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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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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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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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More than 150 experts dealt with the future prospects of mobile Internet applications in companies and public administrations at the SimoBIT annual conference in Berlin in 2008 under the motto "Mobile Internet - How the world of work is changing". 12 project groups presented future-oriented solutions for the markets of tomorrow in the areas of healthcare, mechanical engineering, public administration as well as craft and trade.
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Keep material flow transparent
Order is a flexible term in warehouses. Storage areas can be changed or relocated at any time. In a Brandenburg ironworks, forklifts will in future ensure traceable material flows and an overview in the warehouse. Automatically and by the way.
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IT standards make logistics systems of the future more responsive
Rising energy, fuel and transport prices will bring retailers a seven percent increase in logistics costs in 2009. This emerges from the study “Trends and strategies in logistics 2008” by the Bundesvereinigung Logistik www.bvl.de. For industry it would even be a whopping ten percent. At present, retailers put the share of logistics costs in total costs for 2008 at an average of 15,9 percent, and industry at seven percent.
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Annual industry analysis of the butcher's trade for individual positioning
The current edition of the 2007 operating cost comparison published by the German Butchers' Association is available. The nationwide data collection is based on the balance sheets and profit and loss accounts of selected butcher shops. A total of 165 questionnaires were made available by butcher shops, their accounting offices and tax offices as well as some state guild associations, which were processed under strict anonymity.
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The financial crisis also hit the economy in Germany hard. A study by WHU has now examined how the controllers in companies deal with the enormous challenges and what measures they are taking. The result: There are first signs of changes in corporate management.
