The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU), a leader in global payment services, today announced that it has opened its 500,000th Agent location and its 100,000th location in India, underscoring the country’s growing importance as a global money transfer market. “Serving international diasporas including overseas Indians is an important reason Western Union’s network has expanded rapidly around the world,” Kiran Shetty, Regional Vice President and Managing Director, India, said: “We are grateful to our 11 million Indian customers and their families for their trust and custom over the past decade.”
Crowned Heads is a company formed by former key players from CAO. When CAO was acquired by Scandinavian Tobacco Group in 2010 many of the old guard left the company to find their fortunes elsewhere, amongst that exodus were Jon Huber, Mike Conder, Michael Trebing, and Nancy Heathman, who went on to start Crowned Heads. Since then the folks at Crowned Heads have been busy and hard at work to get their company operational and their first line out to the market. They wanted to do it right so they took their time and found the perfect partner for their first release, Ernesto Carrillo. The rest as they say is history, Crowned Heads and Ernesto Carrillo came out with Four Kicks and it has been gaining steady popularity and high praise from the public and the new media outlets ever since. So without further introduction our interview with rising star Jon Huber of Crowned Heads:
By Renee Bonorchis - Standard Bank Group Ltd. (SBK) sold 53 percent of its Turkish broker and investment bank as Africa’s largest lender focuses on markets closer to home. That cut its stake in Standard Unlu to 25 percent, the Johannesburg-based bank said today in a statement translated from Turkish. The shares were bought by Turkish businessman Mahmut Unlu, who raised his shareholding to 75 percent. The statement didn’t say how much he paid. 
Ecuador’s Minister of Petroleum, Energy and Communications Jorge Glas Espinel called on Turkish businessmen to invest in Ecuador while speaking at the Turkey-Ecuador Commerce & Investment Forum in Istanbul March 16. 
A member of Saudi Arabia’s ruling family plans to invest $300m into a Turkish hotel chain, a newspaper report has claimed Bander bin Fahd al-Fehaid, who is also chairman of the Arab Tourism Organisation (ATO), will invest the cash into the ‘My Tuana’ chain, eventually taking the number of its hotel properties in Turkey to 20, according to Hurriyet Daily News. Turkish businessman Mehmet Yücel, who is reportedly al-Fehaid’s partner in the scheme, told the paper that a deal for four hotels has been agreed, while talks for another seven properties were progressing. 
American yoghurt brand Chobani is launching a marketing offensive in Australia next week, with TV, outdoor and social media in the mix. This week marks the expansion of the yoghurt brand into Victoria, following its launch in New South Wales in November last year. 
Turkish Airlines (THY) will start flying to the Argentinean capital of Buenos Aires, the second largest metropolitan area in South America with some 13 million inhabitants, in June, its CEO, Temel Kotil, has announced. 
Tycoon Asil Nadir denies stealing millions of pounds from his Polly Peck empire. Businessman Asil Nadir would have needed banknotes 300 times the height of Nelson's Column to balance the books of his empire, the Old Bailey hears. 
DAVOS, Switzerland – Coca-Cola Co. Chief Executive Muhtar Kent said Wednesday the company will create 100,000 jobs globally over the next 10 years, or 10,000 jobs per year.
(Bloomberg) -- Turkey, where jewelry, fabrics and spices have been haggled over in bazaars for centuries, was among the last European countries to embrace modern shopping centers. It’s catching up quickly. Property developers attracted by one of the youngest populations in Europe are building malls at a faster rate than in any other country on the continent except Russia. Istanbul, Turkey’s wealthiest and most populous city, is leading the way with about 30 centers in the pipeline. 
Boral Aluminyum, a Turkish maker of aluminum-extrusion products, signed a preliminary agreement to develop a manufacturing plant in southern Serbia with state support. 
(Reuters) - Turkish-Cypriot businessman Asil Nadir, who returned to Britain last August after 17 years abroad, on Thursday denied theft from his failed Polly Peck business empire on charges dating back to the 1980s. The 70-year-old tycoon pleaded not guilty at the Old Bailey to 13 charges, including theft of 33.1 million pounds and $2.5 million from the business between 1987 and 1990. 
