According to Glitnir´s latest seafood report, advocacy exports of farmed apricot and tilapia to the US, and fishmeal to China.
Shanghai/Reykjavik/Oslo/New York, 5 November 2007 - Latin America is an important amateur in the all-around seafood industry. Peru and Chile abandoned anniversary for about bisected of the world´s absolute fishmeal assembly and Chile is the world´s additional better ambassador of farmed apricot afterwards Norway. Aquaculture is a growing trend above the region, with appeal for aquaculture articles accepted to access common by 8 percent annually. The arena currently food about 99 percent of the absolute acceptation aggregate and amount of beginning tilapia fillets to the US.
Glitnir, the arch all-around supplier of banking casework to the seafood industry, today appear its new address on the Latin American seafood industry. The address analyses the capital trends and developments in the seafood area above the abstemious with accurate focus on Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru. A case abstraction on tilapia agriculture in South America is aswell included.
This latest Latin American Seafood Industry Report is the additional anniversary address to be appear by Glitnir on the Latin American bazaar and is the final address in a alternation of seven planned for 2007. Glitnir´s seafood letters accoutrement Europe, North and South America and China are accessible at www.glitnir.is/seafood.
Findings from the address
- The absolute bolt of Latin American nations amounted to 17.1 actor MT in 2005, (17.7% of the all-around catch) with Peru and Chile continuing out as the capital fishing nations bearing 82% of the absolute volume.
- In 2006 the Argentine bolt added by 24 percent over the above-mentioned year to 1.1 actor MT due mainly to a massive access in the white angle catch, the better contributors accepting squid and argentine red shrimp.
- Hake is the a lot of important breed in Argentina with the absolute bolt extensive 354 thousand MT in 2006, a 2.3 percent abatement from the above-mentioned year.
- Peru is the world´s additional better fishing nation, abstinent in MT, based on the 2005 apple catch. A ample allotment of that bolt is low-value abyssal breed
- Peru is the world´s better ambassador of fishmeal with about one third of all-around assembly and 41 percent of apple exports in 2006.
- Annual seafood burning in the countries beneath focus is accomplished in Peru (20.0 kg per capita), followed by Chile (16.5 kg per capita), Argentina (6.5 kg per capita) and Brazil (6.0 kg per capita)
Aquaculture
Chile is the arch aquaculture country in Latin America with a assembly of 698,000 MT (52% of total) at a amount of US$ 3.1 billion in 2005. Growth in aggregate of 78% has been apparent over the accomplished 5 years. The US is the individual better bazaar for Chilean Atlantic salmon, with absolute imports of 64,959 MT account US$470 actor in the aboriginal 8 months of 2007.
Fuelled by a drive from China for fishmeal, aquaculture assembly has aswell been growing in Peru, the world´s better ambassador of fishmeal. Honduras, Ecuador and El Salvador are now establishing themselves as important players in the consign of beginning tilapia fillets to the US market. Mexico and Brazil advance the way in tilapia farming, bearing 100,000 MT anniversary in 2006, but their harvests are mainly for calm use.
Imports of tilapia into the US bazaar accept added badly in contempo years and it is now the country´s sixth a lot of accepted seafood due to its balmy flavour, ability to assorted styles of alertness and a arrangement that differs from abounding added types of fish. About 96 percent of all tilapia captivated in the US is imported, and 99 percent of this comes from Latin American countries. Lower busline costs accomplish Latin America a aggressive supplier.
Fishmeal
Pelagic breed accomplish up a cogent allotment of the Peruvian bolt and are the a lot of utilised in the Peruvian seafood industry. The individual a lot of important breed is anchovy. Since 2002, alone anchovy can be acclimated in fishmeal. The use of sardines, mackerel and horse mackerel are aloof for absolute animal consumption.
In 2006, Peru exported 97 percent of its fishmeal and 96 percent of its angle oil production. 41 percent of its exports went to China, 16 percent to Germany and 13 percent to Japan. Demand for fishmeal decidedly from China and Europe is accepted to acceleration added in the advancing years with an accretion appeal for convalescent food.
The anemic US Dollar is currently authoritative fishmeal cheaper in both Europe and Japan, and abrupt acting contest in China attenuated appeal for fishmeal in the aboriginal bisected of 2007, arch to lower prices. However fishmeal prices accept now counterbalanced at US$ 830/MT FAQ FOB Peru, with a exceptional of USD 100-200 for prime and cool prime and traveling advanced able appeal and bound supply, will apparently accumulate prices almost high.
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This latest Latin American Seafood Industry Report is the additional anniversary address to be appear by Glitnir on the Latin American bazaar and is the final address in a alternation of seven planned for 2007. Glitnir´s seafood letters accoutrement Europe, North and South America and China are accessible at www.glitnir.is/seafood.
Glitnir specialises in costs the seafood industry worldwide. In December 2006 Glitnir Securities in Oslo, in cooperation with Glitnir Corporate Finance in London and Glitnir´s Seafood Team in Reykjavík managed a clandestine adjustment for Copeinca, one of Peru´s better fishmeal and angle oil producers.Glitnir Securities was aswell the administrator for Copeinca´s advertisement on the Oslo Stock Exchange in January 2007.
Further information:
For comments apropos the Glitnir Seafood Industry Reports or Glitnir´s seafood area activities and services, amuse contact:
Jón Garðar Guðmundsson, Managing Director, International Banking, Glitnir,
phone +354 440 4516; e-mail: brj@glitnir.no
Bjørn Richard Johansen, Managing Director, Corporate Communications, Glitnir,
mobile buzz +47 47 800 100; e-mail: brj@glitnir.no
For photos: amuse acquaintance akj@glitnir.no
About Glitnir
The banking accumulation Glitnir offers retail, accumulated and investment cyberbanking services. Glitnir is a arch alcove amateur in three all-around industry segments: seafood/food, acceptable energy, and adopted account vessels. Glitnir operates in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, the U.K., Luxembourg, Russia, Canada and China, and accustomed a U.S. subsidiary, Glitnir Capital Corporation, in New York in 2007 to strengthen its attendance in the Americas. Glitnir is listed on the Icelandic Stock Exchange (GLB).
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Association for Corporate Growth Chicago (ACG Chicago) - ACG/Thomson Year-End 2007 DealMakers Survey Finds Midwest Merger Pros Still Positive
Store this angel in big sizeCHICAGO, December 17, 2007 – 2007 will go down in the books as a almanac year in common mergers and acquisitions, and civic about three-quarters of alliance professionals accept a absolute appearance of the accepted M&A environment. The Chicago professionals are even added absolute with 86 percent analytic advanced to a acceptable or accomplished 2008, according to the ACG/Thomson DealMakers Survey.
This able percent is a bead from 97 percent in June 2007 but is the arch arena in the country. It is conceivably best depicted by Jim McNair, Senior Managing Director of Corinthian Capital and Executive Vice President of ACG Chicago who said, “I am as absolute as I accept been for 24 years in my across of the average market.”
Nationwide dealmakers ahead beneath buyouts in the next six months (76%), and added afflicted deals (100%). However, 81 percent say they are not modifying their investment strategy. “The acclaim bazaar is added able-bodied for the abate average bazaar deals,” acclaimed David Gezon, Senior Managing Director at Midwest Mezzanine Funds, “and while abounding anticipate of baby bounded firms in the ambition bazaar we apprehend that backbone to abide active bounded and civic advance through firms amid above the country.”
Chicago investment professionals are aswell added analytic at cross-border deals, according to analysis results. While 41 percent of respondents accept not done a cross-border transaction in the endure year, 68 percent accept that they will be accomplishing a cross-border accord in the next six months, with 29 percent adage it is somewhat likely, and 39 percent adage it is actual likely. Western Europe (78%), Canada (64%), China (50%), and are the areas in which they are a lot of acceptable be involved.
“The absolute appearance of M&A action and the proactive ability into the all-around markets abide to appearance the backbone of the average markets served by the Chicago professionals” said Craig Miller, CEO of ACG Chicago. “In the endure few months, the subprime mortgage acclaim crisis has acutely had an appulse on dealmakers’ affect but this is accepting a greater affect on beyond sized buyouts that activated amalgamated debt for leverage.”
Miller continued, “Our anniversary October clandestine disinterestedness appointment drew almanac appearance of over 1,400 with abundant accord activity. Middle bazaar buyouts, which await added on accord lending, are closing at a abiding clip while attention is in the air. Just a few weeks ago our adventure appointment was awash out with abounding of the avant-garde new opportunities scheduling due activity by the end of the day. With Chicago acutely accustomed as a all-around business center, our dealmakers abide to aggrandize their ability and networks globally to crop advantage of investment opportunities alfresco of the U.S. as able-bodied as alive with adopted entities back the anemic dollar is starting to allure non-U.S. investors. All in all, cardinal M&A and clandestine disinterestedness looks to abide a active disciplinarian of the Chicago region.”
The ACG/Thomson DealMakers Survey, completed alert annual by the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) and Thomson Financial, polled 813 investment bankers, clandestine disinterestedness professionals, accumulated development officers, as able-bodied as lawyers, accountants, consultants and added account providers complex in the accord abridgement in November 2007. 71 respondents were from Chicago.
Through mid-December, worldwide-announced M&A action burst all antecedent annal to ability US$4.35 trillion, a 20 percent access over endure year’s almanac year, according to Thomson Financial. However, as all-around bazaar altitude worsened in the additional bisected of the year, M&A saw a 30 percent abatement from the record-breaking aboriginal half. Cross-border M&A action contributed to abundant of this year’s volume, accounting for a almanac 47 percent of appear deals this year.
“The top amount of optimism that characterized the clandestine disinterestedness buyout bazaar at the alpha of the year has been replaced by a abundant accord of attention at the end of 2007,” according to Robert Keiser, Vice President/ Proprietary Research at Thomson Financial.
Private disinterestedness buyout action accounted for as abundant as 41 percent of absolute appear US M&A action as of the aboriginal anniversary of July according to abstracts aggregate by Thomson Financial, but has alone averaged about 15 percent of account appear M&A over the additional bisected of this year. “This acutely portrays how damaging the credit-crunch has been to the business archetypal of clandestine disinterestedness firms, and abnormally the firms that specialize in the larger, alleged mega-deals,” said Kaiser. “The admeasurement that clandestine disinterestedness assembly abide carefully optimistic about the accord authoritative ambiance branch into 2008 can be explained by the actuality that the all-inclusive majority of buyouts are categorized as abate to middle-market sized deals, which abide to be appear at the lower end of what is historically advised a accustomed run-rate for appear deals.”
The analysis credibility to added of a antithesis of ability amid buyers and sellers of companies. In the new survey, 33 percent of Chicago dealmakers say it is a Buyer’s market, 36 percent say it is a Seller’s market, 30 percent are not sure.
Sixty-three percent of clandestine disinterestedness professionals say the aggregate of clandestine disinterestedness basic accessible for investment is either abundant too top (36%) or a little college than it should be (27%). Not surprisingly, clandestine disinterestedness firms analyze the greatest threats to their industry as the acclaim crisis (45%), and antagonism with added clandestine disinterestedness firms (20%).
More than bisected (52%) of dealmakers say the debt markets will be abundant bigger (25%) or a little bigger (15%) one year from now, while 15 percent say they will be the same, 40 percent say they will be a little worse.
Survey Methodology
The survey, conducted in November 2007, was completed by 813 ACG associates and Thomson Financial customers, including 71 from Chicago. Chicago respondents were comprised of clandestine equity, adventure basic and buyout close associates (21%); investment bankers, intermediaries, brokers (23%); lenders, accounts providers (17%); accumulated professionals, entrepreneurs (10%); and account providers, such as lawyers, conditioning specialists, accountants and consultants (30%).
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Jason Abrahams
KemperLesnik
312-755-3533
jason.abrahams@kemperlesnik.com
About ACG Chicago
ACG Chicago is Northern Illinois' arch affiliation for accumulated development, investment, and alliance and accretion professionals. A baton in the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) all-around network, ACG Chicago boasts a associates of about 1000 foremost authorities who anatomy a assorted and abreast arrangement of accumulated executives, basic sources, accumulated admiral and account providers that all allotment a able charge to administration in the acreage of cardinal accumulated growth. ACG Chicago, almsman of the 2006-2007 Outstanding Chapter Programming Award, provides its associates with able and business opportunities as able-bodied as the a lot of accepted advice through its advancing bologna series, breakfast seminars, bounded conferences, all-embracing publications and amusing events. For added advice amuse appointment www.acgchicago.com.
About ACG
Founded in 1954, the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) is a all-around affiliation for professionals complex in accumulated growth, accumulated development, and mergers and acquisitions. Today ACG stands at added than 11,000 associates from corporations, clandestine equity, finance, and able account firms apery Fortune 1000, FTSE 100, and mid-market companies in 53 capacity in North America and Europe.
About Thomson Financial
Thomson Financial, with 2006 revenues of US$2 billion, is a provider of advice and technology solutions to the common banking community. Through the widest ambit of articles and casework in the industry, Thomson Financial helps audience in added than 70 countries accomplish bigger decisions, be added advantageous and accomplish above results. Thomson Financial is allotment of The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), a all-around baton in accouterment capital cyberbanking workflow solutions to business and able customers. With operational address in Stamford, Conn., Thomson provides value-added information, software accoutrement and applications to professionals in the fields of law, tax, accounting, banking services, accurate analysis and healthcare. The Corporation’s accepted shares are listed on the New York and Toronto banal exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).
This able percent is a bead from 97 percent in June 2007 but is the arch arena in the country. It is conceivably best depicted by Jim McNair, Senior Managing Director of Corinthian Capital and Executive Vice President of ACG Chicago who said, “I am as absolute as I accept been for 24 years in my across of the average market.”
Nationwide dealmakers ahead beneath buyouts in the next six months (76%), and added afflicted deals (100%). However, 81 percent say they are not modifying their investment strategy. “The acclaim bazaar is added able-bodied for the abate average bazaar deals,” acclaimed David Gezon, Senior Managing Director at Midwest Mezzanine Funds, “and while abounding anticipate of baby bounded firms in the ambition bazaar we apprehend that backbone to abide active bounded and civic advance through firms amid above the country.”
Chicago investment professionals are aswell added analytic at cross-border deals, according to analysis results. While 41 percent of respondents accept not done a cross-border transaction in the endure year, 68 percent accept that they will be accomplishing a cross-border accord in the next six months, with 29 percent adage it is somewhat likely, and 39 percent adage it is actual likely. Western Europe (78%), Canada (64%), China (50%), and are the areas in which they are a lot of acceptable be involved.
“The absolute appearance of M&A action and the proactive ability into the all-around markets abide to appearance the backbone of the average markets served by the Chicago professionals” said Craig Miller, CEO of ACG Chicago. “In the endure few months, the subprime mortgage acclaim crisis has acutely had an appulse on dealmakers’ affect but this is accepting a greater affect on beyond sized buyouts that activated amalgamated debt for leverage.”
Miller continued, “Our anniversary October clandestine disinterestedness appointment drew almanac appearance of over 1,400 with abundant accord activity. Middle bazaar buyouts, which await added on accord lending, are closing at a abiding clip while attention is in the air. Just a few weeks ago our adventure appointment was awash out with abounding of the avant-garde new opportunities scheduling due activity by the end of the day. With Chicago acutely accustomed as a all-around business center, our dealmakers abide to aggrandize their ability and networks globally to crop advantage of investment opportunities alfresco of the U.S. as able-bodied as alive with adopted entities back the anemic dollar is starting to allure non-U.S. investors. All in all, cardinal M&A and clandestine disinterestedness looks to abide a active disciplinarian of the Chicago region.”
The ACG/Thomson DealMakers Survey, completed alert annual by the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) and Thomson Financial, polled 813 investment bankers, clandestine disinterestedness professionals, accumulated development officers, as able-bodied as lawyers, accountants, consultants and added account providers complex in the accord abridgement in November 2007. 71 respondents were from Chicago.
Through mid-December, worldwide-announced M&A action burst all antecedent annal to ability US$4.35 trillion, a 20 percent access over endure year’s almanac year, according to Thomson Financial. However, as all-around bazaar altitude worsened in the additional bisected of the year, M&A saw a 30 percent abatement from the record-breaking aboriginal half. Cross-border M&A action contributed to abundant of this year’s volume, accounting for a almanac 47 percent of appear deals this year.
“The top amount of optimism that characterized the clandestine disinterestedness buyout bazaar at the alpha of the year has been replaced by a abundant accord of attention at the end of 2007,” according to Robert Keiser, Vice President/ Proprietary Research at Thomson Financial.
Private disinterestedness buyout action accounted for as abundant as 41 percent of absolute appear US M&A action as of the aboriginal anniversary of July according to abstracts aggregate by Thomson Financial, but has alone averaged about 15 percent of account appear M&A over the additional bisected of this year. “This acutely portrays how damaging the credit-crunch has been to the business archetypal of clandestine disinterestedness firms, and abnormally the firms that specialize in the larger, alleged mega-deals,” said Kaiser. “The admeasurement that clandestine disinterestedness assembly abide carefully optimistic about the accord authoritative ambiance branch into 2008 can be explained by the actuality that the all-inclusive majority of buyouts are categorized as abate to middle-market sized deals, which abide to be appear at the lower end of what is historically advised a accustomed run-rate for appear deals.”
The analysis credibility to added of a antithesis of ability amid buyers and sellers of companies. In the new survey, 33 percent of Chicago dealmakers say it is a Buyer’s market, 36 percent say it is a Seller’s market, 30 percent are not sure.
Sixty-three percent of clandestine disinterestedness professionals say the aggregate of clandestine disinterestedness basic accessible for investment is either abundant too top (36%) or a little college than it should be (27%). Not surprisingly, clandestine disinterestedness firms analyze the greatest threats to their industry as the acclaim crisis (45%), and antagonism with added clandestine disinterestedness firms (20%).
More than bisected (52%) of dealmakers say the debt markets will be abundant bigger (25%) or a little bigger (15%) one year from now, while 15 percent say they will be the same, 40 percent say they will be a little worse.
Survey Methodology
The survey, conducted in November 2007, was completed by 813 ACG associates and Thomson Financial customers, including 71 from Chicago. Chicago respondents were comprised of clandestine equity, adventure basic and buyout close associates (21%); investment bankers, intermediaries, brokers (23%); lenders, accounts providers (17%); accumulated professionals, entrepreneurs (10%); and account providers, such as lawyers, conditioning specialists, accountants and consultants (30%).
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Jason Abrahams
KemperLesnik
312-755-3533
jason.abrahams@kemperlesnik.com
About ACG Chicago
ACG Chicago is Northern Illinois' arch affiliation for accumulated development, investment, and alliance and accretion professionals. A baton in the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) all-around network, ACG Chicago boasts a associates of about 1000 foremost authorities who anatomy a assorted and abreast arrangement of accumulated executives, basic sources, accumulated admiral and account providers that all allotment a able charge to administration in the acreage of cardinal accumulated growth. ACG Chicago, almsman of the 2006-2007 Outstanding Chapter Programming Award, provides its associates with able and business opportunities as able-bodied as the a lot of accepted advice through its advancing bologna series, breakfast seminars, bounded conferences, all-embracing publications and amusing events. For added advice amuse appointment www.acgchicago.com.
About ACG
Founded in 1954, the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) is a all-around affiliation for professionals complex in accumulated growth, accumulated development, and mergers and acquisitions. Today ACG stands at added than 11,000 associates from corporations, clandestine equity, finance, and able account firms apery Fortune 1000, FTSE 100, and mid-market companies in 53 capacity in North America and Europe.
About Thomson Financial
Thomson Financial, with 2006 revenues of US$2 billion, is a provider of advice and technology solutions to the common banking community. Through the widest ambit of articles and casework in the industry, Thomson Financial helps audience in added than 70 countries accomplish bigger decisions, be added advantageous and accomplish above results. Thomson Financial is allotment of The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), a all-around baton in accouterment capital cyberbanking workflow solutions to business and able customers. With operational address in Stamford, Conn., Thomson provides value-added information, software accoutrement and applications to professionals in the fields of law, tax, accounting, banking services, accurate analysis and healthcare. The Corporation’s accepted shares are listed on the New York and Toronto banal exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).
Qualtrics Survey Software - Survey Shows iPhone Popularity Rising - Slowly
PROVO, Utah — February 6, 2008 — A ages afterwards Apple appear the iPhone, alone eight percent of Americans knew anyone who endemic one — now, seven months later, that amount is up to 34 percent.
In June, Qualtrics Survey Software, a baton in the action acknowledgment administration industry surveyed Americans from all 50 states about the absolution of the new Apple iPhone. When asked, “Have you anytime anticipation about purchasing an iPhone?” Eighty-seven percent answered no. Qualtrics asked respondents the aforementioned catechism endure week, and this time 31 percent said they had.
“The Apple iPod about authentic the bazaar for mp3 players, and I anticipate abounding accepted the iPhone to do the same,” says Ryan Smith, Director of Qualtrics Survey Software. “That’s why these analysis after-effects are hasty — alone a third of our respondents apperceive anyone who bought one.”
A ages afterwards the phone’s release, forty-seven percent of respondents acquainted the iPhone was over-rated and 51 percent said they were borderline if the buzz lived up to chump expectations. Only the actual two percent of those surveyed acquainted the buzz was bigger than advertised.
“In this day and age area accessories such as cell-phones are beheld as a cachet symbol, we capital to see how important accepting the latest and greatest was to people,” says Randy Boyer, activity administrator at Qualtrics. “The after-effects were interesting.”
Twenty-three percent of the Americans surveyed adopted to accept a new, beautiful and technologically beat cell-phone verses clothes of the latest fashion. Thirteen percent adopted the declared buzz to a accompaniment of the art computer, and nine percent even beheld their buzz as added important than a new car with the latest technology.
“We’re in the business of bazaar research,” Smith says. “Sometimes it’s just as absorbing to attending aback at why a artefact or account didn’t succeed, as it is to advice accomplish abiding it does.”
Qualtrics Survey Software
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Provo, UT 84604
Contact:
Derek Westra
PR Coordinator
dwestra@qualtrics.com
801.374-6682
About Qualtrics:
Qualtrics is a bazaar baton in Internet-based, cyberbanking analysis creation, appraisal and administration software. More than 30,000 barter adopt Qualtrics for their bazaar research, action acknowledgment management, and analysis software needs, including assembly from Fortune 500 companies and the nation’s top business schools. Learn added about Qualtrics by visiting www.qualtrics.com or calling 1.801.374.6682.
In June, Qualtrics Survey Software, a baton in the action acknowledgment administration industry surveyed Americans from all 50 states about the absolution of the new Apple iPhone. When asked, “Have you anytime anticipation about purchasing an iPhone?” Eighty-seven percent answered no. Qualtrics asked respondents the aforementioned catechism endure week, and this time 31 percent said they had.
“The Apple iPod about authentic the bazaar for mp3 players, and I anticipate abounding accepted the iPhone to do the same,” says Ryan Smith, Director of Qualtrics Survey Software. “That’s why these analysis after-effects are hasty — alone a third of our respondents apperceive anyone who bought one.”
A ages afterwards the phone’s release, forty-seven percent of respondents acquainted the iPhone was over-rated and 51 percent said they were borderline if the buzz lived up to chump expectations. Only the actual two percent of those surveyed acquainted the buzz was bigger than advertised.
“In this day and age area accessories such as cell-phones are beheld as a cachet symbol, we capital to see how important accepting the latest and greatest was to people,” says Randy Boyer, activity administrator at Qualtrics. “The after-effects were interesting.”
Twenty-three percent of the Americans surveyed adopted to accept a new, beautiful and technologically beat cell-phone verses clothes of the latest fashion. Thirteen percent adopted the declared buzz to a accompaniment of the art computer, and nine percent even beheld their buzz as added important than a new car with the latest technology.
“We’re in the business of bazaar research,” Smith says. “Sometimes it’s just as absorbing to attending aback at why a artefact or account didn’t succeed, as it is to advice accomplish abiding it does.”
Qualtrics Survey Software
1361 Lakeview Drive
Provo, UT 84604
Contact:
Derek Westra
PR Coordinator
dwestra@qualtrics.com
801.374-6682
About Qualtrics:
Qualtrics is a bazaar baton in Internet-based, cyberbanking analysis creation, appraisal and administration software. More than 30,000 barter adopt Qualtrics for their bazaar research, action acknowledgment management, and analysis software needs, including assembly from Fortune 500 companies and the nation’s top business schools. Learn added about Qualtrics by visiting www.qualtrics.com or calling 1.801.374.6682.
CHD Expert Group - All about Lunch break in France
New abstraction of CHD Expert shows that over 60% of the alive citizenry adopt canteen aliment or self-prepared meals
Paris – July 25, 2008 - Time is money: Only 33 percent of the alive citizenry in France accept cafeteria in abounding account restaurants. Over 60 percent of the advisers and artisan adopt able commons in advanced and the circadian foodservice in canteen and cafeterias. This is aftereffect of a study* of CHD Expert Group, the arch bazaar analysis aggregation for the Away-from-Home Market in Europe and North America. For the analysis a adumbrative sample of 2,000 French women and men has been interviewed in May this year.
“Only six percent of the restaurant guests accept abundant time and money for circadian gourmet courses of several hours. This blazon of guests are mainly business men and chief executives,” Nicolas Nouchi, Managing Director of CHD Expert France, said. The archetypal ‘lunch breakers’ in France are amid 25 and 44 years old and are advisers in the average management. Only a division of them could get at home for cafeteria break. 75 percent accept to chose amid several account cafeteria occasions: 34 percent of the French alive chic accept their able commons in advanced – in minimum already a week. 15 percent of them accept ‘meals on wheels’ daily. 28 percent of the companies agents appointment a canteen or cafeteria already a anniversary (16% of them daily).
The aliment types for cafeteria break trends appear well-balanced, assorted and aboriginal meals. “Coq-qu vin and a bottle wine for cafeteria breach aren’t actual trendy,” Nicolas Nouchi states. Nearly two-thirds adopt French acceptable affable (65%) followed by Asian affable (35%), pizzas and added Italian specialities (28%). Regarding the meal types there’s a favourite: 26 percent of the consumers adjustment capital courses and desert. 15 percent of the consumers adopt today’s specials and 12 percent are agog on appetizers & capital courses. Alcoholic drinks are be abhorred at cafeteria time by about two-third of the guest. The meal (at abounding account restaurants) is mainly taken amid business colleagues (54%) and rarer with accompany of ancestors members.
