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    Candle Company began in 1969‚ as penniless Mike Kittredge‚ age 16‚ melted crayons to form a candle as a Christmas present for his Mom. A neighbor‚ mesmerized by his fabulous creation‚ expressed her desire to purchase one of his candles; thus Yankee Candle Company was born. Mike used his parent’s basement‚ kitchen‚ and garage to produce his scented candles. Five years later‚ in 1974‚ Mike moved production into an old paper mill located in Holyoke‚ Massachusetts. In 1998 Forstmann Little & Company partnered

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    Advantages of Logistics Outsourcing In the face of increasingly intensified competition in the emerging globaleconomy‚ manufacturing and retail firms are progressively turning to outsourcing of their logistics functions. Outsourcing is a viable business strategy because turning non-core functions over to external suppliers enables companies to leverage their resources‚ spread risks and concentrate on issues critical to survival and future growth. One way of extending the logistics organization

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    Ourania (Renee) Kalouris BA 219 International Business Dr. Morfopoulos 07.20.2010 UNIT 2 CULTURE AND GLOBAL BUSINESS -Individual Project (week 2) CHOICE 1: For an international business person‚ business traveller or expatriate‚ doing business in a foreign country poses some interesting cross cultural challenges. Getting to grips with a country’s business culture‚ protocol and etiquette is important in maximising your potential and getting the best out of your visit.Greece is a

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    The marketplace simulation game was an overall great experience in terms of understanding how an organization works‚ what aspects should be considered while making decisions and how to coordinate between various departments. It was an excellent platform for me to learn how various functional departments in an organization work and how are they dependent on one another. Working in a team and coping with various challenges collectively helped me understand the importance of team work. I believe

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    CellBazaar‚ Burgeoning Mobile Marketplace of Bangladesh Abstract CellBazaar‚ MIT Media Lab project‚ is the biggest mobile based online marketplace in Bangladesh. It is nothing but a platform that contains the information of its customers who are willing to sell their products or services and buyers or people at large go through that information posted by the sellers to search out the product serve their interest best. Cellbazaar is in service industry as well as in IT industry.

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    What is logistic? Deal with the management of the flow of goods or materials from point of origin to point of consumption‚ and in some cases even to the point of disposal. Logistics is not confined to manufacturing operations alone. It is relevant to all enterprises‚ including government institutions such as hospitals and schools‚ service organization such as retailers‚ banks and financial service organizations. Logistics is dependent upon natural‚ human‚ financial and information resources for

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    NURNBERG AUGSBURG MASCHINENWERKE Course: Bachelor of Business (Maritime and Logistics Management) Abstract The following article follows the case of a German company‚ Nurnberg Augsburg Maschinenwerke and an order‚ of buses‚ from a group of Brazilian authorities dealing with the improvement of the local public transportation. The best and most viable routes are to be decided upon for the delivery of these buses to Santos. A condition was given for 25 buses to be

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    Personal Selling Philosophy The web dictionary defines selling as; a sale is the act of selling a product or service in return for money or other compensation. Signaling completion of the prospective stage‚ it is the beginning of an engagement between customer and vendor or the extension of that engagement. Personal selling occurs where an individual salesperson sells a product‚ service or solution to a client. Salespeople match the benefits of their offering to the specific needs of

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    Case 1 Integrated Logistics Overview This case finds Tom Lippert‚ sales representative for DuPont Engineering Polymers (DEP)‚ in a situation common to today’s competitive sales environment. His company‚ as a supplier to a major manufacturer (GARD)‚ is faced with changing times. GARD is in the midst of a “changing of the guard” as Mr. Lippert’s long-time contact‚ Mike O’Leary‚ retires. O’Leary’s successor‚ Richard Binish‚ brings a new set of supplier expectations to the fore of GARD’s

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    NEW INTERNATIONAL VENTURE THEORY New international venture can be defined as : “Business organization that‚ from inception seeks to derive significant competitive advantage from the use of resources and the sale of outputs in multiple countries.” Simply‚ we can say that the company is international from its inception. When deciding whether we can say this is a new international venture‚ we need to take in account following characteristics: Amount of resource commitment from more than one

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