11/28/2007 12:01 AM |
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Alex MacBeath, global head of privately held business services, Les Corder from Grant Thornton, Australia and Monish Chatrath from Grant Thornton, India are interviewed about the state of the manufacturing industry in this podcast. They provide unique insight into the environment and globalisation, two of the top concerns for manufacturers. This supplement to the IBR 2007 Manufacturing report includes information you will not hear anywhere else.
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07/31/2007 12:01 AM |
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Grant Thornton International Business Report podcast examining business owner's attitudes towards company lifecycles and divestment and which succession trends are currently being experienced within the privately held market.
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07/23/2007 12:01 AM |
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Grant Thornton International Business Report podcast focusing on European business and business owner's expectations for the next 12 months and the likely effects on global markets.
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07/20/2007 12:01 AM |
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Grant Thornton International Business Report podcast examining business constraints, discussing the challenges to growth experienced by the global business community and how red tape is constraining business owner's plans for future development.
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05/30/2007 12:01 AM |
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Grant Thornton International Business Report podcast on business stress levels examining the change in stress levels among business leaders and what businesses can learn from others to improve working habits. The survey covers the opinions of 7,200 privately held businesses in 32 countries.
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05/17/2007 12:01 AM |
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Grant Thornton International Business Report podcast on environment and energy issues, identifying the attitudes of businesses toward global warming and what action they are taking to limit the effects.
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03/08/2007 12:01 AM |
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Grant Thornton International Business Report podcast on women in business and the proportion of females in senior management.
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01/10/2007 02:00 PM |
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A Grant Thornton International podcast on the expectations of private businesses in 2007.
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02/08/2007 09:00 AM |
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The first focus report from the Grant Thornton International Business Report 2007, examining the four emerging economies - Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) which are expected to play an increasingly important role in the global economy in the coming decades.
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05/01/2007 12:01 AM |
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Grant Thornton International Business Report podcast on the next generation of emerging economies set to have significant impacts on the world economy.
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06/29/2007 12:01 AM |
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The full International Business Report results are now available. Users can now view the full results from this year's survey, with topics including business performance, stress, succession planning, business risk and women in business.
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03/12/2008 04:55 PM |
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Alex MacBeath is joined by Ulla Pluger from Grant Thornton Denmark and Hector Perez from the Grant Thornton firm in Mexico to discuss the drivers of CSR and what actions businesses are being taken to adopt CSR principles.
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04/18/2008 11:30 AM |
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This Grant Thornton IBR podcast discusses recruitment and retention issues within privately held businesses. This issue features Alex MacBeath, global head of privately held businesses, Laurie Kalman, global head of human resources and Vinamra Shastri who heads up the human resources team at Grant Thornton, India.
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04/24/2008 05:30 PM |
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Podcast examining the merger and acquisition trends for privately held businesses for the year ahead.
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07/15/2008 11:30 AM |
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This podcast examines the challenges and opportunities presented by emerging economies.
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11/07/2008 05:00 PM |
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In increasingly uncertain times, this Grant Thornton IBR vodcast looks at the issues and challenges facing privately held businesses, examining ways to mitigate the effects of the economic downturn and investigating opportunities for growth.
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01/05/2009 09:30 AM |
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Optimism amongst privately held businesses (PHBs) around the world has slumped by 56% in the last 12 months and pushed the Grant Thornton International optimism/pessimism barometer to a record negative balance of -16% compared to +40% this time last year.
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01/14/2009 11:00 AM |
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Privately held businesses (PHBs) across the world expect weak increases in exports (a balance of +4%*), limited opportunities to increase turnover (+11%) and prices (+14%), but only a marginal drop in profitability (-5%) over the next 12 months.
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01/28/2009 12:30 PM |
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New research comparing the expectations of privately held businesses (PHBs) about access to finance in 2009, against how supportive they feel their lenders are being in the current climate, suggests PHBs could be facing a global lottery for survival or failure at the hands of their lenders.
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02/11/2009 12:30 PM |
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New research into the biggest constraints on the ability of privately held businesses (PHBs) to expand shows that, for the first time in six years, a shortage of orders is seen as the biggest barrier to expansion.
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02/25/2009 12:30 PM |
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Employees at nearly a quarter of privately held businesses (PHBs) around the world could be worse off in the year ahead. Research from the Grant Thornton International Business Report reveals that 21% of businesses plan to offer no pay rise in 2009 while 3% of businesses actually expect to reduce pay. This is in contrast to only 10% of businesses expecting to increase pay above the rate of inflation.
