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With an aim to assist clients in enhancing their management skills, Phoenix Training is now offering clients the chance to participate in performance appraisal training courses. The performance appraisal course is designed to enhance the participants' performance management skill set, which is required to attain successful appraisals. Moreover, undertaking these courses can even assist participants in effectively dealing with crucial conversations within their business.

Responding to an increasing interest by the public thus far in 2015 to stay ahead of rapidly rising water from blizzards, severe storms and hurricanes, Georgia-based Landmark Earth Solutions continues to offer flood mitigation relief and earth stabilization solutions.

Addiction Professional Academy, Addiction Professional's provider of C.E. events, will be hosting networking and educational opportunities from February 2nd through the 4th in Garden Grove, Calif. On the third of the month, Dr. Snyder, Medical Director of Sovereign Health, family medicine practitioner and addiction specialist, will be participating in an evening panel discussion on the current state of opioid treatment. Titled "What is Working in Treating Opioid-Dependent Patients," the panel will also include doctors David Smith, founder of the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic, David Skonezny, Chief Operations Officer of Simple Recovery treatment center and Pete Nielsen, Deputy Director of the California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals.

American Trucking Association (ATA) had expressed their disappointments in the study findings released by Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) after the agency failed to show fairness and clarity in regards to trucking accidents where drivers are not at fault. That for the FMCSA, crash accountability analysis is expensive and time consuming; furthermore, will not improve the Compliance, Safety, Accountability's (CSA) ability in identifying carriers most at risk of future accidents.

DIESEL Motorsports, formerly known as the National Association of Diesel Motorsports, was established in 2007 and is the only sanctioning body for diesels that promotes all diesel motorsports associations, clubs and events. DIESEL Motorsports holds a number of diesel events around the country while also building a membership that offers benefits for business members as well as fans with diesel drag racing, sled pulling, and Dyno competitions. DIESEL Motorsports events are all about diesels including a large Vendor Alley at each event with many National manufacturers represented.

Getting involved in a car accident could be too troublesome that many drivers will try their hardest to avoid it in fear that they might hit a higher car insurance rate in the coming years. A recent study reveals that even when a driver claim once, 41% more on car insurance based on several factors to determine the increase in rate will be asked in the coming years.

The author of the book, THE PERFECT RESIGNATION LETTER: I FIRED MY BOSS, Fancy Frenchwood, is arranging a book signing tour which is set to kick off at the Gunnar Nordstrom Gallery in Bellevue, WA on 4th February 2015. The original resignation letter written by the author who was at the time working for a company as a professional recruiter in Seattle is available for reading at forbes.com/sites/cherylsnappconner/2013/03/19/the-perfect-resignation-letter/

The Future of the Hot Drinks Market in Belgium to 2018 is the result of Canadean's extensive market research. The report presents detailed analysis on the Hot Drinks consumption trends in Belgium, historic and forecast Hot Drinks consumption volumes and values at market and category level, brand share and distribution channel data. This report brings together Canadean Intelligence's research, modeling and analysis expertise in order to develop uniquely detailed market data. This allows domestic and foreign companies to identify the market dynamics to account for Hot Drinks sales overall and to know which categories and segments are showing growth in the coming years.

Retail volume growth in computers and peripherals slowed to 11% in 2014, along with the stabilisation of demand for tablets. Technology-savvy consumers in the United Arab Emirates continued to be attracted by the latest computers, laptops and tablets, as surfing the internet is a favourite pastime of most residents, as outdoor activities are limited by the extremely hot weather conditions. With an internet usage penetration rate of over 90%, consumers in the United Arab Emirates are online for much of their working day, as well as at home at the weekends. Most time is spent on social networking sites such as Facebook, but increasingly youngsters are also interested in photo-based networking sites such as Instagram and Flickr.

We have substantially expanded our forecasts for the Saudi Arabian water sector, and now cover losse s, desalinated water production and non- mains consumption. These additions have resulted in the revision of our existing forecasts, and we now 1.5 % growth annually in extraction between 2015 and 2018, a 1.3% growth in cons umption, and decline in water losses reaching as much as 4% in 2018, as investment into infrastructure and improved regulatory overviews start to bear fruit.

Photos and photography are more popular than ever in Germany in 2014. Consumers are seeking a means through which to cope with busy modern lifestyles, as well as the anonymous and partial uniformity of modern society by expressing their own individuality in the pictures they take, share and surround themselves with. Media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, as well as constantly-improving technological advances allowing fast uploads and downloads, the easy editing of pictures and the creation of individual picture products, support the modern fascination with the rather traditional medium of photographs. Approximately 2,000 shots per second were taken in Germany in 2013, with this rate showing a rising tendency.

The number of domestic tourism trips taken by Moroccans increased by 3% in 2013, rising to 8.5 million.

