Edinburgh Festival Fringe director quits after sales drop (The Herald)
The director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe today announced he is to step down. Jon Morgan, who has been in the role just over a year, leaves the job only days after it was revealed ticket sales for the arts festival dropped 10% this year. |
U.K. CBI Retail Sales Index Drops to 25-Year Low (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)
Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- An index of U.K. retail sales plunged to a 25-year low in August as soaring food and fuel prices and the housing slump discouraged shoppers, the Confederation of British Industry said. |
Aristocrat Net Falls as U.S. Slot-Machine Sales Stall (Update3) (Bloomberg.com)
Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Aristocrat Leisure Ltd., the world's second-largest maker of slot machines, said first-half profit slumped 44 percent as U.S. casinos cut purchases and a rising Australian dollar reduced the value of overseas sales. |
Aristocrat Net Falls as U.S. Slot Machine Sales Stall (Update2) (Bloomberg.com)
Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Aristocrat Leisure Ltd., the world's second-largest maker of slot machines, said first-half profit slumped 44 percent as U.S. casinos cut purchases and a rising Australian dollar lowered the value of overseas sales. |
Neither rain nor cars keep job seekers out (Jacksonville Daily News)
Despite torrential downpours and an overcrowded parking lot, more than 1,100 people made their way to the 10th annual Onslow County Job Fair on Wednesday for the chance to meet potential employers. |
Slayton Search Partners Recruits Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing and Senior Vice President, Human ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----Slayton Search Partners has recruited John Thornton as Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing and Leslie Bostic as Senior Vice President, Human Resources to Amalgamated Life Insurance Company - a provider of group life and disability insurance, third-party administration services, medical management, and computer services. |
New county dog warden settles into her job (Star Beacon)
Tabitha Hazeltine, newly hired dog warden for Ashtabula County, is getting used to driving hundreds of miles a day for her job. |
SFC Job Fair set for Thursday (The Gainesville Sun)
More than 50 employers are expected for the 19th-annual Fall Job Fair from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday in the gymnasium (V Building) at Santa Fe College. |
Stress can be painful, or looked at as an opportunity (Republican-American)
MIAMI — After Silvia Clarke lost a sales executive job she had held for 18 years, the Miami Shores, Fla., wife and mother of two worried about how she would support her family of four as the household's primary wage earner. |
Age editor-in-chief removed in job-cutting sweep (The Age)
The Age's editor-in-chief, Andrew Jaspan, has been removed from his position less than 24 hours after the newspaper's owner, Fairfax Media, announced 550 job losses. |
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