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03/11/2009 12:30 PM |
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New research from Grant Thornton International reveals that women still hold less than a quarter of senior management positions in privately held businesses globally. 24% of senior management positions are currently held by women - a figure identical to 2007 and only a marginal improvement from 2004 when only 19% of senior level positions were held by women. 34% of privately held businesses globally have no women in senior management.
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03/11/2009 12:30 PM |
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Despite the economic downturn, privately held businesses (PHBs) remain surprisingly resilient in their attitude towards acquisitions, according to research from the Grant Thornton International Business Report. 37% of PHBs globally still plan an acquisition in the next three years, a drop of only 7% from the same study in 2008. Of that 37%, the proportion planning to transact cross-border has actually increased, suggesting that international mergers and acquisitions remain on the agenda as a strategic tool to drive growth.
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04/01/2009 12:30 PM |
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Latest research from the annual Grant Thornton International Business Report offers new insight about how far into the future privately held businesses (PHBs) plan. The most common planning period is 1-3 years, favoured by 49% of PHBs globally. However, PHBs in mainland China are the longest term planners with 44% of businesses planning more than three years ahead. Of PHBs following a 1-3 year planning cycle, the highest proportions were in Denmark (64%), followed by New Zealand and the United Kingdom (both 60%) and India and Greece (both 59%).
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04/01/2009 12:30 PM |
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New research from the annual Grant Thornton International Business Report (IBR) reveals that product innovation is seen as the most successful initiative for boosting profitability by the world's privately held businesses (PHBs). When 7,200 PHBs were asked to identify the initiative that helped profitability most, 20% cited innovation followed by cost cutting (18%) and pricing strategy (13%).
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05/27/2009 12:30 PM |
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Despite the global downturn, plenty of privately held businesses (PHBs) are still prepared to introduce 'green' practices, according to latest research from the Grant Thornton International Business Report (IBR) - even if those green practices have a negative effect on the bottom line.
When asked to rate the environmental friendliness of their business community and their appetite for introducing green practices, the 7,200 senior executives in PHBs across 36 economies created a global picture of those prepared to take the initiative on green practices and those unwilling to put their bottom line at risk.
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10/01/2009 12:30 PM |
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This podcast examines the key factors affecting the transport sector, survival techniques, reasons to be cheerful and expectations for the next two years.
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09/30/2009 12:30 PM |
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This podcast examines the key factors affecting the retail sector, survival techniques, reasons to be cheerful and expectations for the next two years.
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10/13/2009 12:30 PM |
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This podcast examines the key factors affecting the manufacturing sector, survival techniques, reasons to be cheerful and expectations for the next two years.
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10/13/2009 12:30 PM |
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This podcast examines the key factors affecting the hospitality sector, survival techniques, reasons to be cheerful and expectations for the next two years.
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11/11/2009 12:30 PM |
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Grant Thornton International has donated a further US$36,610 to UNICEF. The global accounting organisation donates US$5 to UNICEF for every completed questionnaire for its International Business Report (IBR).
IBR is an annual survey of the views of senior executives in privately held businesses (PHBs) all over the world.
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11/13/2009 12:30 PM |
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Research from the annual Grant Thornton International Business Report shows that privately held businesses (PHBs) are looking for stability and transparency from their tax systems. The survey reveals that taxes on business profits are seen as the most burdensome domestic tax by 27% of privately held businesses (PHBs) globally, this is a slight increase on last year's response (24%). Employment related taxes (20%) and personal income tax (19%) come a close second and third.
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01/04/2010 12:30 PM |
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Optimism amongst privately held businesses (PHBs) around the world has bounced back to give the Grant Thornton global optimism/pessimism index for 2010 an optimism balance of +24%, compared to its lowest ever score of -16% this time last year. The International Business Report (IBR) survey of over 7,400 PHBs across 36 economies, now in its 18th year, also highlights a group of ten economies where businesses are more optimistic about the outlook for their economies than International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasts might suggest.
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01/20/2010 12:30 PM |
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More evidence that the global credit crunch is easing comes from the latest Grant Thornton International Business Report (IBR) which reveals that privately held businesses (PHBs) around the world are increasingly confident that access to finance will be easier in 2010. 35% of businesses said they thought access to finance would be 'more' or 'much more accessible' in 2010 compared with only 14% who were similarly positive 12 months ago.
