The site will offer online networking resources so two or more small firms could potentially package their goods and services to present a stronger bid on any contract.

WSJ: New Site Aims to Relieve Supplier Woes

States figures show firms in Jersey which package and send goods lost 250 staff in the first six months of 2012.

BBC: End of VAT relief causes 800 jobs losses in Jersey

Senior State Department officials said the administration was still hoping to coax the Russians into signing off on a "smart sanctions" package for Iraq that would end the embargo on humanitarian goods while strengthening military and financial controls on President Saddam Hussein's regime.

CNN: U.S. wants new sanctions against Iraq

Broughton's compensation is calculated according to a series of comparisons (applied in various ways to the different components of his compensation package) with other British multinationals and also with with similar fast-moving consumer goods companies and other FTSE-100 companies.

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And Chinese stocks all through the steel industry, from iron ore to finished goods, which were built up in the expectation of a bigger stimulus package than has yet materialised, are now being run down, amplifying the downward price swing.

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