The impending dual epidemic of communicable and non-communicable diseases in Kenya will create business opportunities for multinational drugmakers. Investment into physician and patient education and therefore addressing one of the barriers to high-quality care in an emerging economy such as Kenya - will work to indirectly create a sales channel for their medicines, in both the public and private sector. Furthermore, efforts to raise awareness of therapeutics and disease management will work to create patient and prescriber loyalty and build trust for therapeutics for the treatment of 'new' diseases.

Both sporting goods manufacturers and telecom companies led the passive wearable electronics market in Japan in 2013. Sporting goods manufacturers such as Nike and Adidas offer passive wearable electronics similar to but surpassing sports watches in which GPS systems and OS are embedded, enabling runners to record such information as time, distance, and route.

Beauty and personal care is one of the more diverse markets with lots of different product subcategories and players. In addition, these products are part of people?s everyday lives and, as a result, consumers in beauty and personal care expect more innovation not only in terms of products, but also packaging. Russian consumers expect packaging to be user-friendly, high-quality and attractive in terms of design. Thus, manufacturers are putting a lot of effort into packaging innovation. Packaging manufacturers drive innovations in terms of functionality of packaging, whereas product manufacturers are the drivers in terms of design, in order to make their product stand out on the shelves and attract more customers. International players are more active in terms of packaging innovation, as they are trendsetters not only in Russia, but also in more developed Western markets. However, local players also understand the importance of innovation in terms of packaging and introduce new packaging solutions to Russia from abroad, especially those partnered with foreign packaging manufacturers. Nevertheless, it is hard to introduce innovative solutions to the market without the support of large marketing budgets, which is one of the problems for domestic manufacturers. Packaging innovation also helps manufacturers to cope with counterfeit products, as it is quite hard to replicate various innovative solutions, especially those in premium product lines.

The report provides in-depth industry analysis, information and insights into employee benefits in Malaysia, including:

This report brings together market data to provide a comprehensive brief of the Prepared Meals sector in Japan. This allows for the rapid identification of key growth opportunities across major Prepared Meals categories and their packaging.

Ethylene Tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) Market by Type (Powder, Granule & others), by Technology (Extrusion, Injection & others), and by Application (Film & Sheet, Wire & Cable, Tubes, Coatings, & others) - Global Forecast to 2019

The Serbian economy struggles to sustain a healthy growth rate as it is set to contract by 2.5% in 2015 on the back of falling exports and decreasing household spending. The outlook for the retail sector is equally negative for the first half of BMI's forecast period: strict cuts on government's spending in 2015 will result in falling total household spending in 2015-2016 posing threats for the growth of retailers' sales. Population will decline slightly, and unemployment will remain high; however, this will not prevent the consistent rise of household income and steady growth of the middle class.

Russia's two bellwethers, the port of St Petersburg, the country's main box facility, and the port of Novorossiysk, one of Russia's largest ports in terms of total throughout, are set to hold their respective positions in Russia's maritime sector in 2015. Despite the recent depreciation of the rouble, we expect Russia's consumer story to remain attractive over the medium-term, helping container throughput growth at the country's ports. Economic growth continues to slow in 2015 as the main driver of growth over the past decade - household consumption - continues to weaken.

The number of outbound departures in Morocco increased by 3% in 2013, rising to 1.9 million. The numbers of outbound departures rose steadily in Morocco over the review period as more Moroccans opted to travel to other countries in North Africa and Western Europe.

This report brings together consumer insight and market data to provide a comprehensive brief of the Belgian Prepared Meals sector. This allows for the rapid identification of key growth opportunities across major Prepared Meals categories and their packaging.

This report is the result of Timetric's extensive market research covering the institutional construction industry in the United Arab Emirates. It contains detailed historic and forecast market value data for the institutional construction industry, including a breakdown of the data by construction activity (new construction, repair and maintenance, refurbishment and demolition). 'Institutional Construction in the United Arab Emirates to 2018: Market Forecast' provides a top-level overview and detailed insight into the operating environment of the institutional construction industry in the United Arab Emirates. It is an essential tool for companies active across the UAE construction value chain and for new players considering to enter the market.

Apparel and footwear specialist retailers in Colombia continued to be attractive for the expansion of foreign and local players alike. Colombians usually accept the new concepts and proposals rapidly and most are already familiar with global fashion trends, and have experienced an improvement in their disposable incomes. In the last year of the review period, brands such as A?ropostale, American Eagle Outfitters, Oysho and Tuc Tuc amongst others landed in the country.

Global Markets Direct's, 'NovaDigm Therapeutics, Inc. - Product Pipeline Review - 2014', provides an overview of the NovaDigm Therapeutics, Inc.'s pharmaceutical research and development focus.