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Local legal expertise for companies investing in Turkey

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

With a population of 73 million people, Turkey has the largest youth population compared with the EU, with a median age 28.8 and 60 percent of the population under the age of 35. Turkey has a labor productivity with an annual average growth of 4.4 percent between 2002 and 2009. A dynamic and mature private sector with USD 102 billion worth of exports and an increase of 183 percent between 2002 and 2009, it has a strong industrial and service culture, with more than 23,000 companies with international capital.

Companies investing in the dynamic Turkish markets need to be well aware of the local legal environment. Vaibmu has established a working cooperation with an Istanbul based Law Firm that has extensive experience in Corporate Law, Contracts, M&A, and Dispute Resolution, both in Turkey and in the EU. Our Legal Partner has many years of experience advising international companies ($500M+) with proven and consistent success.

If you are entering the Turkish markets, a key success factor will be to have the best legal advice and legal partners. Please, contact Vaibmu for further information.

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The Quiet Media Leaders

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Making the Buck without Making the Fuss

DigitalTonto has made a blog entry about 4 Unlikely Digital Heroes which is an interesting read (and I am not saying this just because our company is featured in it!). The post reviews 4 companies that are quietly making huge steps in digital, also giving credit to the 2010 ICMA Classified Media Innovation Award which Vaibmu Ltd. has created for the International Classified Media Association and which pays tribute to companies in the classified media space who are innovating. As we noted in a previous entry and in our report with all the finalists ideas and projects, a lot of great product and strategy development is coming from traditional print publishers in digital media worldwide.

If you have a few minutes, be sure to read his insight about Time Warner, Condé Nast and Naspers as well as the Polish analytics company Gemius.

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ICMA Innovation Award Report

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

10 Media Companies Showcase their Innovations

Download the report featuring the ideas of the 10 finalists in the “2010 ICMA Innovation Award”.

Update! Award winners were announced in Berlin at the ICMA Gala dinner on May 8th as follows:

Overall Winner: FARM COUNTRY TRADER (USA)

Show Me The Money Category Winner: PennySaverUSA (USA)

Quick Implementation Category Winner: IPC Media (UK)

Congratulations to all participants and looking forward to next year’s award!

The Innovations and companies were evaluated by the ICMA Committee. The submissions were evaluated from four different points of view:

Novelty | a) Something new or unusual, b) the quality or state of being novel; newness.

Creativity | Mental process involving the discovery of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the existing ideas or concepts, fueled by the process of either conscious or unconscious insight

Sustainability | Is the innovation a “one shot” or does it have a long term positive impact to the business.

Results | The results of the innovation or new corporate strategy so far. Growth of profit, revenue, number of customers and amount of content were taken into account.

The shortlist

After the Committee analysis, the short list of Top 10 submissions in alphabetical order were:

  • Directo del Campo, Spain
  • Farm Country Trader, United States
  • HürriyetEmlak, Turkey
  • IPC Media, United Kingdom
  • Mediatel, Czech Republic
  • Mobiya, United Kingdom
  • News International, United Kingdom
  • PennySaverUSA.com, United States
  • Sanoma Digital, Finland
  • WorkDigital, United Kingdom

In the report we describe the shortlisted ideas and companies. Download it here!

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A New LinkedIn Networking Group: Classified Media Leaders

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

A new LinkedIn group, Classified Media Leaders, has just been opened. This is how the group itself describes its purpose:

This group brings together worldwide experts and professionals from the classified media industry. Here members share ideas, ask questions about the dynamic classified media industry, seek best practices and information and network. Join the conversation!

Join Classified Media Leaders in LinkedIn.

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New Vaibmu website!

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Freshly revamped corporate site is open!

We have made a new website using our original logo and keeping the same color palette and font family that we started out with in early 2010. The new website is more interactive and has more differentiated and engaging layouts and graphics, which were lacking in the previous “bare bones” version which we put together ourselves using a free wordpress theme.

We hope you will find the new structure as easy to use and navigate as we do and we also hope you will join our social communities via our Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin pages, where you will be able to follow Vaibmu’s new initiatives. Credit goes to Cameron Sweeney, who is a graphic artist and web designer located in Tasmania, Australia, for the layout.

We look forward to your feedback on the new design and layouts, as well as on the content structure.

Let us know what you think dropping an e-mail at info (at) vaibmu.com

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Closer to the 2010 ICMA Innovation Award!

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

Peep into the future of your business

The 2010 ICMA Innovation Award has received many very cool and ingenious submissions from over 14 countries worldwide! The jury is now evaluating the submissions and the winner will be revealed at the gala diner of the ICMA General Meeting in Berlin, Classifieds: Evolve or Die which will be held in Berlin on May 5 – 8, 2010.

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Business Analyst Network

Friday, January 15th, 2010

We’re hiring!

Vaibmu is looking for motivated, versatile and proactive Business & Market Analysts. We operate a network of professionals who work with us on a project basis in some of our core markets, including Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Hungary, Poland, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Slovenia, Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Spain and Finland.

These professionals work with Vaibmu in projects of market intelligence, marketplace assessment, ad hoc company research, general market data collection and processing and investigation of local market trends and idiosyncrasies in media, digital media and advertising, among others.

Find out more about the requirements and profiles we’re looking for.

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