Subway tops this year’s ranking of the 300 leading franchises conducted by Dun & Bradstreet’s (D&B) AllBusiness.com editors. Liberty Tax Service, in second place, and Jazzercise, in third, round out the top three.
According to AllBusiness.com, the winners were determined by examining seven criteria: franchise unit growth rate, financial strength, system size, years in business, years [...]
The World Bank compares business regulations across 21 Colombian cities in Doing Business in Colombia 2010. The report focuses in particular on local and national regulations that affect six stages in the life of a small to medium sized domestic firms. Manizales, Inagué and Pererira are identified as the easiest cities for doing business in [...]
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This year’s edition of the Edelman Trust Barometer reveals that trust and transparency are as important to corporate reputation as the quality of products and services. In the U.S., as in much of Western Europe, these two attributes rank higher than product quality—and far outrank financial returns, which sits at or near the bottom [...]
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development has now published the UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics 2009 online. The site provides a comprehensive collection of data reflecting the evolution of international trade, financial flows, debt, commodity price trends and development indicators. Historical data from as far back as 1950 is available.
Access is free on the [...]
One in five of the world’s largest consumer products companies recorded a loss in the fiscal year 2008 (encompassing years ended through 30 June 2009), according to this new report from Deloitte. The report ranks the 250 largest consumer products companies by net sales and reveals that 44 of the 222 companies to disclose profit/loss [...]
Business Insights has just published the report, The Business Intelligence Market Outlook. IT majors need a new rallying cry to get big businesses and wider user communities excited about new types of IT systems, driving IT expenditure across the wider economy. There is a sense of agreement among the leading IT vendors that business intelligence is [...]
Synopsis
Ethical business creates social value. That’s the theme of this bold new volume, which heralds and defends this rapidly-growing new conception of capitalism. It provides clear and succinct guidelines for how to evaluate what counts as an ethical business as well as how and why ethical businesses tend to achieve more over the long term. [...]
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PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP has once again come out on top of Training magazine’s “Training Top 125,” the publication’s annual report that ranks companies based on their employer-sponsored training and development programs. Automatic Data Processing, Inc. and Vanguard occupy second and third place, respectively.
The selection of the Training Top 125 is based on a variety [...]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has published the paper, “Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy.” The aim of the paper is to lay out some key questions about the design of macroeconomic policy frameworks, as well as develop some ideas on how those frameworks might be strengthened.
The paper develops in three stages: Firstly, it provides an outline of [...]
Professions such as space pilot or body part makers are just some of the jobs that our kids could be doing in 20 years time, according to Fast Future’s latest study, “Shape of Jobs to Come: Possible New Careers Emerging from Advances in Science and Technology (2010 – 2030)”
The report, commissioned by the UK Department [...]
