or materials for this people so they could answer all of the questions that your customers had. Don&#8217;t forget to put one of your manager to help them just in case that there are some questions that they don&#8217;t know how to answers. If distance and locality is am issue, utilize <a href="http://www.powwownow.co.uk/Teleconference/">teleconference</a> facility to overcome the barrier for this situation.</p>
<p>Getting an <a href="http://businessleaf.com/business-develop/boosting-customer-service-quality-outsourcing-call-center.htm">outsource call center could lower your costs</a>, and increase your customer satisfaction at the same time. You don&#8217;t have to worry anymore if there is a customer that has a problem, but they don&#8217;t know how to reach you or you&#8217;re so busy that you can&#8217;t reach her.</p>
<p>To build a high quality outsource call center team, you need to provide a high quality trainer and materials too. Make sure you put the right person in the right spot. You want to put the people who already know how to answers the questions that being asked by your customers and eventually make them satisfied with it.</p>
<p>However, if you don&#8217;t have anyone who could teach your <a href="http://businessleaf.com/business-develop/boosting-customer-service-quality-outsourcing-call-center.htm">outsource call center team</a> about the art of communication, feel free to make a call to some professional trainer that could teach them to do that. You probably need to spend more money for this, but it&#8217;s for a good purpose. If your outsource call center could answers the questions from your customers and eventually lead the customers to purchase more, the investment will get back to you in ten folds.</p>
<p>Having a <a href="http://businessleaf.com/business-develop/boosting-customer-service-quality-outsourcing-call-center.htm">call center is an essential</a> for any business. Let your customers know that you have a call center so they could feel more secure when they do the purchase.</p>
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		<title>How Gifts Make Impact on Business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
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Through the current economic meltdown and financial crisis, spending on promotional items may appear like a luxury to entrepreneurs for any business. But the assumption is wrong. In fact, the promotional items have a great impact on customers and potential buyers. Some certain features like artistic, effective and creative promotional marketing campaigns could deliver some [...]]]></description>
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<p>Through the current economic meltdown and financial crisis, spending on promotional items may appear like a luxury to entrepreneurs for any business. But the assumption is wrong. In fact, the promotional items have a great impact on customers and potential buyers. Some certain features like artistic, effective and creative promotional marketing campaigns could deliver some thing special that few other forms of advertising basically cannot rival.</p>
<p>A US-based industry organization, Promotional Products Association International (PPAI) points to several proven facts about the promotional items. The facts show simply how smart and successfully of any business enterprise the right promotions occur. The difference between promotions and other forms of advertising like <a title="email marketing" href="http://www.ecircle.com/en/home.html">email marketing</a> , billboard advertising and so on, is that promotions can attract not only consumers’ eyes and ears; moreover has smell, taste and even can touch consumers’ heart.<span id="more-110"></span></p>
<p>Distributing gifts as <a href="http://businessleaf.com/business-develop/how-gifts-make-impact-on-business.htm">promotional item</a>s become a smart trend with corporate across the world. Different companies from every sector of business have to to employ latest methods, strategies and techniques to improve their sales, get new consumers, improve brand name and make a strong hold of the company. Any company may reap some benefits when it set to employ the strategy of business gifts.<br />
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Advantages of Business Gifts:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Improving Brand Name:</strong> Promotional business gifts can improves the brand name of any company. Those gift products carry the brand name alongside the logo of the company. So, wherever the gifts appear more people can know the brand name from the gift.<br />
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Generating Leads:</strong> Gifts can help generating leads. So, it is an effective way to get new consumers. Numerous companies offer online contests and try to attract potential consumers to take part in those contests by way of gifts. Many people participate there just to win the prize. Thus, the company collects the contact address of participant and later they use the address to inform the participants about its new ventures, plans and products. Like this a company can find new consumers without getting to spend much money on any advertising campaigns.<br />
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Increasing Response Rates:</strong> Some research proved integrating custom-branded products in any corporate meetings, trade shows or fairs helps effectively in growing the response rates of clients. Actually, consumers react much positively to other advertising campaigns like direct mail or print ads. The reason is that customers keep in mind the company which went out to reward the consumers for the loyalty.<br />
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Building Customer Loyalty:</strong> Promotional gifts work like an incentive or motivation to the clients for making brand loyal. Many companies which gifts their clientele for regular purchases. Several companies reward the consumers for buying huge quantities of the products. It extends to <a href="http://businessleaf.com/business-develop/how-gifts-make-impact-on-business.htm">building purchaser loyalty</a> with retaining consumers.</p>
<p><strong>Affordable Form of Advertising:</strong> Gifts are an affordable way of advertising if compared to advertising on electronic media such as TV or Internet and print media like newspapers or magazines. All companies have to resort to publicity, advertising and marketing to increase their sales, considering the going up competition. Any regular television ads may last in the customers’ minds for a moment whereas promotional business gifts are</p>
<p><strong>Creating Awareness:</strong> Suppose any company gives a USB flash drive for promotional. Whenever the consumers use that device, they remember the company. They may discuss about it to their friends, peers or relatives. It creates brand awareness. As a result, the company gets more customers and more sales, finally much profit.</p>
<p>From the above discussion, you already have got the idea how gifts can make impact on your business. So, to think before others <a title="promotional items" href="http://www.promotionalpro.com/" target="_blank">promotional items</a>, at first you should consider to introduce <a title="business gifts " href="http://www.promotionalpro.com/business-gifts-logo-printed-gift.htm" target="_blank">business gifts</a> for the company promotional.</p>
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		<title>Combining Tourist Destinations can Thrive Indian Tourism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
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Malaysian Tourism Minister Ng Yen Yen said tourism could be made much attractive in India as the country got a smart number of heritage places. Talking to media personnel’s after visiting the widely well-known Mysore palace. Yen told, &#8221;India has a large number of heritage spots and the country can attract more number of tourists [...]]]></description>
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<p>Malaysian Tourism Minister Ng Yen Yen said tourism could be made much attractive in India as the country got a smart number of heritage places. Talking to media personnel’s after visiting the widely well-known Mysore palace. Yen told, &#8221;India has a large number of heritage spots and the country can attract more number of tourists by developing them.&#8221;</p>
<p>With travel becoming more affordable, many people are now including Asian countries on their list of destinations. Many pensioners are now traveling with money from their <a href="http://www.aviva.co.uk/">Aviva</a> savings and investments account, and even students and recent graduates are finding special deals and programs catered especially to them. Asia has become a top destination for many.</p>
<p>Ongoing terror threats, the minister said it was affecting the growth of <a title="tourism" href="http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-97730.html" target="_blank">tourism</a> and must be dig. He said, &#8221;We oppose terror activities. People extend co-operation to the Government in Malaysia. In that backdrop, terrorists have been tamed there. In a similar manner, if people and the government make joint efforts, it is possible to root out terrorism.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yen thought if a tour package was considered by mixing the tourist destinations, then <a href="http://businessleaf.com/busniess-news/combining-tourist-destinations-can-thrive-indian-tourism.htm">tourism sector</a> was bound to thrive. He added Malaysia had an individual position in global tourism as Malaysia gives special importance on tourism.</p>
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		<title>Dubai International Airport Gets more Traffic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dubai International Airport (DIA) get boomed their business as it got an augment of passenger traffic in last month. It recorded a 12.6% growth in traffic. It was the highest figure since May 2008. Additionally, it was the 2nd consecutive month of two-digit expansion in passenger traffic this year subsequent the 10.3% raise in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-151 alignleft" title="The Dubai International Airport " src="http://www.businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/dui-300x225.jpg" alt="The Dubai International Airport " width="358" height="268" />The Dubai International Airport (DIA) get boomed their business as it got an augment of passenger traffic in last month. It recorded a 12.6% growth in traffic. It was the highest figure since May 2008. Additionally, it was the 2nd consecutive month of two-digit expansion in passenger traffic this year subsequent the 10.3% raise in June.</p>
<p>CEO of Dubai Airports in the United Arab Emirates, Paul Griffiths said &#8216;The Middle East continues to demonstrate vibrant growth during the global economic downturn and Dubai International (Airport) is at the epicenter of that growth.&#8217; He added &#8216;The double-digit increases we&#8217;ve seen in the past two months are the direct result of a boost in passenger numbers from Emirates and other long-haul network carriers and continual growth in the low cost sector. As for cargo, considering that airports around the world continue to <a title="record" href="http://www.sindhtoday.net/news/1/43179.htm" target="_blank">record</a> sharp decline in freight traffic, we have fared well.&#8217;</p>
<p>DIA handled total 3,768,965 passengers in last month compared to 3,347,655 in the same period in 2008. The traffic January to July set at 23,148,452 passengers. It was up 6.1% from the corresponding period in 2008. It also handled 160,289 tones cargo in July, compared to 157,253 tones during July 2008. The amount of cargo this year is 1,035,118 tones compared to 1,038,807 tones in 2008.</p>
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		<title>New Trade Proposal for Brazil</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mexico&#8217;s President Felipe Calderon has vowed a new trade offer between Mexico and Brazil. He proposed it in Sao Paulo during meeting business leaders. Calderon ensured he would discuss to industry, social and political groups in his country to change the trade between the two countries.
