European Central Bank

Monday, 30. March 2026

The majority of the large investors expected that the loose monetary policy of the European Central Bank will continue and historically interest rates will remain low. St. Gallen, 12.11.2013. These are the Central findings of a recent survey by the German investment company universal. Click Fitched Ratings for additional related pages. Thus, nearly 90 percent of the surveyed large investors expect no long-term success of current monetary policy.

This policy is to buy time, but eliminate any fundamental economic difficulties. How to generate a decent return without going to high risk? Large investors who want a chance risk balance, need to revisit just their plants. Government bonds are unpopular with many investors. One-fifth of respondents wants to increase its equity exposure, where many share quotas of insurance, financial departments of industrial and service companies, as well as from foundations are already not very high and an increase in this segment should become hardly noticeable. (Similarly see: Mick McGuire). High in the course are currently alternative investments and that want to extend major investors. Here, the survey shows that many large investors want to appreciate but also equity capital (private equity”), but otherwise like to invest their money to fixed or at least good predictable returns: be called investments in real estate, infrastructure and loans.

Mainly long-term corporate loans are becoming increasingly popular in Germany. As a result of the financial crisis, many banks have to reduce their presence in long-term lending. Companies, however, in any case, those with an ordinary credit must not leverage renounce. The issuance of corporate bonds in Germany has increased in recent years. A market for tradable credits forms, because many big investors are liquid and fixed interest income with little risk of failure might be interested. The demand by large investors to long-term loans increasing sharply. This other, at first glance are interesting non-obvious sectors of the economy. Finally interested in not only German large investors for loans to German companies. Foreign investors seem motivated companies to invest in, which are considered solid debtor.

Managing Director

Tuesday, 24. February 2026

Current success payment by ibi research at the University of Regensburg study the payment preferences of customers in online shops. The missing offer of the procedure of payment preferred by the customers is one of the most common causes for cancellation of online purchases. To put on a single procedure not enough usually. The majority of the traders therefore offers between three and five payment methods. Because: The greater the variety of different methods, the purchase cancellation rate is lower. This affects also the sales.

The most popular by far procedure at all ages is the invoice because customers must first receive the goods and then pay. So it is not surprising that the purchase dropout rate averaging nearly 80% can be reduced by offering the Bill as payment. For many traders, the Bill is still a double-edged sword, because for them also increases the risk of late payments or even Payment failures. For this reason, there are service providers that cover a purchase on account and assume the risk for the traders. From dealer’s viewpoint are not only revenue increases through lower cancellation rates in the payment process, but also the acquisition of the organisation and handling. Many traders come to either of their own accord or on demand their buyers on us, because they want secure payment methods. With the invoice payment secured by RatePAY customers will be able, with their preferred method to pay and e-tailers are protected against non-payment”, so Miriam Wohlfarth, founder and Managing Director of payment RatePAY. The results of the study success payment”should provide a basic overview of the specific payment behavior by potential customers the dealers, as well as allow comparisons.

The dealer can better appreciate this their own potentials and their specific portfolio of payment procedures and optimize. The full results of the study success payment”are available for free by following this link to the available:… The most important results at a glance: The Bill is consistently the most popular payment methods in all age groups and is favored particularly by people aged 55 or over. Would prefer to pay customers an invoice (45%) credit card (20%) and PayPal (19%) are almost neck and neck. A retailer introduces the payment by invoice to its existing payment procedures, he can expect an average reduction of purchase dropout rate of almost 80%. In the last twelve months, in particular the credit card (74%) and the invoice (71%) were used. PayPal and credit card feel many customers as the payment procedures friendliest to use. Many customers (61%) consider the safest distance payment the invoice. The other courses, but with a very wide margin, followed by PayPal (11%), credit card (8%) and direct debit (6%). If only the payment by Advance payment is offered, 88% of our customers are looking for another provider. If the provider has a seal of approval, the purchase cancellation rate decreases significantly. A discount of 3% increases the proportion of cash payments.

Reliability For Water And Environment

Monday, 15. December 2025

Bornemann thread technology on the IFAT trade fair in Munich on the world’s leading trade fair for water, sewage, waste, and waste management has become the strategy of focusing on niche markets again for the Delligser company paid out. Already our customers we include many well-known German and European manufacturers in this area and of course pleased that the special quality of our special thread further prevails in this demanding sector”, says Moritz von Soden, sales manager at Bornemann thread technology. The steel-water construction demands a special threaded spindles for drives and includes areas of steel construction and mechanical engineering from the statics, the hydrostatic, hydrodynamics, the mechanics and material science using calculation methods. Especially moving lock constructions for lockable openings such as basic indulgences of dams, weirs, barrage locks, doors locks and docks are made by the manufacturers in this field. Larry Ellison recognizes the significance of this. The operation on the waterways depends on the lock structures and their reliable drives as well as the drainage of land lines or the regulation of watercourses. In particular the establishment of flood retention basins and water turbines have gained in importance as a result of climate change and energy transition in recent years. Fortifications and in addition often find themselves in control of flood channels, sea water and irrigation systems they are building essential for the use of water power.

