Business
In the Business section, you can find material dedicated to all things business. This section collects data on the activities of the various companies operating in markets all over the world.
17,334 Essays on Business. Documents 11,971 - 12,000
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Peter’s Chocolates
Peter’s Chocolate Company To: General Manager From: Date: Topic: Competitor Analysis Report ________________________________________ Analytical Comparison of Competitors Callebaut Although under performing Peter’s in blind taste tests, Callebaut is recognized as a leading product. Like Peter’s, Callebaut is a premium priced and high quality. Callebaut has employed a higher profile marketing strategy, and stronger promotion strategy than Peter’s. Callebaut benefits from a European “myth” in which it is thought that European chocolate is superior. Callebaut has
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Petro Canada - Strategic Paper
Running head: PETRO CANADA - STRATEGIC PAPER Petro Canada - Strategic Paper Rishi Pandya University of Phoenix MGT 578 Jan 22, 2007 Executive Summary Petro-Canada is a publicly traded, Canadian integrated oil and gas company with headquarters in Calgary, Alberta. The Company’s core business lays in petrochemical products, refining and supply operations, retail and marketing networks, and a specialty lubricants business. Petro Canada has evolved to be one of the major players in the petroleum
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Petroleum Engineering
Petroleum Engineering As a petroleum engineer, one would have to apply their “technical skills and knowledge” to solve different challenges. They connect an area that lies just below the surface and top to bring oil and gas from a reservoir to the to where they need it to be. Their aim is always to work economically as well as safely. The diverse topics covered by petroleum engineering are closely related to the earth sciences. Petroleum
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Petsmart - Well Trained in the Pet Industry
Industry Overview Well Trained in the Pet Industry PetSmart's unique position as the largest pet retailer of services and products has allowed it to gain the largest individual market share in the pet industry. According to PetSmart, it has a 14 percent share in a 32.1 billion dollar pet product industry. The company competes mainly with mass discount stores such as Wal-mart, and grocery stores. However, PetSmart's advantage is its specialty retail status; it has
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Petty Cash
Petty Cash Most companies have a cashbox in the office to cover small expenses such as paying for stamps, covering taxi rides, etc. When small purchases must be made, it doesn’t make sense to go through the process of writing a cheque. It is in these situations that Petty Cash is used. 1. Setting up a petty cash fund: * This is only done once. Dr. Petty Cash $50 Cr. Cash $50 To transfer $50
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Pfft
STUDENT INFORMATION STUDENT NO. 2661367 / UB 203483 SURNAME Singh PHONE NO. 0402607586 GIVEN NAMES Shruti Sonia E-MAIL shruti.singh@hotmail.com Instructions for submission are found in the unit description. Assignments with Cover Sheets not signed at the bottom will be returned unmarked and may then incur a penalty for late submission. ASSESSMENT INFORMATION UNIT NAME International Business UNIT CODE BS942 ASSIGNMENT DETAILS (title) A Country Factor Analysis (Word Count -2515 words) LECTURER / TUTOR’S NAME Terry
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Pfizer
Pfizer was incorporated in 1942 and is headquartered in New York City. Pfizer, is a global pharmaceutical company, with headquarters in New York City. The company is the world's largest research-based pharmaceuticals firm. It produces the number-one selling drug Lipitor (atorvastatin, used to lower blood cholesterol); the oral antifungal medication Diflucan (fluconazole), the long-acting antibiotic Zithromax (azithromycin), the well-known erectile dysfunction drug Viagra (sildenafil citrate), and the pain reliever Celebrex (celecoxib Pfizer's best-known products
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Pfizer
Microenvironments Economic Factors Strength The long-awaited U.S. rebound is the primary factor propelling the world economy to growth of 3.5 per cent in 2004," said Kip Beckman, Principal Research Associate. Many Asian countries will gain a boost from expanding demand for information technology products. North America will generate real gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 4.3 per cent. On the other hand, the current interest rate is under the low position and good for global
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Pfizer Inc.