Brazil and Mexico both countries are Latin America&#8217;s largest economies. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-148 alignleft" title="President Felipe Calderon" src="http://www.businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/president-felipe-calderon-211x300.jpg" alt="President Felipe Calderon" width="286" height="406" />Mexico&#8217;s President Felipe Calderon has vowed a new trade offer between Mexico and Brazil. He proposed it in Sao Paulo during meeting business leaders. Calderon ensured he would discuss to industry, social and political groups in his country to change the trade between the two countries.</p>
<p>Brazil and Mexico both countries are Latin America&#8217;s largest economies. The countries are presently responsible for about 70 percent of all economic activities in this region. Mexico already has trade <a title="agreements" href="http://story.philippinetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/531994/cs/1/" target="_blank">agreements</a> with Canada and USA. The country has struggled with recessionary trends at home as well as abroad. It sends 80 percent of its exports to USA and the country has been mostly exposed to the US fall in customer spending.</p>
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		<title>Obama Takes Economic Stimulus Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The unemployment rate in USA has dropped surprisingly in July. Experts consider it as   one of the strongest signs so far that the worst economic recession and think the Great Depression might be ending. However, around 14.5 million citizens are still jobless in the USA. Employers dismissed 247,000 jobs in July. The amount is less [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The unemployment rate in USA has dropped surprisingly in July. Experts consider it as   one of the strongest signs so far that the worst economic recession and think the Great Depression might be ending. However, around 14.5 million citizens are still jobless in the USA. Employers dismissed 247,000 jobs in July. The amount is less than forecasters had expected.</p>
<p>Labor Department <a title="reported" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2730195/Unemployment-in-surprise-decline.html" target="_blank">reported</a> on Friday revealed the unemployment rate decline to 9.4% July, compared to 9.5% in June. The statistics said that for the first time unemployment rate has slumped since April 2008.  President Barack Obama said a $787 billion economic stimulus plan is taken and it would be signed within few months of taking office to stop the downturn from getting worse. Nonetheless, there is a warning of a fragile job market.</p>
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		<title>British Airways Face Loss</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[British Airways (BA) received a profit of £37 million during the three months to the end of June 2008 but for the same period of this year the airliner has got a pre-tax loss of around £148 million. The BBC reported that chief executive of British Airways Willie Walsh said the very tough year for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-full wp-image-141 alignleft" title="british airways logo" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/british-airways.gif" alt="british airways logo" width="200" height="200" />British Airways (BA) received a profit of £37 million during the three months to the end of June 2008 but for the same period of this year the airliner has got a pre-tax <a title="loss" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jul/31/ba-loss-airline-industry-gloom" target="_blank">loss</a> of around £148 million. The BBC reported that chief executive of British Airways Willie Walsh said the very tough year for airlines and made trading conditions particularly challenging with passengers curb on spending.</p>
<p>Walsh told traffic amounts are starting to get stable and demonstrate several signs of progress for the peak European summer session. The airliner has already cut capital expenses by 20 percent this year. However, BA faces likely industrial action on its efforts to shrink costs as well as staffing numbers.</p>
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		<title>LVS Targeted to Raise $400 Million</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world&#8217;s biggest casino operator Las Vegas Sands (LVS) is to issue adaptable bonds to boost up to $400 million. These coupons can provide an interest of up to 16 percent. According to a Chinese news paper reports Goldman Sachs has been hired to advice on this issue. It also reports a potential local listing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-full wp-image-138 alignleft" title="las vegas sands" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/las_vegas_sands.gif" alt="las vegas sands" width="234" height="158" />The world&#8217;s biggest casino operator Las Vegas Sands (LVS) is to issue adaptable bonds to boost up to $400 million. These coupons can provide an interest of up to 16 percent. According to a Chinese news paper reports Goldman Sachs has been hired to advice on this issue. It also reports a potential local listing on the Hong Kong stock exchange. The steps could indicate Las Vegas Sands skim off its Asian assets.</p>
<p>The fund from theses convertible bonds <a title="issue" href="http://www.taipeinews.net/story/525887" target="_blank">issue</a> is subject to guarantee the continual development of the group&#8217;s Macau spreading out. The company possesses and runs the Venetian Macao Resort-Hotel as well as the Sands Macao in Macau. Moreover, the company is creating the Cotai Strip with feature roughly 21,000 rooms aligned with hotel brands for example St. Regis, Sheraton, Hilton, Conrad, Shangri-La, Traders, Fairmont, Raffles, Inter Continental and Holiday Inn. In a word, it is a master-planned and organized development of resort-casino assets in Macau. Additionally, Nevada-based the Las Vegas Company owns and runs The Palazzo Resort-Hotel-Casino, The Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino, and the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas. It also owns and operates the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem in Eastern Pennsylvania and the Four Seasons Hotel Macao. LVS is also mounting the Marina Bay Sands integrated resort in Singapore.</p>
<p>LVS has held up well in spite of the global recession. The company’s revenue &amp; profit has dropped but only modestly. Statistics say, net revenue for the 2nd quarter was around $1.06 billion. It was a shrink of 4.8 percent compared to $1.11 billion in the 2nd quarter of last year.</p>
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		<title>Gasoline Price Decline in USA</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[US citizens again saw the average gasoline price declining during the last two weeks. However, prices appear to be bottoming out, according to an industry analyst. The national standard for self-serve usual unleaded gas was just about $2.486 per gallon on 24 July, down approximately 7.14 cents each gallon since 10 July, says the nationwide [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-full wp-image-134 alignleft" title="gas station" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/gas-station.jpg" alt="gas station" width="343" height="230" />US citizens again saw the average gasoline price declining during the last two weeks. However, prices appear to be bottoming out, according to an industry analyst. The national standard for self-serve usual unleaded gas was just about $2.486 per gallon on 24 July, down approximately 7.14 cents each gallon since 10 July, says the nationwide Lundberg survey of around 7,000 gas stations. The <a title="survey" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSTRE56P2CW20090726?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=businessNews" target="_blank">survey</a> found at $3.03 per gallon, Honolulu, Hawaii got the top average price for self-serve regular unleaded gas, whereas the lowest cost was $2.22 in Jackson, Mississippi.</p>
<p>Average prices tumbled almost 18 cents a gallon in July, though the trend of declining prices could shortly come to an end, told survey editor Trilby Lundberg. Lundberg said &#8220;Not only has the rate of decline slowed, but it can be expected to disappear entirely as these prices may have hit a bottom for now.&#8221; He said soaring in crude oil prices can signal an upswing in regular retail prices. Crude oil prices made up 89 cents at $68.05 each barrel on Friday increase from $59.89 each barrel just two weeks earlier. However, average cost for self-serve usual unleaded gas are below enough the all time high of about $4.11 registered on 11 July 2008, since high unemployment helped to trim down demand. Additionally, gas on average is nearly $1.51 below that it sold for on 25, July 2008.</p>
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		<title>Petrol Price Soaring in Zimbabwe</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Oil Company of Zimbabwe (NOCZIM) has once again turn into a monopoly. Three months ago, a decision was made by Zimbabwean administration to price fuel more competitively. NOCZIM is the core fuel importer for the country.
