A number of signs point to an inconvenient truth for many businesses. Traditional marketing is on its way out. In place of this broken model, America’s most innovative companies are implementing new, more authentic techniques based on peer influence and community building.

TOA Technologies and Tecnocom have established a strategic partnership to offer comprehensive field service management solutions across Latin America.

TOA Technologies is renowned for its field service and mobile workforce management application, ETAdirect, while Tecnocom is an international ICT company, fourth in Spain and one of the most important in Portugal and Latin America.

NewPage Corporation, a leading producer of printing and specialty papers in North America, today announced the release of its 2011-12 sustainable development report, Making a Difference.

The company focuses on five key areas of sustainability; healthy, safe and engaged employees, responsible sourcing of raw materials, efficient and sustainable manufacturing, responsible and safe products, and strong, viable communities.

The purchase from previous owner Sir Phillip Green is expected to see the Topshop and Topman brands continue their rapid expansion around the world. Leonard Green and Partners already has investments in a host of retail businesses, including fashion chain J Crew and food seller Whole Foods Market.

Leighton Offshore, in consortium with Boskalis Offshore, has been awarded a transportation, installation and dredging contract by Shell Eastern Petroleum (Pte) Ltd to replace part of the single point mooring (SPM) 48” subsea pipeline. The project is located near Bukom Island, Singapore and is part of Shell’s planned maintenance.

Are the leaders who managed businesses through the early stages of the economic downturn still the right people to lead us into the next stage of recovery?

Earlier this year, I was talking with a group of CEOs from a variety of different sectors. There was a definite sense that this was a New Year, that the worst was behind us and there would be new opportunities to be seized.

In the space of ten years Africa’s renewable energy sector has undergone phenomenal change. Managing director of African Energy, Lincoln Dahl, discusses how his company has remained at the centre of a rapidly evolving market.

CEO Monehela Posholi talks about the regulator’s responsibility and challenges in meeting the population’s expectations for 21st century communications.