SELLING Northern Ireland as an investment location to international companies and helping firms in the Province increase their export sales and target new markets is a key element of growing the local economy.
In today’s fast changing global economy, it has become increasingly important to provide the right business conditions to ensure that Northern Ireland remains [...]

Standing before a phalanx of potential investors, three young women make the case for their high-end day care concept. They’ve written a 37-page business plan, and they confidently whip through a PowerPoint about their mission, budget, and marketing plan.
Welcome to “The Pitch” – a culminating event for juniors at Fenway High School in Boston. In [...]

Are you looking for a terrific holiday gift idea for the cooking enthusiasts on your Christmas shopping list? Why not give a gift that will bring a smile to the face of the recipient several times each year? When you give cooking magazine subscriptions for Christmas, the lucky person who receives the gift will be [...]

Members from both the treasury and opposition benches demanded an increase in the budget allocations for the health and education sectors, as the National Assembly held its second day of debate on the federal budget for the Fiscal Year 2008-09 on Sunday. They said that subsidies on oil and electricity should continue to control price [...]

European hotels, car rental companies and government tourism agencies are ramping up marketing and turning to creative payment plans, complimentary cellphone use and deep discounts to salvage the summer travel business.
These efforts aimed at American tourists are intensifying as fluctuating exchange rates, rising airfares, and a gloomy economic outlook threaten to deter the world’s most [...]

Economic outlook, 79% of business travelers are feeling pressure from their employers to cut travel expenses, according to a new survey.
sponsored by Orbitz for Business, a unit of online travel company Orbitz Worldwide Inc. (OWW), and Business Traveler magazine - one-third of respondents said their main concern is cutting the cost of air travel. That’s [...]

SUFFOLK’S health chiefs should be more accountable and have elected representatives, it has been claimed today.
Elected councillors have highlighted concerns that NHS bosses are appointed and do not rely on the support of the public to stay in office, despite making extremely important decisions.
On Monday eighteen Ipswich Borough councillors met with Carole Taylor-Brown, the chief [...]

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) has been boasting his state’s health insurance reform initiative has reduced the number of uninsured by half, with nearly 300,000 more people added to the state’s health insurance rolls. What he doesn’t mention is that four out of five of them are relying heavily on taxpayer subsidies for their health [...]

When even the experts can’t agree on what the future holds, the planning process – usually involving an annual budget, cash flow forecast, marketing plan and business plan – can baffle even the most experienced business owner.
Business owners must find a way to plan their way past potential threats in the form of interest rates, [...]

Kentucky Education Commissioner Jon Draud knew and approved the extra cost of his new state vehicle, even after a finance official offered him a chance to reconsider because of the state’s bleak budget, government e-mails show.
In a March 20 e-mail to Robin Kinney, the education department’s associate commissioner for operations, Mitchell wrote that “all other [...]