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August 30, 2010

Global Online shopping trends in Purchasing Products

Filed under: Business — Tags: — Winson @ 8:47 AM

Now-a-days, internet has made online purchasing of products very easy. It has transformed many aspects of life. Through internet, buying tickets, booking concert tickets is much efficient and easier.

According to global online consumers report, clothing and books will continue to top the list for planned online shopping in the next 6 months. It follows the trend reported by Nielsen survey in 2009. As per the report, 46% of global consumers said that they purchased books in the past 3 months and 41% of them bought clothing through online purchasing.

Internet users in 55 markets from Europe, Asia-Pacific, North America, Middle East and south America were polled by Nielsen company who conducted a survey in March 2010. According to that report, vacations are the high priority for planned online shopping. In 2009, 24% of consumers purchased airline tickets online and 17% made tour/hotel reservations online, 7 percentage points and nine percentage points increase respectively in online travel arrangements in 2010.

In the next 6 months the top 5 purchasing products are books, clothing/accessories/shoes, airline ticket, electronic equipment, tours/hotel reservations.

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August 26, 2010

Small Business Confidence is Still Delicate in Second Quarter of the Year 2010: FSB Report

Filed under: Small Business — Tags: , , — Winson @ 7:02 AM

According to the recent survey, the business confidence showed a decline over the second quarter of 2010. The recovery is delicate and much more effort is needed to encourage growth in private sector.

According to the FSB ‘Voice of Small Business Index’, shows only a net four percent of respondents believe that business prospects will improve in the third quarter of the year, down from 16 per cent in March.

As per the survey, around 67 percent of small firms are operating below capacity when compared to those in manufacturing sector which is growing much better than service sector firms

It also highlights that the UK economy is still on way from a full speed recovery. It has 64 percent of firms in the South-East which are likely to be working under below capacity that else where in the country.

Key findings from the quarterly report show:

  • There is decrease in the confidence in the small businesses every month since March. 16 percent of small firms use to believe that there will be an increase in the business prospects which now is down to 4%.
  • Though the ratio of businesses has decreased slightly from 70.5 percent to 66.6 percent, majority of small businesses are still operating below capacity, since the last report.
  • Compared to manufacturing, firms which are operating below capacity are more in service sector. These are more likely to be based in the south-East.
  • There is no expectation of improvement in growth of revenue as it is weak, in the next quarter.

August 18, 2010

Treatment Statistics of Drug Abuse

Filed under: Substance Abuse — Tags: , — Winson @ 8:07 AM

Year by year the usage of drugs has been increasing. Regardless of the age considerations, the usage has been improved. Many people are using different types of drugs for recreational purposes. The illicit usage may lead to addiction and in those cases, treatment is needed. The treatment centers are increasing and the number of people who attend the treatment programs are also increasing.

According to National Survey of Drug And Health(NSDUH), during the year 2008, 7.6 million people aged above 12 were treated for illicit drug usage, which is nearly 3.0% of the total population. During the past year, 1.2 million people, i.e., 0.5% of the total population and 16% of the people needed treatment took the treatment under the specialty facility for an illicit drug use problem. Remaining 6.4 million people did not receive the treatment. The statistics for the years 2007 and 2008 were almost same. When compared to the year 2002 the illicit drug usage has been decreased and the decrement is 0.3%.

Out of people who did not receive the treatment some said that they had put efforts for the treatment, but some of them said that they had not put any efforts to get treated.

Now coming to the statistics of youth, aged between 12 and 17, there were altogether 1.2 million people i.e. Around 4.8% people in need of the treatment for the illicit drugs usage in the year 2008. But out of this, only 111,000 received treatment under the specialty facility which is around 9.3% of the youth need treatment aged between 12 and 17. The rest 1.1 million youth did not receive treatment under specialty facility.

The people who did not take the treatment said so many reasons like not ready to stop using, no health coverage and cannot afford the cost of the treatment.

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August 12, 2010

Small Business Employment Statistics In 2007 : US census

Filed under: 2007,Business — Tags: , — Winson @ 7:56 AM

On Monday, Statistics of U.S. Businesses (SUSB) released a fact sheet 2007 annual data which included number of firms, number of establishments, employment, annual payroll, and estimated receipts.

The data was tabulated by industry, geographic area and enterprise employment & receipt size.

National and subnational data on the distribution of economic data by enterprise size and industry was given by Statistics of U.S. Businesses (SUSB) is an annual series. This series does not include data on private households, non-employer businesses, agricultural production, railroads, and most government entities.

In different sectors – Small Business employment (Below 500 employers)

  • Forestry, Fishing, Hunting, and Agriculture Support – 1,44,111
  • Mining – 2,82,278
  • Construction -6,190,401
  • Manufacturing -5,91,7710
  • Wholesale Trade– 3,635,834
  • Retail Trade -6,138,628
  • Transportation and Warehousing – 1,618,079
  • Information -8,77,184
  • Finance and Insurance – 2,134, 636
  • Real Estate and Rental and Leasing – 1,50,3479
  • Management of Companies and Enterprises – 3,83, 588
  • Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services – 3,724,173
  • Educational Services – 1,363,682
  • Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services – 4,99,5367
  • Health Care and Social Assistance – 7,989,889
  • Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation – 1,313,243
  • Accommodation and Food Services -6,854,722

August 5, 2010

Different Types of Barcode Labels

Filed under: Business — Tags: , — Winson @ 5:53 AM

Now-a-days, barcodes are found any where, because there are various types of products, as a result many barcodes have to be used. Automate data collection is the main reason to use barcodes. Each barcode has some amount of information about products which is needed, and that information is needed to decode. Different types of device are used to read these barcodes.

There are many types of barcode labels, such as linear symbologies and stacked and matrix symbologies, composite symbologies, etc.

Linear barcode symbologies: They are most familiar and this is the most used barcode format. They have a series of parallel lines and spaces of changing width. More than 100 types of this particular type of barcode are there, 20 of them are accepted world wide. Codabar, code 39, code 128, EAN, Telepen and UPC are some of them.

Matrix symbologies: If there is a need to encode more information into much smaller spaces then it leads to creation of the stacked and matrix barcode symbologies. Aztec code, code 16k, code 49, Maxi code, super code and USS code are examples of matrix symbologies.

Composite symbologies: Composite symbologies are combinations of one dimensional and two dimensional symbologies. Composite code C, GS1 and MicroPDF417 are examples of composite bar code labels.

These are the types of labels, which can be used on different types of products. Every barcode has some information, which can be read by a type of product to know about the product. They are cost effective and as well as useful.

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