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Success and failure

11/4/2009 at 10:39 pm | hjdewit | No Comments

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...

Invasion of American companies

11/4/2009 at 10:29 pm | hjdewit | No Comments

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...

The American ‘can do’ mentality

11/4/2009 at 10:14 pm | hjdewit | No Comments

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...

Another top institute to open in the Netherlands

11/4/2009 at 9:48 pm | hjdewit | No Comments

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. [captio...

Henry Hudson

11/4/2009 at 8:02 pm | hjdewit | No Comments

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...