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Strategy: virtual meetings

Giles Wake from ACT Conferencing looks at how businesses can take advantage of video messaging and conference calls to help achieve the right work-life balance.

Supply chain: customer service

If you treat your customers as your friends and help them grow their business, you will benefit from their success, says George F. Brown Jr.

Applied Materials to acquire Varian Semiconductor

Applied Materials, a leading equipment supplier to the semiconductor industry, has taken the first steps in the $4.9 billion acquisition of Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associ

Learning from the Fast Learners

Three lessons on how western companies can learn from the success of Chinese Second Mouse firms

Caterpillar to buy German engine specialist for $810 million

Caterpillar Inc. has signed an agreement with investment firm 3i to acquire MWM Holding GmbH, a leading global supplier of highly sustainable alternative engines.

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SABMillerÔÇÖs thirst for Chinese growth increases

Brewing giant SABMiller has agreed to buy China’s Kingway Brewery Holdings in a deal worth $864 million.

Growth targets for the Philippines remain on track

Sustainability: Purpose

Today’s new business era calls for organisations to question their leadership and use purpose to ensure sustainability for the future.

Economics

Productivity suffers when employees become emotionally disconnected from their work. Is this why the world economy is in the doldrums, asks Richard Telofski? 

HMV could sell Canadian stores to repay debt

British entertainment legend HMV is considering the sale of its Canadian retail operation to avoid breaking the terms of its debt arrangement.

GEA Air Treatment

China to fund Nigerian refineries

Nigeria's state-run oil firm NNPC has said that three new refineries will be on-stream by 2014, following a deal signed with China State Construction Engineering Corp (CSCEC).