STRATEGY DYNAMICS & GLOBAL BUSINESS Module code: EDPSDGN Group Assignment due date: 15 August 2013 Lecturer: Prof Peet Venter ASSIGNMENT QUESTION Carry out a research on Bidvest Group and analyse its corporate strategy. Further analyse its approach to international/global business. Maximum length: 15 A4 pages‚ Times Roman 1‚5 spacing‚ 12 pt font Table of Contents 1. Executive summary 2. Introduction 3. Bidvest’s Key Success Factors a) Leadership of original creator
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and logistics industry is‚ however‚ faced with a number of its own peculiarities. This diverse industry comprises tens of thousands of individual truck- and bakkie-owners‚ as well as some of South Africa’s largest conglomerates including Transnet‚ Bidvest‚ Imperial and Grindrod. These service providers all experience reliability and cost-efficiency challenges‚ and many are faced with poor assets that struggle across inadequate road‚ rail and port infrastructure. Unless something is done to alleviate
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Assessment 1. Part A. Case Study. APC SUPERSTORE 1. Paper use: There are 25 staff in the APCSUPERSTORE office‚ each use 150 pages of copy paper per week. 25 X 150 = 3 750‚ this is the consummation per week for all the office. 3 750 X 4 =15 000‚ so the office needs 15 000 page of copy paper per month. For the month of April 2010‚ AOCSUPERSTORE ordered 4 boxes of paper; each box contains 5000 pages of paper. 4 X 5000 = 20 000‚ this the number of paper odered for the month of April 2010
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Prepared by: SEOKE L.J. ASSIGNMENT TOPIC: a weak currency or a strong currency for the South African economy? What are the pros and cons of a weak currency or a strong currency in South Africa? Discuss. A. Introduction Cartoonists in South Africa have a long-running joke that shows a bruised and feeble coin‚ the rand‚ being beaten up by two muscled thugs‚ the dollar and the pound. In 2001 South Africa ’s currency was knocked down by two-fifths against the greenback‚ much of it in
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Avalon Aviation Academy Vidya Bhawan‚ CP‚ DELHI Project Name: - Entire Coverage of Aviation Sector Made by; - Apurva Singh ACKNOWLEDGEMENT My first experience of project has been successfully‚ thanks to the support of the Internet and people who have share their views in Net with gratitude. I wish to acknowledge all of them. However‚ I wish to make special mention of the following. First of all‚ I am thankful of our project guide Mr. Abhishek Sharma under whose guideline I am able
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www.ib.cdc.org Case 11 Mahindra & Mahindra (B): An Emerging Global Giant? "I have been on record to say that my philosophy of going global is because if you don’t succeed abmad or don’t have the capacity to succeed abmad and to carve out some turf abroad you are not going to be safe at home [. . .}. If you want to compete with multinationals you have to be a multinational. So that is the logical rationale for going abmad.HI -ANAND G. MAHINDRA‚ Vice Chairman and Managing Director‚ Mahindra & Mahindra
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INSTITUTIONALISING THE STRATEGIC ROLE OF CORPORATE COMMUNICATION/PUBLIC RELATIONS THROUGH ITS CONTRIBUTION TO ENTERPRISE STRATEGY AND ENTERPRISE GOVERNANCE Paper submitted to the 10th Annual EUPRERA Conference‚ to be held in Milan from 16-18 October 2008 by Benita Steyn Cape Peninsula University of Technology SOUTH AFRICA b.steyn@lantic.net and Lynne Niemann Cape Peninsula University of Technology SOUTH AFRICA lynne@boomtown.co.za Key words: Enterprise strategy‚ corporate governance
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Annual Report and Form 20-F 2012 bp.com/annualreport Building a stronger‚ safer BP Annual Report and Form 20-F 2012 bp.com/annualreport Building a stronger‚ safer BP Front cover imagery The Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) Ramform Sterling seismic vessel‚ which conducts seismic surveys for BP. Left image: the vessel working in the Ceduna Basin‚ Australia. Centre image: the vessel tows 12 streamers (pictured) behind it‚ each 8km long and equipped with hydrophones to pick up echoes from
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