The BCO at six

Article Abstract:

The British Council of Offices (BCO), which celebrates its sixth anniversary in 1996, is firmly committed to improving the workplace environment in the UK. Its main aims are to understand issues relating to workplace design and construction; to understand how work is changing and how firms use work space; to understand how the way workplace locations are driven by and also drive the way cities work; and to understand the development and investment issues impacting on workspace provision.

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SHL: testing the market

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SHL may use stock flotation proceeds to cary out acquisitions. The company aims to raise a minimum of 10 million pounds sterling of new money and is seeking to expand in the US. The company has expanded since it was set up, as demand for staff tests has increased. Test sales account for around 40% of revenue, while training on using tests and understanding results accounts for the remainder. The company also provides help with programs for recruitment and staff assessment.

Management consulting services, Personnel Training & Consulting, Human Resources and Executive Search Consulting Services, Human resource management, Securities, Employee training, Saville and Holdsworth Limited USA Inc.

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Steak in the heart: New Orleans

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Al Copeland's ostentatious Straya restaurant is unpopular with a good many influential business owners and residents in New Orleans' Garden District, including novelist Anne Rice. Rice is leading a campaign to discredit Copeland's St. Charles Avenue restaurant as a locally unwanted land use (LULU).

Innovations, Cases, Restaurants, Public opinion, Chain restaurants, Restaurant chains, New Orleans, Louisiana, NIMBY syndrome, Rice, Anne, Copeland, Al

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