MORE than 6,000 jobs will go at the Royal Bank of Scotland Group if its record-breaking 48 billion bid for the Dutch bank ABN Amro is successful.
The cuts would come from Edinburgh-based RBS’s global banking division, which has staff in London, mainland Europe, the United States and Asia-Pacific.
The organisation made the prediction yesterday […]
Born into a family of business owners, I think I probably have the kind of gene pool that encourages you to build your own company. Initially, however, my parents wanted me to take a different career track. Hence, after completing my masters in engineering and economics, I ended up in the corporate world. My last […]
A path leads around Bwlchwernen Fawr farm, through the fields and past a wood that is home to kites, buzzards and tawny owls. The trail twists at a stream feeding the river Aeron before bubbling underground beside a badger sett which local schoolchildren are encouraged to visit.
To outside eyes, Bwlchwernen, in West Wales, appears to […]
SHENZHEN, China: Inside Mattels sprawling test lab here, scores of technicians are doing their worst: setting Chicken Dance Elmo dolls on fire, wrecking Hot Wheels cars and yanking at the limbs of Dora the Explorer. The lab workers are paid to break toys, pick apart their innards, and analyze the raw materials that go into […]
Has Matsushita Electric Industrial’s («www.businessweek.com») growth engine started to sputter? It’s a question that a growing number of financial analysts are asking about the company’s TV business, and CEO «investing.businessweek.com» will be hard-pressed to come up with answers.
On July 25, the Japanese technology giant reported first-quarter profit gains for the sixth straight year. But […]