Despite the global downturn and the uncertainties created by the ongoing Eurozone crisis, Europe continued to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first half of 2012, according to interim data in Ernst & Young’s mid-year European Attractiveness Survey. In the first half of 2012, foreign companies made more than 1,500 investment decisions in Europe, […]

The Senate has rejected the government’s tax bill. In order for it to come into effect, it has to be approved again by the Chamber of Deputies and signed by the President. To our knowledge, it is to be discussed at the session starting from 18 December. If approved, it may still be published in […]

Last year, car manufacturers around the world produced more than 90 thousand vehicles that have electric propulsion. Current PwC estimates show that world production of electric vehicles will increase to more than 950 thousand vehicles per year by 2016. At the present time, electrically powered cars represent barely 0,1 % of total automobile production. It […]

Reconstructing and extending a large IKEA store in the Czech Republic without disrupting normal trading hours. That is a real challenge by any standard, and Tebodin recently brought it to a successful conclusion. The world’s best-known furniture retailer keeps growing. With over 125,000 employees, IKEA sells its furniture, homemaking and housekeeping products in 38 countries, […]

We have a special offer for you as a member of the Chamber of Commerce: special prices of the subscription package of The Prague Post, the only English-language newspaper in the Czech Republic. If you subscribe to more than one copy of The Prague Post, you gain a special discount of up to 78 percent off the price […]

The educational project on a healthy lifestyle, Healthy 5, is trying to address the children in the new form this year. It boasts a new graphics with a band of 5 friends, a new website and the brand new educational program for the later-year primary school pupils. And this is not the end of innovations in this unique program, […]

This winter, public debates will be held in six towns of the Czech Republic on hot issues of the communities. The public debates will be organized by secondary school students who won regional rounds of the debating competition Student Agora. The public profit company Agora CE organizes the debating competition called Student Agora since 2005. […]

The law firm Havel, Holásek & Partners was successful even in the fifth year of the Law Firm of the Year competition, and the same as in the past four years, took home awards in the professional categories. This year, the firm was the winner in the area of Developer and Real Estate Projects and […]

From 1 October, 2012, Radek Halíček is in charge of Tax and Legal Services, which are provided by nearly 150 professionals at KPMG in the Czech Republic. Radek Halíček started working for KPMG in the Czech Republic in 2006, in 2007 he was promoted to Partner. Since 2010 he has been leading the KPMG Legal […]

Florin Trandafirescu (49), former Managing Director of Inmarko, Unilever Ice Cream company in Russia, is appointed as a Managing Director for Czech and Slovak business as from 1 November, 2012. Florin joined Unilever in 1997 after 5 years with Siemens. During his career with Unilever he has been moving through a number of roles in […]