Sheryl Sandberg, the company’s chief operating officer, today announced that 50,000 small businesses in the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy will have the chance to claim up to £80 of ad credits to use on Facebook.
How companies can access the offer has not yet been revealed. A spokesperson told BusinessZone.co.uk that the details will be announced during the coming weeks.
The construction industry will lose a further 45,000 jobs this year, signalling a “lost decade” for the sector, according to a report.
Manual trades will be worst hit, with 6,300 fewer painters and decorators expected to be working by 2016 than in 2010, 3,000 fewer labourers and 2,500 fewer bricklayers, CITB-ConstructionSkills said.
One area of growth will be among construction managers, with an expected increase of 30,000 in the next few years.
Construction output is set to fall by 3% this year, and growth will be “slow and uneven” in the next five years, the report said.
“Pharmica’s latest SharePoint workshop is in many ways a product of requests we’ve had from clients. They really liked the workshops we’d done in the past, and wanted more,” said Eric Lake, Partner with Pharmica Consulting. “We were thrilled to be approached by a few of our clients who wanted to use our workshop as the means to share information with one another with regards to their collaboration strategies, SharePoint applications, and best practices. The result is a longer workshop filled with even more interaction and networking than ever before. In addition, industry members determined the agenda via monthly teleconferences. It is truly a workshop for the life sciences industry.” Pharmica Consulting is the leading expert in SharePoint and collaboration within the life sciences industry. It counts mos
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Lawson Nickol, founder and president of the All American Clothing Company, doesn’t talk about business in terms of profit and loss. Instead, he measures his success as a businessman by how well he sleeps at night. And lately, he’s been sleeping really well. His online retail and manufacturing company, based in Arcanum, Ohio, is one of the only clothing companies in the country to manufacture all of its products within the United States, using exclusively American raw materials. The cotton in a pair of American Clothing Company jeans is grown in the United States. The denim is woven here as well. The buttons and zippers are made here, too. And despite the fact that American labor is significantly more expensive than foreign labor, the All American Clothing Company manufactures all of its apparel in the United States.In an age where approximately 98 percent of all clothing worn by Americans is produced overseas, Nickol’s company is a true rarity. Furth