TELECOMS, MEDIA & MARKETING

In testing times, and with world opinion divided, Israeli companies operating internationally need to project strength, says marketing consultant Sharon Israel.

Trevor Asserson says the BBC's biased coverage of the war in the Gaza Strip breaches its own rules - and he intends to prove it.

Discount Investment holds a 36% controlling stake in the Israeli telecom company.

Touring a devastated kibbutz and meeting Israeli leaders, Elon Musk helped the Israeli narrative, but the business motives were just beneath the surface - and there was nary a word about anti-Semitic posts.

Electra Consumer Products food retail sector saw losses of NIS 7 million in the third quarter of 2023, compared with NIS 51 million before the stores were converted to Carrefour.

According to Minister of Communications Shlomo Karhi, Elon Musk's satellite Internet network Starlink will only operate in Israel and Gaza with his ministry's approval.

Among other benefits, the US software giant will give each of its Israeli employees $3,000.

Eyal Eli: We warn in advance not to surprise us with any step or plan that would harm employees, the collective agreement and the closing of branches and their sale.

The retail chain, controlled by the Salkind brothers' Electra Consumer Products, racked up huge losses in the first half year.

Senior executives will also take a 50% pay cut over the next 30 days, while Hamashbir has put 40% of employees on unpaid leave.

Big Shopping Centers CEO Hay Galis sent a letter to tenants last Thursday proposing that they reopen.

The IDF Home Command has instructed Israelis to keep emergency supplies of canned food, water, medication, and torches, so they can survive 72 hours locked in their security room.

Options are being examined to import potatoes, peppers and other vegetables that are grown in the besieged and bruised south and supplied from there to the rest of the country, and the shortages are still noticeable in many branches.

The tech entrepreneur's venture is targeting a young audience through a streaming app, which could struggle to generate advertising revenue.

Israel's largest retailing chain has hired management consultancy company McKinsey to help it form a streamlining plan to cut operational spending and increase profitability.

The company has raised NIS 450 million from Migdal and Discount Bank to continue expanding its network.

Mirilashvili will replace Shufersal, which did not take up the option for its 19.9% because of restrictions placed on it by the Israel Competition Authority.

SPAR will open stores in Israel without Shufersal as a minority partner, after the Israel Competition Authority imposed restrictions on the partnership.

In 2024, as part of the expansion project, commercial space will be increased and adapted to passengers' demands, with stress on price controls.

Carrefour can currently only import 500 of its 5,000 private label products because Israeli regulation is different from EU regulation.

The 2,500 square meter store will be in Kfar Saba, sources inform "Globes."

Satellite communications solutions company SatixFy fell 85% from its SPAC merger valuation, but CEO Nir Barkan is confident that the market is going its way.

Electra Consumer Products is seen unlikely to exercise its option on another 49.9% of the Carrefour-Yeinot Bitan supermarket chain.

The retailing giant's Be pharmacy chain continues to record unimpressive results.

Food company Strauss Group, its former CEO Giora Bardea, and its CFO Ariel Chetrit, are alleged to have coordinated price rises with competitors though public statements.

The center, set up by the Innovation Authority and Innovation BaseCap, aims to boost entrepreneurship among Israel's Arab population.

Yango, the taxi-hailing and delivery app owned by Russian company Yandex, insists it is not for sale.

The website building platform recorded the first quarter of positive GAAP-based operating income in its history.

Among Minister of Communications Shlomo Karhi's proposals are a slimmed down regulator and advertising for everyone - except IPBC. How will they affect the market, and Israel's lively production industry?

When small partners actually have an advantage, why partners don't have to invest the same amount, how to prevent a confusing campaign, and more.

For the first time since "Globes" introduced its annual brands rankings in 2003, an Israeli brand has managed to overtake the likes of Coca Cola, Netflix and Google.