Following in the footsteps of his father Raphin, who founded S Sri Aksorn Printing, Viboon Sueverachai’s management strategy is to strengthen bonds between the family business and its printing-house customers.

Tsunami five months on Tourists still keep distance

Cheap hotel rates fail to spark recovery

Book review: Individuals will drive globalisation

Like it or not, globalisation is an unavoidable aspect of modern life. And the future of globalisation will not be driven by big institutions or multinational corporations, but by the individual.

Street WISE: ‘Big Brother’ not a big deal

The House committee on religion, arts and culture caused such a fuss two weeks ago when it tried to get the Broadcast Censor Board to scrap the “Big Brother” reality show for allegedly promoting immoral values.

TELECOM LIBERALISATION: Keeping CAT in driving seat

Kitisak will focus on maximising core strengths in new environment

Interview: Financing new subway routes

Pichit Akrathit, president of MFC Asset Management, talks to The Nation about how to finance the government-initiated seven new subway routes. MFC has been assigned by the government to find a way of raising the Bt280 billion needed to fund the project. Siriporn Chanjindamanee and Piyarat Setthasiriphaiboon report.

Brand-building at bedding firm

Faced with an influx of rivals in the bedding market, Choke Laup Boonchai has moved to boost its competitiveness and prepare for exports by adopting modern management techniques and manufacturing processes.

SANDWICHES: Subway on major 5-year expansion

Subway, the world’s second-largest fast-food restaurant chain in terms of store numbers, expects to have 140 outlets in Thailand by 2010.

MEDICAL HUB: Bangkok Hospital upgrading

Company sets five-year target to make health services world class

Personality: Improving the health of strategic marketing

While studying dermatology at Mahidol University, Sumas Wongsunopparat had an interest in business management. Acting on that interest he went on to become a well-known professional in the areas of strategic planning and marketing management in a number of different fields.

Pan Pacific, 10 years on

The Pan Pacific Hotel, celebrating a decade in business this year, will continue to concentrate on two factors it considers crucial for success: personal care and customer satisfaction.

Deves shifts policy priority to ease risk

Having been in business for more than half a century, Deves Insurance is now focusing more on retail customers to provide new opportunities instead of relying purely on big project clients.

Special: sawhney: Hutch ready to expand presence

New joint CEO vows to lift local market share with ad campaign

Economic Battlefield: Firms need more than just a catchy mission statement

It was quite popular some years ago to quote Sun Tzu and his famous treatise “The Art of War”. Businessmen felt they could succeed by following the ancient Chinese general’s maxims.

Managing the Cultures... Inspiring the Team

Getting the concept of urgency across

On the Market

RACING CERTAINTIES

ABF THAILAND BOND INDEX FUND: A new era in fixed-income trading

Fund backed by international reserves from a grouping of eleven countries will be the first of its kind in the Kingdom

Analysts, foreigners can signal market upturn

The local stock and bond markets have been pretty unexciting over the past several weeks. In fact, most of the excitement has been in the foreign-exchange arena, where the baht has moved sharply down against the US dollar (trading at 40.44 as of writing).

PARK CHIDLOM: Buyers drawn by buildings’ quality

Hemaraj maintains October 2006 finish

Condominium boom slows

When Raimon Land’s chief executive Nigel J Cornick last year warned that the company’s residential firm was avoiding investing in the speculative bubble forming along Sukhumvit Road, he had a bad feeling many projects there wouldn’t get built.