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Sensitivity to foreign ownership of business can be a universal phenomenon. As China’s economy has developed, western firms have found it hard to break into markets there. This has been especially so in the technology sector. Our recent run of blog entries has looked at online marketer, Alibaba and its internal battle with major shareholders, Yahoo and Softbank. Equally, we have reported on moves by Nestle into China’s huge consumer markets and compared them with Coca Cola’s struggles.

The Value of Health & Safety

The 1974 Health and Safety at Work (HASAW) Act has helped make Britain one of the safest countries in terms of workplace deaths and serious injuries. And yet, the organisation responsible for reducing incidents has to debunk H&S myths on a monthly basis. The general population reckons there's a compensation culture and the government launches an investigation into what can be done to ease the burden of health and safety regulation on society.

Inverse Economics of Non-League Football

As the UK football season draws to a close and the pain of relegation and joy of promotion are translated into multi-million sums, Biz/ed’s attention is drawn to the non-league game. The Bet Square Premier has seen two clubs promoted to the Football League that characterise different approaches to success. At this level and below, coats are very much cut according to the available cloth and examples abound of clubs that have fallen upon very hard times indeed. This run of Boom and Bust stories exposes the costs of promotion as well as relegation – a case of rags to riches and back again for many and a cautionary tale for clubs in the higher reaches of the football industry.

Mergers, Acquisitions and IPOs

For every Jimmy Choo, LinkedIn or Skype there’s a Yandex, Baidu or Glencore – all of them companies seeking to grow through merger, acquisition or Initial Public Offering (IPO). Whether it’s aimed at building market power and gaining cost savings, or getting their hands on new sources of capital and boosting their status, more merger and acquisition (M&A) and flotation activity is good news for some in the financial sector.

Here is just a taste of the great teaching and learning resources available in our Learning Zone; case studies, blogs, business features, games and reference material available on Biz/ed.

What's Wrong with Football?

Marketing - Consumer Buying Behaviour

1990s Key Facts

Demonstrating Selling Skills in Travel and Tourism - Lesson Plan

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