Morrissey Forgings‚ Inc. This heavily disguised case is set in the "mature" woodstoves business in 1986. It is not based on The Vermont Castings Company. The issue is product line strategy based on product line profitability. In early 1986‚ Tim Morrissey was reviewing the disappointing 1985 results of operations for his company (see Exhibit 1). The business had been founded in 1938 by Tim’s grandfather as a modernization of an older iron forge company which Tim’s great-great-grandfather had
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rP os t HKU978 NIKHIL CELLY op yo HAIER IN INDIA: BUILDING PRESENCE IN A MASS MARKET BEYOND CHINA In a short 25 years‚ Haier Inc had emerged from being a small refrigerator factory in northeast China to becoming the world’s biggest appliance seller by retail volume. It had exported to developed markets in the 1990s‚ set up factories overseas and created a global retail chain that made it an unmatched success in China. This company that made its name by exporting refrigerators
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increased rate of unemployed and job dissatisfaction. As imply‚ many people engaged in direct selling because direct selling have the vast opportunities available to young and old alike to earn additional income to supplement their lifestyle‚ and in this case‚ their golden years. The context of this study will define what sales agent is‚ how they perform; what are the importance of rewards to the effectiveness performance of sales agents in selling products and how does distributors motivate their salespeople/sales
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HKU833 STEPHEN KO AIRASIA: FLYING LOW-COST WITH HIGH HOPES AirAsia started out as a Malaysian government-controlled‚ full-service regional airline that offered slightly lower fares than its number-one competitor‚ Malaysia Airlines (“MAS”). In December 2001‚ private entrepreneur Tony Fernandes took over the debt-ridden airline for the symbolic sum of US$0.26. Despite the air-travel downturn following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks‚ Fernandes believed that the timing for entering
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CASE STUDY 1 MAKING FRIENDS AT PILLCO Samir Sethi‚ the Managing Director of Pillco‚ a Mumbai based textile manufacturer‚ was quite pleased with himself. It was Friday afternoon and his flight from Tokyo was just about to land at Mumbai. In conjuction with his Sales Director‚ Aman Kalra‚ he had just returned from Japan where he managed to successfully complete negotiations on a Rs. 25 million order from a Japanese folfing manufacturer‚ Kokuna. The order was for the manufacture of a new range of
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Description The Textile Empire: Inditex‚ Zara Inditex‚ the parent company which owns Zara‚ one of the best known fashion brands in the world‚ is an apparel conglomerate‚ with 9 brands under its umbrella. Inditex made €1.932 billion profit with a revenue of €13.79 billion worldwide in 2011. As of 2012‚ there are 100‚140 people working for Inditex Group across their headquarters and 6‚009 stores around the world. [1][2] Among those major 9 brands of Inditex‚ Zara‚ one of their oldest brands
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w rP os t S 910D05 OPERATIONS STRATEGY AT GALANZ op yo Dr. Stephen Ng and Barbara Li wrote this case under the supervision of Professors Xiande Zhao‚ Xuejun Xu and Yang Lei solely to provide material for class discussion. The authors do not intend to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a managerial situation. The authors may have disguised certain names and other identifying information to protect confidentiality. Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation
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5. Case Study Of The Textile Industry In Tirupur 5.1 Background AS OUR CAR bounced along the narrow pot-holed road to Tirupur‚ a sign Welcome to Banian City greeted us. Banian is the local name for the white vests used mostly by men in India. This sign described what was in store for us in Tirupur. There does not seem to be any activity in the town that is not directly or indirectly connected with the manufacture and sale of banians and T-shirts. The whole world appeared to have discovered
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its eight store formats -Zara‚ Pull & Bear‚ Massimo Dutti‚ Bershka‚ Stradivarius‚ Oysho‚ Zara Home and Uterqüe - boasting 4.780 stores in 77 countries. http://www.inditex.es/es The Inditex Group is made up of more than 100 companies operating in textile design‚ manufacturing and distribution. The group’s success and its unique business model‚ based on innovation and flexibility‚ have made Inditex one of the biggest fashion retailers in the world. It is one of the business phenomena in recent years
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Cases Summary CJUS 350 Angela McIntosh The three cases that are mentioned and studied are Brady v. Maryland‚ Giglio v. United States‚ and United States v. Agurs. These cases are important to the history of how cases are presented and with what evidence is made available to the jury. With Brady v. Maryland‚ it was the first time that the Supreme Court recognized that the Fourteenth Amendment due process clause is to ensure and guarantee that the criminal defendants are given
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