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Recession Shopping – Getting More for Your Money

admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:45:33 +0000

During any financial recession money can be tight, so it is a good idea to review your shopping habits and start making additional savings by cutting your weekly shopping bills down. By taking some time to look at your shopping bills and finding ways to cut costs, you can free up money and help to take the pressure off other financial commitments you may have.

Watch Prices

Set aside plenty of time to do your food shopping, and look carefully at the price of each item before you put it in your trolley. It can be tempting just to pick up the same goods each week without checking the cost, but you could make a lot of savings by swapping your usual brand or ketchup for a cheaper, supermarket own label, or by looking out for an alternative brand that is on offer that week. Also watch the prices at your local petrol stations, so that you can spot which ones are cheaper so that you can make some savings on your fuel bills.

Buy in Bulk

It can be much cheaper to buy certain items such as toilet roll, tinned foods and frozen foods in bulk, and as these items will last in your store cupboards so you can stock up on them every two to three months, and then just put them away until you need them. Only ever buy those items you will actually use in bulk though, or else you will just be wasting your money and cluttering up your cupboards for nothing.

By Fresh

Ready made meals and takeaways are very convenient, but they are also very expensive and you can save a lot of money by buying the basic ingredients and making meals yourself, and they will also taste much nicer and be better for you in the long run. If you are stretched for time at the end of the day, then set aside one afternoon/evening a week and cook up some simple suppers such as lasagne, cottage pie, pasta bake etc. and then portion these up and put them in the freezer. Then all you will need to do is heat them up and serve them with some fresh crusty bread when you get home from work.

Coupons

Most supermarkets and larger stores offer coupons with money off goods and services, so make sure you look out for coupons in magazines, newspapers and also in store to help you cut your weekly bills, and don’t forget to check out the coupon codes on retail websites as well, as these can make you great savings online.

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Haywood now Financial Partner of Firstgold

admin — Wed, 20 May 2009 09:45:31 +0000

Firstgold Corp. failed to submit its annual financial on time report Monday. The company said a pungent cash crunch banned it from filing the mandated audit. Company executives told the audit report for the recent fiscal year that ended 31 January would be completed when cash becomes available. Nonetheless, the authority did not mention when financial condition would improve.

The Cameron Park-based group inaugurated production in March at a gold mine at Nevada. However, since it had hit hard times as leading officials to deem selling Firstgold. The company hired Haywood Securities Inc. to help getting a buyer or extra financing. Haywood is a Canadian investment banking company.

The company’s chief executive Steve Akerfeldt told in a press release that Firstgold started negotiations with more three potential buyers. The company has leases on more than10,000 acres in Nevada. Firstgold has suspended gold processing. It has spent around $16 million to expand the processing facility & capability at Relief Canyon Mine.

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IPIC Financed Additional $1.41 Billion into Aabar Investment PJSC

admin — Sun, 17 May 2009 07:48:15 +0000

UAE-based the International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) told the media on Friday that the company is going to announce several investment opportunities. Now it is revising its investment plans.

IPIC was established in the year 1984 and it is completely owned by the Government of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. However, it is operated by an independent Board of Directors. H.H. Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has charged on Chairman of IPIC since 1994. Al Nahyan is personally directing the company’s progress towards the realization that to develop and boost Abu Dhabi’s presence in worldwide.

After a general meeting of the Board of Directors headed by Shaikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chairman of IPIC, Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) and Minister of Presidential Affairs (MPA); the company said that the meeting discussed IPIC ’s performance through the first quarter of 2009 and reviewed several reports on different projects.

Additionally, they discussed on some investment opportunities and the opportunities will soon be announced. The company recently invested an additional $1.41 billion (nearly Dh5.17b) in the Aabar Investment PJSC. The pumped was to give the country a bulk control in the investment firm set over Daimler AG’s major shareholder.

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