Corporate sponsorship has also changed. Koning: “The days when sponsoring meant transferring a lot of money and then advertising are long gone. There is much more of a call for transparency and sustainability, for example.” The next Games, the Winter Games in Beijing, start in seven months. There, (Western) sponsors do not want to be…
For the first time in a long time, all five major pension funds have enough cash in hand to meet their future pension obligations. At ABP, Zorg en Welzijn, the metal funds and the pension fund for the construction industry, this so-called funding ratio was above 100 percent on 30 June. Fulfillment of the fervent…
Unilever is selling more ice creams in Spain and Italy, now that the catering industry has reopened. At the same time, less ice cream is being eaten in Europe and less hygiene products are being sold than last year, at the height of corona measures and lockdowns. Unilever’s total turnover in the second quarter amounted…
The port of Rotterdam has not yet fully recovered from the corona crisis. Despite a significant increase compared to 2020, throughput is still 4 percent less than in the first six months of 2019. This is apparent from the half-year figures of the Port of Rotterdam Authority. The volume of containers, on the other hand,…
The European Central Bank says it will continue to stimulate the economy for the time being with extremely low interest rates, even though inflation is actually too high for that. The ECB wants to continue with support measures until inflation reaches two percent for a longer period of time. The ECB’s official target is an…
Consumers will pay more for their daily shopping. Het Financieele Dagblad writes that producers such as Unilever and Procter & Gamble are encountering such high cost increases that they will pass them on to the supermarkets. And they will have no other choice in the long run, analysts say. A part will ultimately be borne…
Pension participants of civil servants fund ABP must take into account a premium increase for next year. From the 25.9 percent it is now, the pension premium will go to 27.4 percent, the fund expects. That equates to 9 euros net per month for those who earn 3500 euros gross per month. This year, participants…
The Dutch development and state bank FMO has lent millions to the company of a Honduran businessman, who has been convicted of involvement in the murder of a human rights activist. That reports the FD. The money was intended for the construction of a hydroelectric power station, against which human rights activist Berta Cáceres led…
Payment services have become less accessible to vulnerable Dutch people, such as the elderly, people with disabilities and people with low digital skills. This is apparent from research by De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), commissioned by the Social Consultation on Payments (MOB), which includes various (branch) organizations. Half of some groups of vulnerable people indicate that…
During the last lockdown, the Dutch have increasingly found their way to European online stores (outside the Netherlands) than before, according to figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics. In the first three months of this year, Dutch consumers spent 63 percent more at European online stores than in the first quarter of 2020. In…