Key success factors in retail industry
Case study - 28 pages - Business strategy
The retail industry is today a huge market where competitors are a lot. In order to overview the market of the retail industry, we will list the main actors in the world: Wal-Mart, Carrefour, Ahold, Kroger, Metro group, Target, Albertsons, Kmart and Tesco. However in order to seize...
A brief overview of the hotel industry
Tutorials/exercises - 36 pages - Management
Generally tourism involves ideas of movement from one place to another and has the same characteristics as traveling. The development of transportation technology and the improvement in political, economic and social situations has put tourism (travel for pleasure) within the reach of many...
An overview of the departments in hotel/hospitality industry
Thesis - 15 pages - Management
In today's shrinking world fast moving airlines, Passenger-ship, trains, buses and automobiles carry travelers all over the world on extra pleasure or business trips. This traveler requires food, lodging and service of good standards at a reasonable price. Hotel management today is...
An analysis of the Indian retail industry
Tutorials/exercises - 63 pages - Business strategy
The Indian retail sector is witnessing tremendous growth with the changing demographics and an improvement in the quality of life of urban people. The growing affluence of India's consuming class, the emergence of retail entrepreneurs and a variety of imported products particularly in the...
Food service management research project
Case study - 4 pages - Sociology
Anyone can own a restaurant, however not everyone can be successful in owning and operating one. For Arturo Kassel, opening his dream restaurant would be more of trail and error than a fairy tale ending. Beginning in 2008, Kassel was a beverage manager at a New York hotel with the drive and...
World organic foods market & export potentials of Indian exporters
Thesis - 12 pages - Economy general
The world economy is showing signs of a stable growth. The trading pattern is going through a sea change as the dominance of US economy over the world is reducing. The world is divided into 3 major trading compartments like, US & allied countries, EU, & Asia. India's performance in international...
Community food security in North Minneapolis: Barriers and solutions
Essay - 11 pages - Geography
Despite an overwhelming amount of facts, studies, and annual reports proving the contrary, many people today continue to deny the existence of hunger in the United States. Middle-aged Americans will recall hearing their parents demanding them to “finish your dinner because there are people...
Marketing of the hotel industry
Case study - 36 pages - Services marketing
The good times that began for the hotel industry, with the opening up of the economy at the start of the decade, seem to have ended. The industry has had its ups and downs and come a full circle in the last ten years. As with the broad economy (until this fiscal), the hotel...
An in-depth case study of Nestlé Foods from the view points of organizations as organisms and organizations as cultures, and leadership implications
Case study - 9 pages - Business strategy
This paper is submitted in requirement of the independent study in ‘Leading Complex Organizations' for the MAOM program for the Spring Quarter. The organization selected for study is the global company Nestlé Foods. The study is approached from the points of view of organizations as...
The central role of women in food security in Africa
Thesis - 7 pages - Social sciences
This paper will explore the problem of food security in Africa. It will provide a general overview of the problem. Then it will relate the issue to the specific ways in which food security involves women in Africa, as producers and consumers of agricultural products. It will show...
McDonald's: Corporate reputation after criticism of unhealthy food
Case study - 20 pages - Management
McDonald's is a large fast food chain with an international presence around the world. During the last few years, the company has been criticized by customers for offering unhealthy food causing obesity, and for dodgy corporate ethics. This is why we decided to study the...
The brewery industry in Ireland
Market study - 9 pages - Services marketing
The beer is considered to be a very old and one of the best selling alcoholic beverages in the world. The first concrete evidence of beer dates back to 4000 BC. It was in Mesopotamia that the first traces of brewing could be found. Nowadays, beer has become a staple drink but it is found that...
Native American identities and adaptations: Identity vs. adaptation: Manoomin and the biotech industry
Thesis - 5 pages - Social sciences
In the migration story of the Anishinaabeg, prophets told the tribe to follow a shell in the sky from near the Pacific Ocean to a land “where the food grows on the water [LaDuke 2007].” There, the Anishinaabeg, named Ojibwe or Chippewa by whites, found manoomin, which the whites...
Anorexia Nervosa is really not about food at all: A confirmed condition of negativity that is not bound by culture - A cross cultural analysis
Thesis - 15 pages - Journalism
Anorexia nervosa/bulimia is really not about food at all. This condition is one that is a manifestation of something much deeper. And we are wrong to view anorexia nervosa/bulimia as a disease. While the thoughts of Mr. DiNicola are common today, the key words to his statement are...
Strategy Analysis on the gambling industry with the example of MGM Mirage
Thesis - 64 pages - Business strategy
We selected the gambling industry as a group because we thought it would be interesting, challenging and because the industry has recently felt a new impulse with the internet. The gambling industry is not one of the most recent industries though, and to understand it fully...
