Urbis, a Melbourne based real-estate consulting company has released Urbis Retail Averages 2010, this year’s edition of the annual survey of shopping center performance the company has been producing since 1992 . Conducted in cooperation with the Shopping Centre Council of Australia and using the Counci’s sales reporting standards, the study provides key results and analysis of the sector for both regional and sub-regional centers. 59 regional and 167 sub-regional shopping centers submitted data for this year’s edition.
All tied up – Working capital management report 2010, released by Ernst&Young in earlier this year, presents an annual analysis of the working capital performance based on the responses received at the Annual Working Capital Management Survey for 2009. Its key findings rely on the review of the working capital performance of the largest 2,000 companies (by sales) headquartered in the US and Europe, the analysis being based on companies’ latest scale 2009 reports.
The report HR Trends in B.C. published in June 2010 by British Columbia Human Resource Management Association (BC HRMA), one of the largest HR association in Western Canada, presents the key findings based on the survey results regarding the 2010 HR role and trends.
One of the key challenges faced by organization’s leaders in the current business environment is how to retain their talents in order to enable business success. As Broman (2010) acknowledges, “retaining talents isn’t simply a question of “headcount” – it can make the difference between the success or failure of a company and the winning and losing of market share, investors, new clients and contracts”.
Whist the recent financial crisis has caused most of the cities around the globe such as Chicago, Moscow and Dubai to put their plans for new skyscrapers on hold, China seems to be doing the exact opposite with more construction work being carried out (McDonald, 2010).
