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Business Leadership SA slams Transnet's new wage agreement as leadership failure
IOL
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Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) has criticised Transnet’s new wage agreement with unions, calling it a failure of leadership and warning that it undermines the country’s economic recovery. Last week IOL reported that Transnet concluded a...
1% rise in NTD reduces tech firm EPS by 1.5%: Business leader
Focus Taiwan
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June 18, 2025
Taipei, June 18 (CNA) A 1 percent appreciation of the Taiwan dollar against the U.S. dollar reduces earnings per share (EPS) for technology companies by 1.5 percent, Lin Por-fong (林伯豐), chairman of the Third Wednesday Association -- a group of...
A third of business leaders are pausing M&A deals over tariff uncertainty
CFO Magazine
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June 18, 2025
After a slight uptick in mergers and acquisitions during the first half of 2025, business leaders appear ready to pull back for the rest of the year. That’s according to new analysis released Wednesday by PwC. From Jan. 1 through May 31, there...
‘CEO bootcamp’ in Japan was chance to ‘absorb insights from business leaders’
Westmeath Examiner
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Previous Next Published: Wed 18 Jun 2025, 1:43 PM Mullingar businessman David Corcoran, CEO of Soltec Ireland Ltd, has returned from Japan, where he had joined a 140-strong delegation of Ireland’s top entrepreneurs for the prestigious EY...
AI as vital as water and energy, say UK business leaders
Retail Times
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June 18, 2025
Endava (NYSE: “DAVA”), the technology-driven business transformation group whose AI-native approach combines cutting edge technology with deep industry expertise, today launched new data which reveals a story of marked optimism around AI in the...
London business leaders back Standard campaign to keep C-charge exemption for EVs
Evening Standard
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June 18, 2025
Ros Morgan, chief executive of influential West End business group Heart of London Business Alliance (HOLBA), which represents hundreds of traders in and around Piccadilly, Leicester Square, St James’s, and St Martin’s Lane, told the Standard:...
businessline Editor Raghuvir Srinivasan’s message on bl.Changemakers Awards 2025
The Hindu Business Line
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June 18, 2025
About Changemakers Friends, businessline’s Changemakers Awards, instituted on the 25th anniversary of the newspaper in 2018, are now entering the 7th edition this year. The annual awards were conceptualised to recognise and reward the...
Windsor County Mentors benefit from Girl Scouts’ cookie donations
The Mountain Times - Vermont
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June 18, 2025
WINDSOR COUNTY—Thousands of boxes of Girl Scout Cookies are bringing smiles and support to service members, food banks, and nonprofits across Vermont and New Hampshire thanks to the annual Gift of Caring program from Girl Scouts of the Green and...
New Business Leadership Academy graduates first students
The Sequim Gazette - Washington State
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June 18, 2025
Students of the first Business Leadership Academy (BLA) at Peninsula College celebrated their graduation from the program with a group photo that included lecturers, guest speakers and instructors. The BLA is a regional program for current and...
Leadership Nashville announces 2026 class
Nashville Post - Tennessee
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Leadership Nashville has announced its upcoming class of 2025-26 for the nine-month independent executive program. About 45 participants were chosen from over 250 applications. Alumni and the public nominate established leaders who are willing to...
Windsor Framework structures 'ineffective' - Robinson
RTE Ireland
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June 18, 2025
The structures of the Windsor Framework are "ineffective, opaque and overly bureaucratic", DUP leader Gavin Robinson has said. Mr Robinson said that the post-Brexit trading deal could never be effective until fundamental issues around lack of...
Business advocate and now-Northampton, Mass. mayoral candidate Jillian Duclos builds campaign
WAMC - New York
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June 18, 2025
The race for mayor of Northampton is getting crowded, with at least three candidates vying to unseat current-Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra. Among them is a familiar face in the city’s restaurant and business scene. WAMC spoke with Jillian Duclos about...
Business Brief: MBJ names Fisackerly, Walker to ‘Top 40 Under 40’
The Dispatch - Mississippi
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June 18, 2025
Two Golden Triangle residents will be honored by Mississippi Business Journal as members of the publication’s “Top 40 Under 40” list for 2025. Meryl Fisackerly, chief operating officer for the Golden Triangle Development LINK, and Hagan Walker,...
(LEAD) Supplementary budget expected to have limited impact on inflation: BOK chief
Yonhap News Agency
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June 18, 2025
(ATTN: RECASTS headline, lead with new info; ADDS more details throughout, byline; CHANGES photo with latest) By Oh Seok-min SEOUL, June 18 (Yonhap) -- The government's additional supplementary budget is expected to have a limited impact on...
Winners versus whiners
Renew America
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By Pete Riehm June 18, 2025 This past weekend was momentous for the nation. Americans celebrated the 250th birthday of our venerable United States Army, and its storied history while millions of malcontents held hundreds of “No Kings” protests...
Winners of the Falmouth Classics Regatta after mixed weekend of weather
The Packet
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June 17, 2025
Vessels ranged from the 48m Dutch Brig Morgenster to Teuk a 3.8m West Mersea oyster smack’s tender. This year a high proportion of the boats were built before 1950, with the oldest entry, Emma, a Leigh Bawley, built in 1845. The event started on...
Leading mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo on how he would handle immigration, Trump, housing crisis
Bronx Times-Reporter - New York
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June 18, 2025
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo is still the frontrunner in the June 24 Democratic primary to replace Mayor Eric Adams amid early voting and with Election Day fast approaching. Cuomo, who is seeking a political revival after stepping down in 2021...
Business Briefs - June 18, 2025
Bonner County Daily Bee - Idaho
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June 18, 2025
Trump tax bill would widen deficits by $2.8T after factoring in economic impacts, CBO says WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's tax and budget bill would increase deficits by $2.8 trillion over the next decade after factoring in other...
Innovating for inclusion: ultra-accessibility with Morgan’s Gordon Hartman
Blooloop
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June 18, 2025
At the 2025 Festival of Innovation, attendees heard from Gordon Hartman, founder of Morgan’s Wonderland, who spoke with blooloop director and co-founder Rachel Read, on innovation in inclusion. Hartman shared details of the $6m new attractions...
Business Intelligence vs Data Analytics vs Artificial Intelligence: What Are the Differences?
TechRepublic
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June 18, 2025
Understanding the differences between business intelligence, artificial intelligence, and data analytics can be a challenge to many people. For many business processes, there seems to be so much overlap that it’s difficult to know where one...