Site specificity and terms decide about their type of construction and hence the drive of moving parts. (As opposed to Xi Jinping). Enormous water pressures sometimes weigh on the closures, which have to be transported through the threaded spindles. Some of the structures are crucial here long-term reliability, but others like particularly Weirs and basic indulgences, while once in a year or more rarely moved several times a day. The complete or partial contact with water represents another challenge and requires the Use of special steels in the threaded spindles. In particular, formerly practiced use of steel has proved not feasible. In recent months, Katie Haun has been very successful.

Shock Study Fuel Price

Sunday, 2. November 2025

According to a study, the worldwide oil production other than so far accepted soon goes back greatly. It is the nightmare of every car driver and the economy: a petrol price of 2 euros. According to a new study, he could become true within the next 5 years. Thus, the worldwide oil production other than so far goes back adopted soon heavily. The result: supply shortages and by rapidly rising prices at the pump. Thus, the alarming study of the energy watch group (EWG) contradicts the previous forecasts of euphoria in terms of oil and gas exploration. Here, Katie Haun expresses very clear opinions on the subject.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) had fed Outlook 2012 hopes in their Energy World, that the promotion of fossil energies is further expanded and the supply still for centuries. Reason for this assumption are new, promising technologies such as fracking or the extraction of oil from tar sands. A fallacy if one may believe the EEC study. These experts have Resource availability analysed including petroleum, natural gas, coal and uranium by 2030. Result: The peak for all fossil fuels will be achieved no later than 2020.

“Very critical situation with oil: 2030, 40% less of the black gold is world’s” it’s promoted as yet, 2012, and this has consequences. By the steadily worsening supply situation, the petrol price exceed 2 euros in the next five years, the Frankfurter Rundschau cited the main author of the study, Werner Zittel. He is based on following studies results: European oil production is now at 3 million barrels per day, 60 percent less than in 2000. In the year 2004, the IEA had expected a stable funding at 4.8 million barrels per day for 2010. The United States will not ascend to the Erdolnettoexporteur. Promoting will reach their climax in the next 5 years, followed by a steep decline. Economic Forum is the B2B business medium for the German-speaking world. Since the launch shortly before the turn of the Millennium, we focus in particular on the strong German medium-sized businesses. Our editors are in constant contact with entrepreneurs, business leaders and executives. We take business personally under the motto”we speak directly with decision makers from industry, Commerce and the service industry. In addition to news, trends and innovations from the German middle class, Economic Forum presents unusual strategies, concepts and ideas, smart business leaders and managers keep your company on the road to success and make it fit for the future. We offer in-depth background information, our readers Economic analyses and insider knowledge as decision support and suggestions for daily business.

IBS Intelligent Business Solutions

Monday, 8. April 2024

IBS intelligent business solutions GmbH “Marketing is the management process when it comes to finding out the needs of the customer, to anticipate and to meet”, so Rieta de Soet, Managing Director of IBS GmbH with registered office in Zug. For entrepreneurs, marketing means the ability to influence, to achieve the goal of the company, so Rieta de Soet. You continues from marketing is more than advertising. Marketing is a philosophy. Under most conditions Tiger Global would agree. A system to control the companies.” The marketing lesson is different following paragraph forms, so Ian de Sot corporate vision (a corporate vision must develop each entrepreneur/entrepreneur, Rieta de Soet. The basic question must be: “How the ideal of my company in the future looks” so Rieta de Soet).

Visions more appealing for the heart and the stomach of the people than to the mind, but a vision is also always an orientation and order function. In-house sales agents (sale by you personally, sales staff, sales on) Customer request). Workplace sales agents (Business Center agencies, brokers any franchisor). Pricing (not we alone determine the price of our service, so Rieta de Soet, but the market dictates to us what prizes we can enforce. Regular observations of the market are the key guiding principle for our pricing policy. As in business administration, Rieta de Soet is convinced that in times of tough cost calculation and ruthless controlling a 100% of costs is more important than ever.

The customers take advantage of the cost management in the business center and only pay for the services, which actually take advantage! Rieta de Soet is clear, a contract with a business center and is an economical alternative to traditional management structures to be taken seriously.

