Company History Wilkinson Hardware Stores Ltd. is a family-owned general merchandiser in the UK founded by J.K.Wilkinson in 1930. From its humble beginning as a small hardware shop in Leicester‚ the company has grown into one of the leading retailers in the UK with £2 billion turnover‚ 22‚000-employees‚ and about 350 stores across England‚ Wales and Scotland. The company’s growth over the years has been driven by the simple philosophy of selling quality goods at discount prices‚ and putting
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An Efficient Tamil Text Compaction System N.M..Revathi‚ G.P.Shanthi‚ Elanchezhiyan.K‚ T V Geetha‚ Ranjani Parthasarathi & Madhan Karky Tamil Computing Lab (TaCoLa)‚ College of Engineering Guindy‚ Anna University‚ Chennai. haisweety18@gmail.com‚ jijutodo@gmail.com‚ madhankarky@gmail.com Abstract Tamil is slowly becoming the online language and mobile text messaging languages for many Tamils around the world. Social networks and mobile platforms now extensively support Unicode and applications
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<b>Abstract</b> <br>According to the Efficient Market Theory‚ it should be extremely difficult for an investor to develop a "system" that consistently selects stocks that exhibit higher than normal returns over a period of time. It should also not be possible for a company to "cook the books" to misrepresent the value of stocks and bonds. An analysis of current literature‚ however‚ indicates that companies can and do "beat the system" and manipulate information to make stocks appear to perform above
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As Jeanette‚ the protagonist of Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit‚ states‚ “time is a great deadener.” (93) Essentially‚ as time passes‚ people will inherently forget crucial details of history‚ allowing for various interpretations and even inaccuracies to be perpetuated. The aforementioned Oranges‚ Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five‚ Tom Stoppard’s play Arcadia‚ and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart all explore‚ in some capacity‚ how certain people or events from the past are
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: very clear on Winterson’s own perspective and opinion‚ conveyed through her own history as the protagonist and the structure of the novel. POST MODERNISM - fragmented‚ discontinuous structure‚ hybrids‚ experimenting‚ and subjective view of truth. Post modernism came about because of the first world war- left Britain broken and fragmented. The massive blood bath changed the mind-set of the country‚ thought about bigger questions‚ ideas about rejecting an overall authority
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CUSTOMER PERCEPTIONS OF FACTORY OUTLET STORES VERSUS TRADITIONAL DEPARTMENT STORES Dr. G. S. Shergill* Department of Commerce‚ Massey University‚ Albany Campus‚ Private Bag 102 904 NSMC‚ Auckland‚ NEW ZEALAND Ph: 0064 9 414 0800 x9466‚ Email: G.S.Shergill@Massey.ac.nz & Y. Chen Department of Commerce‚ Massey University‚ Auckland‚ NEW ZEALAND‚ Email: alwaysyinyin@hotmail.com CUSTOMER PERCEPTIONS OF FACTORY OUTLET STORES VERSUS TRADITIONAL DEPARTMENT STORES Abstract This paper examines customers’
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Impact of Shopper‚ Store and Situational Factors on Store Image‚ Satisfaction and Loyalty of Customers A Study on Westside Stores Submitted in partial fulfillment of the Post-Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) Programme Submitted by: Aniket Vanjre Atharva School of Business Malad- Mumbai Acknowledgment I hereby take this opportunity to thank Apeejay School of Management for providing me an opportunity to do a research project on Westside Store. I express my sincere
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Case 2 for chapter on “Analysis of Production” Estimation of Production function for a retail store. Adapted from the article by Charles A.Ingene and Robert F. Lusch‚ www.emeraldinsight.com: Retail is a growing sector and is also one where the effect of the global recession is visible. It is absolutely essential to ensure that the investments made here‚ as anywhere else‚ are well informed decisions ensuring its productivity at the highest level. It is important to ensure this because this
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On the surface of the novel‚ Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit‚ may appear to be about a young lady trying to figure out who she is whilst in a constrained community. However this is not the whole story. Within the novel there are constant struggles with finding who you are‚ social class and the broad concept of fitting in. Winterson does this well through her use of symbols and motifs which are as one example an orange. Even the sub-plots within the novel such as her mother possibly having a lesbian
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Why Only One Hour? The short story of “The Story of an Hour” uses many elements in fiction writing such as symbol‚ plot‚ style‚ and theme. With these elements the reader can give different perspectives as to how such a short story can have many meaning. In the story the symbol of the heart in presented as Mrs. Mallards having health problems and also as a way to show the reader of how she feels emotionally. In the begging of the story we are presented with the facts of Mrs. Mallard’s health conditions
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