Posted in new resources, small business on Nov 12th, 2007
Wellington City Libraries can offer you or your business up to 2 hours free non-urgent research if you have a WCL library card. Our Prosearch team are experienced researchers who provide a confidential and reliable service and have been involved with helping business owners for many years. If the research requires more than 2 hours research, costs are entirely [...]
Posted in women on Nov 9th, 2007
This two year World Bank Doing Business intiative will use data from their enterprise survey website, as well as involving government and women’s groups to ” identify legal and regulatory barriers facing businesswomen in 178 countries, and to advocate change”. From Intute, via Resourceshelf.
Posted in companies on Nov 9th, 2007
It’s that time of the year and the 2007 annual reports are flooding in, including Auckland Airport, Positively Wellington Business, Foodstuffs and a number of energy and port companies. Our annual reports are housed on the 1st floor north of the Central Library. We also have a large archive of annual reports and news clippings and [...]
Posted in new resources on Nov 5th, 2007
Doing Business overseas This is a new inhouse resource page on our Business popular topics page. This resource contains both New Zealand and international links to government and other sources which provide practical information on exporting.
MarketplaceNZ This free New Zealand site enables NZ manufacturers to display their products to the world. This site was created by [...]
Posted in hot topics on Nov 5th, 2007
Global warming shows sign of risky business This Australian newspaper article looks at the way litigation laws may alter in the face of climate change.
50 ways to green your business Mark Borden et al in the Nov 2007 issue of Fast Company, pp 90-99. As the title suggests, this is a list of fifty [...]
Posted in hot topics on Nov 2nd, 2007
Madhav Mehra, President World Council for Corporate Governance , produced this report in July 2007 Climate Change – The Edge of a New Frontier which includes a section on what some international companies are doing.
Ceres is “a national network of investment funds, environmental organizations and other public interest groups working to advance environmental stewardship on the [...]
Posted in small business on Nov 1st, 2007
Wellington City Libraries was a late addition to the list of exhibitors at the Small Business Expo which was held in Wellington in late July. It was a very useful exercise and we talked to many people, and showed them our WCL business resources. We also demonstrated our online databases which can be accessed within the library, [...]
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