Recently fuel shortages have got widespread in Zimbabwe as official decide to limit import licenses from new operators. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-full wp-image-131 alignleft" title="The National Oil Company of Zimbabwe " src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/logo_01.gif" alt="The National Oil Company of Zimbabwe " width="304" height="69" />The National Oil Company of Zimbabwe (NOCZIM) has once again turn into a monopoly. Three months ago, a decision was made by Zimbabwean administration to price fuel more competitively. NOCZIM is the core fuel importer for the country.</p>
<p>Recently fuel shortages have got widespread in Zimbabwe as official decide to limit import licenses from new operators. In the meantime the price of gasoline has raised from 55 US cents to US$1.55 because of NOCZIM being not capable to get the hard cash payments required by regional suppliers.</p>
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		<title>Qatar Airways Operates flights to Australia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Qatar Airways is going to operate flights to Australia by Christmas and in time for that
holiday season. The company will introduce two new routes to Melbourne and Sydney, along with the opening flight to Melbourne planned for 6 December. The Airways begins operating three weekly services to Melbourne with a new Boeing B777-200 Long Range [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-full wp-image-126 alignleft" title="qatar airways logo" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/quatar-airways-logo.gif" alt="qatar airways logo" width="200" height="200" />Qatar Airways is going to operate flights to Australia by Christmas and in time for that<br />
holiday season. The company will introduce two new routes to Melbourne and Sydney, along with the opening flight to Melbourne planned for 6 December. The Airways begins operating three weekly services to Melbourne with a new Boeing B777-200 Long Range plane to be delivered to the company later the year. The schedule quickly become every day early in the New Year, after the delivery of another second long range Boeing from the jet manufacturer’s plant in Seattle, Washington. The aircraft will be the airline’s fourth.</p>
<p>Chief Executive Officer of Qatar Airways Akbar Al Baker <a title="said" href="http://www.justtheflight.co.uk/news/19227387-qatar-airways-to-launch-flights-to-melbourne.html" target="_blank">said</a> he has been waiting very patiently for Boeing to deliver airliner that the Airways get on order to start operating the first of its two scheduled routes through Australia. Al Baker said “I know the traveling public is eager for us to begin serving Australia and I’ve had many people ask me about our direct routes to Melbourne and Sydney. We’re finalizing some details with regulatory authorities in Australia, and once we’ve received the necessary aircraft from Boeing, we will be ready to operate. He added “Qatar Airways already has 4,000 frequent fliers in Australia that are part of our loyalty program, though the local market remains largely untapped. The Australian economy was one of the few in the world that grew in the first quarter of 2009, so this shows that the market there is still very strong, and we believe there is demand.” Qatar Airways gave orders for 14 Boeing 777-300ERs in 2007, 6 of the 777-200 Long Range variant and other seven 777-200 freighters. All will be delivered until mid-2010.</p>
<p>The Boeing 777-200 Long Range airliner using on the route offer a two-class arrangement of 259 seats. In Business Class, 42 seats are available with passengers can enjoy comfort and it space gives a pitch of up to 78 inches with every seat converting into 180-degree completely flat beds. With another 2–2–2 seat design, Business Class travelers are assured of a window or aisle seat and profusion of space. On the other hand, in Economy Class, seat space is more than the industry standard with a pitch of up to 34 inches providing noteworthy leg room, whereas the 217 seats in a 3-3-3 arrangement.</p>
<p>The new process connects travelers from Australia to the UK and Europe just with a one-stop service. It is a planned an hour connection time in Doha. Additionally, from Qatar Airways’ hub in Doha, travelers can link to several destinations in South Asia, North Africa and the Middle East.</p>
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		<title>Nokia Siemens Purchase Wireless Business from Nortel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 07:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Telecom equipment manufacturer Nortel Networks announced on 19 June that it would sell its modern wireless technology to Nokia Siemens Networks for US$650 million. Additionally, it was getting progress in discussion to sell its some other businesses. Leading North American producer of telecommunications gear Nortel distorted into bankruptcy in January and it blamed the severe [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-123 alignleft" title="nokia siemens" src="http://www.businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/nokia-siemens1-300x189.jpg" alt="nokia siemens" width="300" height="189" />Telecom equipment manufacturer Nortel Networks announced on 19 June that it would sell its modern wireless technology to Nokia Siemens Networks for US$650 million. Additionally, it was getting progress in discussion to sell its some other businesses. Leading North American producer of telecommunications gear Nortel distorted into bankruptcy in January and it blamed the severe economic crisis for devastating a turnaround effort which started in 2005.</p>
<p>Joint venture of Nokia &amp; Siemens, Nokia Siemens made an unsolicited proposal for parts of NA Nortel&#8217;s carrier network group. However, the worth and scope of the <a title="agreement" href="http://www.seattlepi.com/business/1700ap_cn_canada_nortel_nokia_siemens.html?source=rss" target="_blank">agreement</a> had been unclear. The deal would allow Nokia Siemens to get bigger its presence in North America. The deal makes it also a top supplier of wireless infrastructure equipments in the region.</p>
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		<title>1100 Dealers will be closed by GM</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 10:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Motor giant General Motor (GM) desperately tries to cut cost and stave of bankruptcy, as for that the announced plans to close up 1100 of its dealership in US. It also plans to cut ties with 470 dealers of Saturn, Hummer and Saab. GM is also negotiating with the unions to reduce wage cost.
Meanwhile on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img title="General Motors" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/3052_042909.jpg" alt="General Motors" width="187" height="187" align="left" />Motor giant General Motor (GM) desperately tries to cut cost and stave of bankruptcy, as for that the announced plans to close up 1100 of its dealership in US. It also plans to cut ties with 470 dealers of Saturn, Hummer and Saab. GM is also negotiating with the unions to reduce wage cost.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Meanwhile on Thursday, the rival of GM, Chrysler said that it would closing 789 US dealers as part of a massive restructuring program.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">GM said that</p>
<blockquote>
<p style="text-align: left;">the 1,100 underperforming and very small sales volume US dealers&#8230;will be advised that GM does not see them as part of its dealer network on a long-term basis.</p>
</blockquote>
<p style="text-align: left;">Mark LaNeve, the vice president of North American sales for the carmaker explained</p>
<blockquote style="text-align: left;"><p>It is obvious that almost all parts of GM, including the dealer body, must get smaller and more efficient,</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: left;">GM now has 6246 dealers in US and they are planning to cut the number to 3605 by the end of next year. The car makers are hopping that the move will reduce cost. However, others argue that dealerships, as permits, are not a cost to the company and produce much needed revenue. Mr. LaNeve said that many of the dealers selling less than 35 vehicle annually.</p>
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		<title>Hitachi Falls in Record Loss</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 10:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese electronics giant, Hitachi Ltd suffered its worst-ever yearly net loss for the financial year 2008 that finished in March.
The company said its gross loss for the third economic quarter totaled 4.14 billion dollar (371 billion yen), evaluated to a 12.5 billion total revenue a year earlier. Shares of Hitachi Ltd fall 17 per cent [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Japanese electronics giant, Hitachi Ltd suffered its worst-ever yearly <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/may/07/hitachi-predicts-record-loss" target="_blank">net loss</a> for the financial year 2008 that finished in March.</p>
<p>The company said its gross loss for the third economic quarter totaled 4.14 billion dollar (371 billion yen), evaluated to a 12.5 billion total revenue a year earlier. Shares of Hitachi Ltd fall 17 per cent to their lowest in twenty-nine years after it shocked shareholders with a record 7.8 billion dollar yearly loss warning. Tuesday, in a statement Hitachi said,</p>
<blockquote><p>The economic outlook also remains unpredictable against a backdrop of concerns about slowing economic growth in China and emerging markets, the yen&#8217;s run up and falling share prices.</p></blockquote>
<p>The company offered a cost-cutting program that also failed to fill confidence for a quick recovery.  In January, Hitachi declared job cuts of up to seven thousands as part of its rehabilitation plan. The company said it looks for 200 billion yen in savings by closing unbeneficial businesses and reformation factories.</p>
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		<title>The types of Insurances for your Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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For the safety of your employee and business, health insurance is must. And before you head off for insurance the first thing you should consider is what type of business do you have? And what type of insurance do you need for your business entity ? And how many employees do you have? The main [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-108" title="Business Health Insurance" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/group-health.jpg" alt="Business Health Insurance" width="384" height="297" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">For the safety of your employee and business, health insurance is must. And before you head off for insurance the first thing you should consider is what type of business do you have? And what type of insurance do you need for your business entity ? And how many employees do you have? The main two types of <a href="http://businessleaf.com/business-insurance/the-types-of-insurances-for-your-business.htm">health insurance for the business</a> are group health insurance and individual health insurance.</p>
<p><strong>Group Health Insurance </strong><br />
Group Health Insurance is employers-sponsored health coverage for business owner, employees and regularly dependents. Maximums Americans have group health coverage through their own or a family member&#8217;s employer-sponsored group plan. Both employer and employees can share costs and there are special tax incentives available to businesses that provide group health insurance.<span id="more-104"></span></p>
<p>This insurance plan works in simple way such as an employer; you select a group health insurance plan and then invite your employees to enroll. Normally, employers cover at least 50% of each employee&#8217;s monthly premium, and can also contribute to dependent premiums. The remainder is paid for by the employee.</p>
<p>Now, before choosing Group Health Insurance plan you should check if the plan is right for you. If you want to provide health insurance benefits and you&#8217;re able to contribute toward employee premiums, than group health insurance is the way to go. Also keep in mind that, offering group health insurance can help you hire and retain the best workers and the amount you pay toward employee premiums may be tax-deductible. Since no one can be turned down based on medical history, group coverage also protects workers or family members who might otherwise go uninsured.</p>
<p><strong>Individual Health Insurance </strong><br />
If you are unable to obtain medical insurance through your employer, you should try seeking individual health insurance plans, which is also known as private health insurance. This type of coverage is ideal for the self-employed and anyone searching for a wide variety of options and pricing structures from which to choose. After group health plans, personal health insurance is the most widely available form of medical coverage. In most states, individuals can be refuse coverage for any number of reasons, so it is wise to request and compare more than one individual health insurance quote. The extra short-term effort that&#8217;s required to apply for individual medical insurance plans is easily worth the long-term savings you&#8217;ll enjoy.</p>
<p>One of the tactics for running successful business is provide better <a href="http://businessleaf.com/business-insurance/the-types-of-insurances-for-your-business.htm">insurance plan to the employees</a>. If your insurance plan can attracts the employers than it will help them to work better for you.</p>
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		<title>China Telecom Losing its Market Share</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China Telecom, the biggest telecom company of China reported that with the global economic downturn its unique conquers of profit in telecom market is loosing day by day. It has seen that first quarter earnings fall 27.4 percent.
