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Horsemeat burgers anyone? Tescos says sorry 16th January 2013 10:27 AM

When is a beefburger not a beefburger? When it's 29% horsemeat

“The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) said the meat had come from two processing plants in the Irish Republic - Liffey Meats and Silvercrest Foods - and the Dalepak Hambleton plant in North Yorkshire.

The burgers had been on sale in Tesco and Iceland in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, where they were also on sale in Dunnes Stores, Lidl and Aldi.

A total of 27 burger products were analysed, with 10 of them containing traces of horse DNA and 23 containing pig DNA.

Horsemeat accounted for approximately 29% of the meat content in one sample from Tesco, which had two frozen beefburger products sold in both the UK and Ireland contaminated with horse DNA.

BBC News - 'Horsemeat beefburgers' investigated in UK and Ireland”

On a more serious note, I wonder if the processing plants will survive? No doubt their whole customer chain will have pulled the plug until they can convince them things have been sorted out, and facilities and processes sorted out. That will take maybe a month or two? Hope they have a good contingency fund...

What Are You Listening To Now? 15th January 2013 3:46 PM

Originally Posted by Dreamraven

“amongst others.

Enjoy.”

ahhh an 80's session

Feeling a bit of Maiden coming on for the drive home, blow out the cobwebs!

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One foot in the rave 15th January 2013 3:35 PM

It's not April yet is it????

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Predictions For 2013 15th January 2013 10:13 AM

Originally Posted by alicemenezes

“I'm not sure but i heard facebook is going in a loss (many must have heard this too). A rumor? true?”

I think Facebook profit expectations were overhyped, but I'm sure it still turns a healthy profit.

Originally Posted by alicemenezes

“And McDonalds is facing loss too. True?”

They reported a downturn and it was widely reported they are facing stiffer competition, but I think it's far from a loss. Plus we're all getting fatter so I doubt there's any shortage of customers

But who knows, maybe a fitness crusade will bring the end of the burger chain?

Help, its the Penguin! Remove all your links! What a load of Cobblers... 15th January 2013 9:55 AM

Originally Posted by Barney

“...so one would assume the professional would have prior knowledge of any pending updates on the horizon. But hey no thats too much to expect having just paid him yet another

Will HMV be able to change direction? 12 month update - HMV calls in administrators 14th January 2013 9:35 PM

What a crying shame, 12 months after this thread was started, it looks like it's all over for HMV.

“Around 4,500 jobs are at risk at the 90-year-old retailer after its board called in Deloitte as administrators following poor results over the crucial Christmas trading period

How franchising system is good for establish business? 14th January 2013 2:37 PM

Originally Posted by Marry martin

“One of my friend had a franchise by an establish company but very soon it was close due many reasons.”

Doesn't sound like he did very much research and obviously has money to burn if he quickly gave up on it

If his market was inundated with cheap imports, he should have saved his cash and become one of your affiliates!

Predictions For 2013 14th January 2013 2:33 PM

So any final 2013 business related predictions as we reach the half way point in January?

Any more predicted big chain failures?

Help, its the Penguin! Remove all your links! What a load of Cobblers... 14th January 2013 1:53 PM

We've had a few link removal requests now from frenzied business owners and mickey mouse SEO peeps (with some demanding, and a few legally threatening

) from the forum and our business directories.

Ever since Google unleashed the Penguin (the codename for it's link spam algorithm) there has been a lots of confusion, hysteria, hype and bizarre advice dished out across the web. The subsequent release of the Google Disavow tool (enabling you to manually enter the link address you no longer want to be associated with) has just made things worse!

The reality is, it is all aimed at removing or distancing yourself from "bad neighbour hoods" or in other words, dodgy links of questionable value or origin.

Unfortunately all the scaremongering is making people get rid of perfectly good links and actually hindering their online marketing rather than helping it.

At least it's not just us. According to SearchEngineLand, StumbleUpon is now getting regular requests for removals, a policy which Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Lands founder has described as dumb

Why Asking StumbleUpon To Remove Your Links Is Dumb

Jaguar Land Rover continues to buck the trend 14th January 2013 12:58 PM

JLR seem to go from strength to strength.

“...vehicle sales in China rose 70% to 71,940, overtaking the UK to become its biggest market.

Sales in the UK rose 19% to 68,333 and in the US by 11% to 55,675. The company said it was active in 177 countries in the year.

BBC News - Jaguar Land Rover to create 800 new jobs”

So we still know how to make and sell quality cars, it just took Indian owned JLR to remind us