Marketing analysis: Haefren Baum sells high quality home furniture, which is manufactured by German company, Wiegandt GmbH Cologne. The demand for high-end furniture is cyclical and influenced by consumer confidence and the overall economy. They have been incorporated since 1970, therefore they do have a reputation and brand image already built. They have been a customer of Wiegandt since 1968 and have maintained good relations so far. The German economy had a bust in 1993, which lead to a decline in furniture sales. This is evident in the sales dropping in 1993 to 1995 from $18,647 to $14,397. Much of the industry has to cut back prices to keep sales volume up. Haefren Baum, being a small retailer was really affected by this price deduction as more competitors entered the market. They built outlets in Rhineland suburban areas to try reaching consumers in the midst of intense competition with a wider selection and reduced prices. Regardless of their efforts in cutting prices and building outlets, the suffered from a (-1.24%) sales growth in 1995 but it was an improvement from (-21.05%) sales growth in 1994. Their market position is deteriorating, because as number of furniture outlets grew by five times, the industry sales were still “soft” even after the economy was recovering in 1995. I believe the sales will remain stagnant because of the increased competition and inability to expand due to tight credit and cash issues.…
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As the leading outdoor apparel company, L.L. Bean has been successful in many ways. L.L. Bean is one of the only few apparel companies who offered its products by mail-ordering. L.L. Bean make use of style catalog to rise customers’ interest to buy its products. Though massive catalog distribution, the company was able to attract a large number of new customers in 19th century. Along with its innovative catalog distribution-marketing concept, L.L. Bean’s philosophy of providing quality apparel, footwear and equipment to outdoorspeople at the fairest possible prices and with the most efficient and accommodating service has made the company standout from its major competitors. The company uses word of mouth as one of its major advertising tools, believing its exceptional product quality and customer services would make the customers advertise for them, as well as stand part from its competitors. With continued growth in mail-order and merchandise sales, L.L. Bean was able to expand its product lines and stores rapidly in 1979. As the company grows, L.L. Bean’s grandson Gorman, took advantage of the recreation boom. He allocated a larger budget for advertisement and offered free catalogs for customers, along with this Gorman computerized the company’s catalog mailing list and the order-entry and inventory system, the new technologies which the company has adopted has enhanced the sales further from $3 million in 1967 to $30 million in 1975, on top of this, the buyer list went fro 325,000 to 860,000.…
In this situation if the campus is using Omni-directional antennas and we are getting a significant amount of spillage, it is a problem that could be related to using Omni-directional antennas. With the antenna signal spilling out much farther than it needs to go in any given direction. It could be a situation where directional antennas in certain spots may have created a much better signal area without there being significant amount of spillage.…
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Barrio Boy: The narrators teacher was his mentor. She had her own trick up her sleeve to help him through the new culture and language he was earning. Well…it wasn’t really a trick but more like her personality that was ambitious, kind and warm heated. She taught the narrator that he should never be ashamed of his culture and who he is because in the end of the day that what made him unique and special and she did show him that! Not just him but her other…
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In Lysistrata, Aristophanes makes fun of women, but he also makes fun of his own sex: men. Kinesias, Myrrhine`s husband, is one of many targets of the women's sex strike. In the scene between Myrrhine and her husband, Kinesias is fooled and tricked by his wife (Episode, p.199-203). As how many of the women of Greece embody the idealized or stereotypical female, as so Kinesias represents the stereotypical, dimwitted male figure in this play. In Lysistrata, Kinesias proves himself as a foolish, poor father and woman-hater, I think. Kinesias only seeks out his wife because he has a painful erection. And also he is not able to take care of his own children. In that part of the scene where he talks to his wife he says: “Don`t you feel sorry for the baby, unwashed and unsuckled for six days now?” (lines 58-59), by that he makes her to come out for “him”. So, he is even using the little kid, in order to get what he needs. But he gets outwitted by his playful wife anyways; humor that was used here by the author, for both husband and wife, was really on point. However, the part when he shouts out: “It`s not a blanket I want – I want to fuck!” (line 122), made me feel uncomfortable: so straight forward. After, when he can`t get what he wants, he prays to Zeus saying: “…let her fall back down to earth again, and let her point of impact be this dick of mine right here” (lines 171-174). It is funny, but also really sad; all he wants is just to have sex with her. Kinesias's character confirms that Aristophanes meant Lysistrata to be a play mocking the sexual desires and attributes of both sexes.…
Text C is a play script from American Buffalo by David Mamet, with the purpose primarily being to entertain. The audience here would be predominantly educated theatre going audience. The play script is structurally organized through the use of adjacency pairs, with…
Miller, Richard. “The Dark Knight of the Soul.” Ways of Reading: An Anthology for Writers. Ed. David Bartholomae, Anthony Petrosky. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2011. 420-444. Print.…
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Typography traces its origins to the first punches and dies used to make seals and currency in ancient times. The typographical principle, that is the creation of a complete text by reusing identical characters, was first realized in the Phaistos Disc, an enigmatic Minoan print item from Crete, Greece, which dates between 1850 and 1600 BC. It has been put forward that Roman lead pipe inscriptions were created by movable type printing, but this view has been recently dismissed by the German typographer Herbert Brekle.…
Before 105 A.D, writing materials varied from clay around 3100 B.C, to Egyptian papyrus around 3000 B.C, to bamboo books from 1500 B.C, to wax and woods from 5th century B.C, and to Pergamum and parchment from 2nd century B.C. [1] It’s not convenient to write on these materials and hard…