Global marketing: Russian food market
Essay - 8 pages - Services marketing
The object of this case study is to develop a market strategy that could be used by firms dealing with Russian food market, namely concerning the waffle market. Lots of marketing surveys of waffle consumption in Russia has been done, dealing with different investing potential...
"Dr Tasty": Business plan of a healthy fast-food
Business plan - 11 pages - Business strategy
My project is to implement a healthy fast food I called “Dr Tasty”. It will take the juridical form of a franchise. This fast food will propose two kinds of products - ones will be similar to a hamburger, the others will be “natural” ones (what I mean by natural...
What is functional food and what are its potential benefits?
Case study - 15 pages - Educational studies
People are becoming increasingly interested in disease prevention rather than cure the disease and holistic approaches to promote health, such as eating nutritionally diet, maintaining fitness, etc… Interest in ‘natural and nutritional' treatments and products therefore continues to...
An opportunity for entrepreneurship within Antoniou Restaurant Industry
Case study - 5 pages - Management
Antonius restaurant industry located at Cabo San Lucas in Mexico generated over $1.34 billion in sales in 2012. Cabo San Lucas is one of the most beautiful cities in Mexico with several tourism sites. Due to its increasing significance as the spa destination with a great variety of sites...
The tourism industry in India: A general overview
Tutorials/exercises - 40 pages - Journalism
Tourism is a very complex industry due to its multiple activities that satisfies the need of the tourist. Tourism includes transportation, accommodation, food, catering, tourist attraction as well as organizers like tour operators and travel agents. Moreover, a tour consists of...
Food Processing: Frozen ready meals - The Marie Case
Case study - 24 pages - Business strategy
Marie is a food processing company that specializes in fresh ready meals and frozen ready meals. Marie manufactures and commercializes products with the brands Marie, Bocuse, Luang (exotic meals), Weight Watchers (light meals) and also the Uniq group which is a major player of the...
Empirical investigation on the determinants of corporate dividend policy. Sectors considered: 'Food and drugs retailers' and 'Health care equipment and services'
Thesis - 7 pages - Finance
The Corporate Dividend policy, also called the Dividend Puzzle (Black, 1976) has always beensubjected to a lot of studies since, at least, the paper of Modigliani and Miller in 1961. The work ofthese authors stated that, in a frictionless world, when the firm has a constant investment policy,its...
Marketing Strategy of Bulla Dairy Foods, Australia
Case study - 6 pages - Services marketing
Marketing is considered as one of the most important functions in any organization. Without right marketing, it is impossible for companies to reach wide range of customers in this globalized environment. When an organization is entering into foreign markets, the importance of marketing would be...
Genetically modified food
Thesis - 3 pages - Biology
Genetically modified food made from genetic material (DNA) of a plant that has been changed in an unnatural way, also known as ‘genetic engineering'. Selected individual genes are transferred from one organism to another. However, traditional breeding cannot achieve the same effects...
The hospitality industry
Essay - 6 pages - Economy general
In today's highly competitive business environment, budget orientated planning is insufficient for a large corporation to survive and prosper. Indeed, rapid-paced changes in trade, technology and investment patterns are elements that are impacting each business in one way or another. That is...
A study on the Indian leisure industry and its importance in the business world
Thesis - 23 pages - Business strategy
The concept of leisure, and the freedom to choose individual pastimes and leisure pursuits, is a 20th century development for the mass population. Historically, only the wealthy could divide up their time to engage in activities of their choosing. The working classes had neither the time nor the...
The Sportswear Industry : Boom or Gloom ?
Market study - 50 pages - Management
The sportswear industry has witnessed a transition phase in the past few decades. Indeed, the beginning of the 1970s saw the athletic sportswear evolve from specific product lines striving to target and migrate the small and unique markets into mainstream fashion products. The distinct...
The French luxury industry in China
Thesis - 45 pages - Services marketing
China with a huge population of 1.3 billion opened its market to economic reform following the death of China with a huge population of 1.3 billion opened its market to economic reform following the death of Mao Zedong in 1978 and the subsequent accession to power by Deng Xiaoping. Based on the...
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....
A comparative study of the market potential of different cardiovascular drugs in the pharmaceutical industry
Case study - 56 pages - Medical studies
A sample size of 20 hospitals and 33 chemists was chosen from the region. The survey method chosen was pharmacy to pharmacy by conducting personal interview, the data collection was extended for over 45 days and 20 pharmacy in-charge and 33 chemists were interviewed and asked questions regarding...