But the telecom company doesn&#8217;t blame the global economic downturn. Because the main reason is that, Chinese being [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>China Telecom, the biggest telecom company of China reported that with the global economic downturn its unique conquers of profit in telecom market is loosing day by day. It has seen that first quarter earnings fall 27.4 percent.</p>
<p>But the telecom company doesn&#8217;t blame the global economic downturn. Because the main reason is that, Chinese being to favor the expand draw on of mobile phones. So the country’s fixed line telephone services falling back. Now the leading china telecom is in tough contest from various mobile companies such as China Mobile, which is today&#8217;s mobile phone leader in the country. So, now China Telecom is trying to take some proper modern steps to get back users. Already they have brought in high-speed internet access as well as latest mobile services.</p>
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		<title>China Announced New Economy Plans</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emerging economic tiger China has revealed some plans for south-east Asian countries. The plans for establishing a $10bn investment fund. Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao announced the plans recently. Actually the planned to come to pass at Thailand’s ASEAN conference (cancelled).
That new agreement is projected to get the world&#8217;s largest free trade area. It covers [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-full wp-image-100 alignleft" title="china flag" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/china-flag.jpg" alt="china flag" width="260" height="260" />Emerging economic tiger China has revealed some plans for south-east Asian countries. The plans for establishing a $10bn investment fund. Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao announced the plans recently. Actually the planned to come to pass at Thailand’s ASEAN conference (cancelled).</p>
<p>That new agreement is projected to get the world&#8217;s largest free trade area. It covers just about two-billion citizens of different countries. The plans have also been designed for cooperation on some issues like:</p>
<ol>
<li> Construction of infrastructure</li>
<li>Energy</li>
<li>Resources</li>
<li>Information</li>
<li>Communication</li>
</ol>
<p>Over the upcoming three to five years, the country will offer more than $15billion in credit in South-East Asia for cooperation. Among the South-East countries at first Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar will get emergency funds.</p>
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		<title>Chartering a Private Jet &#8211; Is it Really Worthy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
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Long lines to get on the plane, tiny seats, luggage missing and kids yelling are real pain in your air trip when flying with public airlines. Just think when you are sitting with a passenger who never stops talking.
Every person is tired of these enduring annoyances when in the air with civic airlines. Do you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-95" title="Private Jet" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/private-jet.jpg" alt="Private Jet" width="450" height="310" /></p>
<p>Long lines to get on the plane, tiny seats, luggage missing and kids yelling are real pain in your air trip when flying with public airlines. Just think when you are sitting with a passenger who never stops talking.</p>
<p>Every person is tired of these enduring annoyances when in the air with civic airlines. Do you really want to bring to an end of all that annoy and strain? Well, if you truly look for bring an alteration something in your business; you should absolutely think choosing to chart a private jet instead of commercial airlines.</p>
<p><strong>There are lots of reasons to choose a private jet, rather than using a commercial aircraft:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>If you have a business schedule then time is most valuable for you. And most of the commercial airlines fail to give you the best service on the basis of time. It is a common scenario that a public plane makes delay to take off for their internal purpose. Moreover, most of the time it is hard to find a flight according to your schedule. In these cases there is no other best option then chartering a private jet. Your time schedule will be totally at your selection with the private jet charter.<span id="more-94"></span></li>
<li>Charter services have one and only mission is to serve you. It offers high quality of security and comfort. Luggage missing is a common dilemma that faces the passenger of commercial airlines. But in a charter jet you never need think to about it.</li>
<li>The most important matter is that there are no security verifies or baggage claim lines for the travelers in the private jet charter. For the business purpose this option is so much needed. Such as, if you need to carry huge amount of cash or gold you must face obstruction in a public airplane but not in a private jet.</li>
<li>Depend on your contract with the private Jet Company you can visit several cities per day.</li>
</ul>
<p><a title="Chartering a Private Jet" href="http://www.privatejetscharter.net/chartering-a-private-jet-for-your-next-vacation.html" target="_blank">Chartering a private jet</a> perks up the comfort of your tour by get rid of many of the issues related with public flights. But personal jet charter in any condition is an expensive matter and you will surely be concerned about the economic features of such charter.</p>
<p>But similar to all things you have to find the cost-effective private jet on your own way. You need to consider time saving and cost saving in combination.</p>
<p>At first you need to find out what type of jet you need. There are several different sized and types that you be able to choose for your trip and they all have a dissimilar price variety. In general there are four types of Charter Jet are available across the world.  These are Air Taxi, Frequent Membership charter, Public or Full charter, and Ad hoc charter. In the middle of these the Air Taxi is highly popular. But, if you find the cost effective way then type is not matter. You need to measure the members who will visit in the jet. If you have small group then without considering types find a charter jet which have small space with few numbers of room. It can save your huge amount of money.</p>
<p>In the upper part of our article we say that, you can visit several cities in your trip. Now just think that you want to visit five different places in your trip when you are in private charter jet, so how easy it is. But in commercial flights you need to confirm five individual flight tickets for your trip. And if those are first class tickets then the cost must more then a private jet cost. Moreover, a private charter jet will save your valuable time.</p>
<p>If the travelers are more in number then it is a great way to reduce your travel cost. Because the shared cost of a member of a large groups will reduce. If you analyze the whole amount used up on a group for a first class ticket and the price of personal charter you will see that <a title="Charter Jet" href="http://www.privatejetscharter.net/" target="_blank">charter jet</a> is an ideal transport for a group. Cause, a personal jet charter is the ultimate luxury in travel.</p>
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		<title>Get the Deal by the Touch of Business Brokers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business brokers play a vital role in buying any business. Buying a business is traditionally called buying process. Buying any business requires a number of steps to get performed, mostly for you if this is the first experience for you of buying business. You may know that buying a business is not any easy and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-full wp-image-88 alignright" title="Business Broker" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/business-broker.jpg" alt="Business Broker" width="289" height="182" />Business brokers play a vital role in buying any business. Buying a business is traditionally called buying process. Buying any business requires a number of steps to get performed, mostly for you if this is the first experience for you of buying business. You may know that buying a business is not any easy and small decision. So, you should take it seriously. If you take it lightly, you never get success.</p>
<p><strong>Can you do the process yourself ?</strong><br />
Educating, preparing and planning for the process is important as you are going to invest a handsome amount of money at stake. As the buying process is so hard; so, 90 percent of the individuals who begin the search for buying a business stop the processes without making any final deal. Merely 10 percent of buyers complete the entire process.<span id="more-87"></span></p>
<p>But why, most of the people leave the process in the middle? The main reason is individuals do not understand in advance that the process is so much involving. Many first time buyers leave the project without finalization the entire process. Actually frustration as a result of making one after one critical decision bound them to discard the task.</p>
<p><strong>Necessity of business brokers</strong><br />
Buying any business is really tough whereas it is a rare opportunity for the large amount of the people in their lives. So, hire a business broker if you get the chance. It is definitely helpful and necessary to hire the services from an experienced, qualified and professional business broker. A business broker can help you simply to go through the overall process of buying any business smoothly.</p>
<p>Business brokers with their experience of the industry are the exact solutions to get advice that how much amount of money you should spend for the project. He will discuss with about your aim and demand, and how much money you can invest in this regard. Along the process, business broker could also advise you further on possible Credit Factoring option where you could rise additional cash flow in helping to fund the purchase. By getting a proper view of your demand and know your financial goals a business broker can guide you easily that which sort of business will be appropriate for you.</p>
<p>The broker can give you the names of the businesses that are available for sale. He can help you to gather and evaluate the information regarding the businesses. Basically, responsibility of the broker in buying any business is not only limited up to all those but also he can arrangement the offer for purchase, manage finances for you. He can also close the deal. So, with a touch of a business broker, you can process everything very easily.</p>
<p><a title="Business brokers" href="http://www.experienced-people.co.uk/1004-where-to-sell-your-site/how-to-choose-a-broker.htm" target="_blank">Business brokers</a> usually prefer talking face-to-face or individually to the people. When you want to get help from any business broker, then in the first meeting let him know how much time you have set to complete the entire task. You should tell him about your expectations as well from the business in question. Inform him directly about the availability of the gets and also tell him how much cash is readily available. Business broker has to do something more for you such as he can help you in managing the finance from third party if needed. So, try to <a title="Find a Business Broker" href="http://www.experienced-people.co.uk/1004-where-to-sell-your-site/" target="_blank">find a business broker</a> for your ensuing deal.</p>
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		<title>EMS Service Now in India</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 09:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[21, March 2009 was a historic for Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) as the company announced the inauguration of its global service initiative, Express Maintenance Service (EMS) in Bangalore. EMS provides one hour periodic maintenance service for every Toyota model. TKM Managing Director Hiroshi Nakagawa told newly launched Corolla Altis also included in this service.
