Monthly Archives: March 2017

Sick employees not taking time off to fully recover

An estimated 137.3 million working days were lost due to sick or injured employees in the UK in 2016, according to new research from the ONS Sickness Absence in the Labour Market report. This is equivalent to 4.3 days per worker (the lowest recorded since the series began in 1993, when it was at 7.2 days
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Google’s mobile-first index: Seven myths dispelled

Google is well on its way to crawling the entire web using the mobile version of their bot – and as a result, your content will soon be ranked primarily on the content it serves to mobile user-agents. Below, we’ve collected the most common myths heard around Google’s move to a mobile-first index, and address each
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Tips for budding entrepreneurs

Just about everybody has a good business idea so why don’t they always happen? It is the fear of failure that stops us from following through with ideas. More often than not, peers will dissuade you by pointing out why it won’t work rather than being supportive. They’ll say things like, ‘Don’t waste all the
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Nature’s Sunshine Q4 Sales Up 5% To $84 Million

 
Nature’s Sunshine Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: NATR), a leading natural health and wellness company engaged in the manufacture and direct selling of nutritional and personal care products, recently reported its financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2016.
Fourth Quarter 2016 Financial Highlights:

Net sales of $84.0 million increased 4.9% compared to $80.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2015. On a local currency basis, net sales increased 4.6% as compared to the fourth quarter of 2015. Synergy Asia Pacific delivered 13.7% growth (11.1% in local currency) in net sales as compared to the fourth quarter of 2015.

The quarter included incremental net sales of $2.3 million related to China pre-opening product sales through Hong Kong. Net sales were positively impacted by $0.3 million of favorable foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations, offset by a

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