Chủ Nhật, 28 tháng 4, 2013

Apple boss cooks salary package

factory workers

Political doubts spook business

MANUFACTURERS, small business operators and builders have shut-up shop and stopped hiring with growth flatlining.

Digital divide widens in business

fibre optical

AUSTRALIA'S small businesses are falling at the first hurdle of digital literacy, with more than half without even a website.

Construction can be fatal: Grocon boss

Building site

CONSTRUCTION sites are risky environments and incidents such as Melbourne's fatal wall collapse can occur, head of Grocon says.

Why bush towns are dying

Barellan

ONCE thriving country towns across NSW are battling for survival as growing unemployment and rising costs turn many into ghost towns.

Sacked for 'not moving fast enough'

Denis Hennequin

THE chairman and chief executive of French hotel group Accor Denis Hennequin has been sacked after a major rift with his executive board.

Rivals take a bite out of Apple profit

Apple Dow

UPDATE: Apple's quarterly profit has dipped for the first time in nearly a decade despite a rise in revenue from the same period a year earlier.

Aussie wine lovers, the Germans want you

Henkell

AUSSIE wine lovers, we have been told - our stuff is good but as far as the Germans are concerned theirs is just that little bit more special.

The industries cashing in on your heartbreak

aussie cash

SPLITTING up is a huge, costly and emotional expense that's fast becoming big business. Find out which ones are benefiting from your divorce.

Cutting out online business threats

Betrina Hill

THE online world was a no-go zone for Betrina Hill - but then she realised her business wouldn't survive without it.

Retailers missing out on web hit

computer mouse

DESPITE all the hype, online retail sales grew only 19 per cent compared with the same period last year, according to the NAB's Online Retail Sales Index.

Consumer watchdog brought to heel

Michael Schaper

FRANCHISING abuses have been ignored by the competition watchdog for a lack of resources, submissions to the Federal Parliament claim.

Hubby helps flesh out online business

Belinda Smith

IT TOOK some wise words from her husband for Belinda Smith to start her online homewares and furniture store, White Coconut.

Sickies causing ill will

headache

FRIDAY sickies are costing the nation up to $36 million a year, with small businesses copping the brunt of the the "three-day weekend".


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