The Dallas Business Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
The commercial real estate firm Behringer Harvard announced the acquisition of seven assets in Central Europe through Wenceslas Behringer Ltd., a joint venture formed between Behringer Harvard Opportunity Reit I Inc. and the St. Wenceslas Property Fund.
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Company and Its Programs Hold Assets in 10 Countries DALLAS, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Behringer Harvard announced today that it has expanded its global presence with the acquisition of seven additional assets in Central Europe via Wenceslas Behringer Ltd., a joint venture between Behringer Harvard Opportunity REIT I, Inc. and St. Wenceslas Property Fund, which was formed in July 2008. The...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Central Europe Activ posts an update on Macedonia's name controversy.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Central Europe Activ writes about the urban development, environment and the Megyeri Bridge (aka Stephen Colbert Bridge) in Budapest.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The 8th Circle and Central Europe Activ write about domestic and international issues that Moldova is dealing with.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Central Europe Activ writes about a poll on Hungarians' attitudes towards immigrants and ethnic minorities: “The least-prejudiced Hungarians live in Southern Hungary, or, interestingly, do not have a job.”
Vidiot Speak (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
This article , (that oddly enough I found on Bartcop of all places), discusses the depression of 1873. But the economic fundamentals were shaky. Wheat exporters from Russia and Central Europe faced a new international competitor who drastically undersold them. The 19th-century version of containers manufactured in China and bound for Wal-Mart consisted of produce from farmers in the American...
The Reference Frame (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Steven Pinker and John Conway write about the pronouncation in U.S. English, with an emphasis on Sarah Palin's idiosyncrasies. Well, they may be baffled by Sarah Palin but I guess that most people in Central Europe are baffled by all Americans because the pronunciation rules in U.S. English seem completely fuzzy if not non-existent. You know, these things are particularly baffling for Czechs...
Cynical-C Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... founder period. But the economic fundamentals were shaky. Wheat exporters from Russia and Central Europe faced a new international competitor who drastically undersold them. The 19th-century version of containers manufactured in China and bound for Wal-Mart consisted of produce from farmers in the American Midwest. They used grain elevators, conveyer belts, and massive steam ships to export...
EuroInvestor.co.uk (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
... UGI Enterprises, Inc., UGI is also one of the largest retail marketers of propane in France and Central Europe. Wholly-owned UGI Utilities, Inc. is a natural gas and electric utility serving central and eastern Pennsylvania. Through UGI Enterprises, UGI markets natural gas, electricity and related products and services in the Middle Atlantic region of the United States. UGI CorporationRobert...
The Bankwatch (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
... profits vanished. More here at The Chronicle Review The Real Great Depression The crash came in Central Europe in May 1873, as it became clear that the region’s assumptions about continual economic growth were too optimistic. Europeans faced what they came to call the American Commercial Invasion. A new industrial superpower had arrived, one whose low costs threatened European trade and...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
... UGI Enterprises, Inc., UGI is also one of the largest retail marketers of propane in France and Central Europe. Wholly-owned UGI Utilities, Inc. is a natural gas and electric utility serving central and eastern Pennsylvania. Through UGI Enterprises, UGI markets natural gas, electricity and related products and services in the Middle Atlantic region of the United States. UGI CorporationRobert...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
... UGI Enterprises, Inc., UGI is also one of the largest retail marketers of propane in France and Central Europe. Wholly-owned UGI Utilities, Inc. is a natural gas and electric utility serving central and eastern Pennsylvania. Through UGI Enterprises, UGI markets natural gas, electricity and related products and services in the Middle Atlantic region of the United States.
Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
He joined Pepsi-Cola Company in 1982. After holding a variety of sales, marketing and general management positions, he was named Vice President of Retail Strategy for Pepsi-Cola North America (PCNA) in 1990. In subsequent years, Foss also served as General Manager of PCNA's Great West Business Unit, General Manager of Pepsi-Cola's Central Europe business and Senior Vice President of PBGs U.S....
ArabianBusiness.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Enterprise storage VAD Magirus has landed the rights to distribute security products from Stonesoft in the Middle East.The agreement builds on an earlier agreement between the pair, which initially covered Central Europe but has now been extended to Western Europe as well as the Middle East.Magirus will offer resellers a range of Stonesoft solutions comprising firewalls, virtual private networks...
