Sales and PR specialist, business consultant, newspaper reporter. Mix these professions, add adventurism, season with English slang - you have a typical headhunter Imagine that you are going on a business trip to Europe. You check in for a flight, board the plane, make yourself comfortable on the plane to unfold the latest newspaper, and then you notice a pretty fellow traveler in the next seat. The girl casually starts a conversation... A pleasant accident? Not necessary.

How to increase sales of your products in a specific store? Watch where customers are looking A small supermarket in a residential area of ​​the English town of Stoke-on-Trent is now being called the “ideal store” by Unilever and retail operator United Co-operatives.

Fly, ship! July 1920 “What is needed now is brevity. The car is so popular because it has reduced distances. The telephone, telegraph, radio paved their way for a similar reason: they save time. And since life is measured by time, we can say that brevity saves life. Yesterday, sailing ships plied the ocean leisurely; today, ships powered by steam, oil, and electricity are in use. Tomorrow the ships will fly by air.

Who does the image of the president help and who doesn’t? In October, the news “Putin loves Maisky” appeared on the website of the tea company “May”. As evidence, a video clip from the news of the Rossiya TV channel is given: the president is drinking tea at the home of the commander of the Ermolovka border post in the Krasnodar Territory. It's a small thing, but nice.

Island for sale The demand for private islands is growing, and there are fewer and fewer islands available to buyers. This explains the noticeable rise in prices, especially for plots of land in the Fiji archipelago, whose appearance is so reminiscent of Bounty commercials. Fiji consists of more than a thousand land areas. Of these, only 322 are recognized as islands - the rest are too small, and only six are currently available for free sale.

Earning more than $1 million a year will no longer surprise top managers. Salary budgets are bursting at the seams; a number of companies cannot afford such personnel This year, Deutsche Bank planned to launch a project in Russia to develop a network for private clients. I started looking for a manager for the position of head of the retail unit by contacting agencies for the selection of senior managers.

After 11 years of working on the Russian stock market, American James Fenkner realized that risky investments were not for him “I did two very wise things in Russia: I didn’t run away after the 1998 financial crisis and I found a wife,” says 40-year-old James Fenkner, sipping coffee. The managing partner of Red Star Asset Management, whose hedge fund has $120 million, joyfully inspects the interior of a cafe on Kamergersky Lane and seems completely satisfied with life.

The life of a wealthy person is always associated with hidden inconveniences The London press is seething with anger: journalists have found that the salary of the average top manager at the head of one of the hundred largest British companies is 127 times more than the salary of the average employee. Influential businessmen have also joined the indignant chorus of voices condemning “excessively high” salaries. Such displays of anger are unfounded and meaningless.

What dangers await developers in Moscow? He may be forced to build a building five times larger than he originally intended. At the site of the famous monument “Worker and Collective Farm Woman” next to the All-Russian Exhibition Center (VVC) in Moscow, desolation reigns. The monument has been under restoration for three years, the pedestal is collapsing, the asphalt is cracked.

Do you want to save money on product promotion? Do it for others Coming up with a product and a name is half the battle. Try to sell. Retail chains charge suppliers thousands of dollars just for the right to stand on a shelf located at the feet of customers. Not everyone manages to rise higher. Entrepreneur Alexey Kornilov, owner of the St. Petersburg company Sunset, which produced handmade soaps, gels and creams based on sea salt and algae, chose to leave the game.

Where do good bounty hunters come from? Maria Nazarova, for example, previously worked as Mikhail Fridman's secretary You've probably heard Madonna's song Material Girl. Its refrain could well become a motto for Maria Nazarova, a consultant at the headhunting agency Ward Howell. “The thirst for profit is the main engine of progress. I work for banknotes, and the more of them, the better,” she says about her principles in an interview with Forbes.

Helicopter flight, fishing and Christmas concert in Lisbon One of the most beautiful options to open a series of long winter holidays is to go to a Christmas concert on December 22 at the Jeronimo Monastery in Lisbon. The monastery itself is a great Portuguese landmark, a masterpiece of the Manueline style, a mixture of late Gothic and early Renaissance, built in honor of the safe return of Vasco da Gama from India.

American cars bring less profit to manufacturers If a company has to support three retirees for every full-time employee, it has a hard time making ends meet. General Motors knows this from experience. But that's not the only reason US automakers are going through difficult times. On average, Toyota, Honda and Nissan have $2,400 more in profit per vehicle than Detroit's Big Three: GM, Ford and Chrysler.

Nikolay Chuprik and Alexander Lazar make money by “tuning houses.” Why not, if most cottages in Russia are so unsightly? Lyudmila, a manager of a large Moscow company, bought a cottage 15 km from Moscow along Ilinskoye Highway a year ago. Everything in the new house suited her. Except for the terribly boring red brick façade. And this is a typical story for the Moscow region. About 8,000 country houses go on open sale every month.

"Robot Bar", the most expensive bartender in the world Designers never tire of inventing new versions of robots that could at least serve people in some way. At least mechanical androids should be able to mix cocktails, the designers of the Dubai company Omniyat Properties decided and created the “Robot Bar”, a wonderful device with a girl’s face (unfortunately, it exists only on the monitor), which, at your command, puts on a whole cooking show cocktail.