While industrial performance has stabilised, industry's share in Europe's GDP has declined from 15.5% of GDP one year ago to 15.1% in summer 2013. The two industrial Competitiveness reports published today by the European Commission ...
Tags: Service, industry economy
Microsoft is the highest ranked technology company in a study that recognises the top 20 best companies for leadership in the world. The Hay Group study recognises organisations that have the best leadership practices, and the running ...
Tags: Microsoft, Computer Products, software
The European Parliament voted Wednesday to limit the use of biofuels in the European Union, one of a series of potential changes to the bloc's climate-change policies that investors say are creating uncertainty and bottling up energy ...
Tags: biofuels, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
China as a market for international firms is growing in size and importance by the day. Doing business here, however, can still be a huge pain. At least that is the view of European companies operating in the country, according to a ...
In the three years following a cartel breakdown, the number of mergers is significantly higher than in the three years preceding the collapse. A recent study conducted by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim has ...
Tags: cartel breakdown
8 Companies join forces with the European Commission to set up a Public-Private Partnership and accelerate the deployment of biobased products in Europe The European Commission proposed a €3.8 billion Public Private Partnership (PPP) ...
Tags: Bio-Based Economy
The Institute of Photonics at the University of Eastern Finland is launching cooperation with Dutch company LUXeXceL that offers rapid prototyping of optical components for prototypes, short-run and volume batches. Last year Jyrki ...
Tags: LUXeXceL, Lighting, 3D Printing
More than half of mid-sized businesses across Europe would refuse to do business with an organisation which has suffered a data breach, despite the fact many see data loss as just another part of everyday business. That is according to ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
More than half (58%) of European mid-sized firms refuse to do business with a company that had suffered a data breach, despite the fact that 41% believe data loss is just an inevitable part of daily business, a new study has revealed. The ...
Tags: Data Breach, European Firms
Three months from its next edition, Première Vision can already pride itself on a growing number of exhibitors. At this time last year there were 717 registered exhibitors. Today, 753 exhibitors have already confirmed their presence ...
Tags: France, Apparel&Accessories, Partake
Pressures from increasingly challenging market and economic conditions in China, which are exacerbated by a regulatory environment that continues to be demanding and at times discriminatory, have led to a clear downturn in profitability and ...
European airlines and airports are facing fundamental changes: The increasing popularity of low-cost carriers and airlines from the Middle East is changing the competitive landscape. Leisure and business travelers' strong price sensitivity ...
Tags: Transportation, Airlines
The Novatek-led Yamal LNG consortium's marketing of LNG from the project and final investment decision are not dependent on whether the Russian government would allow companies other than Gazprom to export gas from the country, ...
The interests of both sides would be hurt ifthe European Union (EU) goes ahead with an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation into mobile telecommunications equipment from China, said a senior Chinese official on May 21, 2013. ...
The European Union is preparing to investigate the imports of mobile networking gear from China for anti-competitive practices, a move that's likely targeted at telecommunications equipment companies Huawei Technologies and ZTE. China has ...