Posted by: Søren
in Business on Dec 04, 2011
We are getting close to christmas - and according to a fresh Danish survey the Danes has spent around 45 billion Danish Kroner on online shopping in 2011. But why is online shopping so popular? And when did it all begin? Well - I found this infographic showing the history of online shopping.
Check out the infographic in full size here.
Posted by: Søren
in Business on Oct 29, 2011
The most popular social network in Denmark, Facebook is about to launch Facebook Deals, which is all about presenting discount for users from companies like McDonalds and 7Eleven. The idea is based on the "check in" GPS function in the Facebook application, and with Facebook Deals users can spot "Deals" from companies or shops in the area, and see if there is a "Deal" like e.g. discount on a McDonalds burger.
If the user/consumer likes the offer, let's say the burger, they click on it, and shows their phone to the staff in the restaurant they will get the burger, and the "Deal" will be announced on the comsumers Facebook wall.
Posted by: Søren
in Business on Sep 17, 2010
The biggest bank in Denmark - Danske Bank, has just launched an iPhone app where you can check your finances on the go. The app let's you transfer money between your own accounts or to other peoples accounts. Furthermore the app can find the nearest Bank, ATM etc. Impressive.The design and user interface look quite nice. Looking forward to see some innovation from my bank - Nordea.
Get the app here and read more here.
Posted by: Søren
in Business on Mar 04, 2010
Yesterday I browsed the web and found this very informative website about the biggest businesses in Denmark. The website is named : www.Top1000.dk – Denmark’s largest businesses.
On www.Top1000.dk you will find free, relevant and interesting information about the companies’ history, values, culture, markets, products and environmental profile, etc. You can also find key figures, reports, market leaders, compare industries and companies. Finally you will find a lot of interesting, available career opportunities.
Posted by: Søren
in Business on Nov 13, 2009
After 40 years of service, including 22 years as Vice Chancellor, Finn Junge-Jensen is now leaving CBS (Copenhagen Business School) after an embarrassing case of messing up his financial responsibility at CBS.
The action came the day, when CBS's new rector, Swedish Johan Roos, joined in August. On his first day he realized that Finn Junge-Jensen had an overdraft around 18 million. DKK.
Posted by: Søren
in Business on Sep 30, 2009
Posted by: Søren
in Business on Sep 17, 2009
Facebook has been around since 2004 and it took five years before the social network succeeded to become profitable (black numbers on the bottom line).
300 million. So many people around the world use today the social network Facebook, and the figure has been high for long.
Nevertheless, it has taken five years before Facebook managed to get revenue to surpass the cost to operate the site.
Posted by: Søren
in Business on Aug 22, 2009
I am the happy owner of an iPhone. On my iPhone I enjoy to be online. I also like to be online on my iPhone when I am on vacation in France (I live in Copenhagen, Denmark).
This blogpost is all about how expensive it is to be online via GPRS when you are abroad. I used 18,91 MB surfing the internet in France in 2 days (I have not received the bill for the rest of the vacation yet) and Telia charged me 336, 39 DKK for that. That is 336, 39/18,91= 17,789 DKK. per MB. That is pretty expensive I guess! The rest of the week in France I turned my GRPS off. I do think it is ridiculous price for being online. I wonder if Telmore will charge me the same?
Posted by: Søren
in Business on Jan 14, 2009
In summer 2008 I read a rather commercial book about the founder of Apple; Steve Jobs. The bio is named The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business. I found the book pretty entertaining and realized how great/crazy a businessman/marketing man Steve Jobs is.
He founded Apple Computers and when Apple - 10 years ago were suffering from decreasing sale and bad products Steve came back and turned the whole business around. The rest is history (iMac, iPod, iPhone, iTunes etc). Apple has never been in better shape than today and in spite of worldwide financial crises Apple is still going strong.
Posted by: Søren
in Business on Apr 18, 2008
One of the fundamental courses on cand. merc. EMF is Strategic Marketing/Management planning. The course is mainly based upon how a company need to develop a strategy in order to be more competitive/profitable. A business strategy involve many aspects in order to be successfull. Innovation, relationship marketing, brand building are some of them.
This year the overall subject for the course and the exam was the Danish detailsector. In my group we decided to focus on the online webshop Aarstiderne.com, which is a webshop selling quality ecology vegetables etc. After we handed in the assignment on the 14th of April and because of 14 days of strategic analysis involving Aarstiderne.com I was getting a bit fed up with ecology, but after all I decided to (If the assignment do splendidly:-)) try out the vegetables from Aarstiderne.
Looking forward to judge if we underestimated Aarstiderne.com or not.
Corporate form: Public Limited Company or Private Limited Company. 
