Date: 10.14.2010 RAKHI PAREKH STUDENT ID: 03154209 FSH630- Brand Makeover: Mid-term Project Brand history American Apparel is a sweatshop free vertically integrated manufacturer‚ distributor and retailer based in down town Los Angeles. This means that all of their products are designed ‚ manufactured (knitting‚ dyeing‚ cutting and sewing)‚ and marketed in their 800‚000 sq foot property in downtown Los Angeles. This makes it the largest single garment factory in the United States. Vertical
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Fashion is one of the world’s most important creative industries. It has provided economic thought with a canonical example in theorizing about consumption and conformity. Social thinkers have long treated fashion as a window upon social class and social change. Cultural theorists have focused on fashion to reflect on symbolic meaning and social ideals. Fashion has also been seen to embody representative characteristics of modernity‚ and even of culture itself. Everyone wears clothing and inevitably
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Situation analysis New Balance Athletic Shoe Company has been ranked the third in the US Athletic shoe industry. During the financial year 2007‚ it recorded revenues of $1‚630 million‚ an increase of 5.2% over 2006 (www.businessweek.com). Since the athletic shoe market is highly competitive‚ New Balance is trying to figure out how to compete in this highly competitive market against such industry giant like Nike‚ Adidas/Reebok. Below is a SWOT analysis of New Balance. SWOT analysis Strengths
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American Apparel is a clothing manufacturer‚ distributor and retailer based in Los Angeles‚ California. Founded in 1989 by Canadian entrepreneur‚ Dov Charney‚ the company functions as a vertically integrated manufacturer that creates and develops their own advertising and branding campaign. American Apparel stresses the importance of mandating and promoting labour policies that reject clothing manufactures in sweatshops (AmericanApparel.net). First‚ this section of this paper will illustrate that
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Analysis of Industry This industry analysis will aid in discussing the industry in which Amazon.com will be located. Amazon.com is a part of the online retailing industry‚ which allows for consumers to purchase goods using the Internet and company websites. We will also determine how the company will compete in this industry. The online retail industry is affected by many trends in the general public. Some of these trends include‚ cultural trends‚ social trends‚ and technological trends. E-retail
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1. Executive Summary 2. Study background : Apparel is one of the oldest and largest export industries in the world. Most countries produce for the international textile and apparel market (Dickerson‚ 1995:6)‚ making this one of the most global of all industries. Apparel production considered as the “starter” industry for countries wish to establish or increase export business for low fixed cost. The rising in garment manufacturing has been playing a significant role in economic development
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Feinstein Graduate School AN ANALYSIS OF JC PENNY’S AND HOW IT RELATES TO COMPETITION WITHIN THE RETAILING INDUSTRY A Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the MBA Degree Course: MGMT 6800 MAY 9th‚ 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 COMPANY PROFILES 4 1. JC Penney 4 Strategy initiative 4 Mission…………………………………………………………….. 5 2.KOHL’S………………………..………… ………..……………………5
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Intercollegiate Athletics vs. Academics: The student-athlete or the athlete-student Christopher Saffici and Robert Pellegrino The Sport Journal. 15.1 (Annual 2012) Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2012 United States Sports Academy http://www.thesportjournal.org/general.asp This article is about the priorities student-athletes have‚ most of the athletes don’t care about school‚ they think they can make it by just being a good athlete and some recruited athletes are not prepared for the extreme college work and
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“If you’re a clock-watcher‚ this is the wrong job for you‚ according to Chelsea athletic director‚ Wayne Welton (Kalahar‚ 2011). Athletic directors (AD’s)‚ who work countless number of hours daily‚ challenge this forward thinking or idea. Most taking on numerous roles day in and day out‚ only to find themselves with task incomplete of request unfulfilled. The role of the athletic director‚ specifically at the high school level‚ has changed due to an increased workload‚ leading to burnout‚ while
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