Gorenje launches production in Serbia

Gorenje, the Velenje-based home appliance maker, has launched a new EUR 20m refrigerator and freezer production plant in the Serbian town of Valjevo.
The new plant, which was officially opened on Monday in the presence of Serbian Minister of International Economic Relations Milan Parivodic, is part of Gorenje’s push on new markets and is the second [...]

The 50 largest family-owned corporations

-2004 data-
1.Wal-Mart Stores
 
Walton/Bentonville, Ark.
Industry: Discount retail chain
Founded: 1962
Revenues: $244.5 billion
Employees: 1.4 million
www.walmartstores.com
From single store in Arkansas in 1962, founder Sam Walton (d. 1992) and younger brother James L. (Bud) built Wal-Mart into world’s largest retailer, with about 4,700 stores today (bigger than Sears, Kmart and J.C. Penney combined). Sam’s descendants own about 38%. Sam’s son [...]

Greek Army Airforce receives new Apache type helicopters

The Hellenic Army Airforce is going to receive the first of the 12 new AH-64D Apache Longbow cobat helicopters. The signed in 2003 agreement, includes the acquisition of the Longbow fire control radar, the new Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight-MTADS-, support ecquipment, training services, maintance support and offsets according to Hellenic requirements. The Hellenic Army [...]

The richest people in the world-2006-

The World
(men)
1. William Gates III (world’s richest person – for 12 years in a row!) $50.0 billion Microsoft  USA  50yo – Married, 3 children
  
2. Warren Buffett  $42.0 billion Berkshire Hathaway  USA  75yo – Widowed, 3 children
  
3. Carlos Slim Helu $30.0 billion Telecom Mexico 66yo – Widowed, 6 children
 
4. Ingvar Kamprad  $28.0 billion Ikea (retail)  Sweden [...]

Intelligence and Airport Security

By Robert R. Raffel
The role of intelligence in an airport environment has long been a subject of debate and uncertainty. How much intelligence is out there? Of what quality or usefulness is available information relative to airport security? Could airport security officials properly use intelligence if they could receive it?
Appropriate collection, analysis and dissemination of [...]

Money laundering

Modern development of money laundering
The act of “money laundering” was not invented during the Prohibition era in the United States, but many techniques were developed and refined then. Many methods were devised to disguise the origins of money generated by the sale of then illegal alcoholic beverages. Following Al Capone’s 1931 conviction for tax evasion, [...]

RUSSIAN ORGANIZED CRIME

By Roustam Kaliyev
The Russian Mafia poses serious obstacles for Russia’s development and has been perceived as a threat to its neighbors and even the West. Yet few seem to have a clear understanding of how Russian criminal syndicates are organized. The structure of criminal syndicates has evolved considerably due to the changing political circumstances of [...]

Greece to Spend 22bn Euros on Defense over next 10 yrs

Greece will spend over 22 billion euros in arms procurements over the next 10 years, with just over a third going toward the acquisition of new frigates and next-generation fighter aircraft, the Ministry of Defense has decided.
The new Integrated Medium-Term Development and Modernization Program (EMPAE), worth 22.64 billion euros, was approved by Defense Minister Evangelos [...]

Knowledge Transfer

By Yogesh Malhotra
“The best information environments will
take advantage of the ability of IT to
overcome geography but will also
acknowledge that the highest bandwidth
network of all is found between the water
fountain and the coffee machine.”
The Three Components of Knowledge Management:
• Knowledge generation.
Includes all activities, which brings to light knowledge
that is “new” to the individual, to the group, [...]

The Albanian mafia

By Xavier Raufer
1. The Albanian mafia: a real mafia at the heart of the Balkans?
At the end of 1999, the daily newspaper “Koha Ditore” decided to break the law of silence: “Drugs are flowing into Kosovo where we are witnessing the birth of a powerful mafia network”, the province is gradually becoming “a Colombia at [...]