It put John Compton, the current head of Americas Foods, in charge of all the company's global groups, making him an heir apparent in the newly created role of president.
Short of a government bail-out, the obvious solution would be for Fiat to get rid of the car business which, as a smallish car maker in a world dominated by huge global groups, is increasingly an anomaly.
In fact, 23 global hotel groups have recently come together to develop a protocol for measuring and reporting the carbon footprint of hotel stays and corporate meetings.
Global investor groups, including INCR, requested exactly this in a recent letter to major governments whose climate negotiators met this month in Doha, Qatar.
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CANBERRA, Australia -- Global Green groups have begun a campaign to have the coral reefs of the Pacific island of New Caledonia nominated for World Heritage listing.
This time of year brings the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, a kind of macroeconomic convention with Big Finance as sponsor and global pressure groups providing the sideshow.
His seven-year-old firm, Voxiva (a merger of the Latin words for "voice" and "life"), is gaining ground in the largely underserved field of helping global aid groups and government agencies communicate quickly with diverse constituencies.
This competition highlights the global reach of groups like the IPN in encouraging this intellectual tradition.
The survey, entitled Important Bird Areas in Africa, is published by BirdLife International, a global alliance of conservation groups.
The result was an agreement by the United Nations, European Union, the governments of 74 countries, the World Diamond Council -- representing the industry -- and a number of interest groups such as Global Witness.
Then, too, the story has passed from the gold gurus like Frank Giustra, and the central banks of China, India and Russia, among others, to the hedge fund giants like George Soros and John Paulson, among others, to mutual fund groups like US Global Resources to pension funds, wealthy families.
According to alarmist groups, this proves global warming is much worse than previously feared.
Three groups keep track of global surface temperatures with records that go back more than a century: NOAA, NASA and the British meteorology office.
The emergence of Arcelor and Mittal has changed all that, with steel groups that have an increasingly global dimension.
On page 26, Forbes Global presents a list of activist shareholder groups, most formed since 1997, in nine Asian countries.
LulzSec is one of several shadowy hacker groups that have sprung to global prominence over the past year and are loosely organized, often with no central leadership.
As firms lunge into emerging markets, they also find themselves more exposed to another increasingly global set of actors: activist pressure groups, urging them to adopt international codes of ethical conduct that commit them to better practices with regard to the environment and human rights.
She compares it to old-fashioned networking through church or school groups, only now on a global scale.
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Authorities in Italy are preparing to deal with an expected 120, 000 anti-globalisation demonstrators from hundreds of protest groups with agendas as diverse as global warming to third world debt.
And how will the onset of a global credit squeeze affect what private-equity groups can pay for a capital-intensive business with a time horizon of three to five years?
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Indeed, a new effort announced on September 23rd by three groups, including the United Nations Global Compact, is intended to help companies see human rights as a business issue that they need to incorporate into their thinking.
At Intel, we track health reform in 22 countries, and we see a global trend toward collective payment paying groups of providers to manage the health of a population based on value rather than volume of procedures.
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For example, creationist groups like Answers in Genesis have released global warming denying videos alongside their attacks on evolution.
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More than global corporations or countries, illegal production and trade groups have successfully adopted the much-advocated innovative practices of flattening, self-organizing, adapting and scaling.
Mr Connelly's story is a global one, partly because so many of the groups seeking to influence the reproduction of others were transnational, but also because often it was those in one country who wished those in another to have fewer children.
Those two groups are expected to thrive whether or not the global economy gains solid ground.
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Stagnant platforms: Continued downward pressure on global marketing spends will drive the growth of larger agglomerated agency groups with integrated offerings and large economies of scale.
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Development groups are nervous about attempts to define a hierarchy of global problems with population at the peak.
The row centres on Deutsche Boerse's most rigorous market segment, the Prime Standard, which groups companies - 379 of them so far - that meet global standards of corporate governance.
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