EMS reduces [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img align="left" title="corolla altis" src="http://www.businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/69-2008toyotacorollaaltis06_resize-300x200.jpg" alt="corolla altis" width="300" height="200" />21, March 2009 was a historic for Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) as the company announced the inauguration of its global service initiative, Express Maintenance Service (EMS) in Bangalore. EMS provides one hour periodic maintenance service for every Toyota model. TKM Managing Director Hiroshi Nakagawa told newly launched Corolla Altis also included in this service.</p>
<p>EMS reduces the mentionable servicing time of cars with variation from the existing 17 hours to an hour by reducing the stagnation time between processes. It is on hand to consumers at the same price as the usual service. Following the achievement of the pilot Mumbai project in 2005, the proposed service was implemented at more than 14 locations in the country. The company plans to extend this project to over 50 locations in India by 2009.</p>
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		<title>Google VP now on AOL Executive Floor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AOL is receiving new leadership yet again; only two years after the outgoing executives were selected to turn around the struggling company. Now, for a new guidance a Google executive has been hired as the latest CEO of AOL. AOL&#8217;s parent company, Time Warner’s chief executive Jeffrey Bewkes said Google senior vice president Tim Armstrong [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AOL is receiving new leadership yet again; only two years after the outgoing executives were selected to turn around the struggling company. Now, for a new guidance a Google executive has been hired as the latest CEO of AOL. AOL&#8217;s parent company, Time Warner’s chief executive Jeffrey Bewkes said Google senior vice president Tim Armstrong would take over as chairman and chief executive, replacing Randy Falco. Bewkes said,</p>
<blockquote><p>Tim is the right executive to move AOL into the next phase of its evolution. At Google, Armstrong helped build one of the most successful media teams in the history of the internet, helping to make Google the most popular online search advertising platform in the world for direct and brand marketers.</p></blockquote>
<p>Ron Grant, AOL&#8217;s president and chief operating officer, will leave with Falco in a few weeks, who took the job in November 2006.</p>
<p>AOL has liable declining advertising profits for its declining fortunes. Its yearly income cut down 20 per cent in 2008, to $4.2 billion. The band is at the heart of a surrounding of layoffs in which it waits for to shed about 10 per cent of its employees, or 700 workers.</p>
<p>It is expecting that, time Warner’s struggling Internet unit will be headed by Tim Armstrong, who worked at Google for nearly nine years. Roger Kay, president of Endpoint Technologies Associates said,</p>
<blockquote><p>If there&#8217;s any company that understands the market AOL should be in, it&#8217;s Google.</p></blockquote>
<p>Others, Rob Enderle, a tech industry forecaster said,</p>
<blockquote><p>When you get somebody from Google like this, it usually means that you&#8217;re paying them a ton of money and you&#8217;re hoping for a miracle.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Bill Gates regains his Spot at the Top again</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The founder of Microsoft Corp, Bill Gates has regained his spot at the list of the richest man in the world, again. Gates has overtaken investor Warren Buffett, as the global financial meltdown wiped out $2 trillion from the net worth of the world&#8217;s billionaires, Forbes Magazine said on Wednesday.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img title="Bill Gates" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/bill-gates.jpg" alt="Bill Gates" width="209" height="261" align="left" />The founder of Microsoft Corp, Bill Gates has regained his spot at the list of the richest man in the world, again. Gates has overtaken investor Warren Buffett, as the global financial meltdown wiped out $2 trillion from the net worth of the world&#8217;s billionaires, Forbes Magazine said on Wednesday.</p>
<p>This year, the number of billionaires in the world fell by nearly a third to 793 in the past year, with large numbers dropping off the list in Russia, India and Turkey.</p>
<p>Bill Gates regained his title as the richest man in the world, with $40 billion after triping to third last year when he was worth $58 billion. Buffett, last year&#8217;s richest man, fell to second place with $37 billion, down from $62 billion. Mexican telecommunications tycoon Carlos Slim took third place with $35 billion, down from $60 billion.</p>
<p>Overall, the top three billionaires lost $68 billion in the year to February 13, when Forbes took a snapshot of wealth around the world to bring together its annual list of billionaires.</p>
<p>The Chief Executive of Forbes Magazines Steve Forbes said that, while few would shed a tear for the difficulty of a billionaire, it was bad for the economy when entrepreneurs were in trouble. He told the reporters,</p>
<blockquote><p>Billionaires don&#8217;t have to worry about their next meal, but if their wealth is declining and you&#8217;re not creating numerous new billionaires, it means the rest of the world is not doing very well.</p></blockquote>
<p>and added that</p>
<p>&#8220;The typical billionaire is down at least one third on their net worth.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>UBS Disagree to Provide more Data</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UBS bank in Switzerland recently has refused to provide the names of any more US clients to the American government. It is a diversified worldwide financial services company. The bank is the world&#8217;s largest manager of private wealth assets. Its main headquarter situated in Basel and Zurich. The authority say as UBS has accepted responsibility [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img align="left" title="ubs" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/ubs.jpg" alt="ubs" width="300" height="196" />UBS bank in Switzerland recently has refused to provide the names of any more US clients to the American government. It is a diversified worldwide financial services company. The bank is the world&#8217;s largest manager of private wealth assets. Its main headquarter situated in Basel and Zurich. The authority say as UBS has accepted responsibility for helping thousands of US citizens hide assets; so, the secret accounts with the bank will be maintained. The bank has a major presence in the USA, with its US headquarters located in New York City.</p>
<p>UBS officials told the US administration that the bank has done every thing it can for now, without breaking Swiss criminal laws. They say they have taken corrective measures to comply with world authorities. Already the Internal Revenue Service in the USA has been handed the names of around 300 UBS clients, but the IRS still wants the identities of as many as 52,000 wealthy US citizens.</p>
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		<title>APR Go Up for Credit Cards</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bankrate.com said the average annual interest rates charged on various kinds of most popular credit cards went up previous week. The average APR (annual percentage rate) rose 11.52%, from 11.43% last week for the low-interest cards. The cards have rates lower than the national average but are over and over again offered merely to users [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img align="left" title="card" src="http://www.businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/card-300x225.jpg" alt="card" width="300" height="225" />Bankrate.com said the average annual interest rates charged on various kinds of most popular credit cards went up previous week. The average APR (annual percentage rate) rose 11.52%, from 11.43% last week for the low-interest cards. The cards have rates lower than the national average but are over and over again offered merely to users with strong credit histories. On the other hand, for balance transfer cards, the average APR edged up to 13.05%, from 12.93% the week before. The cards allow customers to consolidate outstanding debt from one or more cards though sometimes they include a low introductory rate.</p>
<p>The average APR for cash back cards was slightly higher, at 13.67%, from 13.64% just one week ago. It is feature cash or other reward incentives. It usually requires a good-to-excellent credit rating for approval. The average APR charged for every variable-rate cards tracked by Bank-rate held steady for the third consecutive week at 10.74%. Bank-rate surveys the ten largest banks and thrifts in the ten different largest markets in America to determine its averages.</p>
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		<title>Gold Hits the Thousand Mark in US</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The price of gold broke above US$1,000 an ounce on Friday for the first time as stocks continued to fall and other securities seen as more risky. Gold futures for April delivery rose as much as $23.80, or 2.4 per cent, to $1,000.30 an ounce. The elevated price of gold is a sign of how [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img align="left" title="gold" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/gold.jpg" alt="" width="271" height="191" />The price of gold broke above US$1,000 an ounce on Friday for the first time as stocks continued to fall and other securities seen as more risky. Gold futures for April delivery rose as much as $23.80, or 2.4 per cent, to $1,000.30 an ounce. The elevated price of gold is a sign of how terrible the overall state of the financial system is. Investors are upset by the failing banking industry and rising unemployment as it becomes increasingly unclear where the bottom is for other <a title="finance" href="http://www.bloggymedia.com/channel/finance/" target="_blank">investments</a>.</p>
<p>Analysts anticipate the gold rally will continue as investors drop confidence in their economic assets. Carlos Sanchez, precious metals analyst at CPM Group said in New York that,</p>
<blockquote><p>With the Dow down to a six-year low and concerns about financial and economic stability worldwide, $1,000 seems to be the new resistance level.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>GM and Chrysler Seeks more Loan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After receiving $17.4 billion loans from Bush administration the two giant automakers General Motors and Chrysler are now seeking more government loan to stay alive. But it will be a problem for the two titan of the automaker to get the loan from the new government.
