Vivendi Takes $13B Writedown, $12B Loss 03.05.02 CEO Messier tries to win points on goodwill gesture, but the numbers still don't add up.
It gave you 5,000 points as a goodwill gesture, but it's unclear if other similarly affected customers will get this.
He points to the $6.9bn of "goodwill" - the premium a suitor pays to win a company over and above its tangible asset value - that HP paid: the $11bn purchase consisted of $4.3bn of intangibles and others, with the rest in goodwill.
Do you want to make the point that the company needs to stop squandering its goodwill and talk to its employees, or, more pragmatically, that you don't want to take this holiday right now.
The morale of the workforce is at breaking point; with imposition, the goodwill of doctors who work hours beyond those they are rota-ed and paid to do [so] will dry up".
Recently, companies have developed "flaky metrics of profitability," he said, pointing to amortization of goodwill as an example.
KULA converts those points into actual currency, spreading goodwill all over the world.
They point in mitigation to such goodwill gestures as granting free admission to state universities for students from Darfur, and note that it was the rebel parties, not the government, which failed to show up for recent peace talks.
Goodwill is one of the biggest U.S. landing points for donated clothes: Stores in New York and New Jersey alone collected more than 85.7 million pounds of textile donations last year, Jose Medellin, director of communications for Goodwill NY/NJ, told HuffPost.
KULA calls the process "democratized transactional giving," which the company hopes will build goodwill between companies and consumers, even if the reward points that someone has collected aren't used by them for in-store purchases.
