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Sliding Market

A new-style ski rental business is shaking up the Alps, reports Stephanie Hall
 

2008: A Music Odyssey


 

Cracking The Glass Ceiling

Ahead of International Women’s Day, new European initiatives aim to increase female boardroom representation. Sarah Wachter reports
 

Debrief

Environmental concern, employee concern and videoconferencing
 

De-Brief

Chinese innovation, tailoring your message and surviving trade shows
 

De-Brief

The iPhone, preventing internet abuse, challenging the doubters
 

De-Brief

Real business in a virtual world, tapping the avant-garde, getting an EU grant
 

De-Brief

Investment in space, thinking big, making money in a war zone
 

Don't Miss A Trick


 

Europe On The Move

Leading the way in truck telematics
 

Flower Power

The global floriculture business is booming, but the Netherlands is having to dig deep to safeguard its pre-eminence. Boyd Farrow reports
 

Green Jobs

The clean technology sector is expanding at an astounding rate, but recruitment is proving problematic. By Mike Scott
 

Hope Springs

The revolutionary genetic modification to plants that could help solve the world’s food crisis
 

Ideas

The end of the incandescent light bulb?; BMW goes electric; British-based Zander making the desert grow; Cobra beer makes a move into India
 

Ideas

Honda begins the greening of Formula One; Kempinski builds a worldwide property brand; Marvel comic heroes heading to a dinner table near you
 

Ideas

GM’s big plans for rooftop solar power; Warming workplaces with body heat
 

On The Right Track?

Barry Mansfield talks to Steve Purdham, CEO of We7, about the future of free music downloads
 

Only Alternative

Europe must wean itself off oil and gas, says Declan J Ganley, and the continent's entrepreneurs can help to make this happen
 

Plastic People

Tom Stevenson looks at an Australian company that’s reinventing the humble shopping bag
 

Post Modern

Deregulation offers great opportunities for companies like Pitney Bowes to help retailers fine-tune their mailshots. By Justin Keay
 

Radar

Making fuel and making movies
 

Radar

Learning from failure and learning from the Americans
 

Radar

Dotcom dangers and doing business in Japan
 

Reinventing The Wheel

New tyres that could save litres of fuel and hundreds of euros a year and reduce emissions
 

Re-Visiting Start-Ups - Rapha

The first of a series, we re-visit start-ups featured in earlier editions of CNBC European Business to see how they are tackling the downturn in 2008
 

Rise Of The Train Surfer

High-speed Wi-Fi meets high-speed trains
 

Running On The Spot

French companies must generate more joie de travail, says Sarah Wachter
 

Self-Help Required

France is accelerating its start-up culture but not fast enough says Sarah Wachter.
 

Start-Up: Decorative Gift Wrapping

Lubomir Sedlak meets a Czech entrepreneur with a penchant for keeping things under wraps
 

Start-Up: Faridab

Sarah Wachter has a brush with a French company that sees huge global potential in products for frizzy hair
 

Start-Up: Intamac

Tony Glover uncovers a company that sees a huge future in broadband-connected home surveillance and security products
 

Start-Up: Iwiw

Networking site iWiW’s popularity with savvy Hungarians has been noticed by T-Online, which has paid €4m for the business. By NEIL BARNETT
 

Start-Up: Magelo

Sarah Wachter swings by Magelo and discovers a company one step ahead of the online gaming titans
 

Start-Up: Mamut

Scott Berman talks to Mamut CEO Eilert Hanoa, who took a big gamble when he started his company from scratch
 

Start-Up: Ms Kart

Lubomír Sedlák meets the man who’s bringing go-karting to central and eastern Europe
 

Start-Up: Planet X

Richard Lofthouse takes a trip to Planet X and finds a guerilla brand that’s making it into the mainstream
 

Start-Up: Suitsupply

Fokke de Jong started out renting graduation gowns to students; now he is aiming at global suit-trade dominance. Richard Lofthouse met him
 

Start-Up: Swissquote

It began as a local financial website. Now the online bank has expansion in its sights, discovers Sarah Wachter
 

Start-Up: Tea

Darren Spence explains to Richard Lofthouse why he believes his fresh café concept will lead to a chain... and a fortune
 

Start-Up: Vectrix

Is this the birth of the electric scooter? Boyd Farrow reports
 

Start-Up: Wikio

A European user-managed news search engine is on course to become the continent’s next high-tech blockbuster, reports Sarah Wachter
 

Start-Up: Windsave

Serial entrepreneur David Gordon has developed a scheme that will not only harness clean energy but fan even more wealth his way. By BOYD FARROW
 

Start-Up: Zootfly

It’s Slovenia’s only games developer, but that hasn’t stopped it dreaming of Hollywood, finds Kester Eddy
 

The Innovation Issue

We examine the importance of innovation to surviving in business, and profile 50 of the top innovators in Europe
 

The March Of Ideas

A report on how the booming creative industries are driving Europe's economic growth
 

Welcome To The Promising Land

Israel is about to join the OECD and foreign investment is booming, but many Europeans have yet to join the party, says Hanan Sher
 

 

Re-Visitng Startups: Rapha

The first of a series, we re-visit start-ups featured in earlier editions of CNBC European Business to see how they are tackling the downturn in 2008

In The Spirit

Celebrate summer with a fine blended Scottish whisky, an award-winning rum, and a budget-breaking single malt.

Worlds Apart

With development continuing apace, Qatar appears immune to the global credit crunch. Richard Lofthouse finds out why

Tapping A Market: The Rush To Invest In Water

The world is waking up to water shortages and private sector solutions, Richard Lofthouse and Barry Mansfield report. Additional research by Flemmich Webb and Robert Pomfret

The New Screen Test

Despite a bumper summer spearheaded by a record-breaking Batman installment, the film industry might not be as recession-proof as once thought. Colin Brown reports