On 19th April, Kipsala International Exhibition Centre, in Latvia’s beautiful city Riga, will hold the international conference “Fashion and Design: Trends and Perspectives”, with participation of Lara Aragno Gigli who has been working with Armani and Prada and for over 10 years and has been a manager of the Italian high fashion label MiuMiu....
The recent meeting of the Northern Future Forum was hosted by Latvia’s Prime Minster Valdis Dombrovskis in Riga. This years meeting was focussing on Green Technology and highlighting awareness between the young and the old in Digital Technology. This is the third consecutive year for the meeting of the Baltic regions, UK, Iceland and...
In order to ensure fair and equal representation for the Baltic’s at the next upcoming European Council meeting at which will be decided the EU agricultural budget for 2014 to 2020, an event is being planned by farmers in the Baltic States to light some 400 fires along the access roads to Via Baltica...
Recent data released by Eurostat demonstrates that the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have recorded the greatest fall in unemployment rates of all the EU countries for 2012. Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union and by comparing figure from all the EU member states over a twelve year period...
Estonian Air is awaiting a governmental rescue package to halt the risk of ending up in administration. After a disastrous year of record losses which saw the removal of the company’s CEO Tero Taskila and the instalment of Jan Palmer as CEO, the company is still in difficulties. In October the company revealed a...
Further to the announcement of next years Fashion & Textile fair in Latvia is Fashion & Textile 2013 B2B Matchmaking, a business promotion platform that offers an online possibility to establish business contacts is already launched. Online B2B Matchmaking has got a new look that makes it more user-friendly, faster and easier. The registered...
After the success of previous years, there is to be an 18th Fashion and Textile fair in Latvia. Formerly known as the Intertextile Balticum the event will be held at Kipsala International Exhibition Centre on 19-21 April 2013 in Riga and is titled ‘Fashion & Textile 2013’. Organised by International Exhibition Company BT 1...
Ikea, international retail furnishing giant, will open their first outlet in Lithuania’s capital city,Vilnius, in 2013. The move will provide an added economic boon to Lithuania not only in the form of jobs opportunities, as Ikea is seeking staffing solutions for many sectors – sales, marketing, consumer relations, logistics, communication and design, business coordination...
According to a press release published on Rueters this morning, Elektrilevi, the major Estonian electricity distribution network operator, has signed an eight-year contract with Ericsson to supply, install and run a smart-metering network. The press release stated that Estoniais installing smart meters to be inline with other EU countries and contribute to the EU...
The unemployment rate in Latvia has recently dropped by 0.4%, going from 12.3% back in May this year, down to 11.9% in June. It has been predicted that this rate could continue to drop to around 10.9% in early 2013. At the beginning of June, there were 121,994 people who were registered as unemployed...
This time of year is always the busiest in terms of students moving out of their University halls and inclusive properties and looking to rent or buy their first very own accommodation, in preparation for the new school year. In Latvia this month the rent market has remained as active as it was in...
Many riverbanks along the Daugava River in Latvia are starting to crumble, with meters of land slowly sinking underwater due to harsh weather and a change in water levels. Latvenergo dedicates 850,000 LVL a year to try and save the banks, but it looks like this just isn’t enough. The state company, Vides Projekti,...
This week it has been confirmed that one of Estonia’s largest real estate agencies, Ober-Haus, is experiencing some potentially devastating problems. The agency was founded by a businessman from the U.S.A, Paul Oberschneider, who then sold the business on to the Realia Group, a Finnish real estate giant. However, this sale was made before...
The mother company of Espersen Lietuva fish processors, situated in Klaipeda, is Danish A. Espersen, which is one of the largest fish processors in the Nordics. It has recently been reported that it has plans to raise capacities in the Lithuanian branch by extending the existing building. This expansion could potentially raise capacity by...
Cormack Consultancy Group (CCG), the international business development consultancy based in Peebles in the Scottish borders, has continued its recent expansion with the opening of a new office in Kolkata, India. This new office follows hard on the heels of the office they opened in Moscowin April of this year. The new office is...
Latvian Farmers represented by the Ministry of Agriculture and the farmers lobby representatives, who have been campaigning hard for at 80% of the average EU subsidies level, were disappointed with the recent proposal recommending that they receive only 65% of the average EU level. Proposals for reform of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)...
