Packard Bell
Electronics has already taken 10% of the US computer market and has
performed better, in some areas, than its two main national rivals
Compaq and Apple.
Compaq, Apple and
Packard Bell are .
2.
Nordak is currently
recruiting a senior manager who will head up the UK office of its
first foreign subsidiary.
Nordak is not of
origin.
3.
The shares of Heineken
NV reached a record level of 244.5 guilders yesterday on their home
market in Amsterdam, Holland.
Heineken NV is a
.
4.
The Societé de Bourse
Française publishes an annual guide to the 120 biggest national
companies whose shares are sold on the Paris exchange.
The Paris exchange
sells the shares of the biggest
companies.
5.
OM Personal have
received several enquiries from companies who are interested in
representing their products in Spain. However, they have no intention
of expanding into this part of Europe until 2006.
OM Personal has no
plans to enter the
market until 2006.
6.
The Ministry of
Trade and Industry in Japan has for the first time awarded
licences to six foreign firms who can now operate investments
funds on the Tokyo market.
The Tokyo market
was previously restricted to
companies.
7.
This year we have
decided not to attend the Milan trade fair in Italy as the date
coincides with a similar but more important event in Frankfurt in
Germany.
We will be attending
the
trade fair.
8.
Our main markets are
Eastern Europe and North America. However, we also do some business
with Brazil.
The
market is not one of our most important.
9.
Whenever we set
up a foreign subsidiary, we always make sure that it is managed
by someone from the country concerned. The same will be true for
our new operation in Finland.
Our new
subsidiary will have a
manager.
10.
Although
our company was originally Swedish, four years ago we
transferred all of our operations to Switzerland and re-registered
over there.