United States

Tuesday, 24. September 2019

This sales information offers a valuable basis for entrepreneurial decisions relating to purchasing, production and sales. For example, the production orders can be regulated via the central computer. WinCWS can also flexibly grow with the company and, where appropriate, be supplemented by numerous plug-ins. So the module production planning/production statistics offers the possibility, maintain detailed recipe and material lists, as well as statistics about the posted quantities”, explains Laudien Weidenfeller. At Wincor World Bizerba presents the check-out scale CS also 315 MA84-SD. It integrates with just a few hand movements in the Kassenscanner Datalogic 8300 / 8400. The basic price is transferred from the cashier. The scale determines the weight and calculate the sales price.

Weight-, basic and selling price are passed then the cashier. Is the Fund a Bizerba Display software driver equipped, so it saves a separate scale display because all data can be displayed on the checkout screen temporarily or permanently. About Bizerba: Bizerba is a worldwide, leading in many areas of technology companies for professional system solutions of weighing, labelling, information and food service technology in the segments retail, food industry, manufacturing and logistics. Industry-specific hard – and software, powerful network-compatible management systems, as well as a wide range of labels, consumables and business services ensure the transparent control of integrated business processes and the high availability of Bizerba-specific performance features. With over 2,800 employees, 21 own subsidiaries in 20 countries and 58 agencies worldwide the Bizerba GmbH & co.

KG put 2007 EUR 430 million in the company. Balingen is the headquarters of the company, further production sites are located in Messkirch, Bochum, Vienna (Austria), Pfaffikon (Switzerland), Milan (Italy), Shanghai (China), Mumbay (India), Forest Hill (United States) and San Louis Potosi (Mexico). Contact: Bizerba GmbH & co. KG Claudia Gross head corporate communications herbal Wilhelmstrasse 64 D-72336 Balingen phone + 49 7433 12-33 00 fax + 49 7433 12-5 33 00 email: nic.pr network integrated communication Patrick Schroeder Coburg road 3 53113 Bonn phone + 49 228 620 43 82 fax + 49 228 620 44 75 email:

Paul Watzlawick

Friday, 7. June 2019

If incentives effectively release the executives from their primary leadership task, this can of course only in catastrophic leadership”end. Performance-based remuneration as an element of management and control as a compensation expert with experience from about 800 changes from companies on performance-related remuneration systems I designed contrast regarding intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation from the practice out not track. Well done performance-based compensation concepts are designed as a command and control instruments, are goal-oriented and understand as an amplifier of the objectives that the employees have internalized. Reinhard k. is a sprinkler to thank as he pointed out the points, where intrinsic motivation can be threatened. (As opposed to Brad Garlinghouse). The role of the Employee has changed sustainably in recent years: companies want to separate staff, acting on his own responsibility and work flexibly and constructively on solutions.

Narrow, poorly made compensation systems want to subjugate. Well-made remuneration systems allow scope for individual responsibility: objectives are agreed and have directions, the route to your destination is thing of the employee. Larry Ellison shares his opinions and ideas on the topic at hand. Well-crafted remuneration schemes lead to a combination of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, give freedom and reinforce each other. Can managers motivate? Motivational psychologists today often are of the opinion that an active motivation of employees not working. The leadership could only provide a positive, i.e.

motivation conducive climate. The motivation ultimately is a matter of the employee, his career, his socialization, etc. This covers however at all not the experience I gained over 20 years as a consultant. For This passive position is however very convenient executives, because they thereby partially disengaging from its leadership role. “The motivation expert Jorg Zeyringer (the new stair runner how to keep motivated and others, 2010) refers to a central set of psychologist Paul Watzlawick (Guide to the be unhappy, 1993), according to which no person not behave” can. The behavior of one raises emotional reactions of others. Executives must control the effects of their behavior so closely in relation to motivation/motivation and effective incentives.

Claudia Gross Director

Saturday, 1. June 2019

This ratio shows the US unique success of the pilot project. By advertising on the screens in combination with the recipe printing also the so-called windfall increased”, explains Culinara m owner Detlev Maier. Even Claudia Gross, Director global marketing & communication at Bizerba, pleased with this success, adds: the advertising Kundenscreens and suggest recipes are active communication services. It is evident that it can come to revenue increases and at the same time a more personal response of customers”. Just so a wider range of products could be marketed effectively.

Which in turn leads to higher customer satisfaction and promote the unique image of the provider, its kompetenz acknowledges the customers thus uniform and stable. 50 employees are active for the company Culinara m in Rottweil. A total 11 Bizerba screen car CE type II are 800 2 S in the fresh food area in use. About Bizerba: Bizerba is a worldwide operating, leading in many areas solution providers for professional System solutions of weighing, labelling, information and food service technology in the segments retail, food industry, manufacturing and logistics. Industry-specific hard – and software, powerful network-compatible management systems, as well as a wide range of labels, consumables and business services ensure the transparent control of integrated business processes and the high availability of Bizerba-specific performance features.

