The Top 10 Hotel Groups in the World IHG Retains Top Spot Surpassing the 600‚000 Room Mark Due to pre-planned projects‚ most leading hotel groups posted positive supply growths / MKG Hospitality’s world ranking 2009. WORLD‚ 26 May 2009: UK-based InterContinental Hotel Group (IHG) retains its number one position in the world‚ surpassing the 600‚000 room mark. Meanwhile‚ Hilton Hotels recorded the largest growth among the top 10 at 9.3%‚ bringing their global room count to over half-a-million
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the medium/long term investment suitability of Next PLC‚ a publicly traded (LSE: NXT)‚ British fashion and homewares limited company. Background Next plc was originally founded in 1864 by Joseph Hepworth as Joseph Hepworth & Son‚ Gentleman’s Tailors; however‚ the current Next fashion brand evolved in 1981 when the company purchased the chain of Kendalls rainware shops as a means of launching stylish and affordable womenswear stores under the name Next. The first store opened in February of 1982‚
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Non-franchised Small Business Analysis (Gentlemen’s Top Option) Mark Anderson MGT/418 June 01‚ 2015 Dan Daily Gentlemen’s Top Option Gentlemen’s Top Option is a business located in Burlington‚ Vermont‚ that I will be researching I order to purchase the company. This paper will give a brief over view of the business model used by Gentlemen’s Top Option‚ assess the necessity for training during the purchase of Gentlemen’s Top Option‚ identify the issues that need to be investigated when performing
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Is Nanotechnology the Next Technological Breakthrough? Automobile revolutionized how people traveled. It increased mobility and economic activity. New employment opportunities arose in areas such as highway construction‚ retail gas sales‚ auto sales‚ food and hospitability. The next technological breakthrough came with the introduction of computers. Starting from 1950’s to date computers evolved from basic computing devices to complex devices‚ which are used to extend human ability in various
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| | BURBERRY | | | NEXT | | PROFITABILITY | | 2010 | 2009 | | 2010 | 2009 | Net Profit Margin | | 13.3% | 0.8% | | 15.6% | 14.6% | Gross Profit Margin | | 62.8% | 55.4% | | 29.3% | 27.8% | ROCE | | 26.8% | 1.7% | | 56.6% | 45.7% | Asset Turnover | | 2.01 | 2.08 | | 3.64x | 3.12x | Cash Return on Capital Employed | | 66.7% | 41.8% | | 73.4% | 54.9% | GEARING | | 2010 | 2009 | | 2010 | 2009 | Interest Cover | | 27.77x | 1.28x | | 20.97x | 9.44x
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It always has been a little puzzling to figure out what exactly makes a top-notch Inside Sales Person. Well-Run Concepts‚ Inc. has been conducting research to quantify what is needed in the position of Inside Sales today. We used a comprehensive‚ validated‚ step-by-step process called the Trimetrix™ system to determine what is needed for top performance. This article will summarize our findings to date and here is what we found. Attributes tells us if an individual can do the job by looking at
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Next Generation Network Evaluation June 2010 Produced by: Innovations for Scaling Impact and Keystone Accountability With generous support from the International Development Research Center and the Packard Foundation For questions and/or comments on this paper please contact Catrina Lucero at clucero@scalingimpact.net Table of Contents PURPOSE INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT THE CURRENT FIELD NETWORK METRICS NETWORK TOOLS GAPS IN CURRENT PRACTICE NETWORK THEORIES OF CHANGE NETWORKS AS COMPLICATED
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Top 10 Mobile Trends for 2013 1. Brands Will Care Even More About Reviews. Before any actual purchase‚ about46% of consumers research on the product or service first – via their mobile. This is crucial because mobile is present all the way to the point of purchase (present from discovery to purchase). 2. More Brands on Mobile. The increasing penetration of mobile in virtually every society is a marketer’s dream come true: access to more people‚ longer. 2/3 of Filipinos sleep with their phones‚
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The next five years | | | | All of us acknowledge that India is changing and that the pace of change is accelerating. We also know that India (and the Indian economy) will be very different five years from now in more ways than one. In the context of private consumption‚ how much India would be different in 2015 can be best understood if we look at some of the data relating to where India was just five years ago‚ i.e. in 2005. India’s GDP in 2005 was about $785 billion‚ which has increased
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A Comparative Essay of A Doll’s House and Top Girls Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls both are a pillar of critical writing about the society they were originally produced in and have a central theme of the oppression of women‚ which makes them great sources of feminist reviews. Although Ibsen “abandoned the concept that the play was about gender roles” (Urban‚ 1997)‚ the central question is beyond the original context within which the plays were produced and received
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