TEAM ASSIGNMENT NO. 4 LOCATION PROBLEMS Problem No. 1 A) Based on Labor cost only‚ which location would be most economical to product the items? Data: LOCATION LABOR COST UNITS PRODUCE Cambodia 6 laborers @ $3/day= $18.00/day 40 China 10 laborers @ $2/day= $20.00/day 45 Billings‚ Montana 2 laborers @ $60/day= $120.00/day 100 COST OF GOODS PER UNIT LOCATION Labor cost per day/productivity COST PER UNIT Cambodia $18.00/40 $.45 China $20.00/45 $.44 Billings‚ Montana $120.00/100 $1.20
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Chapter 2 Blades‚ Inc. Case Ben Holt‚ chief financial officer (CFO) of Blades‚ Inc.‚ has decided to counteract the decreasing demand for Speedos roller blades by exporting this product to Thailand. Furthermore‚ due to the low cost of rubber and plastic in Southeast Asia‚ Holt has decided to import some of the components needed to manufacture Speedos from Thailand. Holt feels that importing rubber and plastic components from Thailand will provide Blades with a cost advantage ( the components
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PATTAYA Pattaya is a wonderful place to visit during holiday in December. It has many things that you want and have many beautiful places. It was famous in Thailand. Many people want to visit Pattaya because it has something that people unexpected. Pattaya have many places that make you smile and funny. First place is Pattaya Beach is popular. It has delicious food and you can play the sea and pile of sand. It has a lot of activity such as play Banana Boat‚ Jet Ski‚ Cycling along the beach
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Air Pollution in Bangkok Pedestrians in Bangkok walk along the streets with handkerchiefs covering their noses. This is because nobody would like to inhale the unclean air into their body. As both residents and foreigners who have visited Bangkok know‚ Bangkok has one of the worst traffic in the world. This is due to the number of motor vehicles running on the roads which has increased significantly over the past few years. And without enough mass transit and road network‚ it led to traffic congestion
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Background story of Heineken Heineken was founded on 1864 by Gerard Adriaan Heineken after he bought a brewery in the heart of Amsterdam. Over the past 140 years‚ three generations of the Heineken family have built and expanded the brand and the company in Europe and around the world. Heineken expanded using mergers and acquisitions‚ struggling between concessions to the market and its belief in the high quality‚ and price‚ standards that put it on the map in the first place. Pursuing quality
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BLADES‚ INC. CASE Assessment of Future Exchange Rate Movements As the chief financial officer of Blades‚ Inc.‚ Ben Holt is pleased that his current system of exporting “Speedos” to Thailand seems to be working well. Blades’ primary customer in Thailand‚ a retailer called Entertainment Products‚ has committed itself to purchasing a fixed number of Speedos annually for the next 3 years at a fixed price denominated in baht‚ Thailand’s currency. Furthermore‚ Blades is using a Thai supplier for some
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Identify the main factors that led to the collapse of the Thai baht in 1997. An export fed growth spurt spurred on huge investments in property. This in turn increased property values. An already stressed stock market was further weakened by the collapse of Thailand’s major bank (Finance One). This coupled with the unsustainable peg on the baht to the dollar contributed to the collapse. Do you think the sudden collapse of the Thai baht can be explained by the purchasing power parity theorem? The
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BF2207 International Finance - Assignment 1A: Question 1: As an established brand in the United States (US) faced with falling demand for their primary product ‚ the primary objective that Blades have to meet is to increase their profits in order to keep their shareholders happy and consequently ‚ to keep their investments in the company. With a falling demand‚ a way to improve the profits earned would be to lower the costs in producing their products. As such‚ the prima facie advantage that
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Have you ever imagined Bangkok without any traffic jams? Well‚ I have‚ many times. The amount of transport vehicles in Bangkok adds up to a striking 6.9 million‚ as for the rest of Thailand it comes to 23.4million in total. According to data and statistics from World Health Organization (WHO)‚ the number of traffic accidents (2012) in Bangkok and in the rest of the country is more or less the same. In Bangkok more personal cars are involved in accidents‚ while in the countryside pickups feature more
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27 มิถุนายน 2552 เวลา 18.00 น. แฟนๆกว่า 12‚000 คน รวมตัวกันที่อิมแพคอารีน่า เมืองทองธานี กรุงเทพฯ ประเทศไทย เพื่อร่วมมันส์ในคอนเสิร์ต ’YAMAHA Presents TVXQ! The 3rd Asia Tour Concert MIROTIC in Bangkok’ โดยในคอนเสิร์ตนี้นับเป็นการทัวร์เอเชียคอนเสิร์ตเป็นครั้งที่ 3 ของบรรดาเทพทั้ง 5 ดงบังชินกิ ประกอบไปด้วย ยูโนยุนโฮ (Uknow Yunho) ยองอุงแจจุง (Youngwoong Jaejoong) มิคกี้ยูชอน (Micky Yoochun) เซียจุนซู (Xiah Junsu) และ ชเวกังชางมิน (Choikang Changmin) ซึ่งประเทศไทยถือเป็นหนึ่งในนั้นที่แฟนๆได้มีโอกาสร่วมมันส์ไปพ
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