Research & Studies

Grafton Recruitment, in the Central and Eastern European region, conducted a thorough survey among 6 647 respondents focused on their current feelings about the labour market situation and conditions. We used our databases of candidates as well as active job seekers registered on the Grafton web site. The survey was conducted in 6 countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Lithuania).

This report forecasts retail sales for 2010 in central and southeast Europe. In addition, we forecast other variables such as unemployment and real GDP which impact retail. It is aimed at senior management of retail companies as well as investors.

CEOs’ views on Czech business challenges in a fragile economic environment

The Czech economy is projected to recover modestly in 2010, with GDP forecast to reach a level of 1,1 % by the year end.

Claims that ČEZ abuses its market power are not new. The author examines the theoretical underpinnings and empirical evidence for market abuse in the Czech energy sector, demonstrating that the potential for abuse is real.

Freshly updated guide to Doing Business in the Czech Republic

Cushman & Wakefield is committed to providing the highest quality of service to its business space clients through the continuous monitoring of office and industrial trends and practices. This edition of Industrial Space Across the World provides a detailed analysis of prime industrial property rental performance and occupancy costs across the globe in the twelve months to December 2009...

In its current insight into lost and stolen information in 2009, KPMG looks at the ways data can leak, using the latest research into worldwide reports of data loss incidents.

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Dear Business Partners, In the last quarter of 2009, Grafton Recruitment conducted another survey to monitor the labour mar-ket situation from the perspective of jobseekers. Their thinking and feelings are important to you – our clients, HR professionals and business leaders in order to define your next hiring strategies.

DEVELOPMENT POSSIBILITIES, INSTANT ACCESS AND WISHFUL THINKING. RESULTS OF CEE GRADUATES SURVEY.

An urgent need for more revenue is pushing many governments into active moves to increase the tax taken from indirect taxes, and a worldwide broadening of the tax base for corporate income taxes, KPMG International’s latest annual survey of tax rates affecting business has found.

CEEC Research in cooperation with KPMG Czech Republic conducted a research of the Czech, Polish, Hungarian and Slovak construction sectors. Impacts of the current economic crisis are evident in all of them, however, their extent differs from country to country.

RESULTS OF THE HUDSON RESEARCH FROM THE FIRST HALF OF 2009

Economic crime continues to be a serious issue affecting organisations worldwide, across Central & Eastern Europe (“CEE”) and in the Czech Republic. 24% of companies in the Czech Republic experienced one or more economic crimes in the past 12 months ...

Next to price, quality of the products and services offered is what clients are increasingly concerned with. To collect and analyse information about the infolines and representatives of selected insurance companies operating in the Czech market, KPMG used the Mystery calling method.

KPMG International in cooperation with Lean Enterprise Research Centre at Cardiff Business School conducted a survey which aims to examine, in-depth, the shape of logistics and supply chains within UK manufacturing today. In addition, it provides six lessons on cost reduction.

According to the sixth annual Ernst & Young local survey on wireless network security, the number of secured access points increased again last year in Prague.

Lax risk management makes CEE auto sector susceptible to fraud as in the midst of the global financial crisis and economic downturn enterprises let down their guards.

Presenting an economic picture of Central and Eastern Europe as the region grapples with the effect of the global crisis. The economies of the region share many similarities, and most of all, they are facing similar challenges, and are strongly interdependent. Often, today’s risks are tomorrow’s opportunities. If we take proper advantage of these opportunities, the region will soon return to a path of strong economic growth.