A reader asks:

I have a business idea. To open a new art and design gallery. I can see how it looks, but the main problem is, I have no idea how to make it happen.

Starting an art gallery is not something I’ve ever done, or ever considered doing. There are two good reasons for this: firstly I know very little about art; secondly I know absolutely nothing about this industry. I suspect anyone asking me for advice on how to go about opening an art gallery probably knows even less, so my advice is simple: don’t do it.

If you really, really want to start an art gallery then your first step should be to get some experience working in an art gallery and to become an expert in the type of art you wish to sell. Not

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Aerospace giant Boeing expects a global economic recovery this year to result in renewed demand for aircraft in 2012.

“We see 2010 as the year of economic recovery and 2011 a year where airlines recover to profitability,” said Boeing plane marketing chief Randy Tinseth.

“As a result of that [we see] an increase in demand for airplanes in 2012,” he said.

Separately, shares in US defence firms rose on Monday on the back of a 3.4% increase in the US defence budget.

Boeing shares rose 1.8% while Northrop Grumman gained 2.3%.

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Warning: This is a rant!

PEOPLE ARE SO DELUDED!

I’m at a Nice business event and some Nice guy in a Nice suit is at the front of the room giving a Nice endlessssssszzz presentation on Presentation Skills. It’s all very Nice.

I’m guessing this is also taking place in boardrooms boredrooms in Belgium and Japan and the Ukraine and maybe even in Hawaii.

Shoemaker Has No Choos!

I’m writing this on a napkin while Mr. Present

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Peugeot Citroen, Europe’s second-biggest carmaker, is recalling some cars made with Toyota in Europe.

“For Peugeot 107s and Citroen C1s, we are going to carry out an identical campaign as Toyota,” a spokesman said.

The Japanese car giant has now recalled millions of cars worldwide with faulty pedals.

Both models are made in a Czech plant, a joint venture with Toyota that assembles around 200,000 Peugeot and Citroen cars every year.

Peugeot said “under 100,000″ cars will be recalled. It did not say when the recall would begin.

Safety concerns

Toyota is recalling up to 1.8 million cars across Europe, including about 220,000 in the UK, following an accelerator problem.

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As marketing tools, brochures have never failed to register an impact on customers’ minds. They can be kept on store counters, handed out to spread the word about a firm, or even posted to potential customers. The need for brochures and their printing has led many printing services firms to concentrate solely on this market. Brochure printing has undergone a number of developments in recent years, with the advent and widespread use of the internet triggering the latest of these developments.

Previously, computers were rarely used in the brochure printing process, which took several days, working with film negatives or plate-making machines and needed multiple test prints, rounds of fine tuning etc. D

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