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02/10/2010 12:30 PM |
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62% of businesses believe that the upturn has started already or will take place during the course of 2010 according to the Grant Thornton International Business Report (IBR) which has been surveying the views of privately held businesses (PHBs) for 18 years. In its latest study conducted in late 2009, the proportion of respondents anticipating a change of ownership increased to 10% this year compared with 6% twelve months ago.
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02/24/2010 01:00 PM |
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Privately held businesses (PHBs) are naturally cautious about their M&A plans for 2010 given the challenging economic conditions and difficulty in raising debt finance they experienced in 2009, but there are some encouraging signs for the future.
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02/24/2010 04:30 PM |
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Privately held businesses (PHBs) across the world decreased their employee numbers during 2009, the first time since Grant Thornton began researching employment issues in its International Business Report (IBR) in 2003 that the number of businesses cutting headcount has exceeded those increasing it. The survey, of over 7,400 PHBs across 36 economies, shows a global balance* of -8% compared to +21% in 2009 - a drop of 29 percentage points.
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03/17/2010 12:30 PM |
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More than half of leaders of privately held businesses (PHBs) globally (56%) feel their stress levels have increased over the last year. The research from the Grant Thornton International Business Report (IBR) 2010 covers the opinions of over 7,400 business owners across 36 economies. Mainland China tops the league for the most stressed leaders with 76% of business owners saying their stress levels have increased over the last year.
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03/31/2010 12:30 PM |
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The future looks bright for emerging economies according to the Grant Thornton International Business Report 2010. A balance of +57% of privately held businesses (PHBs) in 14 of the world's leading emerging markets indicated that they were optimistic about the prospects for their country's economy in the year ahead.
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04/16/2010 12:30 PM |
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The podcast covers investment tips, benefits and businesses' needs when investing in emerging markets and includes contributions from Grant Thornton in the United States, United Kingdom, Russia, India, Mexico and China.
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05/26/2010 05:00 PM |
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Years of investor and regulator demands for greater transparency in financial reporting amongst listed companies is now affecting attitudes in the world of privately held businesses. More than half of leaders of privately held businesses (PHBs) globally (52%) believe that greater transparency is a key benefit of financial reporting according to latest research from the Grant Thornton International Business Report (IBR) 2010.
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10/06/2009 12:30 PM |
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This podcast examines the key factors affecting the technology sector, survival techniques, reasons to be cheerful and expectations for the next two years.
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09/08/2009 12:30 PM |
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This podcast examines the key factors affecting the financial services sector, survival techniques, reasons to be cheerful and expectations for the next two years.
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05/26/2010 04:30 PM |
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The podcast contains insights on lessons learnt over the last 12 months, key issues affecting the sector, plans and positive changes going forward.
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06/24/2009 12:30 PM |
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This podcast examines the key factors affecting the construction and real estate sector, survival techniques, reasons to be cheerful and expectations for the next two years.
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07/14/2010 12:00 PM |
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The International Financial Reporting Standards for Small and Medium Enterprises (IFRS for SMEs) focus series provides readers with key insights into the standards, how they impact businesses and the benefits of any action they may take.
The IBR 2010 IFRS for SMEs focus from Ireland is the first of the series to be released. The report from Hong Kong will follow shortly.
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06/24/2010 05:00 PM |
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Privately held businesses (PHBs) need to pay more attention to local tax regulations when deciding where to invest overseas, suggests the latest research from the annual Grant Thornton International Business Report.
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07/27/2010 06:00 PM |
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The IBR 2010 Global overview report provides a complete summary of this year's survey results, focusing on each topic covered in IBR 2010: economic climate, business indicators, constraints, raising finance, stress, employment, M&A, tax and IFRS for SMEs.
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03/31/2010 01:00 PM |
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The importance of the emerging markets to the world economy has been brought into sharper focus as the world emerges from recession. Not only have these economies been less severely hit, but they are also recovering more quickly, with growth rates over the next two years forecast to be well over double that of more mature economies.
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07/19/2010 02:00 PM |
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The IBR sector focus series examines key issues relating to privately held businesses and provides insight into how businesses can act to enhance their competitive advantage.
The IBR 2010 transport focus is the sixth of a series of ten sector reports to be released.
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06/24/2010 05:00 PM |
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Privately held businesses (PHBs) need to pay more attention to local tax regulations when deciding where to invest overseas, suggests the latest research from the annual Grant Thornton International Business Report.
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