October 5th, 2010
She was known for her simple but unique style. She elevated the once upon a time poor fabric, Ankara to Olympian height and created an uncommon identity from the Made in Nigeria wax
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October 5th, 2010
From Bruno Gurtner, guest editor.
Tax Justice Focus, Volume 6, Number 2 – The SWITZERLAND edition.
October 5th, 2010
The Switzerland edition - click
here
The latest edition of Tax Justice Focus explores the changing face of tax haven Switzerland. Historically one of the world’s most important secrecy jurisdictions, Switzerland – along with its financial services sector – has recently been buffetted by a series of scandals and pressures. These range from a giant tax evasion probe in the United States targetting the Swiss bank UBS, to massive damage to the banks from the ...
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October 5th, 2010
The Age in Australia has
borrowed quite heavily from my blog the other day on IKEA, so I hope they won’t mind if I borrow back from their rather good blog on the same theme.
As
they say:
The advance guard of the crowd heading for Sunday’s rugby league grand final might have wondered what the traffic jam was about on Homebush Drive heading away from Olympic Park - the queue was to get into the car park for IKEA’s massive headquarters store.
This wasn’t an opening special, there was no spring sale, not even...
October 4th, 2010
IKEA is a private company. It does not need to publish an annual financial statement ion the form as a quoted multinational corporation. And it doesn’t. But it has (I think for the first time) published a limited
annual report. That’s the good news. The bad news is it does not tell us much.
This is the profit and loss account:
