The Global Boardroom

July 24th, 2009 LONDON and GLASGOW, Scotland - On Sunday 26th July, Unite the union, will lead thousands of people from across Scotland in a march to defend Diageo jobs and the nation's whisky heritage. The march through the centre of Kilmarnock will unite ordinary people across Scotland who are outraged by Diageo's cold-hearted dismissal of a workforce which has built their worldwide reputation as it pursues ever-greater profits.

July 19th, 2009 NEW YORK - Teliris (www.teliris.com), the leading global provider of agile telepresence and collaboration, today announced that it received a "Positive" rating in Gartner's "MarketScope for Video Telepresence Systems" by Robert Mason and Scott Morrison. In the June 2009 report, which assessed seven telepresence providers with at least 50 multiscreen systems installed, Teliris received the highest rating awarded to a telepresence provider.

July 6th, 2009 STAINES, England - TANDBERG (OSL:TAA), the leading global provider of telepresence, high-definition video conferencing and mobile video products and services, today announced that Audio Visual Machines (AVM), a leading provider of video and audio communications, has been certified as a TANDBERG Platinum Partner. The Platinum Partner status awarded by TANDBERG is the highest level of partnership that AVM can receive.

July 2nd, 2009 LONDON - - United Business Media, the organisers of IT Channel Vision Europe have announced that they will be working with respected channel expert, Bob Snyder, on the strategic development of the 2009 event. Mr. Snyder brings over 30 years of European channel experience, most recently as Editor in Chief at The Distribution Channel.

June 15th, 2009 LONDON - With Photo Audio Visual Machines (AVM), the leading audio visual and video conferencing system integrator in the UK has been successfully certified to install and maintain Polycom's immersive telepresence solutions. Polycom is the global leader in telepresence, video and voice communications solutions.

June 7th, 2009 LONDON - The Institute of Chartered Secretaries (ICSA) has today published its report on boardroom behaviours which has been submitted to Sir David Walker as part of his review of corporate governance in UK banks. The report follows a study by ICSA of boardroom behaviours , which took the form of a survey and a number of roundtable meetings with company secretaries.

May 26th, 2009 GLASGOW, Scotland - Leading UK insurance intermediary Kwik Fit Financial Services has appointed Stephen Robertson as group pricing director. Stephen, who has been with Kwik Fit Financial Services since 1997, assumed his new role on 1st September and has overall responsibility for pricing strategy within the KFFS group.

April 28th, 2009 LONDON - See the Best PR Campaigns and Compare PR Agencies Discover how PR turned a computer into a gym, made us all want purple phones, made maths sexy and filled a restaurant in 7 weeks. To view the Multimedia News Release, go to: www.prnewswire.com/mnr/prweek/37544/ If you need to be inspired to create the best PR campaigns, or need to find a PR agency who can really deliver, PR Week's Agency Showcase will allow you to understand the heritage and skills of the leading PR agencies.

March 25th, 2009 LONDON - 80% of ITMB Students Want CIO and CEO Posts - 90% are Hoping to Spend Time Abroad - 72% are "Confident or Very Confident" of Getting a Job Students of the IT Management for Business (ITMB) degree have big ambitions for their future IT careers. In a survey commissioned by leading software provider CA and e-skills UK, 80% of those who took part said they would like to become chief information officers, chief executives or board members.

March 24th, 2009 LONDON - Introducing The Traveller From Thomas Pink - With Photo Travel is becoming an ever-increasing part of the day job, with senior business people taking more than 12 flights and spending a total of 70 days on foreign work trips every year[1]. Add day to day commuting and that's a lot of sitting in planes, trains and automobiles.

June 17th, 2009 UK Treasury chief puts onus on bank executivesLONDON — British Treasury chief Alistair Darling demanded a change in culture in banking management on Wednesday, blaming executives' lack of judgment for the depth of the financial crisis. Darling acknowledged that regulation of the banking sector needs to be improved, but put the onus firmly on bank boardrooms to avoid a repeat of the current crisis.

June 5th, 2009 LONDON - Plans of building the largest private jet in the world at a cost of 300 million pounds have been unveiled. The "flying palace", which boasts of a Turkish bath steam room, a boardroom and garage for its owner's Rolls-Royce, will be complete with its own concert hall.

September 18th, 2009 Lawyer: Boardroom spat behind trouble in ZimbabweHARARE, Zimbabwe — The family behind one of Zimbabwe's oldest and largest companies believes a dispute with a businessman close to President Robert Mugabe's party has led the government to freeze the conglomerate's assets. The move comes as Zimbabwe seeks to attract investment, and was likely to renew questions about whether the troubled country is safe for business.

March 7th, 2009 LONDON - Midfielder Cess Fabregas would consider his future at Arsenal if manager Arsene Wenger were to leave, according to media reports. Wenger's contract expires in June 2010 and, while his Liverpool counterpart Rafa Benitez has been noisily agitating for a new deal, Wenger has remained silent.

June 26th, 2009 SAN JOSE/CALIFORNIA - Leading early-stage venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) and Cisco today announced the 16 finalists in their first co-sponsored Global Business Plan Competition for university and business school students. The finalists, whose business plans address a diverse group of issues from efficient and affordable web-scale computing to early cancer detection, will be competing from their respective geographic areas via Cisco TelePresenceT on June 30, 2009.

July 28th, 2009 TNK-BP's 1H profit halves to $2BlnMOSCOW — British-Russian oil company TNK-BP said Tuesday its net profit plummeted by more than half to $2 billion in the first six months of 2009 on lower oil prices and depressed demand. Year-on-year figures show TNK-BP's profit tumbled 58 percent from $4.7 billion in the first half of 2009, when oil prices wilted to less than $40 a barrel from $147 the summer before.

January 7th, 2009 LONDON - Boardrooms across Britain are keeping their doors firmly shut to black and Asian managers, preventing them from stepping into top executive jobs, according to research published Thursday. Although a high proportion of 17 percent of students in universities are from ethnic minorities, they appear to face a stubborn exclusion later in life in boardrooms in both public and private sectors, said the charity Business in the Community (BITC).

April 22nd, 2009 Silicon Valley grows latest Calif. political classSACRAMENTO, Calif.

September 4th, 2009 Global Energy sells ethanol plantATLANTA — Global Energy Holdings Group, Inc. said Friday it will sell an ethanol production plant to Fiberight LLC.

April 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Consumers prefer local soft drinks rather than global brands like Coca Cola or Pepsi due to their built-in mindsets connected to their desire, a new study said. 'Global-minded consumers prefer global products and local-minded consumers prefer local products (different specifications for consumers from different parts of the world)' the study authors explained.