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  • Merton Industries

    Merton Industries

    Case Analysis: Merton Industries Problem Statement The U.S. carpet and rug industry has gone through some vast changes in the past decade. The number of U.S. carpet and rug manufacturers has dropped greatly due to changes in consumer preference and foreign competition. The type of retailers and the retailer purchasing strategies have changed drastically also. Currently, Merton Industries, a small carpet and rug manufacturer has had to face these changes in a re-evaluation of their

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    Essay Length: 850 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: regina
  • Southwest Airlines

    Southwest Airlines

    (1) What is the SouthwestЎ¦s position along the four dimensions? a) Geographic scope Southwest airline provides point-to-point service between midsize cities and secondary airports in large cities. This can help avoiding congestion in large airports and hence save an average 20% of average flight time. b) Choice of business (corporate portfolio) SWA focuses on only airlines services, especially the short-haul flights. c) Vertical Integration decision Southwest airline does all of its own ticketing, not making

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    Essay Length: 343 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Steve
  • Marketing-Pizza Industry

    Marketing-Pizza Industry

    Summary Microenvironment The four major competitors, Pizza-Hut, Papa John’s, Domino’s, and Little Ceasers are the market leaders in the take-out pizza industry. Having a strong brand equity in the take-out pizza industry allows a company to gain a significant advantage in the market. Customers in the take-out pizza industry place a high value on the product quality and price of a company. Maintaining a good reputation is very important in this industry for companies because

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    Essay Length: 3,416 Words / 14 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Max
  • Australian Seafood Industry

    Australian Seafood Industry

    http://seafood.tradeworlds.com/ Introduction Overview of Industry Importance and Value The Australian commercial fishing and seafood industry encompasses the wild catch sector, the aquaculture sector and the processing and retail seafood sectors (Austrade, online). The aquaculture and wild catch sectors are found on the country's vast land space which gives Australia the distinction of having the "world's third largest fishing zone covering 11 million square kilometres and extending 200 nautical miles out to sea" (Department of Foreign

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    Essay Length: 493 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Mike
  • Duncan Industries

    Duncan Industries

    Problem Statement Where and how should Duncan Industries (DI) increase market share and still maintain rapid growth and a commitment to quality manufacturing. Situation Analysis Industry Summary This is an after-market industry that sold approximately 49,000 hoists each year in North America. There are two basic types of hoists: in-ground and surface which are both service-specific. Typical consumers were automotive outlets that serviced or repaired cars, such as new and used-car dealers, and specialty shops.

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    Essay Length: 1,852 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Jon
  • The Entrepreneur in Economics

    The Entrepreneur in Economics

    Current economic research denies the innate characteristics of the entrepreneur. Rather than attributing economic growth and innovation to personality traits, economists would rather advocate a form of economic determinism: if an aggressive personality dominated an industry, economists try to explain the characteristics of the industry that made aggression a successful strategy. Economic models are contrived to remove the personality from the entrepreneur, to make all entrepreneurial decisions predestined, given enough time. However, to deny Bill

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    Essay Length: 300 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Tourism Industry - India

    Tourism Industry - India

    Conde Nast Traveler, one of the World’s most famous magazines on tourism ranked India among the top 10th tourist destinations in the world. Tourism is the third highest net earner of foreign exchange for the countryand also one of the sectors that employs the largest number of manpower. The growth in tourism industry has been about 230% since 1990 to 2000. It is estimated that the tourism industry could contribute about US $1.8 billion to

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    Essay Length: 992 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: regina
  • Overview of Naked Economics

    Overview of Naked Economics

    Naked Economics (Undressing the Dismal Science) by Charles Wheelan is a detailed book that gives good descriptions on how the study of economics works. A lot of people find economics as boring inexact science that does not pertain to them. Little do they understand how much it influences their life. First off because economics is not an exact science it is had for economists to predict the outcome of events. There are a lot of

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    Essay Length: 276 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: July
  • Tea Industry, Pakistan

