GWR Group reports rise in profits

…Health secretary John Reid says the increase in sexually transmitted diseases will require a government response on the scale of the Eighties’ Aids warning.

These days it has become fashionable to debunk Professor Ted Levitt’s theories about the growing homogenisation of global markets, encapsulated in his snappy dictum, ‘Think global, act global’. The standard critique is that too many multinational brands took him at his word, centralised their marketing and began treating their customers as clones. The travails of […]

Continental Research says 10 million UK adults will make at least one Christmas purchase online this year, an increase of 38 per cent on 2003. Of the total &£26bn that consumers are expected to spend this Christmas, &£1.8bn will be through the Net.