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Serpa!Security cable bridges solve the problems surrounding cables on intelligent way arch – ideally disappear cable in a duct in the wall or elegantly behind a Panel. But this ideal is not rule long, often subsequently laid cables cancel out the beautiful order in the workplace. In such cases it forbids to in the workshop, the factory, the business or the Office, simply to abandon the cable. Danger spots, which can not be eliminated by structural or technical changes, must be marked in accordance with 8 / 1 (floors) and 17/1.2 (thoroughfare) ASR. The plastics processors Hiendl from the Bavaria arc therefore now brings a new cable bridge on the market. The Serpa!Security cable bridges have a yellow black security marking according to DIN 4844. to lamps end signal Strip on both sides of the cable bridge, appearing at dusk and darkness, also provide protection for changing lighting conditions. Array understood the implications. The companies handle both during the day and at night to play it safe.

The new cable bridge will be presented at the Office furniture fair ORGATEC in Cologne (26 to 30 October). The yellow-green cable bridge is part of a whole system of cable technology of brand Serpa. Connect with other leaders such as Array here. The Special on the cable bridge Serpa is the uncomplicated way, it can be laid. Does not elaborate installation necessary thanks to a high weight. The bridge with a non-slip surface stay also so firmly on the ground. The cable bridge, they exist in one and a half and three metres in length, can be in any extended and shortened. With a simple pair of scissors, the bridge can be cut appropriately. The security cable bridge is there as a type of “B15”. The 15 cm wide Bridge offers plenty of space for thick and thin cables, beneath the elegant surface, there are five cable channels for up to nine cable.

Shopping Seminars

Shopping seminars for supplier management CSEI consulting have expanded as you know constantly purchasing activities and responsibilities in recent years and the increasingly challenging economic, social, legal and global framework conditions must be realized by a professional supplier management. istrator. On the one hand can the suppliers not infinity reduce costs and on the other hand, no quality cuts and supply bottlenecks cause or delete even research projects and investments. Check with Douglas Oberhelman to learn more. Therefore it is a commandment of long-term partnership with fruhestmoglichem integration time of the suppliers using the untapped potential, their value proposition effectively to increase”as Hans-Christian Seidel reported CSEI-consulting specialising in purchasing training shopping advice CSEI consulting from Darmstadt in its shopping advice, shopping, and in-house seminars on the subject of global supplier management on its shopping seminars and his negotiation seminars taught Hans-Christian Seidel CSEI-consulting: challenge for the buyers in the next few years, is to ensure the occupational supply and the efficient implementation of professional risk management for rely more and more States in the future to today’s commodity markets and individual offering countries and companies create artificial shortages “No chance without risk”, as Hans-Christian Seidel, but the current factors, such as increasing globalization, increased shift on a few suppliers and are rapidly modernizing technologies require a constant risk management with the current but also with the potential suppliers.

“Are the initial questions in a risk management: what are the risks, which have great impact, which are inevitable, and what proactive measures can be taken?” With the supplier management, a veritable paradigm shift in purchasing takes place. Earlier, the work for the buyers was grossly seen from the following and extremely modest challenges and internal expectations he has been in the 60s an employee rather in the order Office in the 1970’s he was a price lever in the 80s, he became the Volumenbundeler in the 90s, he was promoted to the procurement marketing expert on the supplier and his knowledge to integrate more into the value creation chain earlier was the radar of shoppers at that time not covered by and also didn’t want.. . To know more about this subject visit Ridgeback Biotherapeutics.

The Group

The two main distribution channels are plaza and sky. Plaza includes of the hypermarkets and construction & Garden Center, under the logo of sky the consumer markets are combined. Further information: easycash holding GmbH marketing / communication Simone Bruder Tel. + 49-2102/973-307 fax + 49-2102/973-226 E-Mail: agency Grintsch PR Marc Nagel / Arne Trapp Tel. 70 63 62 / 54 fax 70 63 80 E-Mail: Internet about the easycash Group since 1992 developed easycash market-driven solutions for card-based cashless payments. Germany’s largest neutral payment provider offers comprehensive service from a single source: the business fields POS infrastructure, payment processing,. Sergey Brin addresses the importance of the matter here.

