YouTube signs up Madonna and Wall Street Journal for channels venture. Jeremy Darroch, chief executive of BSkyB, was paid a total of £2.8m in the 12 months to 30 June 2011, as the company's pre-tax profits fell 14.8% to £1.014m. Jonathan Allan, sales director of Channel 4, has announced proposals to restructure the broadcaster's 175-strong sales team into fully integrated agency-facing teams with full budget responsibility for the agency account. Global Radio, the owner of the Heart and Capital brands, has appointed former SeeSaw commercial director Matt Rennie to the new position of enterprise director to drive existing and new revenue streams. Jam, the Engine owned social media and mobile agency, has bolstered its management team by appointing Ed Turner to the newly created role of head of operations and partner at the group. Yell hires Jenny Ashmore to CMO role ahead of 'comprehensive' brand re-think. Omnicom takes majority stake in India's Mudra Group. MACQUARIE GROUP Australia's top investment bank named Tim Bishop as the…
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THE CHINESE government will "firmly" maintain restrictions on real estate, and local authorities should continue to strictly implement its policies in the coming months to let citizens see the results of the curbs, Premier Wen Jiabao said following a State Council meeting. GREATER co-operation between China and the Eurozone is a likely result of the crisis, Chinese news agency Xinhua announced yesterday. The agency, usually seen as the mouthpiece of China’s rulers, said, "a prosperous and stable Europe is important to China’s stability and development as their economies are closely linked". Because the EU is China’s largest trading partner, the emerging giant will "not act like an onlooker," and instead is "willing to extend a helping hand" as a "true friend and partner of Europe." THE DECLINE in house prices doubled its speed in October as economic turbulence scared prospective buyers and hit demand, a leading survey claimed this morning. Average house prices were down 0.2% in England and Wales this month, compared to declines…
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Nowym dyrektorem finansowym w Bytom SA został Artur Morawiec, który jest związany jest z tą spółką i spółkami zależnymi od 1996 r. Do 2011 r. w Bytom SA pełnił m.in. funkcję kierownika działu planowania strategicznego i kontrolingu oraz kontrolera finansowego. Od września 2008 r. był głównym księgowym Bytom SA. W 2010 r. Intermoda Fashion (spółce zależnej od Bytom SA) na kilka miesięcy (lipiec- październik) został oddelegowany z rady nadzorczej do pełnienia funkcji prezesa zarządu. W maju br. Morawiec został powołany do zarządu Gino Rossi SA. W ubiegłym tygodniu na czele Gino Rossi został Grzegorz Koterwa, który zrezygnował z funkcji CFO w Bytom SA. To właśnie miejsce Koterwy zajmie teraz Morawiec. Artur Morawiec ukończył Akademię Ekonomiczną w Katowicach oraz Podyplomowe Studia Menedżerskie MBA, firmowane przez Uniwersytet Central Lancashire w Preston, w Wielkiej Brytanii, i Lubelską Szkołę Biznesu. Pasją Artura Morawca i jego żony, Joanny, są podróże - prowadzą stronę internetową, są też autorami wielu artykułów o tej tematyce. Ponadto Artur Morawiec jest prezesem zarządu Śląskiego Stowarzyszenia…
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EUROPE’S banks insisted yesterday that they can handle ramped up capital requirements from EU authorities without resorting to state bonuses. Despite some analysts having called a nine-month timeline for raising billions in new funds "unrealistic", lenders are determined to appear unruffled. A WAVE of weak data in the Eurozone points towards a recession, analysts are warning, piling more pressure on the Eurozone leaders. Figures out yesterday from the European Commission showed consumer and business confidence worsening in October. Economists stress that immediate pressure is on Berlusconi to reform Italy’s finances. He needs to avoid a default, overwhelming the bailout fund. THE U.S. economy grew in the third quarter at the fastest pace in a year as Americans reduced savings to boost purchases and companies stepped up investment in equipment and software. GDP rose at 2.5% annual rate, up from 1.3% in the prior three months. Household purchases, the biggest part of the economy, increased at a 2.4% pace, more than forecast by economists. MARKETS: ASIAN…