The new request of GM and Chrysler say’s that they [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After receiving $17.4 billion loans from Bush administration the two giant automakers General Motors and Chrysler are now seeking more government loan to stay alive. But it will be a problem for the two titan of the automaker to get the loan from the new government.</p>
<p>The new request of GM and Chrysler say’s that they will need another $21.6 to keep alive in the auto market. But specking of the loan, for President Barack Obama&#8217;s month-old administration, there are no easy answers. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said &#8220;There can&#8217;t be a bottomless pit to this. There aren&#8217;t the resources to deal with it,&#8221; he also added that &#8220;We have to get a sustained path to that restructuring to ensure that there isn&#8217;t a constant necessity for continued government intervention and money from the taxpayers,&#8221;</p>
<p>At risk is much more than the future of the PT Cruiser or the Saturn Vue. Jobs at assembly plants, car dealers, parts suppliers and the small businesses that serve them could be at risk in an exhausted economy in which nearly 12 million people are unemployed, including about 600,000 who got pink slips last month.</p>
<p>Even though Obama meets GM and Chrysler&#8217;s requests for an additional $14 billion in loans and the companies carry out the turnaround plans they released Tuesday, it would come with a painful price: An estimated 50,000 workers worldwide would lose their jobs and five more U.S. plants will be closed.</p>
<p>GM and Chrysler, which initially received $13.4 billion and $4 billion, respectively, are now asking the government for a total of $39 billion more, saying they need more loans due to a U.S. auto market where sales have fallen to lowest point not seen in more than a quarter century. GM said it will run out of money within March if the company does not receive any additional support.</p>
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		<title>Sri Lanka Tourism Industry Grows Well</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A strong breeze now blow on  Sri Lanka’s tourism industry as tourist bureau of the country has noted the strongest growth visitors have recently come from different countries of middle east such as UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Iran and Lebanon. Heightened customer awareness in the Middle East created a 24% surge in Middle Eastern tourists [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A strong breeze now blow on  Sri Lanka’s tourism industry as tourist bureau of the country has noted the strongest growth visitors have recently come from different countries of middle east such as UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Iran and Lebanon. Heightened customer awareness in the Middle East created a 24% surge in Middle Eastern tourists in 2008.</p>
<p>To maintain the huge amount of tourist Sri Lanka’s <a title="tourism" href="http://www.smashingguide.com/" target="_blank">tourism</a> industry has recently been upgraded to include wellness, spa, culture and adventure travel. On the other hand, Arabs traveling with families have been attracted by declining costs and good child care and maid facilities as well.</p>
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		<title>Hyundai Makes Amazing Profit in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent time, there is big fall of profit in the automobile industry. The giant car manufacturer companies such as GM, Toyota, Ford are facing so much constrain for their business. All of the famous and big car manufacturers cut their production more or less. Moreover, in this year there is a big crisis [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a recent time, there is big fall of profit in the automobile industry. The giant car manufacturer companies such as GM, Toyota, Ford are facing so much constrain for their business. All of the famous and big car manufacturers cut their production more or less. Moreover, in this year there is a big crisis all over the world business.</p>
<p>But you will be astonished to know that South Korea&#8217;s top automaker Hyundai makes surprising profit in China. Hyundai Motors has had record monthly sales in China. China has the world&#8217;s second major car market, which also suffered sluggish sales growth last year in the midst of slower <a title="economic" href="http://www.financesteer.com/" target="_blank">economic</a> factors.</p>
<p>The sales figures for the Chinese unit have increased 35 percent year-on-year to 42,790 autos in January. The record monthly sales were credited to a tax cut by the Chinese government for the consumers of small automobiles. Now Hyundai is hopeful for their new sales, raised its sales target to 185,000 cars for 2009.</p>
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		<title>Ukraine Receives 20% Discount on Gas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cut off for almost two weeks by a dispute between the ex-Soviet states, Ukraine and Russian Federation (Russia) signed a 10-year gas supply deal on 19, January Monday to clear the way for the resumption of supplies to a freezing Europe. Vladimir Putin, Russian Prime Minister, said Ukraine will purchase Russian gas in 2009 at [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img align="left" title="russiagaspipe" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/russiagaspipe.jpg" alt="russiagaspipe" width="320" height="240" />Cut off for almost two weeks by a dispute between the ex-Soviet states, Ukraine and Russian Federation (Russia) signed a 10-year gas supply deal on 19, January Monday to clear the way for the resumption of supplies to a freezing Europe. Vladimir Putin, Russian Prime Minister, said Ukraine will purchase Russian gas in 2009 at 20 percent discount compared with European market prices at the signing ceremony. But the exact price was not revealed. The agreement was signed by the chief executive of Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom, Alexei Miller, and the head of Ukrainian state energy firm Naftogaz, Oleh Dubyna.</p>
<p>In a joint news conference with his Ukrainian counterpart, Yulia Tymoshenko, Mr. Putin said &#8220;Gazprom received an order to start deliveries through all routes indicated by our Ukrainian partners and in full volumes.&#8221; On the other hand, Tymoshenko, who flew back to Moscow, the capital city of Russia, to attend the ceremony after clinching a weekend deal with his Russian counterpart Mr. Putin, said gas transit to Europe would resume after Russian gas reached Ukraine. Earlier Gazprom had said gas supplies would resume in Europe immediately after the signing. Experts say it will take around 36 hours for the first Russian gas to cross Ukraine and enter Europe.</p>
<p>Earlier on 1 January Russia cut supplies to Ukraine as Kiev would not pay higher prices for its gas. After six days, export flows to Europe through Ukraine ceased amid Russian accusations that Kiev was &#8220;stealing&#8221; gas intended for export. As a result, the wrangle between Moscow and Kiev enraged the European Union (EU) and raised question the credibility of Russia and Ukraine as gas suppliers to Europe. However, Ukraine&#8217;s pro-Western leaders denied the Moscow’s accusation, and countered that Moscow was trying to blackmail European consumers by halting gas supplies.</p>
<p>Ukraine said it could not afford to pay higher prices as it is heading into its worst recession in a decade. According to analysts forecast its economy will shrink by up to five percent in this year. Additionally, both countries have agreed not to use intermediaries in the gas <a title="trade" href="http://www.businessguideland.com/" target="_blank">trade</a>. Previous deals have been complicated by the use of Swiss-based intermediary Rosukrenergo. Experts says the new deal strong the bond between two countries.</p>
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		<title>Apple’s CEO Takes Medical Leave</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple Inc. co-founder and Chief Executive Steve Jobs said that he is going to take a medical leave until the end of June. However, these is announced just a week after the cancer survivor tried to assure investors and employees his recent weight loss was caused by an easily treatable hormone deficiency. On the other [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img title="steve jobs" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/steve-jobs.jpg" alt="steve jobs" width="212" height="212" align="left" />Apple Inc. co-founder and Chief Executive Steve Jobs said that he is going to take a medical leave until the end of June. However, these is announced just a week after the cancer survivor tried to assure investors and employees his recent weight loss was caused by an easily treatable hormone deficiency. On the other hand Apple stock drops as they announced Jobs is taking medical leave.</p>
<p>Steve Jobs, the 53 years old Apple’s CEO said in his latter last week that he would remain at Apple&#8217;s helm despite the hormone problem, and that he had already begun a &#8220;relatively simple and straightforward&#8221; treatment. But in an e-mail to employees Wednesday he wrote &#8220;During the past week I have learned that my health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought,&#8221;</p>
<p>When the roomers and news about the CEO’s health and his gaunt appearance was all-round, Apple’s shares have started to pitched and crashed over the last year. As the top executive’s health is an issue for investors in any company, at Apple the level of concern reaches fever arena because Jobs has a hand in everything from ideas for new products to the way they’re marketed. And the investors fear that, Apple will not be able to sustain its growth of the last decade, which has seen Apple branch out from its <a title="apple" href="http://www.applelogs.com/" target="_blank">Mac</a> computers into the iPod and the iPhone without Jobs.</p>
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		<title>3 Companies got License for 3G in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chinese authority take more step to develop its mobile phone sector and want to offer variety in cell phone users. For this, already, China&#8217;s telecommunications regulator issued 3G mobile phone licenses to different three domestic telecom companies. The largest mobile telephone operator, China Mobile, in China recently announced it is going to invest around [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img align="left" title="3g" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/3g.jpg" alt="3g" width="288" height="288" />The Chinese authority take more step to develop its mobile phone sector and want to offer variety in cell phone users. For this, already, China&#8217;s telecommunications regulator issued 3G mobile phone licenses to different three domestic telecom companies. The largest mobile telephone operator, China Mobile, in China recently announced it is going to invest around $8.6 billion to build more than 60,000 mobile base stations for its third generation (3G) mobile networks.</p>
<p>China Mobile was one of the awarded a 3G contract. The company got a license for TD-SCDMA, the domestically developed 3G network standard. The other two companies were China Telecom and China Unicom. China Telecom got licenses for the U.S.-developed CDMA2000 whereas China Unicom got license for Europe&#8217;s WCDMA systems.</p>
<p>Xinhua noted last Saturday, the company said upon the project&#8217;s completion in 2009, and after finishing the project the total number of China Mobile&#8217;s 3G network base stations will top 80,000. On the other hand, China&#8217;s state-run news agency reported that 3G high-speed networks can able to handle faster data downloads. Additionally, allow users to do such things as make video calls as well as watch various TV programs. The new announcement already made craze both in <a title="mobile" href="http://www.smashingphone.com/" target="_blank">mobile</a> users and businessmen.</p>
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		<title>Toyota to Suspend Production Temporarily in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday that it would suspend production at all of its domestic plants for 11 days between February and March in reply to a fall in sales.
A Toyota spokesman said, &#8220;We will suspend the operation of 12 Toyota factories in Japan for 11 more days.&#8221;
A stoppage of unprecedented scale for the nation&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img align="left" title="toyota" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/toyota.jpg" alt="toyota" width="450" height="300" />Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday that it would suspend production at all of its domestic plants for 11 days between February and March in reply to a fall in sales.</p>
<p>A Toyota spokesman said, &#8220;We will suspend the operation of 12 Toyota factories in Japan for 11 more days.&#8221;</p>
<p>A stoppage of unprecedented scale for the nation&#8217;s top automaker as it struggle already idling its domestic plants for three days in January to manage with rapidly decrease global demand. Last time in August 1993, Toyota Motor Corp. halted production at all its Japan plants, when demand fall because of increasing yen, and that was for only one day.</p>
<p>But the stoppage time of this moment is really alarming for them. A worldwide financial slump has hammered the <a title="auto" href="http://www.eautoguides.com/" target="_blank">auto</a> industry in Japan and elsewhere, forcing carmakers to cut employees, lower production and holdup new models. Toyota spokesman Hideaki Homma said Tuesday.</p>
<p>We are coping with a slump in global sales. Demand in the world auto market is so depressed that every model is falling harshly in sales.</p>
<p>The most recent output cuts came after the Japanese auto giant last month forecast its first ever annual operating loss, blaming an unexpected crisis in the global auto industry. Sales of latest vehicles in Japan fell to 3.2 million vehicles last year, the lowest in 34 years, the Japan Automobile Dealers Association said Monday. Toyota has already moved to reduce production at its domestic, Canadian, French, and U.S. factories, and plans to lay off 3,000 provisional workers in Japan.</p>
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		<title>MFI Ceased its Operation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The crises of world economy now touch the British furniture chain MFI. The administrators of it announced last Friday they had failed to get a buyer for the firm and for this reason its stores had been closed with the loss of more than 1,400 jobs. Last month, MCR took on accountability for the struggling [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img align="left" title="mfi" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/mfi.jpg" alt="mfi" width="298" height="252" />The crises of world economy now touch the British furniture chain MFI. The administrators of it announced last Friday they had failed to get a buyer for the firm and for this reason its stores had been closed with the loss of more than 1,400 jobs. Last month, MCR took on accountability for the struggling retailer but after it filed for a form of bankruptcy, now it announced the company had stopped their trading. Richard Merrin, MCR spokesman, told The Associated Press &#8220;The one big asset, that they had was the order book and they&#8217;ve not been able to find a buyer for that either so that means that all stores are closed.&#8221; He added every customer who had placed orders with this company just before it collapsed would be refunded.</p>
<p>Since after foundation in 1964, MFI was one of the Britain&#8217;s top furniture retailers, especially in selling home-assembled and flat-packed furniture to aspiring homeowners. But in recent few years the firm struggled as it faced increased competition from several stores for example B&amp;Q, Homebase and. There are some problems and delays with its supply chain and many errors to orders bit into the brand as well. Finally, the wave of world economic crises has bound to the company to cease its operation. Earlier, on November 26, the authority said it was struggling with &#8220;severe cash flow pressure&#8221; because of the general deterioration in the market for <a title="home" href="http://www.smashinghomeguide.com/" target="_blank">home</a> furnishings. The experts say the declaration of ceasing the operation of the company will make an impact on the economy.</p>
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		<title>US Airlines Hope to Profit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amid the world economy turmoil and terrorist threat while every sector of US business survives to maintain it, then hopefully enough that American airlines analysts and business experts have expected that the decline in the price of oil can able to make airline business profitable again in upcoming year.
According to The Fort Worth Star-Telegram report [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img align="left" title="airlines" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/airlines.jpg" alt="airlines" width="235" height="214" />Amid the world economy turmoil and terrorist threat while every sector of US business survives to maintain it, then hopefully enough that American airlines analysts and <a title="business" href="http://www.businessguideland.com/" target="_blank">business</a> experts have expected that the decline in the price of oil can able to make airline business profitable again in upcoming year.</p>
<p>According to The Fort Worth Star-Telegram report the International Air Transport Association states it expects around $300 million profit for North American carriers, which is just below 1% of their revenue. At present US Airlines is hoping to get authorization for its alliance with British Airways, in order to coordinate scheduling along with marketing for trans-Atlantic flights.</p>
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		<title>Automakers Have Cut Their Production</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amid the world wide economic turndown Japanese auto makers have virtually stopped producing all types of cars with vehicle production falling around 20% previous month.
