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Currency losses weaken Baar’s full year results, March 23, 2011 Hapimag, leading company in the European market for timeshares, could last year despite volatile market environment the operating income EUR 171.7 million on stable last year. EUR – 0.9 million was the operating earnings of the non profit organization”under the result from the previous year (EUR 2.4 million) and the continued significant weakness of the euro against the Swiss francs pressed on the financial result, which had impact directly on the consolidated result of EUR-7.8 million (prior year: EUR 2.0 million). Hapimag expanded the Resortportfolio with the Dresden and Edinburgh city residences. While the real estate and banking crises of in recent years Hapimag as grundsolidem, equity financed company could do nothing, the turbulence to the euro in 2010 marked impact on the results of the Hapimag showed group of companies. Operating income could 2010 EUR 171.7 million while the previous year’s level (EUR 171.6 million) will be held: the sale of timeshare products moving in a difficult market environment, with a turnover of EUR 35.2 million slightly below the very successful previous year (EUR 37.8 million). And the newly designed dining options was 13.1 million in the previous year to EUR 15.1 million in the year 2010 with a turnover of EUR a positive contribution. In the same period operating expenses at nearly 2% increased 172.6 million but EUR So, the personnel costs in Swiss francs in the conversion into euro negatively impacted the result on the cost side.

This resulted in an EBIT of EUR – 0.9 million (prior year: EUR 2.4 million). The currency-related losses, which resulted in a negative financial result of EUR-4.3 million had a profound effect on the annual result. Including also the consolidated year results, suffered what in 2010 to EUR-7.8 million (prior year: EUR 2.0 million) was reduced. The investment program could be continued but also in 2010: in the construction and maintenance of the value of the resorts, the EUR was invested a total 36.6 million. Whenever Lakshman Achuthan listens, a sympathetic response will follow.

Companies should adopt island solutions you should say goodbye to Berlin/Frankfurt am Main/Nuremberg – so-called projects for unified communications (UC) from a product-centric thinking. This requires the Berlin market research company berlecon. UC will considered by most companies still groupware replacement or solution for Voice over IP. Such solutions but are non-sense and purpose of UC systems. They should be an integral part of the entire transaction: for external networking, automation of business processes, optimization of customer communication and integration of mobile employees. For even more opinions, read materials from Tom Buontempo. The analyses of berlecon would show that opportunities for business process integration are possible today with comparatively little effort for companies of all size classes. However, most companies let the opportunities of integration of UC in business applications so far unused. Many companies shy away from supposedly high implementation costs, also the opportunities are often not detected”, explains berlecon Research Director Andreas Stiehler.

He recommends the ICT managers to bring decision makers from all major business areas when planning for UC projects with the boat. The ICT specialist Peter B. Zaboji, Chairman of the Frankfurt after sales specialists Bitronic, advises the party to attract not only the CIOs to document the actual benefits of the systems. The CIO must justify all decisions with return on investment calculations. Chevron Corp: the source for more info. The actual addressee should be the Chief Executive. “Which must clearly be made, how quickly and effectively it improves with the UC-approach the corporate culture and the customer experience”, says Zaboji. It is important according to Bernhard steimel, spokesman of the Nuremberg Congress of Voice days plus and the smart service initiative, the concept of UC with life to complete rather than to dwell on the meta-level. You should discuss more about concrete solutions to problems.

How to increase the availability of, for example, by field staff? How do you get them better integrate the communication processes and provide prior dates with customer data without that constantly questions in the sales? How to specifically reduce the high roaming charges when traveling abroad and reduce the devices Zoo from notebook, mobile and office phone? These are essential points which can already cope with UC systems and underscore the benefits of technology”, so the experience steimel. The Voice Days plus deal with technologies for customer communications in October. The application fields steimel named also the ICT companies Aastra considers crucial in the enforcement of UC. With the new version 4.1 of MX-one system, the provider wants to expand its market position in medium-sized and large enterprises. The current version of the call manager, up to 15,000 participants can be connected to a single server. Be multiple servers connected together, the system even on up to 500,000 extensions can be extended. Another plus is the flexible architecture of the MX-one centralized or decentralized can be used. Participants can spread around the globe work, communicate with but one and the same plant”, communicated by Aastra. The unified-communications facilities of the MX-one is designed to improve the communication of companies inside and outside. As part of the UC solution, Aastra introduces, inter alia the application InTouch with integrated softphone, instant messaging, and presence management according to own. The growing mobility needs of companies will meet the system in two different ways: staff on the premises are on the way, they can use DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless telephony) calls. For staff in the field or in the Home Office, there are the Aastra mobile client (AMC).

