How to Reduce Parcel Costs If You Are Selling Online

Running your own online retail business involves regularly sending out a lot of parcels. With web-based sellers managing shipping and postage costs on tight margins, even a small price increase by carriers can affect business profits noticeably. Beyond asking them nicely, there’s not a lot you can do to stop Royal Mail and other providers …

Economic Warfare and Transnational Organized Crime

This post brought to you by Deep Capture Blog. All opinions are 100% mine. Patrick Byrne, the CEO of Overstock.com discussed naked shorts, bust outs and economic warfare as a catalyst of transnational organized crime on the 17th of December 2013.  His main objective was to create awareness and educate the masses on the powerful elements behind economic …

Compare Trademark to Patent, Copyright, Service Mark and Trade Secret

Although there are some disadvantages for trademark owners, the benefits of trademark registration are very important for every company or organization and they should not be ignored. Any company that wants to protect its brand name and reputation should have trademark registered.

The Development of Small and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam

1. Definition of SME in Vietnam From 2001 to 2009, the definition of SME is said in Decree 90/2001 ND-CP as follow: SME is an independent business establishment with registered capital not exceeding 10 billion VND (about US $600,000) or annual average number of permanent workers not exceeding 300.

Small and medium enterprises are the Back Bone of Malaysian Economy

Statistic on Malaysian SMEs 99.2% of enterprises established in Malaysia are SME and the majority of them are micro enterprises (less than 5 workers). SME in Malaysia is defined as enterprises in manufacturing sector with annual sales under 7 million USD and enterprises in service and agriculture sector with under 1.4 million USD. SME is …

Capital Size of the Enterprise sector in Vietnam

Nationally, the average registered capital per enterprise has increased over the years, from VND 962 million in 2000 to VND 3.14 billion in 2006; equivalent to a 3.2 times increase. The average registered capital per enterprise was VND 8.1 billion in 2007 and was VND 8.7 billion in 2008. Generally, the average capital size per …

Support to Vietnamese Enterprises during Global Economic Downturn

Support on taxation in 2009 The Government issued a number of new financial policies, including: allowing SMEs to reduce up to 30% of payable corporate income tax (CIT) in the fourth quarter of 2008 and all of 2009; and extending the deadline for CIT payment in 2009 by nine months for enterprises involved in production, outsourcing, …

Registered Enterprises and Capital of main regions of Vietnam in 2008

The first chart indicates average capital that is registered by enterprises in 8  regions of Vietnam in 2008. Average registered capital ranged from 5.45 to 9.92 billion VND for 7 regions and Mekong Delta was exceptional high with 23.8 billion VND. Explaining for Mekong Delta’s high average capital, it can be referred to some large …