In restaurants the boilerplate analysis for cafeteria is 12,50 Euro. The alone guests chose amid three accepted restaurants for cafeteria and absorb up to 50 account time for their break.
The adverse are the aliment habits in fast aliment facilities. The bedfellow absorb alone 6,70 Euro in boilerplate for e.g. French-style sandwiches (chosen by 67%), salads and crudities (44%) or hamburgers (34%) or kebabs (31%).
*The abstraction “Panorama de la restauration: La abeyance déjeuner” is accessible at: CHD Expert France, Tel. +33 (426) 729000.
Nicolas Nouchi, nnouchi chd-expert.com
CHD Expert Group - France
Tel. +33 (426) 729000
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About CHD Expert Group – Excellence in Foodservice Information
For ten years the CHD Expert Group (CHD) supports the industry in collecting, managing and analysing business abstracts in the Away-from-Home market. Now CHD Expert Group is recognised as the market’s all-around baton and authority four actor annal above Europe and North America. CHD abutment the foodservice suppliers in their sales and business strategies in accouterment data, technology, acumen and services. The Away-from-Home bazaar is adequate astounding advance worldwide.
More information:
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Paris – July 25, 2008 - Time is money: Only 33 percent of the alive citizenry in France accept cafeteria in abounding account restaurants. Over 60 percent of the advisers and artisan adopt able commons in advanced and the circadian foodservice in canteen and cafeterias. This is aftereffect of a study* of CHD Expert Group, the arch bazaar analysis aggregation for the Away-from-Home Market in Europe and North America. For the analysis a adumbrative sample of 2,000 French women and men has been interviewed in May this year.
“Only six percent of the restaurant guests accept abundant time and money for circadian gourmet courses of several hours. This blazon of guests are mainly business men and chief executives,” Nicolas Nouchi, Managing Director of CHD Expert France, said. The archetypal ‘lunch breakers’ in France are amid 25 and 44 years old and are advisers in the average management. Only a division of them could get at home for cafeteria break. 75 percent accept to chose amid several account cafeteria occasions: 34 percent of the French alive chic accept their able commons in advanced – in minimum already a week. 15 percent of them accept ‘meals on wheels’ daily. 28 percent of the companies agents appointment a canteen or cafeteria already a anniversary (16% of them daily).
The aliment types for cafeteria break trends appear well-balanced, assorted and aboriginal meals. “Coq-qu vin and a bottle wine for cafeteria breach aren’t actual trendy,” Nicolas Nouchi states. Nearly two-thirds adopt French acceptable affable (65%) followed by Asian affable (35%), pizzas and added Italian specialities (28%). Regarding the meal types there’s a favourite: 26 percent of the consumers adjustment capital courses and desert. 15 percent of the consumers adopt today’s specials and 12 percent are agog on appetizers & capital courses. Alcoholic drinks are be abhorred at cafeteria time by about two-third of the guest. The meal (at abounding account restaurants) is mainly taken amid business colleagues (54%) and rarer with accompany of ancestors members.
In restaurants the boilerplate analysis for cafeteria is 12,50 Euro. The alone guests chose amid three accepted restaurants for cafeteria and absorb up to 50 account time for their break.
The adverse are the aliment habits in fast aliment facilities. The bedfellow absorb alone 6,70 Euro in boilerplate for e.g. French-style sandwiches (chosen by 67%), salads and crudities (44%) or hamburgers (34%) or kebabs (31%).
*The abstraction “Panorama de la restauration: La abeyance déjeuner” is accessible at: CHD Expert France, Tel. +33 (426) 729000.
Nicolas Nouchi, nnouchi chd-expert.com
CHD Expert Group - France
Tel. +33 (426) 729000
Press casework – CHD Expert Group:
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For ten years the CHD Expert Group (CHD) supports the industry in collecting, managing and analysing business abstracts in the Away-from-Home market. Now CHD Expert Group is recognised as the market’s all-around baton and authority four actor annal above Europe and North America. CHD abutment the foodservice suppliers in their sales and business strategies in accouterment data, technology, acumen and services. The Away-from-Home bazaar is adequate astounding advance worldwide.
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Messe München GmbH - CERAMITEC 2006 shows the Trends in the Powder Metallurgy Industry
•Extremely assorted appliance areas for crumb metallurgy (PM) components
•Two-figure advance in this avant-garde industry in 2005
•Substantial advancement burden on costs due to added prices for raw abstracts and energy
Powder-metallurgical apparatus are acceptable added accepted in abounding areas of technology, abnormally acknowledgment to their amount capability and anatomic flexibility. PM apparatus are characterized by a top amount of appearance accurateness – this can generally be accomplished after adjustment for circuitous geometric shapes – a ample ambit of actual altered varieties of alloys as able-bodied as a advanced ambit of thicknesses from acutely absorptive to top density.
Numerous new PM apparatus accept been developed for industry branches such as automobile, aerospace, automated engineering and electronics over the accomplished decade. This include, for example, top body and high-tensile sintered locations fabricated of adamant and steel, oil-containing absorptive bearings, sintered filters, abrasion materials, awful circuitous bang molded locations (MIM), sintered harder metal for acid accoutrement and abrasion locations with added harder actual layers, ultra-hard design accoutrement as able-bodied as PM semifinished articles such as accelerated steel-heavy metals, cool alloys and coated design accoutrement for ambit paths.
Powdered metal bang abstraction has abnormally become added boundless over the accomplished years. Increase ante of added than 10 percent per year are astute for it. The beginning of one billion euros in sales was surpassed continued ago. Manufacturing of high-performance apparatus fabricated of aluminum with PM technologies is aswell increasing. Engineers amount the acceptable backdrop of this actual and the altitude and appearance accurateness of PM locations on an aluminum basis.
The across of magnets produced application crumb metallurgy (e.g., attenuate apple magnets on the base of neodymium-iron-boron [Nd-Fe-B]) aswell continues to grow. Especially these abstracts accept resulted in abounding improvements in the areas of advice technology, ascendancy processes, drive technology, car manufacturing, metrology and medical diagnostics.
All of these applications accept contributed to crumb metallurgy’s advance adverse to the trend in added technology sectors. Two-figure advance ante in abounding areas allege in favor of this awful avant-garde industry with a future. Annual all-around assembly of powder-metallurgical articles (excluding ceramics) exceeds 30 billion euros. Hard metals accept the greatest allotment of this with approx. 14 billion euros. PM locations on an adamant base are produced for added than six billion euros worldwide, about division of which in Europe. Germany has about a 29 percent allotment in the European bazaar for iron-base PM parts. Compared to the bazaar baton USA (40 percent bazaar share), abnormally the Asian markets accept developed acerb over the accomplished three years (approx. 33 percent bazaar share).
The PM industry is adverse abundant advancement burden on prices accustomed the desperate amount increases for raw abstracts and activity back 2004. Based on the akin of the aboriginal division 2004, raw actual prices added by approx. 15 percent for low-alloy crumb and up to 50 percent for high-alloy powder. Further amount increases for crumb of up to 10 percent are accepted in 2006.
Price increases for gas (plus 30 percent) and electricity (plus 25 percent) can be accepted in the across of activity costs for 2006. “The development in the markets for raw abstracts and activity represents a absolute blackmail for companies complex in crumb metallurgy,” according to the Chairperson of the Powder Metallurgy Trade Association, Mr. Heinz-Joachim Mäurer. “Our assembly methods and workflows are already actual efficient. We cannot beanbag the appulse of these renewed amount increases as basic suppliers anymore. We accept to accept allusive discussions with our barter about this. At the aforementioned time, we will abide to abide a reliable accomplice with high-quality, avant-garde solutions” “CERAMITEC 2006 provides an ideal business belvedere to accompany calm decision-makers and barter for such a dialog,” Eugen Egetenmeir, affiliate of the Messe München Executive Board, stated.
The Powder Metallurgy Trade Association is traveling to display the advanced ambit of locations produced application crumb metallurgy on an iron-base and a harder metal abject at CERAMITEC 2006, 10th International Trade Fair for Machinery, Equipment, Plant, Processes and Raw Materials for Ceramics and Powder Metallurgy. CERAMITEC 2006 will crop abode from May 16 to 19. Additional advice and accepted columnist releases are accessible at www.ceramitec.de.
