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India's car industry: A new home for the Nano (09 October 05:18) |
| Protesters force Tata Motors to abandon a car factory in West BengalEACH year India’s Bengalis celebrate the goddess Durga, offering prayers before dazzling religious tableaux called p... |
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Correction: Richard Branson (09 October 05:18) |
| Our profile of Richard Branson (“Virgin rebirth”, September 27th 2008) said Ansett was a subsidiary of Singapore Airlines. In fact Ansett was owned by Air New Zealand, in which S... |
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Bankruptcy in China: Silent busts (09 October 05:18) |
| More Chinese businesses are collapsing—though you would never know itOFFICIALLY, only a few thousand companies will declare bankruptcy this year in China. Unofficially, local manufactu... |
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Face value: The bailiff (09 October 05:18) |
| Sheila Bair of the FDIC is at the forefront of America’s response to the financial crisisWHEN she was summoned from academia in 2006 to head the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (... |
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Outsourcing: In a pinch (09 October 05:18) |
| How the financial crisis will affect the outsourcing industryIN ONE respect it has been a record couple of weeks for “outsourcing”. Around the world, governments and taxpayers ha... |
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The paperless office: On its way, at last (09 October 05:18) |
| No longer a joke, the “paperless” office is getting closerSTEPHANIE BREEDLOVE and her husband founded Breedlove & Associates 16 years ago to help families who (legally) hire ... |
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Video games and music: Playing along (09 October 05:18) |
| “Guitar Hero” and other games are boosting music sales for some artistsAS THE music industry searches for a new model in the age of digital distribution and internet piracy, it i... |
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Bankruptcies: Shutting up shop (09 October 05:18) |
| The long-feared surge in bankruptcies in America is now under wayTHE Sharper Image store on Manhattan’s West 57th Street is sharp no more: its last state-of-the-art massage chairs and ... |
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Pharmaceuticals: Buying opportunity (09 October 05:18) |
| Will drugs giants defy the credit crunch and splash out on biotech deals?THE financial crisis means that most lawyers and bankers specialising in mergers and acquisitions are twiddling their... |
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The music industry: Qualms with music (02 October 10:24) |
| Cross-subsidised subscriptions offer a promising new modela€”if the sums add upIT IS a gift that keeps on givinga€”for a year, at least. Starting in Britain this month, b... |
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Mergers and acquisitions: The Japanese are coming (again) (02 October 05:41) |
| Japana€™s cash-rich companies are buying up foreign firmsTHE credit crunch has reduced merger and acquisition (M&A) activity around the world. Banks have tightened their purse-... |
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America's car industry: A bail-out that passed (02 October 05:41) |
| In the slipstream of Wall Streeta€™s woes, the Big Three land a huge subsidyDETROIT seems to be where Wall Street meets Main Street. Tight credit is reckoned to have cost the Ameri... |
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Face value: The specialty generalist (02 October 05:41) |
| Hans Wijers of AkzoNobel has taken an unusual path to the top of Europea€™s chemical industryJUST as Americaa€™s dodgy subprime mortgages were triggering the credit crunc... |
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Liquefied natural gas: A more liquid market (02 October 05:41) |
| Offshore terminals and other tricks could promote greater trade in LNGAMID the waters of the Adriatic, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) south of Venice, a curious new structure is being install... |
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GE: Buffett to the rescue (02 October 05:41) |
| Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, ita€™s SuperWarrenSHORT, septuagenarian and bespectacled, Warren Buffett does not resemble a typical superhero. Yet twice in barely a week he has s... |
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Face value: Virgin rebirth (25 September 05:38) |
| Two books give very different views of Sir Richard Branson, Britain’s best-known businessmanHE HAS just said that he would like to buy London’s Gatwick Airport when it comes on t... |
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French companies in China: Francophobia (25 September 05:38) |
| Politicians’ pro-Tibet stance has harmed prospects for French firms in ChinaON SEPTEMBER 18th at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France’s president, Nicolas Sarkozy, hosted Jin Jing,... |