    Tea Industry, Pakistan

    Tea Industry of Pakistan Pakistan, a country of tee-totallers due to the Islamic ban on alcohol, is one of the highest per capita consumers of tea in South Asia. Local tea importers speculate that this is due to a limited choice of beverages. Pakistan is the third largest tea importer in the world after Russia and the UK and consumes about 155 million kg of tea every year (of which about 130 million kg is

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    Essay Length: 774 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: David
  • Cereal:the Manufacturing Industry

    Cereal:the Manufacturing Industry

    Cereal: The Manufacturing Industry Everyday, more than eighty million Americans have some type of cereal for breakfast. Cereal is one of the most popular breakfast foods and some brand is found in almost every home in America (Topher). This vast industry stems from the late 1800s when John Harvey Kellogg and C. W. Post began cereal production in Battle Creek, Michigan (Topher). Today, numerous types and varieties of cereal line the grocery store shelves. However,

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    Essay Length: 1,131 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Top
  • History of the Computer Industry in America

    History of the Computer Industry in America

    Only once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such a device that changes the way we work, live, and play is a special one, indeed. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the U.S. and one out of every two households (Hall, 156). This incredible invention is the computer. The electronic computer has been around

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    Essay Length: 2,952 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Mikki
  • United Airlines Benchmarking

    United Airlines Benchmarking

    United Airlines operates more than 3,700 flights a day on United®, United Express® and TedSM to more than 210 U.S. domestic and international destinations from its hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Chicago and Washington, D.C. With key global air rights in the Asia-Pacific region, Europe and Latin America, United is one of the largest international carriers based in the United States. United is also a founding member of Star Alliance, which provides connections

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    Essay Length: 531 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Top
  • Airline

    Airline

    FLY SQUARE AIRLINES “LET YOUR DREAMS FLY” Submitted by : - Submitted to : - Declaration We hereby declare that the project titled “FLY SQUARE AIRLINES” is an educational project and the information complied here will be used solely for academic and training purpose only. Executive Summary In today’s world it is very important to understand the needs and wants of the customer because if you are not aware of what actually your customer is

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    Essay Length: 883 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Pharmaceutical Industry

    Pharmaceutical Industry

    Pharmaceutical Industry Medicines have played a key role in improving the life expectancy of humans. In the last century there have been incredible improvements in the field of medicine making the pharmaceutical industry one of the most profitable industries. Government plays an important role in regulation of this industry. The pharmaceutical industry is characterized by a high level of concentration with fifteen multinational companies dominating the industry. Major players in this industry are Pfizer, Glaxosmithkline,

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    Essay Length: 290 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: July
  • Southwest Airlines Factors of Management

    Southwest Airlines Factors of Management

    Running head: SOUTHWEST AIRLINES FACTORS OF MANAGEMENT Southwest Airlines Factors of Management Andrew Carr Charlie Minni University of Phoenix External / Internal Factors Paper on Southwest Airlines In today’s employment world, having effective management skills are critical in a companies desire to breed success. Within the airline industry, competition and competitive practices would be a severe understatement. This paper will examine Southwest Airlines core management team by indicating the possible internal and external factors that

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    Essay Length: 1,662 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Jack
  • Businesss Economics

    Businesss Economics

    How and the hell am i stuck her writing an essay papper on business economincs if i do not know a damn thing about it. How and the hell am i stuck her writing an essay papper on business economincs if i do not know a damn thing about it. How and the hell am i stuck her writing an essay papper on business economincs if i do not know a damn thing about it.