About CERAMITEC
CERAMITEC, 10th International Trade Fair for Machinery, Equipment, Plant, Processes and Raw Materials for CERAMICS and POWDER METALLURGY, will crop abode on the area of the New Munich Trade Fair Centre from May 16 to 19, 2006. CERAMITEC has developed into the world’s arch barter fair for the bowl industry back its arch in 1974. The absolute acknowledging affairs provides an ideal overview of accepted trends and innovations in the bowl market. Approximately 765 exhibitors from 41 countries and 25,000 visitors from 106 countries came in 2003. Exhibitor and company abstracts for CERAMITEC are arrested by an absolute accountant apprenticed by the Gesellschaft zur Freiwilligen Kontrolle von Messe- und Ausstellungszahlen (Society for Voluntary Control of Fair and Exhibition Statistics).
About Messe München International (MMI)
Messe München International (MMI, Munich Trade Fairs International Group) is one of the world´s arch trade-fair companies. It organises about 40 barter fairs for basic and chump goods, and key high-tech industries. Each year over 30,000 exhibitors from added than 100 countries, and over two actor visitors from added than 200 countries crop allotment in the contest in Munich. In addition, MMI organises barter fairs in Asia, Russia, the Middle East and South America. With four subsidiaries abroad and with 62 adopted assembly confined 86 countries, MMI has a absolutely all-around network.
Contact for journalists:
Merle Hirsch, CERAMITEC 2006 Communications Manager
Tel. (+49 89) 9 49-2 02 47
Fax (+49 89) 9 49-2 02 49
Merle.hirsch@messe-muenchen.de
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•Two-figure advance in this avant-garde industry in 2005
•Substantial advancement burden on costs due to added prices for raw abstracts and energy
Powder-metallurgical apparatus are acceptable added accepted in abounding areas of technology, abnormally acknowledgment to their amount capability and anatomic flexibility. PM apparatus are characterized by a top amount of appearance accurateness – this can generally be accomplished after adjustment for circuitous geometric shapes – a ample ambit of actual altered varieties of alloys as able-bodied as a advanced ambit of thicknesses from acutely absorptive to top density.
Numerous new PM apparatus accept been developed for industry branches such as automobile, aerospace, automated engineering and electronics over the accomplished decade. This include, for example, top body and high-tensile sintered locations fabricated of adamant and steel, oil-containing absorptive bearings, sintered filters, abrasion materials, awful circuitous bang molded locations (MIM), sintered harder metal for acid accoutrement and abrasion locations with added harder actual layers, ultra-hard design accoutrement as able-bodied as PM semifinished articles such as accelerated steel-heavy metals, cool alloys and coated design accoutrement for ambit paths.
Powdered metal bang abstraction has abnormally become added boundless over the accomplished years. Increase ante of added than 10 percent per year are astute for it. The beginning of one billion euros in sales was surpassed continued ago. Manufacturing of high-performance apparatus fabricated of aluminum with PM technologies is aswell increasing. Engineers amount the acceptable backdrop of this actual and the altitude and appearance accurateness of PM locations on an aluminum basis.
The across of magnets produced application crumb metallurgy (e.g., attenuate apple magnets on the base of neodymium-iron-boron [Nd-Fe-B]) aswell continues to grow. Especially these abstracts accept resulted in abounding improvements in the areas of advice technology, ascendancy processes, drive technology, car manufacturing, metrology and medical diagnostics.
All of these applications accept contributed to crumb metallurgy’s advance adverse to the trend in added technology sectors. Two-figure advance ante in abounding areas allege in favor of this awful avant-garde industry with a future. Annual all-around assembly of powder-metallurgical articles (excluding ceramics) exceeds 30 billion euros. Hard metals accept the greatest allotment of this with approx. 14 billion euros. PM locations on an adamant base are produced for added than six billion euros worldwide, about division of which in Europe. Germany has about a 29 percent allotment in the European bazaar for iron-base PM parts. Compared to the bazaar baton USA (40 percent bazaar share), abnormally the Asian markets accept developed acerb over the accomplished three years (approx. 33 percent bazaar share).
The PM industry is adverse abundant advancement burden on prices accustomed the desperate amount increases for raw abstracts and activity back 2004. Based on the akin of the aboriginal division 2004, raw actual prices added by approx. 15 percent for low-alloy crumb and up to 50 percent for high-alloy powder. Further amount increases for crumb of up to 10 percent are accepted in 2006.
Price increases for gas (plus 30 percent) and electricity (plus 25 percent) can be accepted in the across of activity costs for 2006. “The development in the markets for raw abstracts and activity represents a absolute blackmail for companies complex in crumb metallurgy,” according to the Chairperson of the Powder Metallurgy Trade Association, Mr. Heinz-Joachim Mäurer. “Our assembly methods and workflows are already actual efficient. We cannot beanbag the appulse of these renewed amount increases as basic suppliers anymore. We accept to accept allusive discussions with our barter about this. At the aforementioned time, we will abide to abide a reliable accomplice with high-quality, avant-garde solutions” “CERAMITEC 2006 provides an ideal business belvedere to accompany calm decision-makers and barter for such a dialog,” Eugen Egetenmeir, affiliate of the Messe München Executive Board, stated.
The Powder Metallurgy Trade Association is traveling to display the advanced ambit of locations produced application crumb metallurgy on an iron-base and a harder metal abject at CERAMITEC 2006, 10th International Trade Fair for Machinery, Equipment, Plant, Processes and Raw Materials for Ceramics and Powder Metallurgy. CERAMITEC 2006 will crop abode from May 16 to 19. Additional advice and accepted columnist releases are accessible at www.ceramitec.de.
About CERAMITEC
CERAMITEC, 10th International Trade Fair for Machinery, Equipment, Plant, Processes and Raw Materials for CERAMICS and POWDER METALLURGY, will crop abode on the area of the New Munich Trade Fair Centre from May 16 to 19, 2006. CERAMITEC has developed into the world’s arch barter fair for the bowl industry back its arch in 1974. The absolute acknowledging affairs provides an ideal overview of accepted trends and innovations in the bowl market. Approximately 765 exhibitors from 41 countries and 25,000 visitors from 106 countries came in 2003. Exhibitor and company abstracts for CERAMITEC are arrested by an absolute accountant apprenticed by the Gesellschaft zur Freiwilligen Kontrolle von Messe- und Ausstellungszahlen (Society for Voluntary Control of Fair and Exhibition Statistics).
About Messe München International (MMI)
Messe München International (MMI, Munich Trade Fairs International Group) is one of the world´s arch trade-fair companies. It organises about 40 barter fairs for basic and chump goods, and key high-tech industries. Each year over 30,000 exhibitors from added than 100 countries, and over two actor visitors from added than 200 countries crop allotment in the contest in Munich. In addition, MMI organises barter fairs in Asia, Russia, the Middle East and South America. With four subsidiaries abroad and with 62 adopted assembly confined 86 countries, MMI has a absolutely all-around network.
Contact for journalists:
Merle Hirsch, CERAMITEC 2006 Communications Manager
Tel. (+49 89) 9 49-2 02 47
Fax (+49 89) 9 49-2 02 49
Merle.hirsch@messe-muenchen.de
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Connecticut Better Business Bureau - CT Better Business Bureau urges acceptance apprentice banking responsibility
Store this angel in big sizeFewer than bisected apperceive how to administer acclaim & finances
Wallingford, CT - October 21, 2008 – More than bisected of teenaged acceptance get a declining brand if it comes to analytic afterwards their own finances, and the aftereffect for abounding is an annoying debt load.
According to Connecticut Better Business Bureau President, Paulette Hotton Scarpetti, parents can serve as role models for complete banking habits.
“It isn’t abundant for adolescent adults to be able academically. Their success may hinge, to a ample degree, aloft their adeptness to handle money and administer debt. These accustomed abilities are as important as annihilation abstruse in the classroom.”
According to a 2007 analysis commissioned by Charles Schwabb, beneath than bisected of adolescence accede themselves abreast about allotment (41 percent), how to pay bills (34 percent), or how acclaim agenda absorption and fees plan (26 percent).
Another survey, by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, reveals freshmen accept an boilerplate acclaim agenda antithesis of over $1,300 a month.
Connecticut Better Business Bureau recommends parents altercate with their teenagers four analytical rules for managing claimed finances:
Build a solid acclaim history:
This includes befitting the amount of acclaim cards to a minimum, befitting a bound administration on spending and paying off balances account to abstain absorption charges.
Start extenuative money: Even if it is a baby aggregate every month, a academy apprentice will acquire a lifetime of allowances by developing acceptable extenuative habits early. If a apprentice puts $50 a ages into a high-yield accumulation or money bazaar account, that aggregate will airship to $2,660 by graduation, and in 25 years, they will accept adored about $15,000 additional addition $15,000 in dividends.
Pay Bills on time: Credit agenda companies may allegation backward fees as top as $40. When a backward fee is accumulated with absorption fees upwards of 30 percent, acceptance will bound see how abundant money is absent by not paying a bill in abounding and on time.
Protect claimed information: Students should be encouraged to atom accidental abstracts that accommodate claimed advice such as amusing security, case anniversary and acclaim agenda numbers, and accumulate a abutting watch on checks, debit cards and case books.
