With just a slight twist of fate, New York might have been called Nouveau Paris. The English sailor Henry Hudson, who sailed to America on the ship Half Moon four hundred years ago on behalf of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), was also at the time...
These days, many American companies are restructuring their European supply chains. The market has collapsed, leaving too much inventory lying around in too many locations: consolidation is the next logical step. Many of these multinationals are...
Barack Obama gave his presidential campaign a positive vibe with the typically American slogan ‘Yes we can’ – and then won with overwhelming success. It’s easy enough to use the optimism of that American cando mentality for a slogan (as in...
The Dutch ministers of Economic Affairs and Transport, Public Works and Water Management have announced the planned opening of the new Top Institute for Supply Chain Management, part of a Supply Chain Campus, in
the municipality of Breda.
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In 2006, the Dutch Prime Minister, Balkenende, had to apologize publicly to Surinamese groups for saying that The Netherlands should be proud of its so-called VOC-mentality, named after the famous Dutch East India Company (VOC), a trading company...