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Argentina Economic Crisis

    Argentina Economic Crisis

    I - In Overture: Argentina – Economic Status & Early Signs of a Crisis to Come: Today, Argentina is arguably revered as the second largest economy in South America, after Brazil, and even considered as a considerable economic power in the world. That economy has been measured and weighed heftily, mainly due to a transformation of the political system that governs it. Up until 1983, the country was headed by a succession of military regimes,

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    Essay Length: 4,624 Words / 19 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Anna
  • Economics: Price Elasticities

    Economics: Price Elasticities

    1a) Price elasticity of demand (PED) measures the degree of responsiveness of the quantity demanded of a good to a given change in price of the good itself, ceteris paribus. It is found by taking the percentage change in quantity demanded of good X divided by the percentage change in the price of good X. The numerical value of the price elasticity of demand is always negative due to the inverse relationship between quantity demanded

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    Essay Length: 1,012 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Financial Analysis: Hershey Corp. & Tootsie Roll Industries

    Financial Analysis: Hershey Corp. & Tootsie Roll Industries

    Financial Analysis: Hershey Corp. & Tootsie Roll Industries Financial Analysis: Hershey Corp. & Tootsie Roll Industries Hershey and Tootsie Roll are both companies in the confection industry. We compared both companies for the years 2004, 2005, and 2006 against each other and against the industry averages in order to make a decision about which company we would choose to invest in. The comparisons we used to make our decision were ratios for liquidity, solvency, and

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    Essay Length: 2,951 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Jon
  • The Industrial Revolution

    The Industrial Revolution

    The industrial Revolution The industrial Revolution began in England and was a time in the 18th and 19th centuries when the use and production of machinery grew rapidly. During this time there were key advancements in technology that changed the way we manufacture produce, harvest food, and transport people and goods from then on. This new trend spread from Europe onto North America then Great Britain and on to the world. Industrialization changed the way

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    Essay Length: 1,444 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Rhodes Industries

    Rhodes Industries

    1. Case Overview: Company background: Rhodes Industries (RI): Established by Robert Rhodes in 1950s in Southern Ontario, Canada The business of RI: - developed pipes and glasses for industrial uses - gradually branched out into new areas such as Sealants, coatings and cleaners and parts for trucking industry - expanded by acquiring small firms in Canada and the United States during the 1960s - was a conglomerate structure with subsidiaries across NA reporting directly to

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    Essay Length: 428 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Top
  • The Impact of the Industrial Revolution on Living Conditions

    The Impact of the Industrial Revolution on Living Conditions

    The Impact of the Industrial Revolution on Living Conditions The Industrial Revolution was a period filled with drastic social and economic changes. The transformation between hand-made tools and goods to machine-manufactured products changed not only the economy, but also the lives of the workers. The first changes began in Great Britain in the 1780’s and spread across Europe and North America by the 19th century leaving a profound effect on the entire world. The Industrial

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    Essay Length: 846 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Winnebago Industries

    Winnebago Industries

    Winnebago Industries Case Analysis CORPORATE BACKGROUND COMPANY OVERVIEW Winnebago Industries, Inc., based in Forest City, Iowa, is a United States manufacturer of recreation vehicles primarily used for the leisure travel and outdoor recreation activities. Their products lines include 78 products with most of their growth stemming from new innovations aimed to capture industry market share. The Company is currently the market leader in the $5.3 billion motor home market. Winnebago markets their recreation vehicles

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    Essay Length: 2,949 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Edward
  • Dollar General Industry and Competitive Analysis

    Dollar General Industry and Competitive Analysis

    Dollar General Industry and Competitive Analysis INDUSTRY The first step to understanding a company is to examine its industry. There are four main areas to consider when analyzing an industry. These include: • Competitors There are several different types of stores within the discount retail industry, and for comparison’s sake, the industry is further broken into many segments. DG is in the market segment known as the dollar store category. As a result, competitors such

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    Essay Length: 1,595 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Assessing Corporate Cultures of Southwest Airlines

    Assessing Corporate Cultures of Southwest Airlines

    Assessing Corporate Cultures of Southwest Airlines Team A has chosen to evaluate and assess the cultural atmosphere generated within Southwest Airlines (SWA). The airline started its operation in 1971 by the co-founders, Rollin King and Herb Kelleher, in the humble city of Houston, Texas. SWA was to be an airline that provided shuttle service between the cities of Houston, San Antonio, and Dallas, Texas. Southwest Airlines began with one simple notion: “If you get your

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    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Fatih