Michael Heitmann

Recent Posts

• Milk prices rise on Chinese interest

  There’s no surer sign of the country’s increasing integration into the global economy than this: China’s newfound zest for milk and a drought in Australia have caused a recent uptick in dairy prices. “Production of milk has dropped not only in Australia, but also in Argentina and Brazil,” said Michal Němec, director of the Bohemian-Moravian [...]

• Retail building outpaces demand

  11.06.08 22:11 Filed in: The Prague Post A glut of shopping space rises in the center of Prague Shopping centers in Prague are opened at too fast a rate, a new study by the Austrian research company RegioData suggests. “Regardless of the location, too much retail space has been created in a number of Central [...]

• AmCham president audits success

  ČR’s top businesswoman looks to unite chambers Magdalena Souček is an avid golfer, but she hardly finds time to play a round these days. Golf courses aren’t the best place for discussing business anyway, she says. “Although women are supposed to be good at multitasking, when you’re really playing golf, you have to concentrate,” she [...]

• Bread winner

  09.01.08 16:07 Filed in: The Prague Post Penam breaks into Bohemian market with automated bakery HERINK, CENTRAL BOHEMIA In the purified atmosphere of a clean room, staff members check the fully automated production process on a touch screen, sorting out irregularities. The final product is treated with UV radiation, and its delivery is tracked using [...]

• Providing Czechs protection abroad

  30.07.08 22:20 Filed in: The Prague Post Petr Torák is the first Roma police officer to work in the United Kingdom Hailed on national television as the “new face of British policing,” Petr Torák’s life in Britain has been an immigrant success story. Forced to flee Liberec, north Bohemia, with his family in 1999, Torák [...]