Secrecy surrounding Dosenpfand gains

Federal Environment Ministry, corporate lobbyists, and even environmental activists deny persistent negative consequences of incorrectly constructed Packaging Regulation on the reusable development - although the warning shots are now to volleys: "It istklar that many business leaders publish any data. Otherwise they would disclose their finest and most secret sources of income. It is unfortunately the case that the interests of industry and the environment ministry as far apart that they coincide again. The secret coffers of the trade by the deposit slip and the secrecy associated coincides with the desire of the Federal Environment Ministry to bring yes no negative numbers in the public, "says the waste expert Sasch shoe, head of the Bonn consulting firm Ascon http: //www.ascon -net.de. His company had let therefore perform waste analyzes. "Were sampled mixed PET bales from the Dual System of different sorting. Pro bales we may find 1803 returnable bottles on average. Of these, 724 returnable bottles to 0,15 1079 euros and disposable bottles to 0,25 euros. If we add the high on a charge of 54 bale, then this results in a deposit of around 22. Euro per load. More than twenty times the intrinsic value, "said shoe against New message.

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Companies can significantly reduce electricity costs for IT

Reducing energy costs is an important issue for many companies. With energy-efficient IT equipment, you can quickly achieve success here. The Energy Efficiency initiative of the German Energy Agency (dena) shows in five steps how companies and public institutions can save up to 75 percent of their electricity costs for information technology (IT) if they replace outdated devices with energy-efficient ones and use them intelligently.

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Study by the University of Hohenheim highlights the role of communication in change management in Germany's top companies

How do companies deal with change? How successful are they in communicating the impact of mergers, business downturns, or new technologies? The current survey by the Department of Communication Studies, especially journalism, at the University of Hohenheim analyzes how companies from different sectors and sizes assess the communication of the changes. Change has long since arrived in companies. Nine out of ten communication managers at the German top 250 and DAX companies surveyed say that they regularly explain major change projects to employees, but also to external target groups. Communicating the change is part of her everyday life, but has not yet become routine.

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Event on January 16 in Potsdam

The Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) wants to show executives from the economy how companies can coordinate and optimize their supply chains. This is to happen on January 16, 2009 at a joint event with the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and its "Forum for Supply Chain Innovation". Prof. David Simchi-Levi, one of the world's leading scientists in the field of supply chain management, and BITKOM President Prof. August-Wilhelm Scheer are among the speakers.

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Automated weight control for fruit and vegetables increases customer satisfaction and competitiveness

Reliability, quality and flexibility are prerequisites for optimally supplying business partners and consumers with flawless products and asserting themselves on the market. Software and weighing technology play a crucial role in filling quantity controls. Together with the technology manufacturer Bizerba from Balingen, the REWE Group has developed an easy-to-use filling quantity control system to check the filling quantities of the delivered finished packaging in the incoming goods department.

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Anyone wishing to set up a company in Germany today is no longer restricted to the legal forms provided by German law. For example, he can also choose the new supranational legal form of the European Company. The Societas Europaea (SE) has been available as a cross-border legal form since 2004. Big names like Allianz, BASF, Porsche or Fresenius have already chosen them. However, until now there has been no well-founded evidence of how the SE is generally accepted in Europe.

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First BfR symposium on risk communication in Berlin

The Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) has the legal mandate for risk communication. After six years that the BfR has now existed, it is playing a recognized pioneering role in this area. At the first BfR Risk Communication Symposium in Berlin, the department of the same name presented the results of its scientific work to the interested specialist public and discussed the claims and reality of communication, evaluation and participation with experts. "Our research projects show that the way consumers perceive risks must be taken into account in order to communicate risks effectively," says BfR President Professor Dr. Dr. Andreas Hensel. The instrument of the consumer conference was used as a successful citizen-friendly dialogue process. The regular evaluation of the effectiveness of the risk communication measures performed has also proven itself.

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Study "Corporate management and controlling in medium-sized companies - influences of company size and management structure" has been published

Controlling has established itself as a planning and control tool in medium-sized companies. However, strategic aspects are often neglected. This is the central result of a written survey of 63 medium-sized companies carried out by the Deloitte Mittelstandsinstitut at the University of Bamberg on the subject of "Corporate management and controlling in medium-sized companies - influences of company size and management structure". The data collection period was between May and July 2008.

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Crises in family businesses are crises in families AND companies, so two trouble spots need a solution - says the current book of the Witten Institute for Family Businesses (WIFU)

When family businesses get into an economic crisis, two people are in trouble: the company and the family. Because the family members are often not only overwhelmed professionally, but also psychologically. "In such cases, the family members involved are also overwhelmed by the family crisis, which regularly breaks out parallel to the company crisis, and in the worst case even have to wage a "two-front war"," says Dr. Tom A. Rüsen, author of the book "Crises and Crisis Management in Family Businesses". He is Executive Director of the Witten Institute for Family Businesses (WIFU). Because the family conflicts that typically occur and escalate at this point in time often significantly overshadow the course of the company's crisis. The behavior of the family members involved is not only affected by the fear of existential collapse or the loss of property and job, but also by the fear of being personally responsible for the "loss of the family legacy".

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Keep costs and creativity in balance with efficient marketing purchasing

Marketing budgets are currently not very creative: they are frozen or cut across the board with reference to the economic crisis. However, this procedure is particularly devastating for brand manufacturers, where the brands are a significant part of the company's value. One way out is the efficient purchase of marketing services in order to achieve marketing goals with a lower budget. Decision-makers underestimate the share of marketing services in the total purchasing volume. Around 14 percent of the indirect, non-production-related procurement volume in all industries is marketing expenses, compared to the total costs it is around four percent. Now, according to the purchasing consultants Inverto, what matters most is the rapid implementation of the improvements in marketing purchasing. In addition, purchasing must be based on the effect of the marketing service instead of just on prices.

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The Research Institute for Rationalization (FIR) at RWTH Aachen University has developed a methodology for planning and evaluating the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). With the support of a wide range of IT tools, including the new development of a tool for calculating the profitability of RFID systems, the costs and benefits of RFID solutions can now be evaluated in monetary terms, despite their complexity.

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