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Mobile phones: The un-iPhone (25 September 05:38) |
| What Apple did for smartphones, Google may do for all the restNOT since the launch of Apple’s iPhone last year has the unveiling of a handset caused such a stir. On September 23rd T-Mo... |
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Management consulting: Giving advice in adversity (25 September 05:38) |
| Wall Street’s woes are yet another headache for the consulting industryWHEN even consultants suggest that companies might want to spend less on consultancy, you know the industry is in... |
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Social networking: Facebook for suits (25 September 05:38) |
| Websites that encourage business networking are thrivingAMONG the few firms benefiting from the upheaval in the financial markets are professional social networks—websites that help wi... |
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Companies and human rights: Not the usual suspects (25 September 05:38) |
| A new report on corporate complicity takes a broad-brush approachIMAGINE a company accused of human-rights abuses and you will probably conjure up an image of a mining group or an oil firm o... |
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Food regulation in China: The poison spreads (25 September 05:38) |
| Tainted milk kills children—and harms China’s image abroadWITH each passing day the news about China’s tainted-milk scandal gets worse. It started with reports in the Chine... |
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Airlines: Under the hammer (18 September 05:35) |
| JetBlue finds a novel way to perk up its sales: selling tickets on eBayCOLLECTORS and bargain-hunters have long been devotees of eBay, but the online auction site may have won a new group of... |
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Face value: The quiet Brazilian (18 September 05:35) |
| Daniel Dantas, a brilliant and controversial banker, is waiting to see if he will go to jailIT IS three o’clock in the afternoon, and Daniel Dantas has just discovered that $300m of hi... |
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Japan’s luxury-goods market: Losing its shine (18 September 05:35) |
| Why sales of luxury goods are slowingWHEN Louis Vuitton, part of LVMH, the world’s biggest luxury-goods firm, opened a giant shop in Tokyo’s Omotesando district in 2002, hundreds... |
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Airlines and the credit crunch: Shredding money (18 September 05:35) |
| Lower oil prices have revived airlines’ shares, but they are still in troubleTHE airline industry dodged two bullets this week. The rescue of AIG, once the world’s biggest insure... |
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Biofuels in India: Power plants (18 September 05:35) |
| The slow ripening of India’s biofuel industryOUTSIDE his village in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, Sudarshan Dhrube inspects a field of jatropha, planted in rust-red soils, heavy wi... |
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Newspapers in America: Slim hopes (18 September 05:35) |
| A billionaire makes a surprising investment in the New York TimesIT SAYS a lot about the mood in American business today that an investment by a Mexican tycoon in the New York Times is widel... |
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Giant Manufacturing: On your bike (18 September 05:35) |
| Obesity and high oil prices are good news for the world’s biggest bikemakerTHESE are tough times for carmakers, many of which are labouring under high oil prices, slowing demand and fi... |
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Japan’s luxury-goods market: Losing its shine (18 September 05:35) |
| Why sales of luxury goods are slowingWHEN Louis Vuitton, part of LVMH, the worlda€™s biggest luxury-goods firm, opened a giant shop in Tokyoa€™s Omotesando district in 20... |
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Business and regulation: A new kind of eastern promise (11 September 04:34) |
| It is now easier to do business in eastern Europe than East Asia, says a new reportIN “BIOSHOCK”, a hit video game from last year that was heavily influenced by the libertarian p... |
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Boeing and Airbus: Striking differences (11 September 04:34) |
| Both have big order books and similar strategies, but only Boeing is on strikeMANY manufacturers would love to be where Boeing and Airbus are: both have orders stretching years into the futu... |
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Advertising: Postmodern wriggle (11 September 04:34) |
| To save Microsoft, Bill Gates adjusts his shortsTHE self-appointed marketing experts of the blogosphere immediately pounced on the opening shot of what will probably be this year’s mos... |
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Brazilians in China: Footloose capitalism (11 September 04:34) |