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Chief executive Stevie Spring and finance director John Bowman have "resigned with immediate effect" from their positions at specialist publisher Future. Jonathan Allan, sales director of Channel 4, will unveil a restructure of the Channel 4 commercial operation in the coming days. Sony is poised to take full control of its mobile phone joint venture with Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson. HSBC HOLDINGS PLC The banking and financial services organisation appointed Philippe Khoury as global head of Strategic Energy Solutions. BNY MELLON ASSET MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL The affiliate of BNY Mellon appointed Scott Stevens as head of marketing for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Latin America. Previously, he worked at Matterhorn Investment Management. BARCLAYS WEALTH The arm of Barclays Plc appointed Kevin Shone as a managing director in the ultra high net worth (UHNW) and family offices team. Previously, he was a managing director at Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management. LOMBARD ODIER INVESTMENT MANAGERS The company appointed Bruce Turner to manage the…
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全球经济衰退 - 以及其对产业和就业损失的影响 - 仅仅是一个开始。下一阶段是增长乏力，大政府和生产率低下。人口老化是缓慢燃烧的导火索。这似乎是正常循环。 正如世界银行官员罗伯特和兹曼最近在欧盟委员会说：“金融危机的影响相比人口问题，相形见绌。” 在去年的一份报告中，国际货币基金组织说道，从长远来看，金融危机的成本将是与年龄有关的支出所产生费用的10％。 如果有的话，全球金融危机已使事情变得更糟，在某些情况下破坏了人们的退休收入。投资和金融服务协会的研究发现，储蓄缺口 - 储蓄和在退休所需金额之间的差异 - 从2004年的452亿美元，大幅增加到，2008年6月的695亿美元。告别退休吧。 没有人能阻止人年纪越来越大。产业，管理者和政治领导人将需要更聪明和更富有创造力的员工。雇主将需要以身作则。 陆克文负责到2010年的大选年，他的计划，是增加国家生产力，创造困难的政策选择。 这些措施可能包括减少对衰退产业的帮助，检查税制改革 - 财政部负责人肯亨利已让留在劳动力里的老年澳大利亚人可以税收减免，作为政府准备税制改革的蓝图 – 让行业及工作场所更富有成效。陆克文还需要一系列的微观经济改革，将是跨州的，他的政府一直在努力实现的东西，即使是与广大的劳动州政府。现实生产力的变化将需要做出艰难的决定。 到目前为止，陆克文政府在政治上不受欢迎，但人口老龄化可能让它别无选择。医疗保健支出将无情地增加，但人们期望从医院和诊所上获得的更少，除非他们支付更多。由于他们是越活越长，而且健康状况良好，他们也将需要接受，他们有可能需要不停工作。税可能也会上去了。 先于发布的第三代报告，陆克文说道，65岁及以上的澳大利亚人的比例从14％上升至到2050年的23％，几乎在四个澳大利亚人之中有一个。这是一个世界性的趋势。联合国的一份报告，世界人口老龄化，指出老年人口的增长是以一个2.6％每年的速度，几乎是其余人类速度增长的两倍以上。 在本组中，增长最快的部分是那些80岁及以上的人群。 到目前为止，最好的办法，是把养老金的盖子合上，是鼓励人们继续工作。从而会产生更多的税收和减少政府对养老金的开销。 但可以鼓励雇主采取或保留年老员工吗？只有少数几家公司，如英国自己动手链，百安居，美国零售商沃尔玛，他们都十分擅长此道。如果没有一个良好的就业机会选择，许多老工人将自己变成顾问。 看护假和更灵活的工作方式可能会成为问题。如果越来越多的人生活到90岁，有些甚至超过90岁，就会有更多的中风，老年痴呆症，心脏病的发作，骨折，癌症和其他各种疾病。 期待更多的人将从工作中抽出时间照顾年老的父母，兄弟姐妹或伙伴。公司将提供更多的看护假，或让人们每周工作4天，或者在中午就开始，让他们照顾需要照顾的父母。 同时，人口老龄化将创建一个技能短缺，老年工人离开职位，而很少有人取代他们。 在未来10年中，我们可以看到设立附属公司的公司聘请年纪较大的工人作为合同工，使他们的技能得以延续。另一种可能的趋势是在去年哈佛商业评论中的一篇文章中埋下了伏笔，由波士顿咨询集团的瑞娜施特拉克撰稿。他建议经理们进行了审计，其劳动力老龄化将如何影响他们的生产力和提供服务的能力，然后发展战略。 问题是，许多企业没有这样做。许多企业花钱训练更年轻的员工接管老工人，只有在他们转到其他工作时，才失去他们，因为在技能短缺的市场，从外面聘请人才是昂贵的。 许多企业还没有意识到，这将是更富有成效的发展战略，以保留在组织的老工人。 另一个问题是创新。一个旧的社会可能会更倾向于规避风险，少创新，经济增长放缓。经济预测家哈利德特在他的书，经济大萧条中，已经预测在20世纪90年代，这一全球性危机的日本经济衰退，他写道：“由于人口的放缓，我们将不会看到在本世纪下半年科技的进步，因为青少年是关键的驱动程序，除非我们看到了一个新兴的世界婴儿的热潮，而这将更有可能在21世纪80年代和90年代发生，并会影响到在22世纪早期的创新趋势。” 也许，正确的政府和公司的政策可能化解这些定时炸弹。但是没有保证。 人口老龄化是前所未有的。永葆青春是一个诱人的想法，但道林格雷发现，你应该小心你所希望的东西。 Leon Gettler
