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15 Jan 2009
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Supermarkets face out food discounters: from buying to shopping

Essay - 24 pages - Business strategy

The following report encompasses four main parts, i.e. a literature review developing theories on the selected topic, a research methodology helping in the selection of the most accurate research method, findings following from the primary research and a discussion confronting the literature...

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Market study hotel industry business 2005

Essay - 11 pages - Business strategy

Marriott International's Q1 2005 net income was $145 million, a 27% increase compared to the same period last year. Marriott International recorded earnings per share (EPS) of $0.61 in the first quarter of 2005, up 30% from the same period in 2004.Management fees increased 52%, driven by 9.2...

15 Jan 2009
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Business plan on exporting redgreen (Danish chic sportswear products) to Brazil

Business plan - 7 pages - Business strategy

Brazil has become one of the most promising emerging countries besides China and India and counts a very large population, whereby extreme poverty and extreme wealth coexist. In this context Redgreen, a Danish company specializing in high end and high quality sportswear outfits considers...

15 Jan 2009
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Global trade relations: Opportunities and challenges for direct investment in Brazil

Tutorials/exercises - 9 pages - Business strategy

Brazil is the largest and most populous country in Latin America, and the fifth largest in the world in both area and population. The country possesses a developed agriculture as well as mining and manufacturing resources, Brazil also has a large service sector forces like the banking sector,...

15 Jan 2009
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Analysis of advertisements techniques

Essay - 3 pages - Business strategy

Advertisers use every possible means and techniques to sell all kinds of products, from the cheapest to the most expensive ones, from the most to the least useful. When making an advertisement they make sure that their product will be attractive, desirable, and that it will create the need to...

15 Jan 2009
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Service operations management

Essay - 4 pages - Business strategy

The service concept which will be analysed throughout this report concerns the after-sales service of the branch Alcatel's Enterprise Solution Division. This branch of the French company Alcatel provides worldwide companies with solutions of telecommunication that include phones and systems....

15 Jan 2009
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Implementing Monoprix in Japan

Essay - 13 pages - Business strategy

This business plan is used to deal with the development plan for entering into the Japanese retail market. Based on the company's long-term need for world expansion and brand identity development, we choose Japan as the test land for Asian market penetration. The objective is to be present in...

15 Jan 2009
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Cadbury Schweppes

Essay - 13 pages - Business strategy

Cadbury Schweppes is one of the world's largest beverage and confectionery company, with over 50 different brands, manufacturing plants in 25 countries, sales in a further 165 and a market extension that covers countries all over the world, such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Malaysia,...

15 Jan 2009
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The tobacco industry

Essay - 7 pages - Business strategy

The origin of tobacco is quite old, and it became an industry when European discovered it. But the future of this particular industry is uncertain. Tobacco is not really an innocent product, since it has been proved to be addicting and to favour diseases such as cancer. Consequently, tobacco...

15 Jan 2009
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Terra chips

Case study - 22 pages - Business strategy

TERRA CHIPS, a USA-based company, founded in 1990, offers a wide range of vegetable and potato chips, which have created a new niche on the salty snack market. Terra has always had a tradition of creating masterful combination's of unique vegetables with a variety of fabulous flavors. So we...

15 Jan 2009
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Project initiation document: The map shop

Essay - 20 pages - Business strategy

The project initiation document is prepared as a response to an appeal from Geoffrey Smith, Map Shops, on the issues concerning the Map Shops proposed by Geoffrey and the issues identified by the consultant team, through the examination of the Map Shops. The initial proposal was examining the...

15 Jan 2009
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McDonald's Corporation

Essay - 5 pages - Business strategy

McDonald's is the leader throughout the world in the fast-food market. Set up on the 15th of May 1940 , the symbol of America, fast-food and globalisation is present throughout 121 countries, in strategic places in cities. McDonald's is part of our life and even if the company didn't invent the...

15 Jan 2009
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How Air France could be differentiated from low-cost carriers?

Essay - 5 pages - Business strategy

The objective of this investigation project is to show, analyse and discuss about the way that Air France would fight against low-cost carriers in the same market. In our contemporary world, the airline industry is one of the most important tools in globalization, making possible travels and...

15 Jan 2009
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What are the reasons of Zara´s success?

Essay - 13 pages - Business strategy

In 1973 Amancio Ortega Gaona, Inditex Group president and main shareholder, created a textile company, which specialised in producing dressing gowns and underwear. Two years later he opened the first Zara store in La Coruña. Nowadays, the Inditex Group is the most successful in the Spanish...

15 Jan 2009
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Bass model

Essay - 9 pages - Business strategy

Most Companies recognise that a continuing stream of new product developments is essential to ensure long term organisational health, but they also recognise that innovation is accompanied by high cost and risks. These risks can be controlled through a well-conceived and professionally managed...

