quarter of its financial year compared with a year earlier to $4.17 billion. Revenue was $16.63 billion, 2% more than the same period a year ago. The world's biggest software firm said that 'in light of the further deterioration of global economic conditions', it was eliminating up to 5,000 jobs. The cuts will be in research and development, marketing, sales, finance, legal, human resources and IT over the next 18 months. Microsoft employs some 91,000 people and the job cuts announced today amount
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better working environment: 3 Legal Implication in Hungary: 3 Rule Regarding Foreign Work Policy: 4 Labor law in Hungary: 4 Laws regarding company: 5 Laws regarding Taxation: 5 Laws of termination of Business: 6 Laws related to Investment: 6 Economic Factors that relates to Production of PTM mobile: 6 A Study about European Mobile Economy: 7 High Competition driving the price down in this market: 8 A Concise Study of the Economy of Some European Countries: 8 Poland: 8 Latvia: 8 Slovenia:
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Natural gas clean-up from wellhead to UK gas grid Tom Andrew Word Count: 2467 Abstract The report examines the current state and future of natural gas clean-up in the UK. The sources of natural gas in the UK are currently undergoing a large shift, moving from self-produced gas from dwindling North Sea reserves to pipeline imports from Europe and liquefied natural gas imports from overseas. There is also potential for the UK to start extracting onshore shale gas resources. Natural gas clean-up is
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Ever since the election of Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Labour Party, the government argues that the country should join the EMU when and if the economic conditions are right. Denmark had asked in the Treaty of Maastricht for an opt-in option, however, on September 28th, 53% of the Danes decided to keep the krone. Economically, the UK would find more advantages than not in joining the Euro zone, as shows the following table[1]: |Advantages of entry
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The difficulties facing a UK company such as Carpetright PLC opening in the Middle East Carpetright would firstly check to see if there is a market for them in the Middle East and select a suitable location. The location would be determined by market size, local government investment support, supply of labor, etc. The current economic situation in places such as Dubai would favour Carpetright's investment as it is one of the many Emirates that are trying to attract investment in other businesses
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Glynn Lowth, Malcolm Prowle, Michael Zhang Nottingham Business School The impact of economic recession on business strategy planning in UK companies Research executive summary series Volume 6 | Issue 9 Key findings: The key findings from this research were: • There is very little optimism about the prospects for the UK economy in the short to medium-term. • There is quite a degree of optimism from companies about their own commercial future based on a combination of factors such as: accessing
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benefit the UK? * What is considered to be the aviation sector’s most important contributions to economic growth and social well-being? * How do you think the global aviation sector will evolve in the medium and long term? What do you expect to be the most significant changes? * How, and within what constraints, can aviation growth occur as technological developments and improved operating procedures reduce CO2, pollutant emissions and noise impacts? * Should some aspects of UK aviation
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organisational purposes of businesses OFCOM UK 1.1 Organisation's objectives, their monitoring and achievement OFCOM UK is an independent regulator and competition authority body for the UK's communication industries, as such, it operates in this sector of communication. The company regulates Tv and radio firms, telecom fixed lines providers, postal services, mobiles and the airwaves related to wireless devices providers (Ofcom Website UK, 2013-14). It operates under Communication Act (2003);
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on the economic background of the country United Kingdom is a very old country consists of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. In the 18th century, the UK was among the first country in the world to industrialize and during the next century it became one of the dominating countries in the global economy. (Martinez, 2013) In the turn of the century, the UK remains among the great economies of the world trailing behind the US and some European countries. In recent times, the UK service
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organizations and are, for the most part, beyond the control of the company. Customers, competition, the economy, technology, political and social conditions and resources are common external factors that influence the organization. Even though the external environment occurs outside of an organization, it can have a significant influence on its current operations, growth and long-term sustainability. Tesco is one of Britain's leading food retailers with 568 stores throughout England, Scotland, Wales
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