Introduction on Pfizer Inc. Pfizer Inc. focused on animal health products for the U.S. cattle industry, especially cows. The Cow/Calf Division of Pfizer Inc. offers a full range of products to cattle ranchers, including vaccines for both newborn calves and their mothers, medications (for example, dewormers, antidiarrheals). Pfizer positioned its products on the combination of superior science (resulting from its significant R&D efforts) and high-quality production or quality control techniques. Pfizer’s pride in its sophisticated
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Pfizer Inc. Business Analysis and Strategic Implications
PFIZER INC. BUSINESS ANALYSIS AND STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY Pfizer Inc. is a global pharmaceutical company that creates and manufactures products for both humans and animals. Pfizer is headquartered in New York City and employs about 115,000 people. PRINCIPAL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES Pfizer currently has ten different divisions and promotes thirty-one different major products. The divisions and largest major products within each group are: Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases (Lipitor, Caduet, Norvasc), Central Nervous
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Pfizer Industry Review
Pfizer Corporation: The pharmaceutical industry began in the early 1800’s when several chemical companies were founded in Philadelphia, marking the beginning of our current pharmaceutical manufacturing industry (Pfizer, 2008a). Founded in 1849, Pfizer has grown into a multibillion-dollar corporation by providing many of the highest quality drugs available today (Pfizer, 2007). However, many factors impact the continued success of Pfizer and the pharmaceutical industry in general. After reviewing these factors, it is our recommendation that
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Pfizer Macroeconomic Forecast
Macroeconomic Forecast Pfizer, Inc. March 14, 2005 Abstract This paper is a Macroeconomic Forecast Outline of Pfizer, Inc. This outline will identify main economic indicators for Pfizer as a business entity and as a representative of pharmaceutical industry. This paper will identify sources of various data collected based on economical activity and relationships between different economical indicators. Main Economic Indicators The purpose of economic indicators is to provide for researchers and analysts the ability to
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Pfizer’s Strategic Plan
PFIZER INC. Pfizer Strategic Plan Date Submitted: May 25, 2005 Pfizer’s Strategic Plan: Overview Executive Summary Pfizer is a New York City based major drug producer, ranking first in pharmaceutical sales in the U.S., with 2005 revenues of 56.7 billion. With almost 60 billion in Revenue, Pfizer remains the industry’s behemoth, overseeing the most ambitious research agenda for any company in the world. Pfizer’s is spending on R&D supports 12,000 scientists. Pfizer’s research increased 3
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Phar-Mor: Case Study
Phar-Mor was known as one of the major discount chain retailers in the late 1980’s - early 1990’s. It was founded by Mickey Monus, a gambler in nature, who with the help of senior management was “cooking the books” for years to cover up his loses. The reason why senior management agreed to do this fraud is the belief in unique ability of their leader to fix everything later on. This case is known as
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Pharma Industry in Bangladesh
The thesis applies performance evaluation of pharmaceutical company in Bangladesh. It means evaluate how well the company performs. The main aim is achieved through ratio analysis of two pharmaceutical (Beximco and Square pharmaceutical) companies in Bangladesh. The main data collection from the annual financial reports on Beximco and square pharmaceutical companies in 2007 to 2008.Different financial ratio are evaluated such liquidity ratios, asset management ratios, profitability ratios, market value ratios, debt management ratios and finally
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Pharma Report Romania
© WPM, World Pharmaceutical Markets, 2005 Espicom Business Intelligence, Lincoln House, City Fields Business Park, City Fields Way, Chichester, West Sussex, PO20 2FS, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (0)1243 533322. Fax: +44 (0)1243 533418. http://www.espicom.com Outlook: Romania January 2005 This page left intentionally blank WPM OUTLOOK ROMANIA WPM Outlook © espicom BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE January 2005 i Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................1 PHARMACEUTICAL MARKET..................................................................................................2 Current Size .............................................................................................................................................................. 2 Projections ................................................................................................................................................................ 3 Outlook...................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Market Structure ....................................................................................................................................................... 5 OTC
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Pharma Trend
Jim Edwards has a good post up about financial efficiency among the big drug companies. If you plot out their revenue versus expenses (S,G&A), you see that all the big outfits are basically the same (here's an enlarged version of the graph). Abbott's (ABT) a bit toward the top end of the narrow range, and AstraZeneca's (AZN) toward the bottom, but there's not much to choose from. This despite several of the companies on the
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Pharmaceutical Industry and the Aids Crisis
1. Executive Summary The pharmaceutical industry is characterised as a highly risky and lengthy R&D process, intense competition for intellectual property, stringent government regulation and powerful purchaser pressures (Batiz-Lazo & Holland, 2004). These characteristics have impacted on the willingness of the pharmaceutical companies to cater to the emerging markets and the involvement of ethical issues. This paper looks at the nature of supplying drugs to emerging markets and suggestions included the following: a. Enforcement in
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Pharmaceutical Industry Five Force Model