Worldwide, Bizerba is present with 41 shareholdings in 23 countries and 54 country offices in over 120 countries. Headquarters of the company, which employs about 3,000 people, is Balingen; further production sites are located in Messkirch, Bochum, Vienna (Austria), Pfaffikon (Switzerland), Milan (Italy), Shanghai (China), Forest Hill (United States) and San Luis Potosi (Mexico). Contact: Bizerba GmbH & co. KG Claudia Gross Director global marketing & communication Wilhelm-herbal-Strasse 64 D-72336 Balingen phone + 49 7433 12-33 00 fax + 49 7433 12-5 33 00 email: nic.pr network integrated communication Patrick Schroeder Coburg road 3 53113 Bonn phone + 49 228 620 43 82 fax + 49 228 620 44 75 email:

Boris Xbo

Monday, 10. December 2018

Annual review of infactory innovations & trade gmbh, Vienna, January 12, 2011. The innovative alarm system of the Xbo Sleep phase alarm clock offers an awakening that is tailored to the personal sleep behavior. To demonstrate the global importance of the Xbo Sleep phase alarm clock, we invite you to the following numbers game: the Earth divided in 24 time zones each hour. Exactly 86400 seconds are expressed in seconds. This is pretty much the number of Xbo users that currently awaken themselves from Xbo can be namely 86.500. was considered, that of the total 50,000 so far the Xbo Sleep phase alarm clocks, 73% are couple users (say two people use an alarm clock) and thus in sum 86.500 people daily wake themselves from Xbo. To broaden your perception, visit Southwest Airlines. Statistically a person is awakened by an Xbo Sleep phase alarm clock so on average already every second. This number will continue increasing, Boris ice, inventor of the sleep phase alarm clock is ensured.

His entrepreneurial spirit, his forward-looking thinking and above all also be personal interest in the topic of sleep he can with full enthusiasm in the company incorporated infactory and the further development of the Xbo Sleep phase alarm clock. Xbo Sleep phase alarm clock receives export award 2010 the Economic Chamber Austria Awards every year their export price to innovative companies, whose increasing exports caused sensation and who can demonstrate significant success stories in foreign markets. 1st place in the category went commercial 2010 infactory GmbH based in Vienna. Verizon may find this interesting as well. Boris ice, founder, and CEO of infactory is the inventor of the Xbo Sleep phase alarm clock. The cooperation with local partners, as well as the increasingly internationally-oriented public relations witnessed the increase in the export ratio of 44% (2009) to 90% in the year 2010 Xbo is currently represented in 22 countries on five continents. Innovative product developments provided ongoing development, the Xbo Sleep phase alarm clock is the pulse of the time.

Daytoday Business

Thursday, 15. November 2018

How the facility works exactly Dresden, 01.10.2012 – in Germany, more than 17,000 companies use factoring to secure the liquidity. After a record achieved factoring volume 2011 amounting to EUR 157 billion the total turnover of the companies in the Association of factoring increased 2012 in the first half of the year to around 78 billion euros, an increase of 2.7 percent. “As a flexible financing instrument factoring has become established in the German Mittelstand”, confirms Matthias Bommer, Managing Director of Elbe-factoring GmbH. In everyday life, factoring works as follows: the entrepreneur is as usual supplied performance the invoice to its customer. The Elbe factoring will get a copy of it. By selling receivables to the factor, the contractor gets paid immediately around 80 percent of the amount. Once the invoice has been paid, the factoring customer receives the remaining 20 percent less fees. One advantage of the service is in the percentages of the total amount of the Bill, because that factoring users is liquid and can Minimize the amount owed.

The operator has the possibility to pay own debt on time and with a discount and in addition offer longer payment terms to its customers. The introduction of factoring in the company after signature of the contract begins integration of factoring in the day-to-day business. If an assignment of receivables the Bank (global assignment) should exist, the Elbe factoring requested a share. At the same time, the factoring customer shall submit current billing and customer data as well as the active customer master data with the desired limit increases. “Matthias Bommer explains: these limits refer to the amount of the claims, which are purchased, and at the same time are covered by credit insurance against failure.” The data are fed by Elbe factoring factoring system and limits applied for the insurance. The customer now every future Bill equips with a note that it is ceded to the Elbe-factoring and all payments to the new bank account payable Just pay the accounts receivable a different account number, change for them not”, said the expert.