Corporate Articles

Business » Corporate | By Peter Bennett @ Saturday, 7th June 2008 @ 10:28 PM

Welcome to this short article. In it we cover three areas of our industry which can cause confusion and lead to customers paying over the odds for translation services. We share tips on what to look out for and present countermeasures you can deploy to protect yourself against costly mistakes. \"Campaign for Fair Translation Pricing\" is a new initiative which we hope will help promote fairness and transparency across the industry. It is not intended to be a sales ... more...

Business » Corporate | By Nir Dotan @ Monday, 2nd June 2008 @ 1:30 PM

Recently my company experienced tremendous growth. We are now servicing customers in our entire state and just received several large contracts in a neighboring state. With this exponential growth I have decided to expand and establish an office in this new territory. I began researching corporate relocation. I wanted this to run as smoothly as possible and minimize my costs to maintain my profit margin. Establishing a new office in another state takes time and organization. The first st... more...

Business » Corporate | By Nir Dotan @ Thursday, 29th May 2008 @ 5:44 PM

Moving is a hectic time with so many things to plan, so many things to handle and so much work that you feel like you are ready to blow. And this is just a domestic relocation. If you are relocating internationally, there are just so many other things to take care of, the major being your paper work. It is a herculean task to make the move successful and seamless. International relocation takes a lot more than you can handle alone. Not only do you need to plan all sorts of things, you al... more...

Business » Corporate | By Victor Epand @ Thursday, 29th May 2008 @ 10:52 AM

Perhaps you have been given the task at work of booking a hotel reservation either for yourself individually for a business trip or for a group of colleagues to get together for a meeting. If so, there are a number of specific points to bear in mind before making such a reservation. First of all, it is unlikely that it will be suitable to go purely for the cheapest hotel, so be prepared to go for a little more in order to ensure that the people who are there to work can do so in comfort, ... more...

Business » Corporate | By Paul Fitzgerald @ Monday, 26th May 2008 @ 6:06 PM

Although consistent efforts have been under way to bring minorities in the US to the mainstream social structure, lack of practical endeavor still marks the tragic absence of African-American entrepreneurs from the business arena. Although bids are consistently invited from black-owned enterprises (a step towards achieving racial fairness), African-Americans, who account for nearly 13.4% of the entire US populace, hardly own 5% American businesses, accounting for less than 0.5% of the total busi... more...

Business » Corporate | By Art Gib @ Wednesday, 21st May 2008 @ 2:42 PM

As the largest city in Maryland, Baltimore may seem like a great place to host large corporate events, but only if you have a local facilitator showing you the ropes and taking care of logistics. After all, big cities have often been compared to jungles and you don\'t want attendees to feel like they got lost in the wild during the conference. There may be a lot to do in the city, but without a little help, finding the entertainment and getting there can be stressful enough to take the fun... more...

Business » Corporate | By Nir Dotan @ Monday, 19th May 2008 @ 2:34 AM

Successful businesses will generally start out small and grow as their revenue stream increases. This financial growth leads to a need for expansion into a larger space and sometimes a corporate relocation to another town, city, state or country. When the time comes to make a move like this there are a number of factors to consider. The first factor of course should be your employees. They are the reason why you are where you are and it\'s important to reward their efforts and loyal... more...

Business » Corporate | By Mark Warner @ Friday, 9th May 2008 @ 5:54 AM

A joint venture agreement is a legal agreement detailing a joint venture. A joint venture is a partnership that is generally created to carry out a specific business project or transaction. Usually a joint venture is undertaken for a limited period of time. Typically, a joint venture will last for five to seven years. For a joint venture, two or more companies will agree to share the risks, rewards, capital, human resources, and technology while forming a new company under mutual cont... more...

Business » Corporate | By Mark Warner @ Monday, 28th April 2008 @ 2:54 AM

A power purchase agreement can be used to create a contract for the purchase of actual \"power\" as in energy. These kinds of power purchase agreements are also sometimes known as energy service agreements. If you are considering drafting this type of power purchase agreement, then there are a number of factors that you should consider. The deregulation of the power industry has led to a shift from one way of providing power to another. This may soon lead to a totally deregulate... more...

Business » Corporate | By Shaun Parker @ Thursday, 24th April 2008 @ 11:04 AM

This varies enormously and depends on what you are trying to achieve, the demographics of your group and what budget you are playing with. We hosted a poll in the office and there were two events that came out top in the favourite summer team building events. In first place is a School Sports Day a firm favourite and one that everyone loves! This gets your team out of the office, into the fresh air and having bucket loads of fun team building at its covert best! British Airways wanted to... more...