No. 2005–57 ROYAL AHOLD: A FAILURE OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND AN ACCOUNTING SCANDAL By Abe de Jong‚ Douglas V. DeJong‚ Gerard Mertens‚ Peter Roosenboom March 2005 ISSN 0924-7815 Royal Ahold: A Failure of Corporate Governance and an Accounting Scandal Abe de Jong* Department of Financial Management Erasmus University Rotterdam a.jong@fbk.eur.nl Douglas V. DeJong Tippie College of Business University of Iowa douglas-dejong@uiowa.edu Gerard Mertens Department of Financial Management Erasmus
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a vital role in the up gradation of technology‚ skills and managerial capabilities in various sectors of the economy. Despite encouraging signs‚ India’s retail market remains largely off-limits to large international retailers like Wal-Mart and Carrefour. Opposition to liberalizing FDI in this sector raises concerns about employment losses‚ unfair competition resulting in large-scale exit of incumbent domestic retailers and infant industry arguments to protect the organized domestic retail sector
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IKEA’s mission is to offer a wide range of home furnishing items of good design and function‚ excellent quality at affordable price (IKEA 2011). IKEA distinguishes itself from the competitors with the way it unique layout design. The display was setup in a flow manner which allow consumer to view all product before leaving the store which also fully utilize the floor space. The showroom allows consumers to view the full operational product without customer having to visualize in their own room. IKEA
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Name: Khaled Emad Soliman ID: 114665 Module Name: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Mobile Air Conditioning (MAC CO.) Executive Summary The company is offering Portable Air Conditioning to people where the air conditioning can simply be turned on without any kind of electricity and is handy so that it could be portable from one place to another. For example if a family is sitting in the living and then went to their bedrooms they can easily move it with them to the other rooms and also
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Summary “UK develops taste for fair trade” The article is published on the “The Guardian” official web page. It is written by unknown author from The Guardian company. The Guardian is a British national daily newspaper which was 1821‚ developed through centuries and is now one of the most popular daily news source of Great Britain. As the headline implies it is devoted to the free trade which has developed since 60s and is helping farmers and poor people not to go bankrupt by exporting their
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backed up by sharp advertising. Fast retailers have opened 430 stores in Japan and plan another 80 to 100 each year. Muji has 251 stores in Japan and appeals mostly to young shoppers. And some following deregulation in the retail industry like Carrefour from France‚ and the American Chain Wal-Mart‚ Plan to open in Tokyo. Secondly‚ Trends are also important to maintain profit. As the Japanese population ages‚
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SUBMITTED BY: PRERNA TEKCHANDANI CONTENT 1. Introduction FDI in multi-brand retail What is FDI 2. Review of literature 3. Objectives of the study 4. Chapterization Chapter One : FDI in Indian Multibrand Retail – Rationale Chapter Two : Effect of FDI In Multi Brand Retail For Different Stakeholders Chapter Three: FDI – Challenges Chapter Four: FDI-Opportunities ( Benefits ) Chapter Five : With Eye on Multi-Brand Retail‚ FDI Chases Agricultural Services 5. conclusion
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Statement of Problem Wal-Mart must decide on how to improve management of its enormous company and continue its domestic and international growth. In addition‚ Wal-Mart must address ancillary issues such as development of store format‚ technology deployment‚ human capital‚ and internationalization in order to have further short and long-term success. Strength Weakness Economics: great earnings and profits. Goodwill: well recognized name‚ brand. Operations: o Size (one of the largest
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ASIAN CASE RESEARCH JOURNAL‚ VOL. 6‚ ISSUE 1‚ 1–13 (2002) ACRJ This case was prepared by Assistant Professor Susan H. C. Tai of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a basis for classroom discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of an administrative or business situation. Please address all correspondence to Dr Susan Tai‚ Department of Business Studies‚ The Hong Kong Polytechnic University‚ Kowloon‚ Hong Kong‚ E-mail: bustai@polyu.edu.hk. Supermarket Cyber
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market in Indonesia with 24 production machines in 7 cities and 3 main product lines: white bread‚ sweet bread and cakes which also divided into different flavors. The main distribution channels for Sari Roti are chain stores such as 7-eleven and Carrefour and bread agency. As the biggest local bread producer‚ PT Nippon IndosariCorpindo needs to think about the future of its business. With 90% current market share‚ it soon will reach its peak. In order to expand its business in this internationalized
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