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  • Analysis and Features

    Blueheath: is it waving or drowning?

    2006-06-24T00:00:00Z

    The devil was in the detail of online wholesaler Blueheath's recent annual results statement. Geoff Igharo and Julian Hunt report Casual readers of the upbeat annual results statement issued a couple of weeks ago by online wholesaler...

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    friends or foes?

    2006-06-10T00:00:00Z

    When 10 new member states joined the European Union in May 2004, it was hailed as a golden opportunity for UK businesses. Jim Dougal, head of the European Commission in the UK, said at the time that the creation of a single market of 455 million...

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    What do these fourhave in common ?

    2006-06-10T00:00:00Z

    What do furniture and cars have to do with efficient consumer response? Good question and one that the most lateral-thinking ECR Europe conference to date gamely attempted to answer in Stockholm last week. Smoke machines, flashy graphics...

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    the golden state of things to come

    2006-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Scattered around the Californian state capital Sacramento are photo­graphs of governor Arnold Schwarzenegger - not in typical electoral pose, but sitting astride a Harley Davidson, leather clad and complete with dark sunglasses. For some...

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    Welcome to the blogosphere

    2006-06-10T00:00:00Z

    A couple of years ago hardly anybody seemed to know what a blog was. Now they are rife: the internet is awash with the personal opinions, sometimes controversial and often mundane, of bloggers. The interactive nature of the online medium means...