The French have increased by 40% the amount of money they spend on promotional activity for their wine in Britain.France is still the largest wine supplier to the UK, which imported 2.6 million hectolitres in 2004, but it has been overtaken by Australia in sales through off-licences and supermarkets and is only marginally ahead of the United…[Opširnije]

Brisbane’s international and domestic airports will each be almost doubled in size to accommodate growing numbers of travellers. Brisbane International Airport will spend up to $350 million next year and the number of gates will increase from 13 to about 30.The international terminal handled a record 350,300 passengers in July, blitzing the…[Opširnije]

The price of petrol is now the number one Australian consumer worry amid warnings that fuel costs have passed a critical economic „stress point“.A Sensis consumer report polled 1500 people and found that soaring petrol prices were rated the highest consumer concern, replacing terrorism, the health system and the environment.Consumers expected to…[Opširnije]

Global networks are altering markets and the nature of companies.American management thinker C. K. Prahalad, talks of „co-evolving“ in a world in which the firm is a node within a network, and markets are as much about systems of co-creation as competition. Swedish management writer Jonas Ridderstralle writes of „organisational tribes“. Are you a…[Opširnije]

Voice over IP subscribers in America will number 27 million by the end of 2009, market researcher IDC predicts, up from 3 million by the end of this year.Already Japan has more that over 8 million subscribers. Another research firm, iSuppli, expects the worldwide number of residential VOIP subscribers will reach $197 million by 2010. Are you…[Opširnije]