Reading Time: 2 minutes It used to be that tax breaks were used to encourage foreign investment and so help job creation. According to the various anti-globalisation tracts like No Logo, it is used by manufacturing companies such as Ford and Nike to transfer the social cost of manufacturing on to a country whilst little to enrich their employees.… Continue reading The Knowledge Economy and Tax Breaks
Month: November 2005
Scuttling the Pirate Ship
Reading Time: < 1 minute I have just come back from a dinner with some former colleagues to celebrate the end of an era. One of the former agencies that I worked at is winding up at the end of the month. We took the time to remember clients, work done and the small dramas that made up our time… Continue reading Scuttling the Pirate Ship
3Com gets nostalgic for the old days
Reading Time: < 1 minute I had the pleasure of cutting my teeth on 3Com when I moved career to PR in the late 1990s. I remember how it rebranded with the rings logo (that I still don’t get) and shed parts of its business like a serpent shedding its skin.I worked on Palm and CommWorks to name but two… Continue reading 3Com gets nostalgic for the old days