NEW YORK Sony Ericsson’s vp and head of marketing Dee Dutta will resign at the end of the month, after six years with the company.
News about the impending departure was disclosed March 25, on the eve of the first match at the 2008 Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, a sponsorship that Dutta was instrumental in [...]
THE LONDON Stock Exchange has stepped up marketing efforts in Ukraine, where 80 companies have announced flotation plans, after two-thirds of initial public offerings of shares from Russia and the former Soviet states took place on the U.K. exchange or its junior Alternative Investment Market last year.
There were a total of 33 listings by companies [...]
Now, the foreign tourism organisations have found another way to woo Indian tourists. This time it’s through their Web portals. With Tourism New Zealand and Singapore Tourism taking the lead in adding a separate link with customised information that an Indian tourist would need, other tourism organisations are likely to follow the path soon.
Starting from [...]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - More than $150 billion will land in shoppers’ hands later this year in the form of tax rebate checks and businesses hoping to boost lagging sales are devising plans to make sure they get some of those dollars.
Spend, not save, will be the message and companies from Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N: [...]
By Chen Aizhu
BEIJING, Feb 29 (Reuters) - Beijing has ordered its
powerful oil duopoly to step up petrol and diesel sales to
hundreds of independent wholesalers and gas stations, a person
close to the situation said on Friday, China’s first major
effort to liberalise its domestic fuel market in a decade.
The policy, approved earlier this week, [...]
LONDON (Reuters) - Advertisers are unlikely to withdraw support for the Beijing Olympic Games despite recent criticism from human rights groups, the head of the world’s second largest advertising group said on Friday.
WPP chief executive Martin Sorrell told Reuters that Beijing would draw a larger advertising budget than any previous Olympics, and that his group [...]
Transition periodThe end of the Cougars’ season marked the beginning of a new era at Chicago State. University President Elnora Daniel is retiring, and the new leadership will have to decide whether the South Side commuter school can afford to maintain membership in Division I.
The Chicago State athletic department is operating on a budget of [...]
ESOP’s people are proudly loud and abrasive, and they’ve long reveled in needling people with pull. But could they get a distant behemoth like Countrywide to the table?On that morning in February 2006, ESOP executive [...]
No more $150 family outings to Shogun sushi. No more weekly
washes for his Western Star 4900 EX truck. No more health insurance
for him and his family.
“It hurts,” he said. “I’m a man who’s trying to [...]
Health care providers are nearly unanimous in their dislike of the program’s continuation, much less its expansion. Many lawmakers have similar sentiments, though it was Congress in 2006 that made the program permanent. A bill [...]
