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...Unlike the other Big Four firms, which have placed their Middle Eastern operations under the control of one large entity, KPMG’s international offices are run by a local chief executive and chair....
...One of her biggest impacts in the organisation, says chief executive Steve Demetriou, has been in helping to transform the culture of the global professional services company, which is spread across 400...
...Some save it, he said, but for others it is convenient for transactions in a nation where 70 per cent lack access to financial services....
...Steve Machin: There is too much in need of change to even think of a high wage, high productivity economy in that time window....
...The company now has three factories and more than 1,200 employees in China, supplying equipment and providing fabrication services to clients in North America, Japan and Europe....
...Some local rivals are sceptical....
...I'm delighted to be joined by Helen Warrell, the FT's public policy correspondent, Owen Tudor, who is head of European Policy and International Relations at the TUC, plus Steve Ballinger from the British...
...Brunswick has grown into a global leader in corporate communications with about 150 partners and 1,000 employees....
...Steve Jobs, we might also remember, was the son of a Syrian immigrant....
...Steve McCabe, the local Labour MP, said: “If you were looking for a deal that gave you the best prospect of maintaining production and a good stake in that manufacturing sector in south Birmingham, this...
...While labour unions cheered, the measure attracted criticism from business executives who complained that it would inflict severe damage to the local economy....
...World-class universities, a long history of scientific innovation, the National Health Service, and London’s status as a global city in many other sectors from financial services to fashion all combine to...
...mass dismissals of state employees in return for a €6.8bn aid disbursement by international lenders....
...(Financial Times) IMF admits to errors in international bailout of Greece: The International Monetary Fund has published a scathing report about how it and the European Union handled Greece’s first €110bn...
...She was scheduled to speak to local officials about border security there on Monday and Tuesday....
...“It was better than mass layoffs and reduced services,” Mr Walker says. He warned at the time that unless his plan became law, 12,000 state and local government jobs would be lost....
...However, 30 miles up the coast, Rio Tinto Alcan, the international mining group, announced it would close the Lynemouth smelter on March 29....
...I would once again ask the unions why they are damaging our economy at a time like this – and putting jobs at risk....
...Being part of Union Electric Steel has helped the international sales drive, triggering the name change from Davy Roll....
...new trusted business visa service....
...“United pilots will not rubber-stamp any merger unless and until our interests are addressed,” Steve Wallach, chairman of the United pilots’ union, said last month....
...It was one of the greatest international victories for central planning since the fall of the Soviet Union, and one that analysts say could slow moves toward a reduction of the state’s role in Chinese sports...
...Aspen now provides 20 to 25 per cent of all tablets and capsules used in the country’s health service....
...Hapless European clothes retailers have seen their Chinese-made autumn collections lie stranded in warehouses because of the new European Union new textile quotas....
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