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Fiat’s chief executive has said that the Italian automaker is preparing for the ’highly unlikely’ event of Greece leaving the euro.

Telecommunications firm Deutsche Telekom has announced the launch of a new machine-to-machine (M2M) marketplace to ’bring together global supply and demand’.

Confectionary giant Mars has announced that it is on track to meet its pledge made in 2009 to purchase all its cocoa supplies from certified sustainable sources by 2020.

Some seven out of 10 UK businesses rate rising costs as the “biggest threat” to their revival, a consultancy has warned.

Fifteen new University Technical Colleges (UTCs) are set to open with the backing from employers including Jaguar Land Rover, British Airways and Virgin Atlantic.

The series of recent earthquakes to hit Italy risk destabilising the country’s automotive supply chain, with key suppliers and manufacturers being forced to close facilities.

India’s automotive industry is turning its sourcing attentions towards domestic suppliers due in part to a drop in the value of the rupee.

In its 2011 sustainability report mobile phone giant Nokia has said that it will be placing an increasing focus on supplier performance to add to the improvements it saw over the last year.

The UK government has unveiled plans to allow certain companies and public sector organisations the option to opt out from the EU ETS from 2013 as part of Government efforts to cut down on red-tape.

The Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) Corrugated Sector is asking the UK government to take action to reduce the amount of red tape that is “strangling” the UK packagaing industry.