| China’s largest Brazilian community enjoys the benefits of globalisationIN DONGGUAN, a city of some 7m people situated 90km (56 miles) north of Hong Kong, factories abound producing ev... |
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Fairground rides: Ups and downs (11 September 04:34) |
| Italy’s manufacturers of amusement rides hit a dipTHIS month a brightly coloured, trailer-mounted “Matterhorn” fairground ride will leave Bertazzon 3B’s factory in Se... |
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The business of giving: Non-profit capitalism (11 September 04:34) |
| An initial public offering with a difference“WE RUN a business here—but instead of selling cars or candy to kids, we’re selling hope and leadership,” says Nancy Lubli... |
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American corporate profits: A turn for the worse (11 September 04:34) |
| The outlook is deteriorating even for the best-performing firms, let alone the troubled onesTHE second quarter of this year was the most profitable ever for Big Oil: the six largest Western ... |
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Face value: Power politics (11 September 04:34) |
| Bob Hertzberg thinks renewable energy needs to reduce its dependency on government handoutsHE MAY be the chairman of a solar-power start-up based in rainy south Wales, but Bob Hertzberg has ... |
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Correction: Correction: The business of sport (04 September 06:00) |
| CorrectionA table in our special report on sport (“Fun, games and money”, August 2nd) put the value of Fiat’s three-year sponsorship of Juventus, an Italian football club, ... |
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Executive compensation in China: False options (04 September 06:00) |
| A study of share options reveals a vast amount of untouched wealthHOW executives are rewarded is one of the many mysteries of China’s increasingly powerful companies. Unravelling it is... |
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Cars: The road ahead (04 September 06:00) |
| The world’s carmakers have mapped out their route to a greener futureTHERE is nothing like high oil prices, panic-selling of big cars and the prospect of swingeing new penalties on car... |
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Dealing with the downturn: Accounts not receivable (04 September 06:00) |
| Companies are taking longer to pay one anotherAS THE world economy slows, the number of people who have fallen behind on loan and credit-card payments is soaring. But although dud consumer l... |
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The world wide web: The second browser war (04 September 06:00) |
| Google’s new web browser is its most direct attack on Microsoft yetSEVERAL years ago, Silicon Valley was rife with rumours that Google, then primarily a search engine, might be buildin... |
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Alcatel-Lucent: Bring down the barriers (04 September 06:00) |
| Ben Verwaayen’s talents will be sorely tested in his new roleAFTER Alcatel SA merged with Lucent Technologies Inc two years ago, almost the last thing the new company could afford to w... |
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Face value: Deflating IT (04 September 06:00) |
| The chief executive of AdventNet, Sridhar Vembu, has a shot at becoming software’s Michael DellSRIDHAR VEMBU is a dangerous man. If he succeeds, a lot of people will lose a lot of mone... |
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Face value: The sage of Quiznos (28 August 05:05) |
| The skills of Greg Brenneman, a corporate-turnaround specialist, are in demandA FEW years ago Greg Brenneman was asked to give some advice to MBA students thinking about the next step in the... |
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Business in South Korea: (28 August 05:05) |
| A steelmaking giant is one of several bidders for a shipbuilderPOSCO, a South Korean firm that is the world’s fourth-largest steelmaker, likes to prove its critics wrong. It proudly po... |
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Pharmaceuticals: (28 August 05:05) |
| Drug giants’ recent attempts to buy big biotech firms have provoked a backlashDALLIANCES between conventional pharmaceutical companies and biotechnology firms are nothing new. Big Phar... |
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Technology, business and the law: (28 August 05:05) |
| A deluge of electronic information may overwhelm American civil justiceDAWN BEYE’S teenage daughter suffers from anorexia nervosa and had to be treated in hospital at a cost of about $... |
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Food regulation in America: (28 August 05:05) |
| Restaurant chains must now list the calorie content of the food they sellIN JANUARY New York became the first American city to pass a law requiring restaurant chains to state the number of c... |
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