Industries

2003 articles

• India: motorbike mad but it's no easy rider
• The once-ubiquitous scooter has been overtaken by the motorbike in India's commuting race. Ray Marcelo reports on why motorbike manufacturers like Honda are riding on a boom
• Are UK restaurant chains getting indigestion?
• Jon Ashworth asks whether restaurant chains in the UK are doing enough to keep their customers coming back for more
• Efficiency drive
• Richard Willsher writes on the creation of Covisint, an e-marketplace for the auto industry
• Shipping in a risky world
• With the ongoing threat of piracy, and even exploitation by terrorists, Richard Willsher considers how being the captain of your ship can be hazardous business
• Cathay v Dragonair: a battle for the skies
• Alysha Webb reports on the public fight taking place between Cathay Pacific Airways and partner-turned-rival, Dragonair, over flights into China
• The Canadian forest fightback: from lumber slump to timber triumph?
• With stories of closing paper mills and logging camps, not to mention hefty tax duties, recent times have been particularly tough for the Canadian forest industry. Eve Lazarus takes a look at how companies have responded to the latest setbacks
• Bollywood: has the business bubble burst?
• Ray Marcelo reports on why a string of box office flops has the Bombay-based film industry worried
• Heat and dust: the misery of the Australian drought
• Janine Mace writes on how the worst drought in a century is affecting the farming community in Australia
• Space: the final financial frontier
• The space industry is entering uncharted territory and, right now, the issue of survival is uppermost in the minds of many firms, writes Richard Willsher
• Why it's time to implement the fish rescue plan
• Janine Mace reports on how a New Zealand fisheries management system is being touted as the answer to dwindling fish stocks worldwide

2004 articles

• The challenge facing the nicotine bandwagon
• British American Tobacco has been warding off the anti-smoking pressure groups and fighting tobacco lawsuits for years, but can things get worse for the troubled yet hugely profitable company? Jon Ashworth reports
• Is the Royal Mail about to implode?
• Jon Ashworth considers the Royal Mail's recent troubled history, and asks where now for the UK's famous postal provider
• Food hub
• Nazatul Izma Abdullah discovers how Malaysia is keen to reinvent itself as a global centre for halal goods and services
• Biotech: the business and the lottery
• The global biotechnology industry is having to tackle some major business issues, many of them pretty high risk, writes Richard Willsher
• Does my bottom line look big in this?
• Stefan Stern takes a look at the diet industry and finds some very large figures

2006 articles

• Train your brain
• Richard Brass reports on the business of mind games
• China: who can fit the dragon with brakes?
• As China’s economic development soars, how will it sustain itself in the years ahead? Peta Tomlinson reports
• ...and the band played on?
• Mike Truman investigates the reported £33m National Insurance (NI) bill for the UK’s orchestras
• Fuelling a major crisis
• When US President, George W Bush, announced in his State of the Union address this year that “America is addicted to oil”, it was clear the country had reached a turning point, says Abigail Rayner
• Where have all the customers gone?
• Are department stores going out of fashion in Canada? With the decline of the long-established Hudson’s Bay Company, the belief certainly has some validity, as Alison Arnot finds out
• Australia's red hot commodities
• In the hot, red dust of Australia’s outback there is a new gold rush going on these days, reports Janine Mace
• Trading water
• Janine Mace reports on the plight of countries like Australia, now the new front-line in a battle over that most precious of all resources – water
• Brand hijack
• Perhaps it can be safely assumed that one place where image is everything is in the luxury goods market. So what are the implications when a carefully constructed brand, like Burberry, goes completely off-radar? Richard Brass reports
• Letter from... Ireland
• Siobhan Creaton reports on the decline of the sugar industry in Ireland
• Partnering business with the arts
• Chronic underfunding has led European museums and galleries to look for innovative ways of financing their permanent and temporary exhibitions. Faith Glasgow reports on how corporate sponsorship is making its commitment to the visual arts
• Polluter pays?
• Mike Truman asks why the political consensus on green taxes has not translated into a greater share of revenue being raised from them
• China’s cars move into overdrive
• Should the West be expecting a flood of cars from China this year? Perhaps not. But, according to some, expect to see more than a handful of made-in-China cars travelling Europe’s roads by 2007. Alysha Webb reports

2007 articles

• Does Ford need a faster horse?
• Once upon a time, half of the cars on US roads were Fords. So what went wrong in the 1990s, and can Ford get back in the saddle? asks Abigail Rayner
• The pirates of South China
• China is cracking down on counterfeiting with an IPR Action Plan implemented last year. But do the reforms go far enough, and what more should be done to protect and attract overseas business? Peta Tomlinson reports
• Letter from... Ireland
• Siobhan Creaton looks at Rynair's latest daring bid
• Lean thinking in healthcare
• Dean Westcott examines the ways health systems worldwide are improving productivity and efficiency
• The battle for oil and water
• Global demand for energy is growing with developing countries alone accounting for 70% of the growth between now and 2030. Scott Payton considers the challenges for the planet
• Anime magic
• Julian Ryall appraises the phenomenal growth of animation and its role in Japanese business and society
• Renewable energy
• In a world where carbon emitting energy sources are increasingly seen as the work of the devil, Janine Mace reports on the tricky position in which Australia currently finds itself
• A wall of money
• Richard Young analyses the private equity market in the UK and considers the impact and consequences
• The health connection
• Colin Forsyth considers the many challenges involved in introducing electronic communication systems to improve the quality of patient care in Europe
• Is management consultancy at the crossroads?
• How has the consultancy industry adapted to life post-Enron and downsizing? Wilf Altman reports

2008 articles

• Pointing the finger
• As the fall-out from the credit market crisis continues, Scott Payton discovers who is attracting criticism in the latest chapter of the 'blame game'
• T5: when the engines stop, the whining continues
• Though it landed on time and on budget, Heathrow Terminal 5's first few days could not be regarded as a runway success. Richard Brass reports

2005 articles

• Cargo crisis
• Australia is starting to feel the effects of a recent lack of investment in its transport infrastructure, reports Janine Mace
• Letter from... Canada
• Alison Arnot reports on the continual rise of oil prices
• HK: still high rise?
• While the recent rise in interest rates has hardly dulled optimism about Hong Kong’s property market, some of the initial buying frenzy back in the spring has gone. Alexandra Harney reports
• Return of the mega-deal
• Corporate America went on a buying spree earlier this year with a flurry of mergers and acquisitions that hearkened back to the heady days of the late 1990s. Alison Arnot reports
• Boarding now
• One day I'll fly away - but on what sort of plane? That question lies at the heart of the ongoing battle between the world's two major aeroplane manufacturers, Boeing and Airbus. Stefan Stern checks in