Wells Davenport

The French have increased by 40% the amount of money they spend on promotional activity for their wine in Britain.France is still the largest wine supplier to the UK, which imported 2.6 million hectolitres in 2004, but it has been overtaken by Australia in sales through off-licences and supermarkets and is only marginally ahead of the United…[Read more]

As part of a series of articles on the future of communications, Forbes Magazine is providing a personal time capsule facility on its website.Visitors to the site can write themselves an email which will be sent back to them in the future; in one, three, five, 10 or 20 years. Are you also excited to buy 2023 Family Planners, check out a big…[Read more]

Australian workers are leaving the skyrises and heading home to work, resulting in a 9 percent jump in the number of home-based small businesses.The AMP.NATSEM report, ‘There’s no business like small business’, reveals almost two thirds of Australia’s 1.27 million small business owners now operate either entirely or largely from home. Are you a…[Read more]

Brisbane’s international and domestic airports will each be almost doubled in size to accommodate growing numbers of travellers. Brisbane International Airport will spend up to $350 million next year and the number of gates will increase from 13 to about 30.The international terminal handled a record 350,300 passengers in July, blitzing the…[Read more]

Lush’s founder and CEO would not know a laurel if he saw one and would be unlikely to rest on them if he did. What makes Mark Constantine unusual among successful innovators is his fearless discarding of past successes and his wholehearted pursuit of new products. Every year, Constantine sheds one third of Lush?s entire cosmetic product line and…[Read more]