Calendar of past and upcoming economic events in months and dates
If you want to read the news, choose the year and the month from the pull down menus under the calendar to the right and click on…. There is news only for those dates that are links. Click on the corresponding date and you will see a list of news only for that day.
The largest companies in their fields are: Clifford Chance LLP (USA) (a huge law company with profit of 986 million dollars in 1998); WPP Group Plc (England) (the world’s largest advertising agency since May 2000 with profit of 5.2 billion dollars in 1999. This agency pushed its rival company Young & Rubicam to the second place.); Bertelsmann AG (Germany) (the world’s largest publishing company with total sales volume of 14.16 billion dollars in June 1999); SFX Entertainment (the world’s largest producer and promoter of Broadway shows, concerts, sport competitions, the owner of about 125 concert halls, stadiums, etc.); Burson–Martseller (USA) (the largest PR-company founded in New York by Harold Berson and Bill Martseller more than 40 years ago. Its profit was more than 275 million dollars in 1995.); Frito-Lay (the largest producer of spicy snacks, a member of the PepsiCo Group. By the end of 1999 its total sale volume amounted to 30% of the world snack market, and that was 2/3 of the total sales volume of the PepsiCo Group. PepsiCo Group is the owner of “Doritos”, “Cheetos” and “Ruffles” trade marks).