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No great expectations from Christmas
season – GRTU
By
Julian Manduca
November is the month of the dead, and business-wise it is one
of the low points in the year along with January and February,
especially where retail business is concerned. As December kicks
off the business community is hoping for an upswing, but not all
are confident. READ
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Government looking to attract yacht
purchasers to Malta
- Sant attacks move as anti-social
Opposition leader Dr Alfred Sant has attacked the government
for reducing the VAT payable on super yachts from 15 to five per
cent. Sant said the decrease was unfair and socially unacceptable
given that other sectors will have to face a higher tax on their
purchases with the increase of VAT from 15 to 18 percent. READ
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BoV
awarded for world’s best CRM strategy
Bank of Valletta has been awarded the 2003 Financial
Innovation Award for the world’s Best Customer Relationship
Management Strategy by the UK’s Institute of Financial Services.
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Sant
lambasted over Preluna comment
- verify before stating, Sant told
In a statement released yesterday, the Preluna Hotel’s
board took extreme exception to remarks passed by Opposition leader
Alfred Sant to the effect that the hotel, a Sliema seafront landmark,
is to close its doors to business due to a faltering economy.
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INTERVIEW
The constant evolution
of mobile telephony
Vodafone Malta Chief Executive Officer Joseph
C. Grioli speaks to The Malta Financial and Business Times
about how Malta’s first mobile telephony company is
addressing the challenges 21st century telecommunications
in Malta
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OPINION
Update yourself or sink
Tony Abela, Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry
of Finance and Economic Affairs, addresses the recent Deloitte
& Touche conference ‘Coping with Change – Update
Yourself or Sink’. In his speech, Abela touches upon
the need to improve and transform for the challenges ahead
and identifies what the accountancy profession requires for
Malta’s new economic environment
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NEWS
Shipping tariffs increase seven
to 14 per cent, FOI expresses grave concern
Single currency would benefit tourism
and industry, economist says
Sant attacks government in strong
budget speech
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