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EUROZONE leaders once more put off finding a decisive remedy to the region’s debt turmoil last night, producing little but rhetoric on the most pressing problems in a crisis that threatens to throw the world into a new recession. After more than a week of delays, the summit of 17 euro nations produced merely the third leg of what was supposed to be a "comprehensive" three part rescue plan. ITALIAN Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi presented European leaders with a hastily constructed package of economic reforms last night, in response to an ultimatum demanding action to boost and cut Italy’s huge public debt. Employment laws could be reformed and state assets palmed off to raise cash, according to a letter sent by Berlusconi to European leaders. EMERGING giants India, Russia and Brazil ruled out contributing to the Eurozone bailouts, though Chinese leaders were yesterday said to be considering offering help. China has bought Spanish bonds in the past, and was last month courted as an investor.…
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One of today's big issues is personal productivity. Time is now the rarest resource as people have much more to squeeze in than ever before. There are all sorts of familiar signs. Emails, texts and phone calls keep coming in, people are demanding more of our time and we are flitting from task to task. There’s a tendency to feel in a rush and impatient, you lose focus when you are in the middle of a task or conversation, you spend more time on your BlackBerry or iPhone than talking to people and projects are piling up and not getting finished. Sound familiar? So what are the rules for improving our personal productivity? According to the experts, the diary is the starting point. An effective diary includes not only includes work time spent in front of screens from computer to iPhone to iPad. It should also be used for recording personal stuff like shopping, catching up with family and friends or even being at the…
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Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli is fronting a campaign to promote fireworks safety, days after his bathroom went up in flames after a firework was set off in his house. Boeing 787 Dreamliner lands after first passenger flight. The 100 seats available to paying passengers on the flight sold out as soon as they went on sale. Richard Branson puts in bid for Northern Rock bank. Darren Singh, advertising director for Hearst's Esquire magazine, has been appointed publisher of ShortList. BNY MELLON BNY Mellon's wealth management business appointed Lawrence Miles as the regional president of the firm. Miles was previously executive vice president with the investment advisory firm Convergent Wealth Advisors. KLEINWORT BENSON The wealth management services provider appointed Danny Vogt as chief operating officer and John Boyce as chief technology officer. Previously, Vogt was head of Change and Portfolio Development Group Operations at RBS/ABN Amro, London. BNP PARIBAS WEALTH MANAGEMENT An arm of BNP Paribas appointed Alfred Tsai as head of China Market and…
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EUROPE’S leaders are grappling to find a solution to the debt crisis by the end of today, their latest self-imposed deadline. Eurozone plans for leveraging the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF) could be thrashed out today, in a bid to save struggling peripheral states. Eurozone officials said last night that the International Monetary Fund might participate in the EFSF; a move that would see the UK contribute to the bailout fund. FRENCH banks could face a ban on paying bonuses and dividends as part of a European recapitalisation programme, finance minister Francois Baroin said yesterday. "The recapitalisation will be done with the ban on dividends and bonuses under the supervision of the insurance and banking regulator. We have reached an agreement for the Eurozone last weekend," said Baroin. CONSUMER confidence in the U.S. unexpectedly sank and home prices stagnated, showing why the Obama administration and some Federal Reserve policy makers are pivoting to stem a housing slump that is threatening the economic recovery. The household…
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