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...companies is fueling a frenzy of acquisitions there. Mergers involving East European firms soared in value by more than 250% this year, with almost 1,700 deals totaling in excess of $100 billion, according to data firm Dealogic. Stephen Barrett, international chairman of the corporate finance practice of consultants KPMG, says the privatization of many firms in the region is the cause of this sharp increase, as well as a surge in dealmaking by Russian energy firms such as Gazprom, the state-controlled oil and gas giant that in 2005 acquired oil firm Sibneft for $13.6 billion...
...each on presents, about 3% less than last year, but raise their food and drink spending. Retailers won't know how they've fared until the last minute: 1 in 4 survey participants say they'll shop until Christmas Eve. A separate poll by consultants KPMG last week showed that more than 1 in 4 Britons hasn't even started yet. So it could be mayhem in the shops if they're after Roboraptors or the Star Wars Darth Vader Voice Changer Mask, top toys in the Deloitte survey. Apple's new iPod nano is a favorite, too. Sudoku books...
...than the tax rate when deciding where to set up shop. According to Marin, taxation ranked ninth, behind factors like market access and production costs. But she expects German jobs to keep heading east. "The past is a good indicator for the future," she says. Paul Barnes, COO of KPMG Tax Services for Central & Eastern Europe, is working with a Bavarian client who tells him only two things keep him from moving his factory to Poland: affinity for the town where his factory is based and the trade unions. "He says, 'If I just look at the economics...
...universal health care and proficiency at winter sports haven't sold you on the idea of Canada, try this: it's the cheapest place in the developed world to do business. The penny-pinching brigade at KPMG set out to find the least expensive cities in which to run a company, and indicators pointed north. Canada beat out 10 other industrialized nations on 27 metrics like labor, taxes and utilities. Each country's cost index, below, is benchmarked to a U.S. score of 100. So, for example, costs run almost 24% higher in Japan. The U.S. ranked...
...mature markets of the top three, China has more than 200 carmakers, ranging from creaky communist-era holdovers and former washing-machine manufacturers to modern joint ventures run by the likes of Volkswagen and General Motors. Most have responded to the growing demand with massive capacity expansion. Accounting firm KPMG predicts that within two years China will be able to build 4.9 million sedans a year--roughly the output of Germany--and will outstrip even China's fast-growing demand by 2.3 million cars a year...