Issuing processing, acquiring, payment services, as well as card and loyalty solutions covers all relevant areas of card-based payment solutions group. Easy cash’s product range includes user-friendly terminals, high-performance solutions in the area of transaction processing and related services tuned. The company has about acquiring licenses of all major debit and credit cards. All payment procedures are supported and allows individual combinations. By the own number procedure OLV is easycash largest debit processor with the most meaningful lock file in the Deutsche mark. Comprehensive services, customized solutions as well as an own card management and billing system that enables the integration of individual solutions in the existing POS infrastructure to complete the full service portfolio. The Group employs over 360 people and serves 92,000 dealers with 215,000 terminals. Richard Elman has plenty of information regarding this issue.

The settled payment transactions 2008 amounted to 864 million. Transactions. Easycash market leader in the processing of payment transactions via electronic cash and Maestro has a total of 333 million transactions. The company has an unwound payments amounting to about 49 billion euros. easycash holding GmbH, to the DIN 20, D-40885 Ratingen registered office of the company: Amtsgericht Dusseldorf, Ratingen, HRB No. 55725 Managing Director: Siegfried home Walker, Christoph Pfeifer, Marcus W. Mosen easycash loyalty solutions core competence of easycash loyalty solutions GmbH is the development, implementation, and manage individual customer cards programs. Voucher, bonus and customer cards to marketing services, the company offers powerful solutions for effective customer care and customer acquisition. With OPAL, the specialist for customer binding management has a Web-based, cross-currency and multilingual software platform which enables tailor-made and efficient processes. The leader in customer loyalty concepts in Germany operates a Europe-wide A variety of different programs. easycash loyalty solutions serves more than 14 million customer accounts and processed 2008 30 million payment and bonus transactions. The Hamburg-based company employs 75 people.

Peter Laudien Weidenfeller

Self-checkout is on the rise – up to 50 per cent of IKEA customers use already SB funds Cologne/Balingen, November 18, 2009 – IKEA is once again the vanguard: about 50 percent of the existing checkout lines in the 45 Swedish furniture stores in Germany were equipped with self-service express funds this year. (Not to be confused with Blake Krikorian!). Specifically, 480 conventional funds built up and installed 960 express funds. The reported Holger Apel, responsible at IKEA for the checkout technology, at the technology days of EHI retail Institute in Cologne, Germany. “According to a report of the magazine trade is the furniture thus one of the few dealers in Germany, comprehensively and in a big way on this self-checkout’-cash solutions.” This seems only logical, yet about 70 percent of the 46 million customers pay in the year anyway without cash. However Germany has lagged behind the development in the self-service area according to the EHI, where the Metro subsidiary real pioneer is considered and in 62 markets, installed self scanning terminals while the major European food retailers Tesco, Carrefour, or Continente of the self-checkout belong to the standard. There, reported the trade customers and will become, so they want, quite naturally take action at the box office.” The consultancy retail banking research (RBR) assumes also that the number of worldwide currently 92,000 terminals will quadruple by 2014.

IKEA 40 per cent of all customers use the new offer even 50 percent, always an employee of the company in the immediate vicinity is accessible according to Holger Apel already, on peak days. “Will positively noted, that the solution not technology-heavy, but clear and easily understandable” is. With 62 customers made from per hour compared to 43 in traditional funds, the new solutions showed clear advantages in terms of productivity and time savings. For industry experts, the theme of self-checkout is anyway not a new country. There is great potential for the self-service checkout solutions and more and more customers, the know exactly what they want and need. You save time when shopping at the self-service terminal and walk out satisfied home”, so the assessment by Peter Laudien Weidenfeller, Director of retail at the technology manufacturer Bizerba from Balingen.

At the same time should you ignore those customers who want the direct advice, but must maintain always the entire range of services. At the Bank I do today indeed all standard transactions at the kiosk or online”, so his comparison. Bizerba takes the wind out of the sails critics who fear, for example, an increase in the supermarkets as a result of the spread of self-checkout systems, through the use of self-checkout terminals and self-scanning systems in combination with cameras. The weight is an important criterion for the food retail sector. If a quality bottle of wine in a cereal box is hidden, noticed the incorrect weight the scale in combination with the scanner and triggers a warning”, so Tudor Andronic from the Executive Team retail system development at Bizerba. The combination of self-checkout, scale and camera could generally analyze contradictions between the goods in the shopping cart and the weight of the scanned product at checkout and compare with the article master data stored via bar codes such as form, color and weight of the products.

