[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Dachis Group, a leading data-driven social marketing solutions firm, today announced the schedule for the fourth annual Social Business Summit 2013 global series, taking place in seven cities across four continents throughout 2013. Oracle will be the exclusive sponsor of Dachis Group's Social Business Summit 2013. The Social Business Summit 2013 global series will take place in Tokyo on February 6th, Austin on March 7th, Shanghai on April 11th, Mumbai on May 23rd, London on June 20th, Sao Paulo on July 25th, and New York on September 19th. Over the years, Dachis Group's S
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Bombardier Aerospace announced today that an airline, which is based in the Americas, has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire 12 CS100 airliners with options on an additional 18. At this time the airline has requested to remain undisclosed. Based on the list price of the CS100 airliner, a firm-order contract would be valued at approximately $870 million US and could increase to $2.08 billion US should the 18 options also be converted to firm orders. “We are thrilled with the worldwide momentum of interest being shown for the CSeries aircraft program and we are pleased th
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Mediana Co., Ltd (CEO, Eung Seok Kim, www.maed.co.kr), a company specialized in automatic defibrillator, has conducted the distribution project of automatic defibrillator with the city of Seoul. Mediana Co., Ltd., which is a private company, signed the contract for the distribution project since it was selected as the conducting company through the bid in August. And approximately 1,300 AED units have been installed in the main areas of Seoul from October 4 to November 30 after selecting the places and completing the training. The company has finished the installation in
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]New Holland Fiat India Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of CNH Global NV, has completed five million consecutive hours worked without a single lost time incident at its New Holland manufacturing base in Greater Noida, setting a new record in safety excellence as the first plant in CNH to reach such a milestone. The five million hours represent around 600 days of work over the past two years. In recognition of this achievement, a special certificate signed by Richard Tobin, Chief Operating Officer of Fiat Industrial and CEO and President of CNH, and Franco Fusignani, New Holland Agri
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]The Nikkei 225 closed higher in trading this morning (December 19th) after official figures revealed the nation's overseas trade suffered another blow in November. New data shows that exports fell for the sixth month in a row, highlighting the issues the newly-elected Liberal Democratic Party face as they settle back into office after three years in opposition. Shipments slipped by 4.1 per cent in November compared to one year ago, with exports to key trading partner China declined by 14.5 per cent as a result of anti-Japanese business sentiment in the world's number two
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook] City Index UK - Italian 10-year government bond yields post their fourth consecutive monthly decline, the longest decline in three years. One of the least discussed aspects of the ECB's announced OMT programme was its counter-intuitively stabilising impact. The announcement did not force Spain into requesting sovereign aid, but it succeeded in supporting the euro, sovereign bonds as well as European bank stocks. Those improved ‘market metrics’ removed the market strains accompanied with forcing a nation to request a bailout and led to more favourable conditions, enabling
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]The primary Chinese benchmark, the Shanghai SSE Composite index, closed on a flat footing this morning (December 19th) after the World Bank raised its growth forecast for the world's second-largest economy. According to the organisation, stimulus measures and the approval of infrastructure projects in the country will help drive growth, averting the slowdown so many had feared. Chinese policymakers have approved two interest rates since June and have signed off on infrastructure projects worth in excesses of $150 billion (94 billion). The international financial instituti
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Citibank Korea (CEO Yung-Ku Ha, www.citibank.co.kr) held a sponsorship ceremony with Kyung Hee University (President In-Won Cho, www.khu.ac.kr) to support the 7th Citi-Kyung Hee University NGOs Internship Program at Citibank HQ bldg. December 21, 2012. The program, first started in 2006, is designed to help develop civil society as well as nurture young generation who will lead NGOs in the future. It is sponsored by Citibank Korea and organized by the Graduate School of Public Policy & Civic Engagement at Kyung Hee University. Trainings and varied activities are led by NG