The Top 10 Hotel Groups in the World for 2012 is shown below: Click to enlarge Source: Hotel Online Of the top 10, four groups have more than 600,00o rooms each. UK-based Intercontinental Hotels Group plc (IHG) tops the ranking with about 660,000 rooms. Seven of the ten hotel groups are US-based. In this year’s ranking, …
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The French President Francois Hollande has introduced a tax on financial transactions effective August 2, 2012. This tax of 0.2% applies on all stock purchases of publicly traded French companies with market capitalization of over over one billion Euros. France has become the first country to introduce this tax. While one goal of this tax is …
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The Top 50 Latin American Brands for 2012 are listed in the table below: Click to enlarge Source: Latin American Brands, Financial Times Special Report Brazil’s energy giant Petrobras (PBR) tops this list. Some of the top Latin American financial institutions that made it to this ranking include Bradesco (BBD), Itau (ITUB), Banco do Brasil (BDORY) …