http://www.thepmsprinciples.com Business Talk Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:33:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It has recently been reported by insurance specialist Staveley Head that the volume of insurance quotes from motor trade customers in June increased by more than 280 percent, when compared to the same month last year. This level has never been experienced before and the numbers taking up the cover rose ... http://www.thepmsprinciples.com/record-rise-in-numbers-taking-out-motor-trade-insurance-67 It seems the Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King has seen his pay increase quite substantially despite the economic downturn and the problems the UK banks have caused for the UK economy. King saw a 2.5% increase in his wages which now take him to three hundred and ... http://www.thepmsprinciples.com/banks-still-getting-pay-rises-65 Sir Leahy the UK’s most influential retailers has bagged a whooping thirteen and half million pounds due the success of supermarket giant Tesco’s in the last year. Sir Leahy was not the only person to bag money either the success of Tesco saw members of staff an average of about ... http://www.thepmsprinciples.com/tesco-sir-leahy-is-loaded-63 Struggling Kingfisher Group which houses brands like B&Q, Castorama, Brico Depot and Screwfix are hoping that the upcoming world cup competition will encourage consumers to spend. They are hoping that the world cup will take away the blues around the doom and gloom of rising taxes and bad weather. This ... http://www.thepmsprinciples.com/world-cup-and-retailers-gloom-61 The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is cutting nearly 500 jobs in the UK. Jobs are being cut in its wealth management business with most jobs being lost at Queen banker Coutts and Co. These job cut will take place over the coming three years bringing RBS job cuts figure ... http://www.thepmsprinciples.com/rbs-cutting-jobs-59 The average UK House price is now 10 per cent below the peak reached in 2007. Nationwide building society has stated that prices have risen 0.5% in the last month or so. The average cost of a home is now around one hundred and seventy thousand pounds, this is the ... http://www.thepmsprinciples.com/average-uk-house-price-57 The newly announced application from Google to take on turn by turn navigation created a quick response from the market. Gps nav companies have seen their share prices in average of 18%. The new app targeted at mobile users is certainly a good improvement to Google Map, and like a lot ... http://www.thepmsprinciples.com/google-navigation-cutting-gps-marker-shares-55 While everything seems to tell us the worst of the recession is over we are still not seeing any major improvement of consumer spending and unemployment. The situation could well set a bleak Christmas period of the likes of last year, when 14 major retailers went into administration. The Christmas period is ... http://www.thepmsprinciples.com/second-slow-christmas-in-a-row-for-uk-retailers-53 M & S, Marks and Spencers, the cloth and food retailer has found itself still with falling sales due to a struggling economy and general business errors however the decline is the smallest the company has seen in 2 years. M & S has rebranded itself numerous times to try ... http://www.thepmsprinciples.com/m-s-sales-see-smallest-decline-in-years-51 It seems another France Telecom worker has commited suicide this week meaning that 24 employees have recently taken their lives. In notes to their families and friends, the problem seems to lie with France Telecoms working environment with pressures involved that are intolerable and ultimately all too much for some. In a ... http://www.thepmsprinciples.com/france-telecom-employee-pressures-49