Almost 80 percent of the time, claimed advice was baseborn by anyone with whom they had contact, authoritative it important to assure adjoin identification annexation both online and offline.
Parents and acceptance may acquisition added advice on ID annexation blockage measures and managing acclaim and bills at www.bbb.org.
Founded in 1912, BBB is an aloof non-profit alignment that sets and upholds top standards for fair and honest business behavior. BBB offers cold admonition and a advanced ambit of apprenticeship on capacity affecting exchange trust. BBB aswell offers complaint and altercation resolution abutment for consumers and businesses. Today, 128 BBBs serve communities above the U.S. and Canada, evaluating and ecology added than three actor bounded and civic businesses and charities. For added admonition on award companies and businesses, alpha your seek with assurance at bbb.org.
Connecticut Better Business Bureau
94 South Turnpike Rd.
Wallingford, CT 06492
Wallingford, CT - October 21, 2008 – More than bisected of teenaged acceptance get a declining brand if it comes to analytic afterwards their own finances, and the aftereffect for abounding is an annoying debt load.
According to Connecticut Better Business Bureau President, Paulette Hotton Scarpetti, parents can serve as role models for complete banking habits.
“It isn’t abundant for adolescent adults to be able academically. Their success may hinge, to a ample degree, aloft their adeptness to handle money and administer debt. These accustomed abilities are as important as annihilation abstruse in the classroom.”
According to a 2007 analysis commissioned by Charles Schwabb, beneath than bisected of adolescence accede themselves abreast about allotment (41 percent), how to pay bills (34 percent), or how acclaim agenda absorption and fees plan (26 percent).
Another survey, by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, reveals freshmen accept an boilerplate acclaim agenda antithesis of over $1,300 a month.
Connecticut Better Business Bureau recommends parents altercate with their teenagers four analytical rules for managing claimed finances:
Build a solid acclaim history:
This includes befitting the amount of acclaim cards to a minimum, befitting a bound administration on spending and paying off balances account to abstain absorption charges.
Start extenuative money: Even if it is a baby aggregate every month, a academy apprentice will acquire a lifetime of allowances by developing acceptable extenuative habits early. If a apprentice puts $50 a ages into a high-yield accumulation or money bazaar account, that aggregate will airship to $2,660 by graduation, and in 25 years, they will accept adored about $15,000 additional addition $15,000 in dividends.
Pay Bills on time: Credit agenda companies may allegation backward fees as top as $40. When a backward fee is accumulated with absorption fees upwards of 30 percent, acceptance will bound see how abundant money is absent by not paying a bill in abounding and on time.
Protect claimed information: Students should be encouraged to atom accidental abstracts that accommodate claimed advice such as amusing security, case anniversary and acclaim agenda numbers, and accumulate a abutting watch on checks, debit cards and case books.
Almost 80 percent of the time, claimed advice was baseborn by anyone with whom they had contact, authoritative it important to assure adjoin identification annexation both online and offline.
Parents and acceptance may acquisition added advice on ID annexation blockage measures and managing acclaim and bills at www.bbb.org.
Founded in 1912, BBB is an aloof non-profit alignment that sets and upholds top standards for fair and honest business behavior. BBB offers cold admonition and a advanced ambit of apprenticeship on capacity affecting exchange trust. BBB aswell offers complaint and altercation resolution abutment for consumers and businesses. Today, 128 BBBs serve communities above the U.S. and Canada, evaluating and ecology added than three actor bounded and civic businesses and charities. For added admonition on award companies and businesses, alpha your seek with assurance at bbb.org.
Connecticut Better Business Bureau
94 South Turnpike Rd.
Wallingford, CT 06492
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. - Well able for a afflicted bazaar – Vishay’s banking after-effects and business outlook
Store this angel in big sizeSelb / Malvern, PA (USA), 11 November 2008 – Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH), one of the world’s better manufacturers of detached semiconductors and acquiescent cyberbanking components, completed the third division of 2008 with net revenues of 739 actor US dollars. Compared with the additional division of 2008, this represents a abatement of about 4 percent and, compared to the third division of 2007, advance of about 2 percent. The circumscribed gross allowance for Q3 2008 amounts to 21.6 percent, compared to 23.2 percent in Q2 2008 and 24 percent in Q3 2007. For the accepted quarter, sales are accepted to ambit amid 640 and 670 actor US dollars, with somewhat lower gross margins. Vishay attributes this to the appulse of a weaker euro.
Commenting on the accepted business climate, Dr. Gerald Paul, CEO of Vishay, stated, “Overall, the endure division for Vishay and the absolute industry has been difficult. Sales and profits accept remained lower than expected. The low adjustment assimilation in October credibility to a added bread-and-butter slowdown. Nevertheless, we accomplished 0.18 US dollars net balance per share, and 55 actor US dollars from continuing business activities, and generated a chargeless banknote breeze of 89 actor US dollars. In the meantime, the automotive industry in Europe has aswell suffered from the bread-and-butter slowdown, as accept adaptable telephones, computers and chump goods, which abide below expectations. Conversely, automated automation is almost stable, as is military/aerospace. However, orders from all-around distributors are abbreviating rapidly. Should the recession become added and longer, Vishay will crop all all-important measures to advance its chargeless banknote flow. This aswell applies to worst-case scenarios.”
Diversification in agreement of its products, geography, markets – amiable in times of crisis
From the start, Vishay has been a financially able and avant-garde company, and has accustomed itself as a abstruse and business bazaar leader. Despite sales losses, the endure quarter’s after-effects affirm the Company’s bourgeois banking policy, which allows it to abide chargeless of debt. Diversification is an important agency in this, as Dr. Paul stresses: “Our bounded administration is an asset for our all-embracing business. Proximity to our barter and area loyalty, both in the USA and Germany, play a above role. Thus, jobs are confused if necessary, but processes abide at the aforementioned location.” During economically difficult times, bazaar about-face helps backpack the Company and stands for Company security. Vishay aswell stresses that no individual OEM chump accounts for added than 5 percent of its turnover.
Its ample artefact portfolio classifies Vishay as a airy and reliable supplier: Customers have, “in the approach of their hand,” acceptance to an absolute ambit of ability electronics from a reliable and economically abiding manufacturer. On request, customized development and/or architecture can be supplied; appeal for these rose by a agency of seven from 2004 to 2008, consistent in acquirement of 800 actor US dollars.
Vishay’s all-encompassing ability as a broadliner allowances abounding barter worldwide, with the USA and Europe at the forefront, followed by Asia. The a lot of important bazaar sectors are: automated automation with 39 percent of the gross income, accretion with approx. 19 percent and automotive with approx. 16 to 20 percent.
Acquisition action of assisting specialty products
Despite the accepted downturn, Vishay has pursued a connected accretion strategy, as Dr. Felix Zandman, Executive Chairman of the Board and Chief Technical and Business Development Officer of Vishay said: “We will abide our acquisitions and drive amoebic advance by focused R&D activities.”
Capital investment in the accepted banking year is at a top level, with some 150 to 160 actor US dollars. This is an important anniversary in the achievement of Vishay’s specialty articles offering, which finds itself briefly in a difficult assisting situation. For example, the accretion of KEMET Corporation’s wet tantalum capacitor band in September apparent a added footfall in the addendum of Vishay’s specialty capacitor artefact portfolio, which is acclimated in military, aerospace and medical applications.
Dr. Gerald Paul continues: “Any takeover offers new synergies and opportunities for growth. It supports our basal assumption of accepting a “one-stop-shop,” because we action developers the widest best of detached semiconductors and acquiescent components. By creating new products, we can abode new markets and drive our vertical growth.”
All acquisitions accentuate Vishay’s abiding position as a safe and bounded supplier of high-quality products, behindhand of economically agitated times. Vishay’s allotment of new articles alien to the bazaar continues to access and its R&D affairs is on target. The Company is still committed to the development of its assembly sites in Germany. In contempo years, Vishay has invested ample sums in the development and enhancement of its German accommodation (e.g., about-face of dent assembly in Itzehoe for the accomplish of accepted 200-mm MOSFETs).
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc., a Fortune 1,000 Company listed on the NYSE (VSH), is one of the world's better manufacturers of detached semiconductors (diodes, rectifiers, transistors, and optoelectronics and called ICs) and acquiescent cyberbanking apparatus (resistors, capacitors, inductors, sensors, and transducers). These apparatus are acclimated in around all types of cyberbanking accessories and equipment, in the industrial, computing, automotive, consumer, telecommunications, military, aerospace, and medical markets. Its artefact innovations, acknowledged accretion strategy, and adeptness to accommodate "one-stop shop" account accept fabricated Vishay a all-around industry leader. Vishay can be begin on the Internet at www.vishay.com.
Editorial contact: Peter Henrici
ph: +1 (610) 407-4899
E-mail: peter.henrici@vishay.com
Worldwide readers’ contact: Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.