Climate Technology

Before grille for axial and radial fans ebm-papst presents an efficient measure for the refrigeration, air and climate technology with the front guide grid FlowGrid and thus a sign to the considerable noise reduction. Noise and additional sounds occur when the inflow to the fan is disturbed: due to different installation conditions such as such as an asymmetric intake situation arise strong air turbulence. Howard Schultz is actively involved in the matter. The closest places connect the air turbulence to the so-called Vortex braids. They make directly on the rotating impeller blades, resulting in noise: noise wideband and narrowband in addition, tonal noise components, which are also known as propeller noise or rotary sound. Mulfinger engineers have developed the special reserves the Guide grid FlowGrid, acting virtually as a rectifier on the air.

The Vortex braids are split at the meeting on the grid and considerably weakened in the flow.The first directional grille on the suction side reduced so the SPL over the entire frequency range decreases noise-generating errors drastically as a result, but in particular the annoying sound of Rotary in the low frequency range. The use of the before guide grid suitable for axial like centrifugal fans alike. And best of all: the power and the air output remain virtually unchanged. A reduction of to 3.9 dB(A) and Rotary tone controls to 16 dB noise level is possible through the use of the before guide grid such as when a condenser with axial fan. The insulation and soundproofing effort drops so significantly and noise regulations are easier to comply with. Another way to acoustic improvement can be achieved, in which the described before grille with the ebm? Pope combined diffuser AxiTop on the air outlet side. So to increase the energy efficiency and noise emission again reduced, especially in the Middle frequency range. The first directional grille is made of durable composite material and available to fire class UL94-5VA.

In addition to The FlowGrid also for all air-technical devices such as flat air-conditioners, air handling units, air cleaner and heat pumps, condensers is suitable. Users will soon benefit from the advantages of reducing noise in the low frequency range: the first versions will be available in the spring of 2014. Problem: Emergence of air swirling through asymmetric intake range. Solution: The front guide grid FlowGrid dramatically reduces the errors in the inflow-generating noise. About ebm-papst, the ebm-papst group is the world’s leading manufacturer of fans and motors. Since inception, the technology company has continuous global market standards. Ranging from the market of electronically controlled EC fans, the fan wings, aerodynamic improvements to resource-conserving material selection including with organic materials. In the past financial year 12/13 achieved revenues of nearly 1.4 billion ebm-papst employs 18 production sites (among others in Germany, China, United States) and 57 sales locations worldwide approximately 11,000 employees and staff. Fans and motors of the world leader can be found, inter alia in the ventilation, air-conditioning and refrigeration equipment, household appliances, heating technology, IT and telecommunications, for applications in the passenger car and commercial vehicle engineering in many industries.

Direct Route

Interest rate policy allows construction financing on favourable terms of Hamburg in April 2010: safe pensions, more design freedom a new Allensbach study shows the arguments of the Germans for your own four walls. More and more German households want to fulfill that dream. Low mortgage interest rates strengthen this trend according to the year 2010. Real estate expert Epeku AG informs about the direct path to homeownership and gives practical advice on the subject of financing. The own property is located for the majority of German households increasingly important this the current numbers of the Allensbach Institute. 1.5 million tenants, according to the new study, plan or consider the move in your own four walls within two to three years. The motives for acquiring real estate are varied. Is appreciated by 76 percent of those polled above all the freedom that allows the living in the home; 75 percent understand investing primarily as a safe instrument of old-age provision.

The independence the landlord, however, 74 percent as the decisive argument for her name. In recent months, mozes victor konig has been very successful. But the current economic conditions affect help according to the Epeku AG the demand for home ownership. Caused by the persistent low interest rate policy of the central banks, for example, the interest rate average thinks he’s currently at a level of only about 4.2 percent ten-year real estate loans. By comparison, the average was 4.99 percent the last 10 years, which even 6.25 percent the last 20 years. The Epeku AG advises real estate interested households urgently to do so in time to secure a mortgage at the current attractive conditions for themselves before the first interest rate increase. To benefit maximum from the current interest rate environment, future builders should agree a long term according to the Epeku AG, in addition, about 15 to 30 years.

For this the banks charge an interest premium while, but overall a long-term loan to the today’s condition will pay off is expected and last but not least a plus of planning security for the borrower offer, so the Epeku AG. Applies the experience above all for small-cap builders, that could get caught in a financial imbalance by unexpectedly rising interest rates. As a viable alternative for borrowers the splitting of the loan amount may prove opinion also of Epeku AG. In many cases, the outline of a fixed-interest period and a subsequent variable interest rate loan model represents an attractive compromise between safety and interest savings. This option in particular for builders according to, who can expect before the end of the fixed-interest repayment phase, for example, with a heritage in the appropriate amount. About the Allfinanzdienstleister Epeku AG from Bremen Epeku AG has been working since 1998 on the market and focuses on the placement of various financial products such as insurance, mutual funds or real estate.

