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Amari announces appointments

Golf course tax confuses country clubs

Avery Dennison holds Grand Opening

Giummarra to lease mini-factory

GTS launches new B2B portal

Amari announces appointments

Christophe Meylan

Kurt Rufli, Managing Director of Amari Hotels and Resorts has announced the appointment of Christophe Meylan as the Executive Assistant Manager of Amari Coral Beach Resort, and Marco Maggio as the Chef at La Gritta Restaurant on Sukhumvit Soi 19.

Mr. Meylan, a Swiss national, joins the group from Ecole Hotelier de Lausanne in Switzerland, where he has just completed a Bachelor Degree in International Hospitality Management. He has previously worked as a Food and Beverage Management Trainee at the Amari Airport Hotel in Bangkok and at the Swissotel ‘Le Plaza’.

Marco Maggio

Mr. Maggio was previously the Sous Chef in charge of the Italian restaurant at the Sheraton Club Des Pins and Towers in Algeria. Prior to this he worked as the Italian Specialty Chef at the Sheraton Bahrain Hotel.

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Golf course tax confuses country clubs

New collection process making it harder to avoid paying taxes

Golf course taxes supporting local schools and area improvements were collected by the district level of government for 68 years until 1998, when the Ministry of Interior turned the tax collection responsibility over to the Sub-district Administration Organization nationwide.

The district level of government was viewed as understaffed to efficiently collect the taxes. Many golf courses avoided the tax or did not pay their appropriate shares, and the SAO, considered to be better manned, took over the tax collection process. Since the SAO has taken over collection, it is becoming much more difficult for golf courses to avoid paying their taxes.

Golf courses were taxed on their land area at 40-50 baht per rai prior to the transfer of collection responsibilities, and the tax collection transfer to the SAO brought about new regulations, taxing clubhouses and any hotels on the property.

The taxable amount depended on rates charged for services with a 12.5% tax levy on the number of golfers paying to play on a yearly basis. The taxes paid by different golf courses vary according to the fees and the type of businesses on the property.

In Chonburi, the golf courses paying the highest taxes are Khao Kheow, Natural Park and Bangpra. They contribute 450,000 baht annually, which is considered a minimal amount compared to each course’s monthly profits.

Many golf courses are against the new procedures, claiming that the SAO is too strict. There is much concern amongst the golf courses that have been avoiding taxes or paying minimal amounts in the past.

However, the SAO considers the stricter controls will equally share the responsibilities amongst all golf courses.

A group of 20 golf courses in the eastern region feel they are paying too many other taxes as it is, and are discussing methods to standardize the taxes in a more equitable manner.

Further talks between golf course owners and the SAO are expected before any new changes take effect.

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Avery Dennison holds Grand Opening

Christian Simcic, Group Vice President, Fasson Roll Worldwide of Avery Dennison (Thailand) Ltd. presided over the Grand Opening Ceremony for the company’s new factory at the Eastern Seaboard Industrial Estate (Rayong), developed by Hemaraj Land and Development PLC. The 100% US company’s new factory will produce Pressure Sensitive Paper, 30% for domestic use and 70% for export.

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Giummarra to lease mini-factory

Giummarra International Ltd. recently signed an agreement to lease a mini-factory at Hemaraj’s Eastern Seaboard Industrial Estate in Rayong. The factory will produce HDPE plastic bags with a capacity of 2,000 kilograms per hour.

Giummarra Giusepe, Director of Giummarra International Ltd. and David Nardone, President of Hemaraj Land and Development PLC shakes hands over the agreement.

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GTS launches new B2B portal

GTS Consultants P. Ltd., a New Delhi based consulting company has launched a New B2B Portal. It is a unique website bringing the benefits of technology to companies of all sizes in all industries. GTS Consultants is a consulting organisation working in the areas of technology transfers and international business development. It is a member of several international networks run by international organisations such as the EU and the UNIDO.

The website is at http://www.globaltechnoscan.com. The company used to bring out a fortnightly newsletter of the same name since 1991 and was subscribed by most major companies, leading govt and university research laboratories. The website is targeted towards corporate decision makers all over the world and almost 90% of its visitors are international visitors.

The website has several different areas such as:

Weekly magazine on technology developments. GTS monitors new technology developments from thousands of laboratories, universities and the corporate sector, and selects the most important developments which they present in a weekly magazine. All articles can be accessed in industry wise archives also.

Business Opportunities. GTS has over 500 international business and technology transfer opportunities from all over the world. This section is updated & new opportunities are added regularly.

Venture Capital & Financing contains useful articles and links to almost 1000 VCs operating all over the world, with details of investment preferences, size and stage, etc...

Intellectual Property and Patents. Useful articles on intellectual property protection, patents, resources available on the internet and the websites of various patent offices, with links to 50 national patent offices.

Trade Fairs & Conferences relevant to the visitor profile of the website. The focus is on technology related events. A calendar of events up to 2001 is provided on the site.

Directory and Links. GTS has a very large directory section with links to conference and trade fairs, patents & IP links including patent offices, valuation experts, lawyers, venture capital and investment bankers, university and corporate R&D laboratories, science & technology parks, tech transfer offices, tech transfer intermediaries, industrial and professional associations, etc...

Other areas include science and technology policy, and research & development management. Several new areas will be added shortly. GTS is also currently in the process of adding several new industry specific portals.

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