petak, 27.08.2010.
Metro expects difficult year in 2009
Metro expects difficult year in 2009
The growth dynamics of the retail group Metro has eased in the fourth quarter of 2008. For the full year was indeed still a sales increase of 5.9 percent. Metro, however, had a growth of over 6 percent announced.
Sales in the fourth quarter rose by three percent to 20.1 billion euros
significantly slower than in the first nine months, sales for 2008 rose to 68 billion euros. Also for the result, Metro was a bit more pessimistic than before. The growth in profit before interest and taxes (EBIT) would be expected at the level of sales growth, said the group, having been a plus before special effects from six to eight percent in view had been made.
Metro to include the Galeria Kaufhof department store chain, electronics markets Saturn and Media Markt and the Real supermarket chain. 2008 was a "challenging year was" to trade, accounted for the CEO Eckhard Cordes. "The macroeconomic environment" in the course of the fourth quarter continued to deteriorate dramatically, he added. In contrast, the Christmas business in Germany a "have all shown in all satisfactory" progress.
The outlook for the current year also remained subdued. "2009 will be" a very difficult year, "said Cordes. So imagine the entire Metro cost to the test. The investment budget would be reduced to a maximum of 1.6 billion euros. In presenting the nine-month reduced the Metro investment had already been to two billion euros.
The positive result is also due to the good sales of Media Markt and Saturn. Here, sales rose in 2008 rose by 8.9 percent to 19.0 billion euros, growth was well above the market. Especially in the Christmas season were game consoles and accessories, notebooks and TVs, according to Metro’s most popular products.
Metro had a negative development with its Kaufhof department stores suffered, which saw revenues declined compared to 2007 by 1.1 percent to 3.5 billion euros. It was not until late October announced Metro, Kaufhof group, despite the difficult economic situation, not to sell the time being.
Total Metro expanded with 124 new stores, including 40 metro markets alone, and 70 electronics stores. In contrast, Real Retail ten sites were closed at Kaufhof did not change the situation. Total Metro operates according to its own information now in 2195 locations in 32 countries and employs 290,000 people.
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ponedjeljak, 23.08.2010.
The navigation system knows where you want
The navigation system knows where you want
The car manufacturers put the cheap electronics market by Navis too powerful. Must produce value-added also: BMW wants to couple the Route Finder own future with the engine electronics and save fuel. Where to go guess the future is to Navis independently.
takes on the search for the right way in the car today, no one seriously more atlas or road map. The navigation systems have become established nationwide in recent years.
While high-priced vehicles are mostly equipped with integrated navigation systems, set above all the drivers of small and compact cars on cheap suction cup solutions. The cost 100-450 and are hardly worse than the 1800-4000 complete.
Using new technologies to the car manufacturers make accessory companies like Garmin, TomTom or Becker's life harder and push up their own equipment rates upward.
BMW was one of the first manufacturers, who in his installation solutions not only offered the fastest, shortest, but also the most efficient distance for election. In the Munich-based research, however, it is now much further.
The first prototypes show the way, even if you have not checked the route. Under the working title "Ilena - intelligent learning navigation" the BMW development department of a navigation system that predicts the route, without it you have selected your own initiative.
This is especially useful when including more fuel can be saved. Developers Andreas Winckler: "If we combine these predictive navigation with the building blocks of Efficient Dynamics, are possible in practice, savings of five to ten percent fuel."
The car has long been a rolling sensor unit. On the one hand, there are navigation data, time, traffic, personal preferences or set dates. On the other hand, the navigation system is actively connected with the engine. Is it for example on a highway ramp, the cooling temperature is lowered in advance or have already opened the throttle. Stands before a Bergabstuck, the storage battery discharged or adjusted, the switching logic of the transmission.
"Of course all this is possible without the automatic route prediction admits Winckler. But then you can save only when the route guidance is also activated. "Even if the car is equipped with a navigation solution, flights are usually held on known targets without the active expulsion. The intelligent navigation system gets from the combination of car, driver and route out will still be the best.
This requires the widest possible knowledge base. On the hard drive in the car there is a corresponding map. This gets the car on every mile but more than track and driver. Thus, the navigation data of the card companies every day are more accurate. Winckler, "The car detects the driver, for example, seat adjustment, keys or a mobile telephone."
Slopes, inclines, curve radii and varying speed limits - everything is driving cross-checked with the data and adjusted. The equipped among others with the camera system of the BMW 7 Series prototype learns its environment with each mile better. "From all this information to generate the navigation to an electronic horizon that we use in energy management," says Andreas Winckler.
For 18 months of project work, Robert Hein and his team to the intelligent navigation aids. Meanwhile, they had made great progress: "At first we were at just 30 percent accuracy. Meanwhile, our systems have 70 to 80 percent right where to go the journey. "Depending on the driver expects the system in a split second where he is likely to want.
How convenient that can be demonstrated by the recent Mobidrive study. It showed that motorists carry average about 80 percent of all trips to just five goals. Morning to work, back in the evening, on weekends to the in-laws, and twice a week for tennis. Or so does the daily operations of most of the motorists.
When traveling salesman with dates in different places is the navigation system with the schedule in PDA, BlackBerry or iPhone is connected. "A certain piece, we can always predict," says Hein, "for example, to the nearest street intersection, or the next freeway exit." Get Andreas Winckler after work in his BMW 335i, the sedan knows the basis of time and Winckler's behavior the past few weeks earlier, that it should go to his house. Will the developer somewhere else, he can manually enter each other as usual goal.
Still, the navigation system of the future is in the experimental stage. In the prototype, the computer therefore need a third of the trunk. "The next generation of navigation systems is the computer unit can afford the vehicle itself," Andreas Winckler himself is safe. When "Ilena" in the production cars can keep feeding, is currently not known yet. Possible a period of time three to five years.
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četvrtak, 19.08.2010.
Reger Exhibitor onslaught despite crisis
Reger Exhibitor onslaught despite crisis
The Frankfurt fair is currently warming, not only in the warm sun rays, but also to the exhibitors at the fair grounds. Parallel will take place the small fair Prolight and sound - that radiates the same way.
The Musikmesse and its smaller sister Prolight and sound show from this Wednesday to back new instruments, sheet music, Musiksoft and hardware, effects and electronics. The four-day shows are aimed at trade visitors. The general public has access only on Saturday. 1653 Exhibitors at the Music Fair and 837 have at Prolight and sound better than last year, about 110,000 visitors to their new products.
In the four days are expected to include jazz musician Klaus Doldinger, Dresdner pop group Arctic Circle 18 and harmonica player Michael Shepherd. Rock bands have also announced the gunslinger (Hamburg), Aloha from Hell (Aschaffenburg) and panic (Neumunster) and the Finnish rock quartet Sunrise Avenue.
There are prizes at the fair of course: On the eve of the composer was Jose Antonio Abreu, which is endowed with 15,000 euros in the Frankfurt Music Hall Romans. Abreu has founded in his native Venezuela, "El Sistema," a network of child and youth orchestras and music centers. A documentary on the network, in which more than 300,000 children and young people learn an instrument, 16 be seen in German cinemas in April.
The undoped German Musical Instrument Prize goes to three instrument makers. Master violin maker from Munich, Nele Julch and Ernst Heinrich Roth KG from the Frankish Bubenreuth receive the award in the category violin. Third prize winner, the company is YES music from Mark Neukirchen (Saxony) in the category F-Tuba.
The prices are from 1991 each year in two groups given varying production. The largest trade fair for information German school band competition will be held on Saturday between eight groups. The award "Piano Player of the Year" is not awarded this year.
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