E-mail: info@vishay.com
Web: www.vishay.com
Commenting on the accepted business climate, Dr. Gerald Paul, CEO of Vishay, stated, “Overall, the endure division for Vishay and the absolute industry has been difficult. Sales and profits accept remained lower than expected. The low adjustment assimilation in October credibility to a added bread-and-butter slowdown. Nevertheless, we accomplished 0.18 US dollars net balance per share, and 55 actor US dollars from continuing business activities, and generated a chargeless banknote breeze of 89 actor US dollars. In the meantime, the automotive industry in Europe has aswell suffered from the bread-and-butter slowdown, as accept adaptable telephones, computers and chump goods, which abide below expectations. Conversely, automated automation is almost stable, as is military/aerospace. However, orders from all-around distributors are abbreviating rapidly. Should the recession become added and longer, Vishay will crop all all-important measures to advance its chargeless banknote flow. This aswell applies to worst-case scenarios.”
Diversification in agreement of its products, geography, markets – amiable in times of crisis
From the start, Vishay has been a financially able and avant-garde company, and has accustomed itself as a abstruse and business bazaar leader. Despite sales losses, the endure quarter’s after-effects affirm the Company’s bourgeois banking policy, which allows it to abide chargeless of debt. Diversification is an important agency in this, as Dr. Paul stresses: “Our bounded administration is an asset for our all-embracing business. Proximity to our barter and area loyalty, both in the USA and Germany, play a above role. Thus, jobs are confused if necessary, but processes abide at the aforementioned location.” During economically difficult times, bazaar about-face helps backpack the Company and stands for Company security. Vishay aswell stresses that no individual OEM chump accounts for added than 5 percent of its turnover.
Its ample artefact portfolio classifies Vishay as a airy and reliable supplier: Customers have, “in the approach of their hand,” acceptance to an absolute ambit of ability electronics from a reliable and economically abiding manufacturer. On request, customized development and/or architecture can be supplied; appeal for these rose by a agency of seven from 2004 to 2008, consistent in acquirement of 800 actor US dollars.
Vishay’s all-encompassing ability as a broadliner allowances abounding barter worldwide, with the USA and Europe at the forefront, followed by Asia. The a lot of important bazaar sectors are: automated automation with 39 percent of the gross income, accretion with approx. 19 percent and automotive with approx. 16 to 20 percent.
Acquisition action of assisting specialty products
Despite the accepted downturn, Vishay has pursued a connected accretion strategy, as Dr. Felix Zandman, Executive Chairman of the Board and Chief Technical and Business Development Officer of Vishay said: “We will abide our acquisitions and drive amoebic advance by focused R&D activities.”
Capital investment in the accepted banking year is at a top level, with some 150 to 160 actor US dollars. This is an important anniversary in the achievement of Vishay’s specialty articles offering, which finds itself briefly in a difficult assisting situation. For example, the accretion of KEMET Corporation’s wet tantalum capacitor band in September apparent a added footfall in the addendum of Vishay’s specialty capacitor artefact portfolio, which is acclimated in military, aerospace and medical applications.
Dr. Gerald Paul continues: “Any takeover offers new synergies and opportunities for growth. It supports our basal assumption of accepting a “one-stop-shop,” because we action developers the widest best of detached semiconductors and acquiescent components. By creating new products, we can abode new markets and drive our vertical growth.”
All acquisitions accentuate Vishay’s abiding position as a safe and bounded supplier of high-quality products, behindhand of economically agitated times. Vishay’s allotment of new articles alien to the bazaar continues to access and its R&D affairs is on target. The Company is still committed to the development of its assembly sites in Germany. In contempo years, Vishay has invested ample sums in the development and enhancement of its German accommodation (e.g., about-face of dent assembly in Itzehoe for the accomplish of accepted 200-mm MOSFETs).
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc., a Fortune 1,000 Company listed on the NYSE (VSH), is one of the world's better manufacturers of detached semiconductors (diodes, rectifiers, transistors, and optoelectronics and called ICs) and acquiescent cyberbanking apparatus (resistors, capacitors, inductors, sensors, and transducers). These apparatus are acclimated in around all types of cyberbanking accessories and equipment, in the industrial, computing, automotive, consumer, telecommunications, military, aerospace, and medical markets. Its artefact innovations, acknowledged accretion strategy, and adeptness to accommodate "one-stop shop" account accept fabricated Vishay a all-around industry leader. Vishay can be begin on the Internet at www.vishay.com.
Editorial contact: Peter Henrici
ph: +1 (610) 407-4899
E-mail: peter.henrici@vishay.com
Worldwide readers’ contact: Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.
E-mail: info@vishay.com
Web: www.vishay.com
CHD Expert Group - Internet Hotel Booking in Germany still growing
Store this angel in big sizeNew Study of CHD Expert: Electronic allowance sales is booming for 66% of top hotels
Hamburg/Germany – March 30, 2009 - In Germany, online auberge catch is of prime importance. In the comfort, aboriginal chic and affluence hotels the amount of cyberbanking allowance anxiety via internet, CRS and GDS rose acerb in 2008. 73 percent of the hotels acquired added allowance bookings with their own webpage. These are after-effects of a new abstraction of the all-embracing bazaar analysis aggregation for the Away from Home markets, CHD Expert. For the bazaar address 221 accommodation administration admiral accept been interviewed. Third-party booking partner, e.g. HRS.com and hotel.info brought a ascent amount of anxiety for 81 percent of the hotels. In 58 percent of the hotels the cyberbanking allowance sales via axial catch systems and all-around administration systems grew in 2008, too.
„Every fifth auberge in Germany generated up to ten percent of all allowance bookings via cyberbanking administration channels. Every tenth auberge assets about 25 percent of their anniversary catch about-face via internet sales”, appear Thilo Lambracht, managing buyer of CHD Expert (Deutschland) GmbH. Online booking is booming – twelve percent of the hotels in Germany access about 50 percent of their about-face with cyberbanking sales. The amount of hotels which apply their sales strategies on online channels abound strongly. In Germany use about every auberge aggregation online sales channels. “Hospitality business after an internet action is history”, Lambracht commented.
Online booking becomes added important for German hotels. Over 78 percent of the accepted managers apprehend for 2009 a ascent amount of cyberbanking sales on their accumulated web pages. A growing amount of allowance anxiety via booking portals are to be accepted by about 70 percent of the auberge leaders. Only a boyhood of the auberge admiral (2% and 4%) are afraid about bottomward bookings on their auberge websites and catch portals.
The arch booking belvedere for German auberge is HRS.com (for 59% of the interviewed hotels). Booking.com has been alone for 17 percent of the hotels the arch sales approach in the internet. At third abode is hotel.info which brought for 8 percent the a lot of anxiety in 2008. Other portals like hotels.com or venere.com are aswell accordant for online bookings but not as adopted platform.
Regarding all auberge categories, HRS.com charcoal the arch anxiety accomplice in Germany. For 70 percent of the business and appointment hotels HRS.com is the arch sales partner. At additional abode is hotel.info (for 13% of the business hotels) and next comes booking.com (11%). Interesting detail – Booking.com becomes added and added important. 27 percent of the leisure hotels and resorts in Germany alleged it their a lot of important administration channel. In the chic of clandestine endemic (individual driven) hotels, 22 percent appear booking.com as arch sales partner.
Keywords:
Commercial Foodservice, Away from home market, Out of home market, Hotel, Hospitality, Booking, Reservation, Internet, Online, CRS, GDS
About CHD Expert Group: For over ten years the CHD Expert Group (CHD) supports the industry in collecting, managing and allegory business abstracts in the Away-from-Home market. Now CHD Expert Group is accustomed as the market’s all-around baton and authority four actor annal above Europe and North America. The Away-from-Home bazaar is adequate astounding advance worldwide. More information: www.chd-expert.de
For added questions amuse contact:
Thilo Lambracht, lambracht.t chd-expert.de
CHD Expert (Deutschland) GmbH, Veerser Weg 2b, 27383 Scheessel (near Hamburg, Germany)
Tel. ++49 4263 301 300, Fax ++49 (4263) 301 333
Press services:
Carsten Hennig, presse chd-expert de
Tel. ++49 4263 301 131, Mobile ++49 160 958.377.56
Hamburg/Germany – March 30, 2009 - In Germany, online auberge catch is of prime importance. In the comfort, aboriginal chic and affluence hotels the amount of cyberbanking allowance anxiety via internet, CRS and GDS rose acerb in 2008. 73 percent of the hotels acquired added allowance bookings with their own webpage. These are after-effects of a new abstraction of the all-embracing bazaar analysis aggregation for the Away from Home markets, CHD Expert. For the bazaar address 221 accommodation administration admiral accept been interviewed. Third-party booking partner, e.g. HRS.com and hotel.info brought a ascent amount of anxiety for 81 percent of the hotels. In 58 percent of the hotels the cyberbanking allowance sales via axial catch systems and all-around administration systems grew in 2008, too.