15 Jan 2009
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Spa business plan

Business plan - 14 pages - Business strategy

Mia Day Spa is a new type of Day spa in Toulouse and even in France, offering complete day services for women who gave birth recently. We offer a 5 ultra-chic, ultra-comfortable treatment rooms with the finest spa linens and equipment. We will use two of them as massage rooms and the two...

15 Jan 2009
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Corporate culture

Essay - 5 pages - Business strategy

Culture appears for many managers as a quite simple deal: it corresponds to what the company stands for, its "identity", being widespread in the organization, easy to manipulate and to embed, a tool for making all the stakeholders going in the same direction. It's labeled the...

15 Jan 2009
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The sustainable development: An ethical and profitable strategy for companies?

Thesis - 4 pages - Business strategy

During the Johannesburg summit of 2002, the world of international business renewed its commitments towards the concept of sustainable development. Today, for most companies, durability has become necessary as a business strategy. In some companies, many researches are made to find the best...

15 Jan 2009
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The current brand situation: EDF

Essay - 8 pages - Business strategy

There are great modifications in the organization of the electric sector in Europe. It is agreed that the sector management must change and must adapt to the requirements of the European Unique Market, and that consequently the invisible power of the private market must replace the visible power...

15 Jan 2009
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Organizing a global company: the Caterpillar case

Essay - 14 pages - Business strategy

Within the framework of the course “Organizing a Global Company” we are invited to realize a group work composed of two parts. The objective of the first part is to try to analyze and to understand the organizational structure of an international company better, taking into account the...

15 Jan 2009
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The business cycle in South Africa

Essay - 4 pages - Business strategy

The economic powerhouse of the continent, South Africa produces one fifth of its entire production. The gross domestic product (GDP) is four times that of its southern African neighbors and covering around 25% of the entire continent's GDP. Following the expansion of the global economy, South...

15 Jan 2009
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How Clarins and its "Body Lift" can be a total success in Brazil?

Essay - 27 pages - Business strategy

After three centuries under the rule of Portugal, Brazil became an independent nation in 1822. Exploiting vast natural resources, it is today South America's leading economic power and a regional leader. Meanwhile Brazil continues to develop its interior with an industrial and agricultural...

15 Jan 2009
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Placement report: The launch of eBay in an OXFAM charity shop

Essay - 23 pages - Business strategy

From the 13th of May to the 4th of August, I was in Bristol, a town from the South West of England. From the beginning, I knew that I wanted to go to England because it is the nearest country to learn English and also because I was interested to discover its culture its system a little more. My...

15 Jan 2009
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Business plan: Personal traveller - tourism in China

Business plan - 26 pages - Business strategy

Personal Traveler is a travel related service company which links with travel agencies in leading European markets in forming a customized package to fit the need of “third-age” foreign travelers in main Chinese cities. The venture will leverage on the sharp increase in tourism expected...

15 Jan 2009
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Placement report: Assurances générales de France of Allianz AGF

Essay - 12 pages - Business strategy

The AGF Group is a major player in insurance and financial services, both in France and in more than twenty countries around the world. It has more than 60 billion clients from more than 70 countries world-wide. Backed by the n° 1 in European insurance, Allianz AG, of which it is a major entity,...

15 Jan 2009
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Chesebrough-Pond's Inc. Vaseline petroleum jelly (VPJ) (2005)

Essay - 9 pages - Business strategy

Robert Augustus Chesebrough, a 22-year-old chemist from Brooklyn, New York, created Vaseline Petroleum Jelly. “Oil rig workers discovered that rod wax, a petroleum by-product from oil rig pumps, healed their cuts and burns. Chesebrough extracted petroleum jelly from the rod wax and gave it...

15 Jan 2009
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Business communication: Netflix and Amazon.com

Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy

Amazon is company which has been experiencing strong expansion. They moved from book distribution to, tools, auto, industrial, sports, health & beauty, grocery, electronics & computers and other products and services. Amazon is constantly scrutiny new market for new growth opportunities. The...

15 Jan 2009
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Google case study

Essay - 6 pages - Business strategy

Nowadays, Google is considered more as a daily useful tool than a large worldwide company. This Google website is so essential for all the IT users that we have the tendency to forget the men, the women and the know-how behind this wonderful and rapid search tool. But behind this webpage, a huge...

15 Jan 2009
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Patagonia company

Case study - 17 pages - Business strategy

Nowadays, people increasingly realize that the earth is in danger and that if we keep on damaging it the future generation will face significant problems such as lack of water, of natural resources and global warming. That's why many actions are taken by numerous organisations and that people not...

15 Jan 2009
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Diamonds on ice

Essay - 5 pages - Business strategy

In An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776), Adam Smith said: “A diamond, (…), has scared any value in use; but a very great quantity of other goods may frequently be had in exchange for it”. Thus, a diamond is not only a “girl's best friend”...