According to the first class, the power point showed that the pharmaceutical industry is the most profitable industry. Based on the Porter’s five forces model, there are convincing explanation why the pharmaceutical industry has big profitability. For the threat of new entrants perspective, it is high. The pharmaceutical industry has a big barrier to prevent newcomers to enter this industry such as R&D costs, patents limitation, the long length of clinical time, the percentage of
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Pharmaceutical Industry in Bangladesh
1) PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY ANALYSIS 1.1 Industry Background: The total industry can broadly be classified into two categories. Theses are a) Patent Medicines b) Generic Medicines Patent medicines are the products that are invented by the company, who have their own research team working on their own laboratories. These products are patented for many years to enjoy the monopoly market. After years of business the formulation is sold in the market so that others can go
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Pharmaceutical Joint Venture Genzyme and Geltex
1. Introduction 1.1 Background In early 1997, a representative for Genzyme Corporation is meeting up with a joint-venture negotiation team in an effort to develop terms for a proposed joint-venture agreement. The joint-venture (JV) will, if agreed upon, combine the capabilities of Genzyme, a large pharmaceutical company and GelTex, an early-stage bio-tech research company with only two products in their pipeline. The rationale for the JV is to utilize Genzyme’s capital and knowledge in marketing
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Pharmaceutical Marketing Ethics
The discovery, development, manufacturing and marketing of medicines always involve questions of ethics. For example increasing pressure by governments to reduce healthcare expenditures potentially creates ethical issues for sales and marketing employees as they work to grow in the business. The healthcare industry is highly regulated and most pharmaceutical companies are committed to operating within the law. They have developed their own policies and guidance to ensure that all employees meet the highest ethical standards
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Pharmacogenomics
PHARMACOGENOMICS INTRODUCTION Pharmacogenomics is the study of how an individual's genetic inheritance affects the body's response to drugs. The term comes from the words pharmacology and genomics and is thus the intersection of pharmaceuticals and genetics. Pharmacogenomics holds the promise that drugs might one day be tailor-made for individuals and adapted to each person's own genetic makeup. Environment, diet, age, lifestyle, and state of health all can influence a person's response to medicines, but understanding
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Pharmacuetical Industryof Pakistan
PHARMACUETICAL INDUSTRYOF PAKISTAN the essential drugs was in fact the life line for the national segment of the industry. Due to several reasons, especially inaccessibility of new researched medications this policy was ultimately reversed in 1976. Pharmaceuticals are the substances that are aimed to treat, cure, prevent or recognize diseases and relieve pains through their applications. Research and discovery are the essence of pharmaceutical industry, and its success has played a vital role in maintaining
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Phase I, Ii, III and IV Marketing Plan
Marketing Plan: Phase I, II, III, and IV Lora, Jina, Tina, and Josie MKT 421 Jon Smith 1/25/2008 Executive Summary Petsmart would like to introduce a new product called CuddleSmart. This product has been developed in order to aid desired pet owners to control allergies caused by cats and dogs. A four-phased plan has been developed to market the new product. Phase 1 – Development of CuddleSmart • Development of product – 63% of 112.9
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Phil Knight Managing Nike's Trasformation
In 1983 Phil Knight decided to leave the company in Woodell's hands. That was because Knight had to work on a manufacturing project in China. In 1893 NIKE was a successful firm; they had 34% of the market share and their sales were growing constantly, from $14.1 million in 1976 to $867.2 million in 1983 (Exhibit 1, Phil Knight: CEO at NIKE). Woodell had been worked for NIKE since 1967 as the World Wide Marketing
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Philhealth’s Indigent Program
CHAPTER I. RATIONALE Introduction The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation was created by Republic Act No. 7875 to administer the National Health Insurance Program which is designed to provide health insurance coverage and ensure affordable, acceptable and health services for all Filipinos. The Enhanced “PCSO Greater Medicare Access (GMA) Program” is a partnership forged by four important agencies of the government: the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO), the Local Government Unit (LGU), Department of Budget and
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Philip Crosby
“Doing it right the first time”, has been a stimulating quote from a man that was an inspiration to thousand of companies around the globe, Philip Bayard Crosby. Mr. Crosby was a practitioner, writer, and philosopher of quality management. His works range from books, seminars, and Philip Crosby Associates, which has helped to change the ever growing companies in corporate quality. Philip Crosby was born on June 18, 1926 in Wheeling West Virginia to Mary
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Philip Morris
The history of what is now a global company can be traced back to Philip Morris's 1854 opening of a single shop on London's Bond Street, selling tobacco and ready-made cigarettes. In 1847, the famous Phillip Morris is established, selling hand rolled Turkish cigarettes.Cigarettes became popular around this time when soldiers brought it back to England from the Russian and Turkish soldiers. In 1902, the British Phillip Morris sets up a New York headquarters to
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Philip Vs Mitsushita: A New Century, A New Round
Case background: This case is about two giants in the global consumer electronics market, namely Philips and Matsushita. Their international strategies and organizations are very different ЎV while the former pursued a localization strategy, the latter pursued a global standardization strategy; while the former made use of highly self-sufficient national organizations (NOs) for strong local responsiveness, the latter adopted Ў§1 product 1 divisionЎЁ structure for cost cutting. Nevertheless, both companies encountered their difficulties as the
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