Monday, January 7, 2013

How London's small businesses are surviving, 3 Local shop owners explain how they are affected by the economic crisis and what they are doing
The future of IT What do they say about: cloud computing, change, Strategy and growth, IT priorities, security, New trends, CIOs,
UK tax discourages overseas employees- Interview with Aviva CEO, Richard Longdon, explaining why overseas talent stays away from the UK. Listen and answer these questions: 1) Why has Aviva's results been stong recently? 2) How has the Euro crisis affected Aviva? 3) What are the benefits for being listed in the UK? 4) What changes should the government introduce to help attract and keep businesses in the UK? 5) Why is it difficult to attract overseas employees? 6) Why don't Aviva leave the UK? 7)What have Aviva been doing recently? 8) What are Aviva's future plans?
Direct selling in Brazil- FT.com 7/1/13 Watch the video and answer the questions: 1) What types of products are popular and which companies are prominant in the market? 2) Why is direct selling so successful in Brazil? 3) What is the future of direct sales and why is it sustainable? 4) Why are Brazilian sales reps different? 5) How is the system organised? 6) What are the benefits for large companies like Nestle? 7) What are the risks and drawbacks of this system?

Monday, November 19, 2012

Ian Cheshire comments on Kingfisher's 2011/12 Interim results
Ian Cheshire comments on Kingfisher's 2011/12 Preliminary results