Positioning a brand effectively is essential for a business and can easily equate to 30% - 300% increase in annual turnover (20 years worth of measured client success).
Contracted recruiting doesn't come cheap, but only an organization can determine what time spent and turnover is really worth.
But if you care about a sustainable business with low turnover, it's worth noting what people are looking for in the workplace.
If you have £50m turnover then £5m is worth more to you than if you are on £200m turnover".
"Give me another €150m worth of turnover each season and I will win the Scudetto 10 years running".
(Which reminds me, where would reality television be without "Ten Little Indians"?) Still, a turnover in Marples is worth noting.
Job: chief executive, Microsoft Age: 53 Industry: digital media Turnover: $60.42bn Staff: 91,000 Worth: $11bn 2008 ranking: 7 If you can't buy them, beat them.
Age: 41 Industry: telecommunications, new media Staff: 15,263 Turnover: £3.05bn Salary: £1.34m Worth: £830m 2005 ranking: new entry No one in the media industry in the past 12 months had more impact with a single gesture than Dunstone.
Job: chairman, Freud Communications Age: 46 Industry: public relations Turnover: £33m Staff: 172 Worth: £190m (joint, with wife Elisabeth Murdoch) 2009 ranking: 74 It was the year in which his eponymous PR agency won the London Olympics, but others may remember it as the one in which he smeared chocolate cake over Hugh Grant's shirt.
Job: chief executive, Northern & Shell , Express NewspapersAge: 52 Industry: publishing Circulation: Daily Star 854,600; Daily Express 925,064; Sunday Express 959,039; Daily Star Sunday 441,064 Jan-June 20055); OK! 529,492 July-Dec 20044) Turnover: £471m Staff: 2,000 Worth: £1.3bn 2004 ranking: 14 It has been a lacklustre 12 months for Richard Desmond.