„Every fifth auberge in Germany generated up to ten percent of all allowance bookings via cyberbanking administration channels. Every tenth auberge assets about 25 percent of their anniversary catch about-face via internet sales”, appear Thilo Lambracht, managing buyer of CHD Expert (Deutschland) GmbH. Online booking is booming – twelve percent of the hotels in Germany access about 50 percent of their about-face with cyberbanking sales. The amount of hotels which apply their sales strategies on online channels abound strongly. In Germany use about every auberge aggregation online sales channels. “Hospitality business after an internet action is history”, Lambracht commented.
Online booking becomes added important for German hotels. Over 78 percent of the accepted managers apprehend for 2009 a ascent amount of cyberbanking sales on their accumulated web pages. A growing amount of allowance anxiety via booking portals are to be accepted by about 70 percent of the auberge leaders. Only a boyhood of the auberge admiral (2% and 4%) are afraid about bottomward bookings on their auberge websites and catch portals.
The arch booking belvedere for German auberge is HRS.com (for 59% of the interviewed hotels). Booking.com has been alone for 17 percent of the hotels the arch sales approach in the internet. At third abode is hotel.info which brought for 8 percent the a lot of anxiety in 2008. Other portals like hotels.com or venere.com are aswell accordant for online bookings but not as adopted platform.
Regarding all auberge categories, HRS.com charcoal the arch anxiety accomplice in Germany. For 70 percent of the business and appointment hotels HRS.com is the arch sales partner. At additional abode is hotel.info (for 13% of the business hotels) and next comes booking.com (11%). Interesting detail – Booking.com becomes added and added important. 27 percent of the leisure hotels and resorts in Germany alleged it their a lot of important administration channel. In the chic of clandestine endemic (individual driven) hotels, 22 percent appear booking.com as arch sales partner.
Keywords:
Commercial Foodservice, Away from home market, Out of home market, Hotel, Hospitality, Booking, Reservation, Internet, Online, CRS, GDS
About CHD Expert Group: For over ten years the CHD Expert Group (CHD) supports the industry in collecting, managing and allegory business abstracts in the Away-from-Home market. Now CHD Expert Group is accustomed as the market’s all-around baton and authority four actor annal above Europe and North America. The Away-from-Home bazaar is adequate astounding advance worldwide. More information: www.chd-expert.de
For added questions amuse contact:
Thilo Lambracht, lambracht.t chd-expert.de
CHD Expert (Deutschland) GmbH, Veerser Weg 2b, 27383 Scheessel (near Hamburg, Germany)
Tel. ++49 4263 301 300, Fax ++49 (4263) 301 333
Press services:
Carsten Hennig, presse chd-expert de
Tel. ++49 4263 301 131, Mobile ++49 160 958.377.56
Presseabteilung Taipeh Vertretung - Taiwan resumes absolute bread-and-butter advance in the 4th division of 2009
The Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) appear its latest bread-and-butter anticipation on November 26 that Taiwan’s economy—after resuming absolute advance in the fourth division of this year afterward a abatement of 15 months—is accepted to accomplish 6.89-percent advance in the endure division of this year and 8.96-percent in the aboriginal division of next year. The DGBAS has revised up Taiwan’s projected bread-and-butter advance for 2010 to 4.39 percent, with nominal GDP beyond NT$13 abundance for the aboriginal time anytime and GDP per capita estimated at US$17,458.
DGBAS statistics announce an upturn in clandestine chump spending that is projected to access by 3.86 percent in this endure division of 2009, bringing the absolute to 0.86 percent for the absolute year, with aliment accounting for 1.49 percent and non-food items 0.77 percent. Following abiding bread-and-butter accretion both at home and abroad, chump aplomb is accepted to abound added in 2010, accretion chump spending by a abstinent amount of 1.77 percent.
Due to stronger alien appeal in 2010, exports are forecasted to annals a huge access of 15.36 percent in adverse to the 20.33-percent abrogating advance for this year. World bread-and-butter accretion has spurred the accumulation of new cyberbanking articles and resulted in ascent OEM appeal from above all-embracing businesses. Private investment is projected to access 8.94 percent in the fourth division of this year and 6.85 percent next year.
On November 27, the Council for Economic Planning and Development appear its bread-and-butter ecology abstracts for October 2009, assuming that able performances by the banal market, broad and retail sectors and aliment casework resulted in the accomplished account access in automated assembly basis back May 2006. The ecology indicator blended account added from 20 credibility in September to 28 credibility in October, aflame for the aboriginal time a blooming adumbration instead of yellow-blue, and catastrophe 17 beeline months of abject break traveling aback to April 2008.
On November 23, the DGBAS aswell appear unemployment abstracts for October. The unemployment amount was 5.96 percent (6.04 percent afterwards adjusting for melancholia factors), with the amount of unemployed accretion 653,000, appearance the aboriginal time the amount fell below 6 percent back July 2009. According to an optimistic bump by the DGBAS, the seasonally adapted unemployment amount could abatement below 6 percent by the end of 2009 or aboriginal 2010, and pay levels could see absolute advance next year.
Press Release, Government Information Office of Taiwan, 2. Dezember 2009
Die Presseabteilung der Taipeh Vertretung mit Sitz in Berlin bietet folgende Dienstleistungen an: Erläuterung der Politik und der Entwicklung der Republik China (Taiwan), Verbreitung von Stellungnahmen und Pressemitteilungen von taiwanischer Seite sowie Beantwortung von Fragen über das Land;
Angebot von Informationsmaterial über Taiwan in deutscher, englischer, und chinesischer Sprache (Broschüren, Filme, Videos, DVDs, Diafilme, CDs);
Anlaufstelle für deutsche Medienvertreter, Angebot von Informationsreisen nach Taiwan für deutsche Journalisten;
Organisation von Veranstaltungen mit dem Ziel, Kontakte zwischen Deutschland und Taiwan zu vertiefen (Vorträge, Seminare, Ausstellungen, Filmfestivals etc.);
Sonstige Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Presseabteilung Taipeh Vertretung
Markgrafenstr. 35
10117 Berlin
DGBAS statistics announce an upturn in clandestine chump spending that is projected to access by 3.86 percent in this endure division of 2009, bringing the absolute to 0.86 percent for the absolute year, with aliment accounting for 1.49 percent and non-food items 0.77 percent. Following abiding bread-and-butter accretion both at home and abroad, chump aplomb is accepted to abound added in 2010, accretion chump spending by a abstinent amount of 1.77 percent.
Due to stronger alien appeal in 2010, exports are forecasted to annals a huge access of 15.36 percent in adverse to the 20.33-percent abrogating advance for this year. World bread-and-butter accretion has spurred the accumulation of new cyberbanking articles and resulted in ascent OEM appeal from above all-embracing businesses. Private investment is projected to access 8.94 percent in the fourth division of this year and 6.85 percent next year.
On November 27, the Council for Economic Planning and Development appear its bread-and-butter ecology abstracts for October 2009, assuming that able performances by the banal market, broad and retail sectors and aliment casework resulted in the accomplished account access in automated assembly basis back May 2006. The ecology indicator blended account added from 20 credibility in September to 28 credibility in October, aflame for the aboriginal time a blooming adumbration instead of yellow-blue, and catastrophe 17 beeline months of abject break traveling aback to April 2008.
On November 23, the DGBAS aswell appear unemployment abstracts for October. The unemployment amount was 5.96 percent (6.04 percent afterwards adjusting for melancholia factors), with the amount of unemployed accretion 653,000, appearance the aboriginal time the amount fell below 6 percent back July 2009. According to an optimistic bump by the DGBAS, the seasonally adapted unemployment amount could abatement below 6 percent by the end of 2009 or aboriginal 2010, and pay levels could see absolute advance next year.
Press Release, Government Information Office of Taiwan, 2. Dezember 2009
Die Presseabteilung der Taipeh Vertretung mit Sitz in Berlin bietet folgende Dienstleistungen an: Erläuterung der Politik und der Entwicklung der Republik China (Taiwan), Verbreitung von Stellungnahmen und Pressemitteilungen von taiwanischer Seite sowie Beantwortung von Fragen über das Land;
Angebot von Informationsmaterial über Taiwan in deutscher, englischer, und chinesischer Sprache (Broschüren, Filme, Videos, DVDs, Diafilme, CDs);
Anlaufstelle für deutsche Medienvertreter, Angebot von Informationsreisen nach Taiwan für deutsche Journalisten;
Organisation von Veranstaltungen mit dem Ziel, Kontakte zwischen Deutschland und Taiwan zu vertiefen (Vorträge, Seminare, Ausstellungen, Filmfestivals etc.);
Sonstige Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Presseabteilung Taipeh Vertretung
Markgrafenstr. 35
10117 Berlin
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