Despite a significant turnover increase in April, which compensated the declines of the first quarter at least to a certain extent, the general mood in the German furniture industry still remains rather pessimistic. In the business survey ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
After their expectations reached a 24-year low in the previous quarter, businesses are indicating that price rises are on the agenda in the new financial year as they seek to retain profits while compensating for cost pressures and low ...
Tags: Service, Bank, Price Expectations
The sharemarket is set to open significantly lower after heavy falls on Wall Street on Friday night. But encouraging manufacturing data out of China on the weekend could provide a boost for mining stocks. At 7am AEST, the June share ...
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Business cash flow has slowed this year, placing further strain on a range of industries already experiencing low confidence because of weak trading activity and high operating costs. Businesses are waiting nearly eight weeks to be paid ...
Tags: Service
In view of the currently modest business expectations in the furniture industry and the reduced macroeconomic growth arising from the fiscal consolidation course in many industrialised countries, Surteco is working from the assumption that ...
Australian businesses will keep cutting their spending this year, with expectations for capital investment, employment and new credit set to fall further. The deteriorating outlook for the September quarter suggests that despite pockets ...
Fewer executives are planning to make a capital investment in their business during the coming months, with investment expectations among Australian businesses fading in the lead-up to the middle of the year. Amid a broad drop-off in ...
Australian businesses don’t plan to hire new staff in the coming months, and are putting off investments, as the cost of doing business takes its toll. On the back of recent high-profile job cuts and off-shoring announcements by a ...
An unhealthy cash flow cycle exists among Australian businesses, with 62 per cent of accounts settled late and firms taking on average, 52 days to pay their bills, according to the latest Trade Payments Analysis by Dun & Bradstreet. The ...
Australian businesses have pulled back their profit expectations for the coming months as they anticipate modest sales activity, difficult trading conditions and subdued consumer activity. After showing signs of optimism leading into the ...
IDG News Service - Preparing quick service pizza chain Domino's (ASX:DMP) for a digital future is top priority for Group CIO, Wayne McMahon. Based in Brisbane, McMahon has been in charge of IT at the company for the past 19 months and ...
Tags: IT, cloud, smartphone apps, software
It's been a fascinating 5-year journey for SoftTechnics so far. A journey of growth and strive to leadership positions in mobile web applications and games development as well as IT teams extension services. There were ups and downs, bumps ...
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Machine vision companies have overall positive business expectations for 2013 business in Europe. In a quick survey conducted by the European Machine Vision Assn. (EMVA) in October, 56 percent of the participants expect their own business ...
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The business outlook for 2013 is mixed, with Australian executives indicating that sales, inventories, selling prices and employment will fall but investment and profits will rise. Dun & Bradstreet's latest National Business Expectations ...
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The business outlook for 2013 is mixed, with Australian executives indicating that sales, inventories, selling prices and employment will fall but investment and profits will rise. Dun & Bradstreet’s latest National Business ...
Tags: Australia, Australian economy, National Business Expectations Survey