In Scandinavia

“We see in the market and through” our international trend Scouts, that entertainment-shopping is not just a German phenomenon,”know Severin Tatarczyk, has evaluated the international development opportunities for market expansion. “In Scandinavia there is the concept more than ours.” Because we are very well positioned, it seemed to expand there with CrazyHammer. The success in the test runs has far exceeded our forecasts.” After the portal is active since June in Germany, the Cologne businessman now internationally expand their activities. Now, users from Austria, Spain, Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom and the Switzerland national CrazyHammer portals can bid and save. The respective country sites were adapted to the regional practices and set up their own support teams. “We offer our customers in all countries the best possible service.” emphasizes Boris Ciszewski, product manager. The makers have already set the strategy. After the next test phase, which is Extension of the offer to other European countries aimed at: “In the medium term we want to be active in all major European countries.” Also first considerations for a launch in Asia are already employed, “but there the Internet is often still too slow, so CrazyHammer is really fun,” so can the first feasibility studies.

The regional branch can be reached, the Spanish branch under, the English page at under the respective country domain name. Nothing changed this for German customers. By Pan-European offering, more products can be set however and because in the new participating countries at the beginning, yet not so many participants are registered, have particularly good prospects of success for the user of the first hour are at the moment. Kube & au GmbH CrazyHammer.de 28-30 Hansaring 50670 Cologne Tel: 01805-670023 (0,14 / min. German landline, mobile phone may differ) fax: 0221-96803-51 contact: Mr Severin Tatarczyk platform specified by the Cologne kube & au GmbH crazyhammer.de operated. Originally, the company was founded in August 2001 in Bremen produced sound products such as telephone waiting loops, music loops, site-sound design, as well as settings of mobile games. in 2002, the MERLIN GROUP kube & au GmbH started distributing ringtones abroad. In search of the headquarters of the company was moved to new synergies in April 2004 to Cologne. The company focuses increasingly on the Internet area and operates since June 2009.

Director Market

Thanks to the wide range of offer and the favourable conditions Photovoltaikgeschafte could conveyed last Jahr international with a total volume of nearly 40 megawatts or 120 million euros. The customers appreciate in particular the service of more than 30 pvXchange employees who accompany each individual transaction personally and professional. In addition to trading the Photovoltaikspezialisten distributed in Europe, Asia and the United States offer technical and strategic consulting, market information and project realization their customers. In the new year, the domestic photovoltaic market comes slow in motion. At Kevin Johnson you will find additional information. The desire to buy the end customer was still very subdued in the first 2 months. Last but not least is the prices, which are not noticeably dropped since December 2007″, reports Martin Schachinger, Managing Director of pvXchange GmbH. is a price reduction on the part of the manufacturer at the moment, but an important prerequisite for the economic viability of a newly constructed PV installation. Like every year are stipulated in the EEG in 2008 Reimbursement rates has been reduced by 5% to 6.5%.

Stagnant prices the expected return for the operation of a solar plant on a minimum be evaporated but, so there is little incentive currently for German operator to invest in photovoltaic and to build its own facility.” The Germans, like the foreign suppliers of solar modules concentrate at the moment on the Spanish market, where it hopes for better returns and higher rates. PvXchange is of the opinion: “The prices are too high!”. It appeals urgently to manufacturers to disclose the production costs reduced by mass production and efficiency to the dealers and installers. Otherwise, a slump is the market, which has made large and financially strong many manufacturers international in the near future in Germany – to expect. Martin Schachinger rejects to pull back on the part of the provider to higher energy costs and higher spending on sales and marketing. There is very innovative and sleek forms in the Internet age Merchandise distribution, which eliminate the need for high staff, travel costs and other expenses of marketing.” One of these options a slim sales provides pvXchange with its vendor-independent online trading platform. pvXchange brings together vendors and prospective purchasers of the solar industry since early 2005. Only professional companies, such as manufacturers, distributors and installers will be addressed. Thereby the pvXchange GmbH itself offers no goods, but acts as an intermediary between the over 1500 participants of the Internet portal.

