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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.

China Sourcing Fair starts 12 April

Global Sources' Future of Consumer Electronics CEO forum is scheduled to be held on 12 April at the China Sourcing Fair: Electronics & Components in Hong K

Chinese state oil companyÔÇÖs latest African acquisition

China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has won a $2 billion (£1.3bn) deal to develop an oil field in Uganda

SABMillerÔÇÖs thirst for Chinese growth increases

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

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.

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.

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Economics

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

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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.

Skills growth will be vital to the future of AustraliaÔÇÖs natural resource sectors

A report by the Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency (AWPA) concludes that, while Australia’s mining boom may be over, the industry still plenty of growth potential