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THE MALTA FINANCIAL & BUSINESS TIMES

23 OCTOBER 2002
ISSUE NO. 259
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F O C U S
Economic Update
Discouraging forecasts for local manufacturers
By Matthew Vella
Locally oriented manufacturing companies will have to increase their investment and restructure their operations if they want to reverse a forecast downward trend in their sales. READ MORE >>

‘Yards aid to stop in 2008
2008 will be the Malta shipyards’ moment of reckoning when state aid will have finally come to an end. Following the closure of the EU chapter competition, the shipyards’ fate has been finalised with talks on state aid and subsidies. READ MORE >>

Government-owned companies to face the real world
Negotiations on Competition were closed at the fifteenth meeting in Brussels of the Accession Conference held at Deputies’ level between Malta and the European Union. READ MORE >>


INTERVIEW
Being the best in your chosen market
Freshly returned from in Grant Thornton's International Conference held in Shanghai, David Lindsay speaks to Grant Thornton Malta Managing Partner Martin E Bonello-Cole on the restructuring of the accountancy industry in the wake of the accountancy scandals that shook the investment world and on being the best in its chosen market of owner-managed businesses

OPINION
E-Transition: Modernising Governments
Finance Minister John Dalli was recently in London for the Commonwealth Finance Ministers’ Meeting. Mr Dalli chaired and addressed a private-public dialogue session on e-Transition - Modernising Governments, organised by the Commonwealth Business Council. Following are extracts from his speech


INVESTORS’ CORNER
Money market report 14-18 October
- record high outstanding term deposits with the Central Bank

NEWS
Candidate foreign ministers issue joint statement on financial package
Finance ministers meet in Barcelona
Bank of Valletta sign collective agreement with MUBE
Prestigious award for Corinthia Hotels International
Chamber of Commerce holds annual conference
BoV promotes Malta in Toronto
Call for better safety in our buildings
Party Political Broadcast 2002
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs approves MICC appointment
Vineyards in the Maltese Islands


 

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