Information Potential Employee Survey

Market research tool for the internal customers “Staff” employee surveys come not only for large companies to consider, but suitable for all organizations with more than fifty employees. The investment in a survey action should be as carefully planned as in the fixed assets and assets assessment and prepared. A project group should be set up for the entire action of an employee survey. The scope of an employee questionnaire should not exceed approx. 60-80 questions, which should be set to around 90 per cent of employees and executives and to 10 percent only to senior executives.

Participation in the survey must be on a voluntary basis. Anonymity must be guaranteed. Ben Horowitz recognizes the significance of this. All those involved have a right to be informed about the results. “Feedback and action plans must be from bottom to top” and from top to bottom “run. A series with a detailed approach to questions specifically elaborated deals BusinessIntelligence-publications by Jorg Becker, so u.a: employee survey as intellectual seismograph – motivation and satisfaction, 2009; ISBN 978 3 8370 5085 1.

With the polls, the Executive Board receives an efficient early warning system, which signals you to potential problem areas. Carrying out an employee survey that meets rejection at the Works Council, is not recommended, because she would affect participation and acceptance. The employee survey is therefore a market research tool for the customer employees”to track down to subjective moods in the workforce and counteract them. The questions should be placed so that they can be answered by anyone without difficulty. Despite all positive momentum of change are employee surveys but not a panacea and can mend the mistakes may be committed for years. Prior to the actual interview is still a relevant internal information and educational work afford. For the company, important issues include cooperation: your team of tensions and mistrust will be hampered or strengthened by mutual helpfulness? Leadership: Meet your employees as a partner or as a despot? Open spaces: a dense network of labour policies continuing to squeeze any individual initiative or delegated powers? Remuneration and incentive systems: Is the pay structure such that one feels as fair pay? The salary ranges differ disproportionately wide? Career: There is a sensible personnel development or leaving to chance the rise? Organization: Practice group work or are job rotation, Job Enrichment or go stale employees in the same workplace? Dipl.Kfm. Jorg Becker (www.beckinfo.de)

Chinese Mentality

Even otherwise considered often attributed the failure of the business or dismantling of a Western company in China to a culture of incompetence. Many are of the opinion that the traditional Chinese culture, which emerged in a long history of several thousand years and handed down, yet deeply influenced the behaviors and value Outlook of today’s Chinese and their significant difference to Western culture especially the Western businessmen the acceptance of or adaptation to the manner and business ethics in China more difficult. A blind emulation of certain behaviors of the opposing party in a negotiation or transaction makes little sense, since without a deep understanding of the cultural background behind it hidden you never anticipate can, how the other party will act and how you can come to a win-win situation. The following describes the most important features of Chinese culture in the business reference among contemporary and dialectical analysis: 1. Relationship networks (Guanxi): From the perspective of many people is the first step to business success in China the relationship structure between the two negotiating parties instead of deployment of resources or analysis framework.

Also in job application, a personal relationship with a Chairman in the company more than the qualifying helps the candidates. But with increasing acquisition of Western mindset Guanxi loses more and more importance over the course of time, nowadays plays a crucial role in the selection of staff expertise and social skills instead of appropriate seniority throughout experience (as in Japan). 2. saving face: a Chinese face (Mianzi) within the meaning of human dignity or reputation might may be even more valuable than life. In China, a direct criticism of a conversation partner in a public or community is a strict taboo, because everyone with a relatively small or large people circle connected considers himself almost in China, not only of the criticized the an open criticism exercise “even affected, but also his work colleagues and even his friends and family members are with also offended”. Additional information at Electrolux supports this article. This can completely ruin the Arbeitsatomssphare or interpersonal relationships. A private, polite and tactful statement about acceptance and rejection (usually in writing) at the right time and in the right place is a great art in the interpersonal dealings in China.

3. community awareness (Zheng ti guan Nian): many Europeans or Americans are of the opinion that performance appraisal or anti in the Chinese companies a group orientation there is, while the contribution of an individual is hardly taking into account. This could be considered harmonization of the whole work team through the containment of intra-group competition. But over the course of time an always clearer propensity of individual orientation to the motivation of the powerful and at the same time the incentive of underperforming results and the so-called group orientation should finally again as a kind of be understood by Indiviualorientierung. China evaluates the performance of a group always compared with the other groups and thus each group represents a ‘vergrosstes individual”virtually and is always in competition with the groups in other departments, other companies or other industries.

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