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Bibby Financial Services’ ten-point checklist is designed to help small businesses get their houses in order over Easter, according to Greg Charlwood, Chief Executive – Asia Pacific, Bibby Financial Services.

The old adage “there is no such thing as a free lunch” is possibility the quickest way up summing up the world of “Sponsorship”. I get at least one request every week and usually about half are just requests for “charity” dressed up as a sponsorship. A great sponsorship proposal is first and foremost a commercial offer, where there is a clear value proposition – for both parties.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission yesterday issued a determination granting authorisation of Qantas and British Airways’ Joint Services Agreement for a further five years.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) today announced that it intends to oppose the proposed acquisition of Goodman Fielder’s edible fats and oils business by Cargill Australia.

The Federal Government has removed the bank large deposit and wholesale funding guarantee established to stabilise banks due to the Global Financial Crisis.

Councils have won in the High Court in a case over their right to pursue claims against the collapsed bank Lehman Brothers, both in Australia and overseas.

A new whole-of government blog has been launched on the Standard Business Reporting (SBR) Program – an Australian Government initiative led by Treasury to reduce the business-to-government reporting burden.

MYOB has entered into an agreement with BankLink for the supply of bank transaction data to be used in a range of new MYOB products.

The Queensland Resources Council (QRC) claims it will cost $1 billion to construct transmission lines linking Mount Isa to Townsville, but will create 1,800 jobs in the region.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has today deferred its decision on AMP Limited’s AMP’s $12.85 billion takeover bid for AXA Asia Pacific Holdings.

The Australian Securities Exchange will soon be competing with rival Chi-X who has been given in-principle approval to operate in Australia by the Federal Government.

The campaign for a Robin Hood tax has hit Australia, with high profile Australians and charities (but few economists) lining up to support the cause.

Optus announced availability of Motorola’s MOTOBLUR with the launch of two new handsets, the Motorola DEXT and Motorola BACKFLIP.

Telstra has launched its first unlimited (fair usage policy applies) mobile plan as part of its Business Mobile PLUS offer.

LinkedIn today announced the launch of the LinkedIn application for BlackBerry smartphones at www.linkedin.com/blackberry and through BlackBerry App World.

Big W has come to an agreement with the ACCC and will pay $400,000 in contributions to charity and research after breaching fire labelling laws for children’s clothes.

Consumers are electing to stay with their current bank due to costs and barriers to exit in place to keep them with the institution a new report has found.

Fletchers Freighters has gone into voluntary administration with McGrathNicol on Sunday with the business to be restructured and possibly sold in a trade sale.

There’s nothing like hiring a new member of staff to get me hot under the collar. You’d think it’d be exciting getting to choose a new member of your team from a pool of enthusiastic, talented, qualified applicants. Wrong. Rather it’s an exercise involving mainly time-wasters and I’m a busy person. I took a much […]

Australian shoppers are yet to resume spending since the global financial crisis, with many concerned over the security of their jobs as the economy recovers.