Mar-18th-2011
Change is everlasting. The most noteworthy ones are tiny changes. Such as where we buy our daily produce. Like old war-buddies, we often reminiscence over the days when we shopped at the round the corner shop. In fact, our nostalgia for these quaint traditions has brought them back on UK streets. Super markets and their [...]
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Oct-30th-2010
Everyone knows that there is a lot of money in Oil, and now Brazil is set to reap the benefits of that. Brazil’s national petroleum agency has discovered an oil field just off the coast which they think could hold up to around eight million barrels. If this is the case it will be the [...]
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Oct-28th-2010
BA hasn’t had a great time over the past two years. There was the Icelandic volcano Crisis, and then it had to cope with strikes from the cabin crew. All of this has hit profits as well as resulting in a loss in confidence amongst flyers. Many of the other airlines profited as a result [...]
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Oct-30th-2009
I Was watching the news this morning and the government minsters including Tony Blair are announcing that early 2010 Britain will be out of recession but the unemployment rate will just keep going up. So how do they solve it? My theory is out of the 2.8 M I L L I O N people [...]
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Sep-25th-2009
Jaguar Land Rover will be closing one it’s plants in the West Midlands by the middle of next decade. The company wants to shut one of the two plants in the midlands Castle Bromwich plant in Birmingham or a factory in nearby Solihull. The counter balance 800 new jobs will be created in Merseyside at [...]
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Sep-21st-2009
It look like the UK is currently coming out of the recession, slowly but surly business are starting to pick up orders are coming in which is great to see. It’s important that businesses don’t then decide to take their “foot off the pedal”. We noticed that companies that decided to cut back on marketing [...]
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Sep-7th-2009
The Indian economy is on track to grow to become one of the world’s largest. I read a humourous thread over at DigitalPoint forums where an Indian member has posted with a detectable trace of anger that he was looking forward to outsourcing to the US for online projects. The main reason India in particular [...]
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