01 Dec 1994
UK: MARRIAGE POSTPONED - COMPANIES AND CAPITAL. - It's axiomatic that the smaller the business, the greater the difficulty of raising funds. A start-up may need only a few thousand pounds-worth of seedcorn in order to get off the ground, but at this leve
01 Dec 1994
UK: EDITORIAL - MANUFACTURERS GET IT TOGETHER. - The presentation of the Management Today Best Factories Awards at the Savoy last month offered a striking revelation of how businesses achieve manufacturing excellence. Almost without exception - and almos
01 Dec 1994
UK: EDITORIAL - THE WOMAN'S PLACE IN THE WORKFORCE. - Opportunity 2000 aims to increase the quantity and quality of women's participation in the workforce. In terms of quantity their efforts are unnecessary. The flow of women into gainful employment has
01 Dec 1994
UK: EDITORIAL - BUSINESS WORLD'S LEAGUE OF CHAMPIONS. - League tables are not universally popular. There is usually only one winner, and the also-rans are often unhappy about the result and how it was arrived at. Leagues can also backfire on their compil
01 Dec 1994
UK: THE END OF THE DECLINE - EXPORTS. - The UK's export performance has been through a number of marked changes in recent decades. In 1950 Britain's manufacturing sector accounted for 26% of the exports of the main manufacturing countries. By the beginni
01 Dec 1994
UK: THE TRUE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT - STAFF CHISTMAS CHEER. - At this time of year The Christmas Party is an almost universal preoccupation. Some companies splash out on lavish festivities, others say humbug to convention and leave it to employees to pay for t
01 Dec 1994
UK: IT'S THE TAKING PART THAT COUNTS - MANAGEMENT. - True competitors can't bear to believe that they aren't superior on each and every count, says Robert Heller, and that means constant measurement against not one but a whole series of criteria.
01 Dec 1994
UK: CREATING THE WILL TO WORK - CREE AND BLAKE'S CORPORATE SERVICE. - Most employers claim to have their staff's long term interests at heart - few, however, can be quite as far-sighted as those that retain the services of Cree Blake, a Surrey-base
01 Dec 1994
UK: A WEALTH OF INTERESTS - PROFILE TINY ROWLAND. - When Tiny Rowland announced his impending retirement from Lonrho last month he took the chance to catalogue his wealth. The list was enviably long; over £200 million in cash, 50 million Lonrho shares, £
01 Dec 1994
UK: RESURGENCE OF THE DRILLING FIELDS - NORTH SEA OIL. - Surprisingly, this year's North Sea oil production will exceed output at any time during the 1980s. Resulting revenues, however, will not. David Smith explains why - and why it isn't such a bad thi