How to Make the Hotel Experience Special with James Gardiner | By Mihaela Lica Butler

by synergycap1 | Jul 24, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Finance

Since March 2017, James Gardiner is the General Manager of Joining the Hyatt Place London Heathrow Airport, and he is already making a difference. Airport hotels have the reputation of catering more to business travelers, and this is the vision behind the seven brand...

Why I Built A $1 Marketing Agency

by synergycap1 | Jul 24, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Finance, Innovate, Working Capital

Let me tell you a fun story. I launched a $1 marketing agency. Seriously, that’s the pitch. It’s an agency where I offer marketing consulting for $1. I sit down with clients for just 30 minutes, ask them a series of questions, work through where their...

IMF cuts UK growth forecasts, but eurozone recovery continues – business live

by synergycap1 | Jul 24, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Economics, Finance, Non-Bank Loans, Working Capital

3.29am EDT03:29 French factory growth hits six-year high Boom! France’s factories are enjoying their best month since 2011, thanks to a surge in new orders. That’s according to the latest French PMI report from Markit, just released. Markit found that...

Motor Mondays: ​Volvo Cross Country — An old favorite returns bigger and better

by synergycap1 | Jul 24, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Working Capital

I welcome an old favorite this week with Volvo’s latest iteration of its Cross Country wagon. And like the Volvo S90 sedan I had recently, it impresses. Volvo had been running quietly since its acquisition by China’s Geely Holding Group in 2010. But money...

Silicon Valley is changing lives on far away islands

by synergycap1 | Jul 24, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Economics, Finance, Non-Bank Loans, Working Capital

I had just landed in Bali for a weekend trip from Singapore. The guy on the flight next to me was going for two weeks from Paris, making me instantly envious of France’s comfortable vacation policy. He asked if I had researched how to get from the airport to the...

A giant state-owned Chinese firm is attracting the attention of big investors

by synergycap1 | Jul 24, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Economics, Finance, Non-Bank Loans, Working Capital

China Unicom is on a list with a handful of other state-owned firms that Beijing is trying to reform by attracting private capital, employing a mixed ownership structure. What Unicom eventually does could serve as a model for reforming China’s 150,000...