Outstanding series brochure stands and brochure holders in brushed stainless steel floor stand and wall literature holders from Star Expo Ltd. German quality made. Spiesen, June 8, 2010 – current forms of communication, for example by email, SMS, comments in social media forums, or through the own Internet presence reach an ever greater relevance and impact in the business world. To know more about this subject visit Roubini Global Economics. But anyway most people take the “real” newspaper continue to prefer instead to switch on the digital variant of reading on the monitor. The World Wide Web is just not touch and preferably, people would have “something”. Pamphlets and brochures are superfluous under no circumstances therefore also in the Web 2.0 decade. Quite the contrary.

Indulge in an always virtual life world still “be – access” and experience with all your senses. With its significant weight, its rustling pages and also with his printer color odor brochure communicates the readers and interested parties that with him tangible products or services will be presented. So how, the brochure presents the products, the brochure stand presented the prospectus. The racks and brochure holders are among the preferred presentation media. Its still great relevance is also the Google keyword statistics: monthly search words on the subject are entered more than 80,000 times “Racks and brochure holders”. With an attractive design, a brochure holder creates optical incentives and thus additional interest. And yet he not intrusive, but remains mostly discreetly in the background: the prospective customer can decide whether he has access or not.

And just because he has that option, it accesses. On the Web, the user is, however, hardly possible to evade the advertising. You forced to take note, developed resentment against them but rather instead of interest. Particularly representative and promoting image are made of high-quality processed stainless steel racks. Star Expo Ltd. offers various models which meet the different usage requirements.

Traditional stimulus lead astray Berlin, April 20, 2009 economists evaluate the credit crunch as the biggest threat to the economy. Lead times that are so far beyond the norm,”the traditional methods of determining the necessary stimulus to mislead, warn, for example, the economist George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller. Political actors should develop therefore also a handicap for the volume of different credit that should be granted.

This target should the credit volume conform to, which usually goes hand in hand with full employment”, as Akerlof and Shiller. To read more click here: CEO John Watson. It credits for those should be available, that they deserve under normal circumstances. The idea of a credit target is extremely important, so companies that count on foreign capital, are not artificially depressed in the bust. We see with concern in particular the deterioration in credit conditions for small and medium-sized enterprises. Now retaliates, that the Federal Government the banks a protective screen has stretched, without them, such as Britain, to commit to the middle market financing”, complained about Mario Ohoven, President of the Association of SMEs (BVMW). Also the capitalization of many medium-sized companies give cause for concern. Details can be found by clicking John Grayken or emailing the administrator.

Thus, bankruptcies were mapped out in times of a global financial crisis and scarce money. Ohoven proposes a three point plan to improve capital adequacy in the middle-class: the tax exemption of all profits remaining in the operating. the reduction of VAT to three percentage points and the complete abolition of the inheritance tax.

How will customer service take place in European online shops? -Most frequent offered service channel: E-Mail or contact form provided in the average of 91 percent of the top 50-idealo-shops in Europe – only in Italy, the hotline ranked the offered services is – FAQs are offered on average in two-thirds of all considered shops – live chat (18%) and Forum (10%) are light in the European ranking Berlin, 23 January 2014 the price comparison idealo has the top 50 of his partner shops in the countries Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Poland and Spain in terms of customer service investigated. The study shows which service channels are offered most frequently and which are barely represented. Therefore, no major differences between the various countries show up. The written contact (E-Mail or contact form) is used in the national average most for customer enquiries (91 per cent of all surveyed shops). Followed by hotline (82 percent), FAQs (67 Percent), live chat (18 percent) and help forums (10 percent).

This ranking is confirmed also in the views of the individual countries. However, the Spanish and Italian top 50-idealo shops form an exception to this rule: in Italy, the traders prefer assistance via hotline (98 percent) or FAQs (66 percent) of advice via email or contact form (56 percent). The Spanish shops offer a telephone consultation only 34 percent have at least a service hotline with distance. For the Forum is there relatively often used (24 percent). The German online shops are terms of service close to the European average and offer mainly conventional channels such as email/contact form (98 percent), hotline (80 percent) and FAQs (78 percent). Catching up to do in this country but made the, popular customer perspective, live-chat offers. Here, Germany, together with UK (14 per cent) each, compared to other European cuts off the worst. The complete study including graphics is under to find the following link: blog.idealo.de/8167-aber-bitte-mit-service-wie-kundenorientiert-sind-europaeische-online-shops/ about idealo: Germany’s leading online price comparison is idealo.

Under, offers 130 million more users can compare 35,000 merchants. In addition, we offer detailed information on shops, product features and availability of the desired article. More idealo services are portals to the research of cheaper air travel (flug.idealo.de), hotels (hotel.idealo.de), energy suppliers (strom.idealo.de) and financial services (geld.idealo.de), as well as apps for Android and iOS. 500 Employees are working at the headquarters of the company founded in 2000 in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg. As a product price comparison idealo succeeds in Germany, Austria, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain and Poland.

