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By: Shawn Lesser & Alexander Lidgren Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland: These five countries are quite different from the “inside” – their economies have different structures, they use different currencies, even languages are not as similar as it might seem which often makes people resort to English in business discussions. The culture and mentality...
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Five Scandinavian honorary consuls have come together behind a new business group in Philadelphia, PA. “We want to promote regional cooperation and facilitate the exchange of ideas between Scandinavia and the Greater Philadelphia area,” says Kristina Mattila, a Philadelphia-based entrepreneur and honorary consul of Finland. She is President of the group, which...
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Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) will resume daily direct flights from Oslo to Newark, NJ on March 28, 2011. The Scandinavian airline will then have three daily flights from Scandinavia to Newark Int'l Airport, according to Sveneric Persson, vice president for SAS in America. Improved market conditions and lower costs have made it possible for...
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Swedish Match and Skandinavisk Holding A/S of Denmark has completed their merger, creating an international giant in the tobacco business. The new company - STG - will have its headquarters in Copenhagen and be led by Anders Colding Friis. It will employ 9,700 people in 20 countries. The combined sales is estimated to...
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Jeff Loux shares his impressions from his latest study tour to Northern Europe with his students of sustainability. "Sweden has made as much progress as any county to address sustainability issues, including greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, reducing auto use, maintaining or enhancing green space, social programs for health and services, addressing solid...
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"The Danish capital has emerged as one of the most eco-minded and creative cities in Northern Europe," writes New York Times in a "36 hours in" report published in today's Travel Section. Under the subheadline "A Danish Dubai" we can read that "No neighborhood shows off Copenhagen’s new sheen and ambition more impressively than...
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Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) is adding a sixth Airbus A340 to and from New York (Newark International Airport) and Chicago (Chicago O'Hare International Airport) for its winter schedule, which begins on October 31. SAS sees stronger demand among both business and leisure travelers in recent months served from Copenhagen and Stockholm.
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The Scandinavian countries will stand at the center of the 2011 World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland, according to a report in the Swedish daily business newspaper Dagens Industri. The theme will be "Highlighting the Scandinavian Experience" according to what the founder Klaus Schwab tells the paper.
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Scandinavia offeres an alternative to the American model for executive compensation, according to Robert Shuter, Professor of International Communication at Marquette University: He writes in his column for Currents that "as US economists and management theorists debate the merits of pay for performance, many Scandinavian companies have been outperforming the titans of American industry...
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Sweden remains the most competitive economy as measured by the European Union’s (EU) own competition benchmark, the Lisbon criteria, followed by Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands, according to the World Economic Forum’s Lisbon Review 2010 released today ahead of the upcoming World Economic Forum on Europe.
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