The fading demand for automobile, not only in Japan but also in international market, has caused Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan&#8217;s largest automaker, to announce its first net operating loss in their [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amid the world wide economic turndown Japanese auto makers have virtually stopped producing all types of cars with vehicle production falling around 20% previous month.</p>
<p>The fading demand for automobile, not only in Japan but also in international market, has caused Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan&#8217;s largest automaker, to announce its first net operating loss in their 71 years business history. The Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association already has said it is the largest decline in over 40 years history, when records were taken first time.</p>
<p>On the other hand, Hyundai Motors and Kia, top two carmakers of South Korea, have slashed sales forecasts, as well, by 12% due to the worldwide recession. The Indian automobile industry is responding to drop in auto sales by cutting shifts at its auto factories. So, it is very much apparent that all international <a title="car" href="http://www.eautoguides.com/" target="_blank">car</a> companies are survived with the recent world economic crisis and bound to cut their production.</p>
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		<title>Textron has Cut 2,200 jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Providence-based US firm Textron Inc., one of the world&#8217;s leading maker of corporate jets, is going to expand its job cuts to 2,200 amid global economic crisis. The exclusive maker of Cessna aircrafts and Bell helicopters announced the figure included earlier stated cuts in its Cessna and Bell divisions. Textron employs 44,000 staff worldwide, did [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img align="left" title="textron" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/textron.jpg" alt="textron" width="210" height="120" />Providence-based US firm Textron Inc., one of the world&#8217;s leading maker of corporate jets, is going to expand its job cuts to 2,200 amid global economic crisis. The exclusive maker of Cessna aircrafts and Bell helicopters announced the figure included earlier stated cuts in its Cessna and Bell divisions. Textron employs 44,000 staff worldwide, did not rule out &#8220;further headcount reductions&#8221; and other additional cost-saving measures.</p>
<p>Lewis Campbell, Textron chief executive officer, is accelerating a process to make this company more professional and efficient amid the worldwide financial crisis. The company is keeping the <a title="finance" href="http://www.financesteer.com/" target="_blank">finance</a> divisions that directly provide its manufacturing consumers as they serve one-stop shopping. Textron extended its revolving aircraft, as well, finance facility by one year and soaked reserves at Textron Finance Corp., which is based in Providence, too. On the other hand, the company declared it would cut its finance operations.</p>
<p>At this instant, Textron expects revenue from its manufacturing division to be in the range of between $300m to $330m in the fourth quarter of this fiscal year, decline from earlier forecasted $400m and for the whole company, they forecasts a net loss of 81 to 91 cents a share. Many other companies all over the world have been forced to announce enormous job cuts and modify down their outlooks amid falling requirement as customers pare all but necessary spending.</p>
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		<title>Meeting for Tri-Nation Gas Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently Mohammad Mehdi Akhoundzadeh, Deputy Foreign Minister of Iran, has met India’s External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee to discuss on the proposed 7.4 billion dollar tri-nation – Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project. The two countries discussed ways to crack the deadlock over this project because India has been boycotting, since August 2007, talks over tri-nation pipeline [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img align="left" title="line" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/line.jpg" alt="line" width="287" height="182" />Recently Mohammad Mehdi Akhoundzadeh, Deputy Foreign Minister of Iran, has met India’s External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee to discuss on the proposed 7.4 billion dollar tri-nation – Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project. The two countries discussed ways to crack the deadlock over this project because India has been boycotting, since August 2007, talks over tri-nation pipeline project, by reason of the transit fee demanded by Pakistani Government for passage of gas through their country.</p>
<p>On the other hand, earlier of this official meeting, both countries had decided to make a trilateral Ministerial mechanism to resolve a range of issues related to the project. According to the mechanism, the Oil Ministers level meeting among India, Pakistan and Iran will go on to address various issues related to the project.</p>
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		<title>Bush Administration Goes Slowly for Automakers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While both General Motors (GM) and Chrysler have said they need instant cash injections to survive with current economy, the White House has insisted strictly it will not be rushed into providing a special lifeline for struggling American automakers. In a usual daily press briefing at the White House, Dana Perino, spokeswoman, said the Bush [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While both General Motors (GM) and Chrysler have said they need instant cash injections to survive with current economy, the White House has insisted strictly it will not be rushed into providing a special lifeline for struggling American automakers. In a usual daily press briefing at the White House, Dana Perino, spokeswoman, said the Bush government would move to organize a bailout in an orderly <a title="fashion" href="http://www.fashionsmash.com/" target="_blank">fashion</a>, but would not be rushed into it.</p>
<p>On the other hand, whereas the Bush administration is continuing its review of position of the US automakers, Nicolas Sarkozy, French President, has warned that the EU could become an industrial wasteland without European Union support for its automakers. French President has suggested assist could get the form of loans for customers to purchase environmentally friendly cars.</p>
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		<title>Orascom will Give 3rd Generation Service in NK</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, North Korea has announced that an Egyptian telecoms giant is going to operate an advanced mobile phone network in the country. Experts say the new attempt to set up a global icon of personal freedom into one of the world&#8217;s most tightly controlled societies.
The Korean Central News Agency official has said the third-generation mobile [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img title="new" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/new.jpg" alt="new" width="260" height="83" align="left" />Recently, North Korea has announced that an Egyptian telecoms giant is going to operate an advanced <a title="mobile" href="http://www.smashingphone.com/" target="_blank">mobile phone</a> network in the country. Experts say the new attempt to set up a global icon of personal freedom into one of the world&#8217;s most tightly controlled societies.</p>
<p>The Korean Central News Agency official has said the third-generation mobile network will be built by famous Cairo-based Orascom Telecom Holdings. Orascom Telecom Holding SAE has been building this new network after announcing a 400 million US dollar or £267 million deal in January.</p>
<p>The deal provides North Korea’s mobile users with access to advanced mobile service capabilities for example video calls and high-speed Internet access. The authority said it was officially introduction the third generation mobile service in this country. According to footage from broadcaster APTN; Naguib Sawiris, Chief Executive of Orascom Telecom, said the company&#8217;s goal was for a &#8220;network that will accommodate the 22 million people&#8221; in North Korea, adding he was &#8220;surprised and astonished by the quality&#8221; and &#8220;advancement of the Korean people.&#8221;</p>
<p>The company has already run networks in the Middle East, Africa as well as South Asia and not shied from investing in places treated challenging and politically unpredictable, for example Zimbabwe. Orascom has hoped it intends to cover Pyongyang and most of the major cities in the country during the first year of service.</p>
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		<title>BBC will Give a Hand to Others</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC, one of the state-funded broadcasters in the UK, has offered to assist some free-to-air broadcasters survive. According to a report, the authority of BBC has announced it will share resources with others as latest digital competition catches up with broadcasters who completely rely on advertising revenue. In a news conference Mark Thompson, Director-General, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img title="bbc" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/bbc.jpg" alt="bbc" width="199" height="201" align="left" />The BBC, one of the state-funded broadcasters in the UK, has offered to assist some free-to-air broadcasters survive. According to a report, the authority of BBC has announced it will share resources with others as latest digital competition catches up with broadcasters who completely rely on advertising revenue. In a news conference Mark Thompson, Director-General, has said, &#8220;The BBC knows that it is relatively certain of funding and its scale and <a title="technology" href="http://www.technologyblog.us/" target="_blank">technology</a> places it in a privileged position to potentially assist the rest of the industry.&#8221;</p>
<p>On the other hand, public-service license holders in UK are obliged to show a fixed quantity of programming such as <a title="kids" href="http://www.kidscareblog.com/" target="_blank">kids</a>&#8216; shows and local news in exchange for tax breaks on analog spectrum and entire access to any British <a title="homes" href="http://www.smashingestate.com/" target="_blank">homes</a>. During the last year, the BBC earned around 3.4 billion pounds in fees. Therefore, it would like funding to maintain at same rate in return for helping some other terrestrial stations.</p>
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		<title>Yahoo Recruit Ex-Microsoft Officials for Websites</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[3 November Monday, Yahoo Inc., one of the biggest internet giants, announced that it has hired ex-executive of Microsoft Corp., Jeff Dossett to run the company’s news and entertainment web sites in the USA. In most recent times, He was general manager of Microsoft&#8217;s MSN.com. Dossett, an accomplished and skilled mountain climber, is going to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img title="yahoo1" src="http://businessleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/yahoo1.jpg" alt="yahoo1" width="376" height="245" align="left" />3 November Monday, Yahoo Inc., one of the biggest internet giants, announced that it has hired ex-executive of Microsoft Corp., Jeff Dossett to run the company’s news and entertainment web sites in the USA. In most recent times, He was general manager of Microsoft&#8217;s MSN.com. Dossett, an accomplished and skilled mountain climber, is going to replace Scott Moore, another former Microsoft alumnus. Moore helped program MSN as well before joining Yahoo Company in the year of 2005. After joining Dossett in the company, Scott is leaving to pursue new opportunities.</p>
<p>Scott Moore spent the past 3 1/2 years steering a number of the most-read and important sections of Yahoo&#8217;s popular web sites. He joins a long line of Yahoo executives who have defected throughout the last two years as the Sunnyvale-based company and struggles to remove financial funk that has already hammered its stock price. On the other hand, no less than 1,500 Yahoo workers, or roughly 10 percent of the company&#8217;s employees, will be cut off before the end of current year as part of a cost-cutting purge.</p>
<p>Besides, Dossett yahoo has already recruited Joanne Bradford as top advertising sales executive in the USA. Bradford and Dossett, both worked together at Microsoft before joined here.</p>
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