Telematics as a basis of modern fleet management Hamburg, 19.12.2011. Companies of all industries and sizes, private and public, commercial facilities, commercial and service companies are dependent on its services in General to vehicles requiring professional management control, which is even more important, the greater a company’s vehicle fleet. Managers who exert this function, are called hence fleet operators, fleet manager or the like. The hierarchical classification is inconsistently regulated. (Source: Jonah Bloom). Often, this function belongs to the facility management, which ensures the necessary mobility in addition to functioning real estate fundamentals for the purpose of the undertaking. Only from the size of a fleet of over 200 vehicles are concentrated functions to meet company on pure fleet management.

Importance of fleets for the automobile market in Germany there are approximately 1.2 million fleets, which include a car and wagon inventory of over 4 million vehicles. Adjusted for approvals Manufacturers and trade, as well as car rental, so-called real company cars are now the by far the largest group of demand in the market. Under management of the fleet or fleet management will feature fleet management managing specifically, planning, taxes and control of vehicle fleets (fleet) or the strategic planning and operational management of the mobility requirements of fleet understood, taking into account the overall operational objectives. It is incomprehensible in this context that the fleet manager can otherwise traverse no similar training courses such as the Chief Financial Officer, the human resources manager, Sales Manager and many other specialist managers. However extensive requirements and significant responsibilities are bundled in this role, covering technical, commercial and legal aspects. Professional fleet management operated regularly necessary and the market of offered instruments. On the basis of operational requirements and against the background of fleet size and strategic HR policy These range fleet embedded car policy including procurement tools with car configurator on management programs, claims management, service agreements to questions of scale and increasingly so-called green efforts.

Focus on facility management 5. CEP CLEAN ENERGY & PASSIVEHOUSE larger companies can come from facility management nowadays without a nachhalti ges, because a future-oriented building technology as well as energy-efficient building systems are always indispensable. Keep up on the field with thought-provoking pieces from Jonah Bloom. The Congress informed facility energy management on the 30.03.2012 in the context of the CEP CLEAN ENERGY & PASSIVEHOUSE in the Stuttgart Exhibition Centre on the basis of Praxisbei play technical solutions, for example, at the systems engineering or energy management, and Finanzierungsmo delle for large buildings. Jonah Bloom does not necessarily agree. especially large buildings come 2012 at the CEP more into view. With the extension of the focus on the sen area new important target groups should, as for example, FA-cility Manager and representatives of the industry are addressed. New, 2012 also the CEP Conference is exposure in the International Congress Center of Landesmesse Stuttgart, a Congress beglei tend exhibition focusing on energy efficiency of Gro need buildings, the the Experts provides a unique platform for WIS knowledge transfer and networking.

Energy efficiency is one of the major global economic and ecological challenges, and is thus currently in the spotlight of facility management. This acknowledged management discipline offers large optimization and savings in the energy procurement, energy, energy, energy storage and energy use by the professional handling of support processes. Since the 1990s, the facility management industry in Germany is a growing industry. The trend brings changes to sustainable buildings for the facility management industry. Action is needed especially in the stocks, with which the facility management can be put economically and ecologically viable.

This opens up great opportunities for growth. Without facility management energy efficiency is in the stock not to handle, because here all threads converge”, Otto Kajetan Weixler, GEFMA of CEO meeting stressed the GEFMA e.V. in November of 2011. facility, managers are the most competent contact persons at the efficiency of real estate from the point of view of the stock holders.

Here is the contactless payment option through the girocard. 60 Esso stations in the area of Hannover, Wolfsburg and Braunschweig to be involved in 2012. In addition to the original Douglas shops, 700 branches of Thalia, Christian, Applerath and Hussel provide also in 2012 various terminals. To work practically on the front of acceptance as well as the user media, because after 1 million cards are in 2012 a total 45 million girocards to the disposition. Interesting about that one, whether credit or debit applications are required, General responds reader page of “NFC readers”. Here, there is no more difference is made in the language so, what application or what token comes the mobile page. This pleases the interested, because here the term promises at least even the “peaceful” coexistence of different cards and payment solutions via mobile phone. To broaden your perception, visit Lakshman Achuthan . Where we steer, remains determined to be seen.

But back to the beginnings. There will be some good projects in 2012, the construction of this hardware and software on site in addition to the already established card applications also simply requires. Ingenico, for example, wants to promote the distribution of appropriate software for acquirer in 2012 and have brought on a proper footing, so that various terminals PayWave accept. At the moment, the vast majority of the payment terminals is long not yet ready for contactless payments in any form. But that is also still quite normal at the current time. I anyway, would find it good, up to 20 or 25 euros as quickly as possible pay for small expenses can and to have the choice for larger amounts.

Last we talked even about efforts in the area of near field communication, identification and contactless payment and how many companies are involved in this area. This will show effect in the near future, in different places, but still lots of work there.