Expansion of the Panama Canal & Heartland Barge The Panama Canal enables the ships sailing from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean (and vice versa) to save time and fuel by avoiding the travel around the tip of South America. The savings in time equal half of the time previously taken by ships to do the same. The size of ships that are used in shipping containers has drastically increased due to the container revolution. To enable the new and bigger ships such as Maersk Triple E Class to
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Center Baton Construction Company is an ever-growing company that currently employs over 500 of some of the most enthusiastic and passionate employees I have seen. While it continues to see success and expansion‚ Baton Construction has held true to its promise of providing stability and equal benefits to employees‚ thereby beating any odds of seeing high turnover and has been able to retain its satisfied employees. Though‚ with all of the positives that come with the rapid growth of our company‚
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can affect its operation.The business environment consists of the actors and forces that affect an organization’s ability to develop and maintain business with its targeted customers. These are the Micro Environment‚ the Macro environment and the internal environment.The micro-environment of an organization can best be understood as comprising all those other organizations and individuals who directly or indirectly affect the activities of the organization. The following key groups can be identified
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Energy Efficient Buildings Internal Heat Gains and Design Heating & Cooling Loads Internal Heat Gains People and electrical equipment in buildings give off heat. These internal heat gains must be included in energy balances on the building or zone to determine the net heating or cooling load. Heat Gain From People Typical sensible‚ latent and total heat rates given off by people are shown in the table below (ASHRAE Fundamentals‚ 2005). The sensible heat gain results from radiation and
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Effective internal communications is essential to the success of a company and the accomplishment of its mission and strategic objectives. The best companies ensure that internal communication channels flow from the highest to the lowest levels of the organization. As a result‚ employees are familiar with the mission‚ vision‚ and strategic objectives of the company and have a solid understanding of how their individual jobs contribute to overall success. While the importance of internal communications
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Marketing expansion grid. Marketing has the main responsibility for achieving profitable growth for the company. The market expansion grid is a portfolio-planning tool for identifying company growth opportunities through market penetration‚ market development‚ product development and diversification. To go into details on the points‚ let’s consider the company Under Armour‚ established in 1996 in the US‚ it is a leading brand that produces performance sports apparel First‚ market penetration
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Internal Memorandum To: Clayton Parker‚ Finance Department Manager Form: Robert Roa‚ Budget Analyst Date: August 26‚ 2012 Subject: Request for Funding I am writing you in request for funding to attend an advance business writing class (WRTG 394)‚ which will be held 03 September to 12 October 2012 in the Texas A & M University campus located here in San Antonio‚ Texas. Advance Business Writing (WRTG 394) is described to be an upper-level business writing course. The class
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integration and quick-response are also keys to Zara’s business model. Zara started to expand internationally in late 1980’s. The first Zara store outside Spain was opened in Portugal in 1988. Then they entered New York in 1989 and in Paris in 1990. The expansion of Zara stores keeps growing‚ and until now‚ it presents in seventy three countries‚ with 1‚341 stores in prime locations of major cities. Business environment The apparel market is a consumer-driven industry‚ and globalization and new technologies
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Strengths and Weaknesses • Goal: objective assessment of your strengths and weaknesses – relative to competitors – important to customers Note: This is difficult to do well. Strategic Business Planning for Commercial Producers Challenge of Internal Analysis • Identifying‚ developing‚ protecting‚ and deploying resources‚ capabilities‚ and core competencies Strategic Business Planning for Commercial Producers Resources • Inputs into a firm’s production process such as capital equipment
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as consumers seek for alternative beverages. As the matter of fact‚ PepsiCo switches to non-cola products such as bottle-water‚ ready-to-drink tea and sports drinks. In turn‚ bottled water gained the market share up to 12.8% in unit sales. 2-Internal Analysis of Coke and Pepsi (Appendix A) In this session‚ we would analyze Coke and Pepsi internally using SWOT analysis. SWOT is the short form of Strengths‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities and Threats. In Appendix A‚ we can see that the major strength
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