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JOBLESS WOMAN STORED 7 KG OF GOLD
About 7 kg of raw gold was found in a flower-bed near a jobless woman's house in Magadan.
As spokesman for Interior Affairs Ministry's Far East Office informs, this gold was found in the course of the dragnet "Samorodok" organized by local police and FSB in Magadan Oblast. The value of this gold is estimated at 2.3 million rubles. This is a second large portion of gold confiscated in this July. - Yury ROGOV.
FELLOW COUNTRYMEN WILL MEET IN PRIMORYE THIRD TIME
Primorsky Krai Governor Sergei Darkin signed a decree on hosting the III Pacific Forum of Fellow Countrymen in Vladivostok.
Its title will be "Migrations and Diasporas: Potential for Pacific Russia Development." The event is scheduled for October 21-22 and its purpose will be to invigorate business and information cooperation with the Russian Diaspora abroad. - Yulia PROKHOROVA.
FESCO HAS NO MORE LOSSES
As FESCO director general Yevgeny Ambrosov informed "ZR", FESCO operating profit in the first semi-year was 86,408,000 rubles versus 410 million rubles in the red a year ago.
Net profit for 2002 amounted to 1,857,000 rubles.
"ZR" FILE: FESCO charter capital is 1,643,593,000 rubles and split into 1,643,593,000 ordinary shares with a face value of 1 ruble. 19.8% of shares belong to the State Property Ministry and 62% is owned by S.V.G. Holdings S.A. controlled by structures close to State Duma deputy Sergei Generalov. - Olga DOBROLYUBOVA.
AUSTRIAN TRADE MISSION WILL VISIT PRIMORYE IN SEPTEMBER
The Austrian Embassy's Trade Bureau, with support by Primorye Chamber of Commerce and Industry, will organize a visit of a large delegation of Austrian businessmen during September 4-6. The purpose will be establish business contacts between Austrian and Primorian companies.
27 companies showed interest to this trip, including the worldwide-reputed AUSTRIA PUMA DASSLER, successfully combining best ideas of sports, fashion, lifestyle and exporting its produce to more than 80 countries.
ACIS Osteuropa Handels GmbH - is a leading filling station designer and builder. It also supplies a wide gamut of equipment for filling stations, washing stations and spare parts, operates a ramified servicing chain, develops concepts and design projects, supplies equipment for roadside cafes, shops and other facilities. It constructs super- and hypermarkets, shopping & recreation centres and state-of-the-art automobile centres.
Other members of the Austrian delegation will be manufacturers of valves and fittings, PET-lines for bottle production, beverage and vegetable oil filling, water boilers, anti-cancer preparation UCRAIN, lanterns, tire-protection chains for wheeled loaders, bulldozers, mine and quarry dumpers, scrapers and graders, car antiskid chains, equipment for plastic window production, lines for woven polymeric bags and big-bag soft containers resistant to moisture and high mechanical loads, etc. - Irina DROBYSHEVA.
ENVIRONMENTAL TERRORISM
The mineral water production facility operated by Slavda company at Shmakovsky deposit was attacked last week. The guard was beaten and three wells were cast with concrete.
Environmental specialists from Primorsky Krai Natural Resources Office (GUPR) don't rule out that some oil products could be dumped into the wells together with concrete and will soon make testing of the water.
GUPR specialists say it's hard to predict possible consequences of underground water contamination. It is not unlikely that "oil product traces" may appear in other wells currently in use by nearby health resorts.
The reasons for this attack are unclear, but in its aftermath regulatory authorities raised the issue of revoking Slavda's license for well operation. Possibly, the incident was provoked by Slavda's competitors willing to derail its project to bottle and sell the water from Shmakovka. - Nadezhda VORONTSOVA.
COMMUNICATION PROVIDER GROSSES REVENUE
JSC Dalsvyaz earned 213,993,000 rubles in net profit in the first half of 2003 compared with 17,494,000 rubles in the red last year, said its spokesman.
The main cause for loss-making performance in 2002 is that Dalsvyaz was establishing a reserve fund to settle bad debts both for 2002 and previous years.
Sales receipts grew up to 3.017 billion rubles in the first half of 2003 (+23%), communication services receipts amounted to 2.966 billion rubles (+23.5%), prime cost of services provided was 2.53 billion rubles.
