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With several positive organizational changes within global retailer Skechers, Maxim Manturov, Head of Investment Advice at Freedom Finance Europe, covers why Skechers growth potential increase makes it an optimal choice for investors. 

Skechers (SKH) is an American manufacturer of affordable, and comfortable footwear. The company’s products are sold in 180 countries around the world and as of 2021, had 4,306 Skechers stores worldwide. In fact, the international market is Skechers highest growth category and represents over half of their total business.

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Rising Indian Exports of Light Vessels, Fire Boats & Floating Docks

India’s ship building industry is experiencing significant growth in the export of light vessels, fire boats & floating docks, based on healthy increases in 2019 export figures. These vessels and floating structures come under Commodity Group 8905 in the UN Harmonized System Codes and are defined as, “Light-vessels, fire-floats, dredgers, floating cranes and other vessels, the navigability of which is subsidiary to their main function; floating docks; floating or submersible drilling or production platforms”. They are used the world over for aquatic transport, development and support activities.

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Corona capacity calculation – New search tool helps planners create safe & socially-distanced events

Hamburg Convention Bureau, together with MICECLOUD Solutions, has launched a free tool that calculates the required room size in line with new Covid-19 regulations

 Event planners and service providers now have a simple and free tool at their fingertips to discover the most suitable venues in Hamburg to enable a safe and socially distanced event.

Hamburg Convention Bureau’s has worked with MICECLOUD Solutions to add a new Coronavirus criteria to their venue search website, Micebooking.com. When searching for an event space, visitors to the site can click to apply the corona capacity calculation – this filters the venue options in line with current social distancing regulations, providing planners with a definitive list of spaces that will comfortably – and safely – host their chosen number of particpants. This new tool on Micebooking.com gives planners piece of mind that their chosen venue is the best fit – and safest option – for their meeting or event.

Kai Dieterich, interim head of the Hamburg Convention Bureau’s Conventions division, explains how the tool will provide important support for the events industry: “Conference rooms which previously hosted 1,000 people can now only hold a fraction of that amount due to current regulations. We introduced the corona capacity calculation to help planners make informed and safe choices for their event and also give location operators a valuable platform to showcase their venues. This is a tool which we’ll develop and update in line with guidelines – we can react quickly if distance regulations change, saving location operators and planners plenty of work”.

Stefanie Lemmermann from MICECLOUD Solutions GmbH, adds: “Together with the Hamburg Convention Bureau, we hope that the new service on our platform Micebooking.com will help make an important contribution to the city and its venues.”

In addition to this new search tool, the Hamburg Convention Bureau team is working intensively behind the scenes with key industry players to develop a business events re-launch timetable. The organisation is leading various working groups to deal with topics such as implementation recommendations for events, implementation of hygiene measures and hybrid event formats – all in order to prepare the city’s conference industry for the new business reality.

Reykjavík: A source of energy

In the acclaimed novel of Jules Verne, A journey to the centre of the earth, the journey started in Iceland. It still does.

The fast track
Few nations have evolved as fast as Iceland in the last 150 years. Moving from a community based on agriculture and fishing to a modern hi-tech society with a strong profile in fisheries in harmony with nature, tourism, renewable energy, innovative businesses and culture.

Next door to nature
Reykjavík is not a big city, but it has all the characteristics of a capital. Reykjavík is known for its vibrant art scene, nightlife, restaurants and nature. To describe the connection to nature in Reykjavík: A salmon river runs through the city, you can go on a short whale-watching tour from the harbour in the heart of Reykjavík, if you drive for two hours you can be riding a snow-mobile on a glacier, in a few hours tour you can experience amazing geysers, waterfalls, the birthplace of the Icelandic parliament and be back to Reykjavík for a late dinner at one of the city’s acclaimed restaurants, perhaps one with a Michelin star.

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Johannesburg Expo Centre

A World-Class African Venue Situated just south of Johannesburg, the Johannesburg Expo Centre is Southern Africa’s largest fully-contained and purpose-built exhibition, conference and events venue. It is home to South Africa’s oldest and most cherished consumer event, the Rand Show, and it has hosted many other diverse and world-class shows such as Ultra South Africa, Automechanika, BAUMA Conexpo Africe, Sexpo and Electra Mining.

The Expo Centre has kept pace with the remarkable growth of the local exhibition and conference industries, evolving into a world-class facility that offers exhibitors, visitors and delegates a first rate experience every time. Thanks to a network of excellent and carefully-selected service providers, the Expo Centre handles every event with professionalism, flexibility and elegance.

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Mondial Travel & Events

The Mondial Group, a rich blend of services Beginning with just two employees in 1966 in the remnants of a former bird shop in the satellite town of Baden, located 30km outside Vienna, this company has long since spread its wings. Just as with the painting of a masterpiece where numerous shades and strokes combine to create long-lasting impressions in our minds, Mondial’s business units mix and collaborate with each new challenge.

Armed with a diverse squad of artists brimming with a can-do attitude, this company does not merely join the dots but re-invents the whole notion of meeting client needs. Coffee with cream has after all become standard, has it not? Vienna’s café culture remains relatively untapped by the masses but cherished by those who spend hours upon hours in the quirky coffee establishments of the old town. The fine blends and aromas capture one’s senses instantly, but often it is the rustic rooms and accommodating service staff that leave one planning the next visit before one has even left.

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The Fortress City

Malta offers many reasons to choose it for your next conference destination, not least because of its geographical proximity to mainland Europe, varied venue choice, widespread English speaking culture, cost-effectiveness, cultural brilliance and the islands high-quality MICE services.

There are a total of five specific convention centres on the island including the Mediterranean Conference Centre found in the capital, Valletta. One advantage of hosting on Valletta is its small size, encouraging stress-free pre and post conference meetups, providing programme flexibility and good value for money. It is outdated to think that business is only conducted during the actual event. More and more delegates, business associates and colleagues network outside of these settings, affording the opportunity for longer, more meaningful meetings where more business can be discussed. Valletta’s size and surroundings accommodates such a modern, effective approach to business.

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