Netherlands-based EADS, the owner of Airbus, has today reported better-than-expected results for the full year 2011.

Despite what it called a “volatile macro-economic context”, in 2011 EADS continued to grow and to improve financial performance, particularly thanks to commercial momentum backed by strong air traffic figures.

EADS’ order book in 2011 stood at a record €541 billion; and revenues amounted to €49.1 billion, up seven per cent from a year earlier.

The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) in partnership with Auburn University released the third annual State of the Retail Supply Chain Report today.

The report findings reveal a shift by retailers and supply chain management (SCM) executives from cost cutting to growth. The report also places emphasis on multichannel retailing and explores how retailers are working to meet the increased consumer demand for continual access to products from any channel.

Statistics show that companies that export tend to do better at home. Sheila Khatri, president of Moti International, has some valuable advice for companies thinking of exporting services to India.

Recently, I was enjoying a café latte with a university professor who is a thought-leader in a cutting-edge field useful to vaccine development. Not only is he smart with a Ph.D., having established his biotechnology company five years ago, he’s also entrepreneurial.

With more than half a million ounces of gold resource outlined in its 614 square kilometre properties in New South Wales, and the expectation of going on to discover 10 times that amount, Hill End Gold is on the brink of commencing production.

Morano Resources has entered into an option agreement to purchase Zarmadan Resources Corporation and its Rumri gold project in Tajikistan, it has been announced.

The Rumri project is located in the Tavildara region of Tajikistan, about 250 kilometres east of Dushanbe, near the village of Sangvor in the southern Tien Shan gold belt. The belt hosts a number of world-class gold deposits and globally significant gold producers.

Canadian biopharmaceutical company Medicago Inc. today announced a strategic alliance with Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation (MTPC) to develop and commercialize at least three new vaccines.

Continental Coal has announced that Ntshovelo Mining Resources, the joint venture entity that operates the Vlakvarkfontein coal mine in South Africa, has executed a coal supply agreement with the state utility company, Eskom.

The agreement is for the supply of 720,000 tonnes per annum of thermal coal of quality suitable for some of Eskom's power stations over an initial three-year period which commenced on 1 March.

Zhike Lei, assistant professor at the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin, explains why corporate tree-hugging is no longer enough in the battle to tackle the sustainability challenge.