Business Strategies
Business Strategies: staff costs rising rapidly, says survey
A survey by accountants Grant Thornton says that businesses are seeing rapidly rising staff costs, particularly in emerging economies.
Business Strategies: Starbucks hopes to buck the trend
Starbucks has lost half of its share value since the beginning of 2007. Are customers swapping value-added for value?
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Business Finance: cookie jar economics
The basics of business really are not complicated. But staying in business is.
How MG-Rover became not worth saving
MG-Rover carried the proud names of the UK's last remaining indigenous mass market car manufacturers. In a last-ditch attempt to return both to their former glory, the management developed strategies to reduce costs including outsourcing, just in time delivery and product produced to order. The result was that the company was, simply, too small for the Government to bother about when it ran into trouble.