Walmart’s business in China has hit an unexpected bump with the sudden resignation of two senior executives at a time when it is facing increasing competition in the country.
The world’s l…
Walmart’s business in China has hit an unexpected bump with the sudden resignation of two senior executives at a time when it is facing increasing competition in the country.
The world’s l…
In a time of skills shortages, businesses are doing all they can to retain good staff. While many business owners believe employees decide to leave because they’ve been offered more money somewh…
Tesco has appointed the CEO of its Japan operations as its new group strategy director.
Michael Fleming, who was the grocer’s Japan boss for three years, started back in the UK at the beginning …
HMV, which on Friday sold bookseller Waterstone’s for GBP53 million (USD85m) , has appointed Debbie O’Shea as group IT director.
O’Shea will take up the position at the end of J…
As foreign companies increase their presence in China, some are finding that local companies’ growing success is making it harder to attract Chinese managers.…
Hong Kong’s unemployment rate picked up for the first time in nearly a year in the February-April period, on the eve of the implementation of the new statutory minimum wage in May, signalling th…
Eight Woolworths staff were fired for serious breaches of health and safety guidelines, and not for planking [Ed: planking is the practice of balancing on dangerous objects high off the ground], the A…
Thousands of Japanese workers will have something new to think about this summer – how to spend one or two days off during the week when everyone else is at work.
Japan is gearing up for a long,…
adidas has appointed Hermann Deininger as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) for the adidas brand, effective from 1 June 2011.
In this role, Hermann Deininger will be responsible for all three adidas sub-b…
Ikea, the Swedish build-it-yourself furniture chain, is preparing to stage a job open house this month to recruit at least 500 Thai employees to join its first store in Bang Na, says Wasna Nakthaworn,…