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CNBC Europe is the leading pan-European real-time financial and business channel, providing the latest market information, unrivalled coverage of breaking news, in-depth analysis and interviews with business leaders from around the world. CNBC Europe’s fast-paced, hard-hitting business coverage is essential viewing for senior business leaders, the financial community and anyone in Europe with assets to invest or protect. From the start of trading in Europe and the US through to the closing of the markets in Asia and the Closing Bell on Wall Street, the channel’s programme strategy is built around key business events during the day.

With programming from Europe, the US and Asia, CNBC Europe provides the perfect 24-hour global business briefing.

Today CNBC Europe is available in over 100 million homes, 1,400 banks and financial institutions and thousands of four and five star hotels throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa. CNBC Europe is wholly owned subsidiary of NBC Universal. NBC Universal is the broadcasting unit of General Electric Company (GE).

Factiva®, from Dow Jones, provides essential business news and information together with the content delivery tools and services that enable professionals to make better decisions faster. Factiva’s unrivalled collection of more than 10,000 authoritative sources includes the exclusive combination of The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times™, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and the Associated Press, as well as Reuters Fundamentals, and D&B company profiles.

Factiva’s innovative, XML-based and Web services-enabled technology platform provides access to this rich content collection via Factiva’s role-specific products or through customized enterprise, group or personal solutions. Executives, information professionals, marketers, salespeople, and other professionals can easily monitor and understand the latest news, market trends, and business challenges relevant to them – directly from the Microsoft® Office and job-specific applications they use every day.

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Since 1984, BT has been helping multi-national organisations across the globe transform their organisations in order to embrace the opportunities that today's digital business environment provides.

BT is now recognised as a global leader in networked IT services. The company offers a combination of networking, communications and collaboration expertise; systems integration capabilities; best-of-breed technologies; global connectivity and managed services, all of which help organisations overcome the challenges and realise the opportunities created by the digital networked economy.

BT has extensive global presence to support international and multi-national organisations. It provides local availability of services in 70 countries to 10,000 multi-site organisations, of which 3,400 are multi-national companies.

To learn more about how BT's networked IT services can help your organisation prosper in the digital networked economy visit bt.com/networked

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Europe’s leading business monthly. Now produced in conjunction with CNBC Europe.

CNBC European Business represents the alignment of two like-minded media brands committed to the business of doing business across Europe: CNBC European Business is a magazine about European businesses, for European readers, while CNBC Europe is the only pan-European television network devoted to financial and business news. Globalisation is the inevitable backdrop, yet viewed as such, Europe assumes greater coherence as a single market than at any point in its long history. CNBC European Business is a product of that reality. We capitalise on our combined editorial strength, access to top executives and marketing reach to do more to meet the information needs of our high-powered business readers.

For more information visit: www.cnbceb.com

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TIME magazine is the world’s leading business publication, covering global news and business, international politics, technology, science, the environment, society, health, the arts, fashion and design each week in print and around the clock on time.com  

Senior business executives require a well-informed world view to effectively manage their organizations and make sound decisions. TIME’s trusted insight and in-depth analysis on issues of global significance delivers this critical intelligence to the savvy business leader. Under the steer of visionary new Managing Editor Rick Stengel, TIME’s Friday on-sale date works seamlessly with the relaunched time.com website, both of which are packed with a host of fresh new features to serve the needs of senior decision-makers across the globe. Every week, connect with 29 million influential readers in print and 8.3 million monthly unique visitors on time.com

TIME. Where news meets business.

FOCUS – The German News Magazine

FOCUS News Magazine is the most successful innovation in magazine publishing seen during the nineties. Fourteen years after launching, FOCUS now draws 5.96 million people per week to read Germany's modern news magazine.

On 18 January 1993, Dr. Hubert Burda, together with Helmut Markwort, his editor-in-chief, succeeded in doing what no-one in the German media scene had thought possible - they successfully introduced a second news magazine. Numerous other failed attempts to break the monopoly of Der Spiegel are proof of the enormous amount which the FOCUS team has achieved.  Right from the word go, the launch of FOCUS showed what a large demand there was for a modern news magazine in Germany. The large number of national and international awards won by FOCUS confirms the idea and editorial concept of this modern news magazine.