Sales profit grew to 486,498,000 rubles (+10%), before-tax profit amounted to 297,457,000 million rubles which is 5.2 times more than in similar period a year ago.
The number of telephone lines grew by 7% and reached 1,104,456, with 22,923 new telephones installed. Revenue per line grew by 16% and reached 2,700 rubles, sales profit per line grew by 8% and reached 462 rubles. Average staff number reduced by 8% (down to 18,341), with the number of lines per man growing from 51.8 to 60.2.
"ZR" FILE: Dalsvyaz' charter capital is 1,267,503,220 rubles and split into 95,581,421 ordinary and 31,168,901 preferred shares with a face value of 10 rubles. The major shareholder is JSC SvyazInvest (38.1% of charter capital, 50.56% of voting shares). - Olga DOBROLYUBOVA.
IN SEARCH OF CORPORATE SOUL
"ZR" editor-in-chief Yelena Barkova attended the IV International Conference "Corporate Culture and Reputation of Organization" co-sponsored by the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the National Fund "Russian Business Culture" with assistance by the U.S. Department of Commerce, NIKoil investment and banking group, JV Dialog, Astrakhan and Samara chambers of commerce and industry.
The conference was opened July 15 in Samara, a home place for the "Business Culture" association, and continued during 8 days onboard the "Semen Bydennyi" passenger ship sailing along the route Samara - Volgograd - Astrakhan - Saratov - Samara. It was attended by CEOs of regional chambers of commerce and industry, officials from federal ministries and agencies, company directors and managers, university professors.
Petr Shikharev, academic secretary of the conference and vice president of the National Fund "Russian Business Culture", placed emphasis on the practical benefits of "merchant's true word". During seminars, participants summed up practical experience and analyzed legislative and ethic principles in business relationships in our society. "Roundtables" discussed trends in Russian business development, swinging between European and American business cultures and ignoring the Asian one. Trainings were dedicated to the ethics of business relationships, including personnel management. It became clear to the attendees that the moral and psychological climate in business relationships inside companies and between partners and competitors becomes one of the most profit-making and promising forms of capital.
Dmitry Mikheyev, director of the IBS Corporate Training Centre of the People's Economy Academy, asserted that company is a live organism and can either develop and grow or die. After being arrested in 1979, Mikheyev emigrated to USA and worked in "brain trusts" several years. He went back to Russia only in 1998 for, as he explained, "spirituality of relationships." And he argued ardently with Prof. Vladimir Spivak, sociologist with the St. Petersburg University of Economy and Finances, about washing out of national mentality in Russian business culture.
Having published over 130 writings in labour economy and personnel management, the latter made public his conclusion that the practice of thoughtless copying of the American model of business doing is taking the upper hand.
Takhir Bazarov, D. Sc. (Psychol.) from Moscow, asserted that the type of CEO should be determined by the company's level of development: first level ("public mixing") - leader, "mechanization" level - administrator, "structuring" - organizer and, finally, "optimization" when intellectual capital is of primary importance - manager.
Natalia Karpova, president of the Russian branch of the Licensing Society and department head at the International Business Higher School, generously gave advice how to preserve intellectual capital, the most important type of capital today. She was one of developers of Russian statutory laws applying to patent, copyright and relating rights and currently is the person who protects Russian business's know-how interests in the international arena. Russian appraiser informally call her a leader of the school on intellectual property appraisal.
Is it possible to reconcile protection of corporate know-how on the one hand and transparency proclaimed by the Business Code, on the other hand? Yes, it is. Representatives of NIKoil, which bought AutoBank and PSK (Moscow) one year ago, and foreign-owned company OTIS Lift Ltd. shared their experience in corporate behaviour and their conclusion - that a corporate code should be based on employee's polls about their life priorities and evaluation criteria - could be a piece of practical advice to our companies.
It is beyond doubt that Primorye companies will have to develop their own by-laws and charters. Uniform business behaviour rules optimize costs, save time and funds, but only provided that "merchant's word" is worth a heap of legal papers. "Otherwise, said Russian Orthodox University first pro-rector, society turns into a pack of wolves eating itself." - Yelena BELTSEVA.
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