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Satcom1: enhancing business communications at 30,000ft

Thanks to Satcom1’s aeronautical satellite communication solutions, the technology available on business aircraft today rivals that of any well-equipped office in a big city, except it’s at 30,000ft

Hidden depths

Next time you need to escape from the rigorous routine of day to day business, a week or two onboard a private luxury yacht could be just what you’re looking for

IndoChine Group: Environmentally-friendly luxury

IndoChine Group aims to provide environmentally-friendly luxury in stylish venues around the world

Airline expansion for ExecutJet

ExecuJet has recently expanded into Cambridge Airport, which is likely to see a lot of traffic in 2012 thanks to the forthcoming London Olympics

Behold Budapest

Budapest delights and enchants. It’s also a conundrum city: old baroque Europe fused with twenty-first century energy and dynamism. Cheap, exotic and home to the winding River Danube, it’s a city break capital with style and substance

Flight bound for the history books

Aviation is one of mankind’s greatest technological achievements, and every milestone has required a skilled and courageous aviator. Adam Hay-Nicholls talks to private jet pilot Riccardo Mortara who is attempting to break the mightiest record of all

Saving Volvo: Geely buys brand and management test

It was a miserable winter day in January 2007, the kind that makes auto executives in the Motor City wonder why they hold the Detroit Auto Show at the most inhospitable time of the year

No ordinary world

Brussels is no ordinary European business city. As the seat of most of the EU’s administrative institutions and NATO, the capital of Belgium is, in many ways, the capital of Europe

An unexpected centre of business

Colin Kniveton, CEO at the Department for Economic Development, Isle of Man discusses the potential for investing in a remote destination

Daimler CEO Zetsche shows pragmatic side

“I personally appreciate that, on this day, I won’t be the only one here who might be accused of speaking with a bit of an accent,” Zetsche quipped. That was typical of the affable 56-year-old German engineer, whose sense of humour – telling self-deprecating jokes while tending bar for reporters at the Detroit Auto Show, […]

Clyde Waterfront – flowing with opportunities

Regeneration is in full swing on the Clyde and the effect is growth across all its sectors. Clyde Waterfront Strategic Partnership provides an outline of the developments and initiatives that are allowing this region of Scotland to prosper

GM triples Opel financing, cuts state aid request

General Motors will provide 1.9 billion euros ($2.57bn) in equity and loans to European arm Opel, tripling its funding and cutting its request for state aid in a bid to win over European governments and labour. European governments that are home to Opel factories have asked GM to invest more than planned to restructure the […]

Vladimir Yakunin

The Russian Railways CEO has all the credentials that fits with Russia’s modern authoritarian corporate state. He’s a man the West needs to watch

The sky’s the limit? Think again

Probably every man fantasised about becoming a jet pilot or an astronaut when he was a kid. What’s more fascinating than controlling a fast-paced jet aircraft at the speed of sound?

Leif Johansson

Quietly rising through the ranks, the newest CEO of Volvo AB has set his own standards in research and development

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