Overview of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation: Found in 1989‚ Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is one of the latest organizations that have been establishment mainly for the purpose of promoting and facilitating free trade in different countries belonging to the Asia-Pacific region. The organization that started with twelve members has been growing and demonstrating several benefits in different areas. The main goal or aim of the entity is to facilitate the economic growth of its member
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The Low-cost Orange Flying Machine: The Case of easyJet Introduction The colour orange is increasingly becoming synonymous with the firm easyJet as it has become one of the world’s most profitable low-cost airlines (Alamdari and Fagan‚ 2005). This paper examines the basis of their success and argues firstly‚ that easyJet from its inception essentially adopted and stayed with the original low-cost model that was pioneered by Southwest airlines in the USA. Moreover‚ this is a model that has served
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1. Key Drivers of Change: a. Economies of Scale • Can be achieved by maximizing passenger number per flight • MAS‚ under Idris Jala cut several unpopular flight routes due to irregular number of passengers and increased number of flights in high demand routes to cut unnecessary expenses and costs • Air Asia benefits from the lowest flight cost‚ USD$0.02 ASK* (Southwest Airline [US LCC] – USD$0.04‚ MAS - $0.41‚ Cathay Pacific $0.59) b. Technological Change i. Technology is a key determinant
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Running Head: PRIVATE EQUITY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA Private Equity in South East Asia: Challenges and Opportunities Syahril Malik Daniels College of Business – University of Denver PRIVATE EQUITY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES Abstract Private Equity (“PE”) has played a big role in the investment world‚ not only because it generates relatively more return for the investors compared to other forms of investments‚ but also it has a huge market capitalization in terms of invested
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ING Insurance Asia/Pacific ING is one of the 20 largest financial structures in the world and within the top ten in Europe. A dutch-founded company‚ ING offers a variety of products lines in the insurance industry. It offers insurance services in the Americas‚ in Europe as well as in Asian countries. ING also does retail and wholesale banking all over the world. ING was the first European enterprise to enter the life insurance market in countries such as Japan‚ Taiwan and South Korea. Life
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control HEINEKEN Asia Pacific Entering Foreign Markets ~ Malaysia ~ Content About HEINEKEN Asia Pacific Market Strategies Why Malaysia Challenges Market Entry Into Malaysia About HEINEKEN Asia Pacific • • • • Asia Pacific Breweries (former HEINEKEN AP) was originally established in 1931 as a joint venture between HEINEKEN and Fraser and Neave. Asia Pacific Breweries Limited (APB) is one of the key players in the beer industry and together with Heineken Asia Pacific Pte Ltd (HAP) is operating
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VFX STUDIOS - ASIA & PACIFIC 1. CRITICA CRITICA is a motion graphics studio that provides creative solutions and broadcast graphics to cable and terrestrial TV networks. 2. Menfond Electronic Art One of the best visual effects houses in Asia. 3. Centro Digital Pictures Centro established new precedents for the use of digital film effects in Hong Kong‚ setting box office records in the territory. "The Stormriders"‚ which Centro co-produced‚ was the box-office
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the Credit Card in Asia Pacific Ankit Bhardwaj Apaar Malik Neha Sharma Shashwat Bhanti Sidharth Shah Introduction Citibank‚ a major international bank‚ is the consumer banking arm of financial services giant Citigroup. Citibank was founded in 1812 as the City Bank of New York‚ later First National City Bank of New York. Citibank has retail banking operations in more than 100 countries and territories around the world. Founded in 1812 as the City Bank of New York‚ ownership
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locations score to a low‚ medium‚ or high numerical value. This weighted value indicates the overall suitability for the specific land usage of a specified parcel of land. The suitability score for a zone is determined by multiplying the factor weight and the adding up all the products‚ producing you the score of a zone. (Kockelman et al.‚ 2008)
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Key success factors for the low-cost airline industry Figure 1 illustrates the process followed to determine the key success factors (KSF) in the low-cost airline industry. It is adapted from the process developed by Grant (2005: 93). The texts highlighted in red are the responses to the questions posed in the model and serves as the inputs to the discussion on the KSFs for the low-cost airline industry. Figure 1. Identifying key success factors in the low-cost airline industry. Cost As consumers
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