While tremendous growth opportunities exist in the European markets for heat recovery ventilator (HRV) and energy recovery ventilator (ERV) systems, articipants will, nevertheless, need to design new strategies to boost penetration rates. In addition, they will need to overcome the constraint of low demand in a mature market as well as a potential reduction in profit margins due to intensifying competition.
The Small Business Service (SBS), an executive agency of the Department of Trade and Industry, today published Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) Statistics for the UK 2005.
Gemalto, a leader in digital security, today announced it will supply its Setec* e-passport solution for the future Polish electronic passports. The first commercial deliveries started in July, and under the frame agreement, Gemalto will provide the Polish Printing State Agency (PWPW) with the inlays for electronic covers of the future passports to be provided to Polish citizens.
The positive sentiment among German consumers appears to have reached its peak in the late summer of this year. Consumers now consider the outlook for the economy to be rather more pessimistic than in the prior month. Expectations regarding their personal financial position are equally conservative. Only the inclination to make larger purchases in the near future remains high.
62 percent of customer relationship management (CRM) users surveyed in the UK think that the financial services sector, compared to any other, is leading best practice when it comes to client management. That is according to a survey of CRM users commissioned by CDC Software, a leading global provider of enterprise software applications.
Logitech and Skype, the global Internet communications company, today announced that they have expanded their relationship by bringing a complete solution for Internet calling dedicated to Skype(TM) users worldwide: the Logitech(R) EasyCall(TM) Desktop. The European version of the desktop combines a mouse, headset and speakerphone with a Skype-specific keyboard for the first time ever.
Gaz de France unveiled its consolidated sales for the second quarter of 2006 of 5,097 million euros, up 34% (+27% on a comparable basis) compared with the same period in 2005. The Group's sales for the first half of the year reached 15,233 million euros, up 37% (+30% on a comparable basis) for the first half of 2005.
At the request of eMarketer, online measurement companies Nielsen//NetRatings and Hitwise each produced a list of the top retail Web sites in the UK, ranked by number of visitors in June 2006. Nielsen//NetRatings also listed the top e-commerce sites in Germany and France.
The July Bloomberg Eurozone Retail Purchasing Managers' Index ("PMI(R)"), a monthly survey indicating economic conditions in the Eurozone retail sector one month ahead of government issued figures, signaled growth of retail sales in the single currency area for the fourth straight month at the start of Q3.
