2. Competitors 2.1 Direct Competitors Being part of the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) market‚ Eu Yan Sang faces direct competition from large chain retailers like Hockhua and neighbourhood medical halls like Yan Chai Tong Medical Hall. They are direct competitors because they compete in the same market sector of TCM retailing and also offer a similar product range. 2.2 Indirect Competitors Indirect competitors will include Western pharmacies like Watson and Guardian‚ supermarkets
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Competitor Analysis Currently‚ TJX Competes with a wide spectrum of the competitor from a local pop and mom shops to multibillion-dollar companies such as Walmart and Target. On TJX 2016 annual report‚ they stated that the retail apparel and home fashion industry is very competitive‚ and they compete with local‚ regional‚ national and international departments‚ and retailers that sell apparel or home fashions merchandise. With that said we have identified four important competitor that competes
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SCANDAL IN SIEMENS (2006) In November 2006‚ Siemens company the Germany’s industrial giant had been involved in the largest bribery scandal that Germany had never experienced before. Managers used to secure abroad contracts by paying bribes to their clients. Is this an unethical behaviour or just a way to make profits for their company as they pretend that they didn’t make any personal gain? Is this behaviour could be considered as a sort of lobbying? What are the lessons Siemens had learned
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SIEMENS INTERNSHIP REPORT INDUSTRY SECTOR DEPARTMENT: INFRASTRUCRURE SOLUTIONS |[pic] |[pic] | [pic] INTERNSHIP PERIOD: 1Month DATES: 10-8-2009 TO 09-9-2009 SUBMITTED BY : ASIF NAEEM (From: UNIVERSITY OF SARGODHA‚ SARGODHA) SUBMITTED TO: MR. SOHAIL IMRAN (commercial Officer) PREFACE The purpose of the report is to give brief idea. The idea to my Official
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Siemens AG is a German based company founded in 1847‚ employs over 416‚000 people in 190 countries‚ and has over 60.1 billion Euros in sales worldwide. Siemens became the electronics‚ telecommunications‚ and electrical engineering powerhouse that it is today by consistently innovating and discovering new technologies. After starting out as a small precision-engineering workshop making wire insulation and warning bells for railroads‚ the company discovered the dynamoelectric principle‚ built the first
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Siemens Bribery Scandal By: Courtney Miano‚ Nancy Gonzalez‚ Mohamed Jawhar‚ Vernita Leslie‚ and Ferba Hines Siemen’s is classified as a large German electronics firm. In December of 2008‚ Siemens had to settle lawsuits and pay fines due to the fact that they were caught using bribes to win business all over the world. The fines totaled a net amount of 1.6 billion. Between 1999 and 2006 when the company was raided‚ Siemens reportedly paid around 1.4 billion dollars in
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1) What explains the high level of corruption at Siemens was how it was legal at one point in time to offer bribes‚ but once the law changed‚ Siemens continued to do brides that was once legal but now illegal. Also‚ when the company continued bribery‚ Siemens transferred money into a hard-to-trace bank in Switzerland to protect their business and help them win contracts. Managers rationalized it as the bribes being useful money‚ but in a way they were still making profit‚ and bribes were used as
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opinion‚ is “bribing” unethical & illegal or just a cost of doing business? Discuss this in light of Siemens’ bribery scandal. We believe that bribing is unethical because it takes away the fairness of a business transaction between bidders of a contract. Bribing also has a negative impact on competition because it allows for oligopolies and monopolies to emerge in an industry due to smaller competitors being unable to financially compete with the amount of the bribes. This in turn creates a barrier
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Case: The Bribery Scandal at Siemens AG 1. There is no question that ’bribing’ is unethical and illegal. However‚ nowadays there are a lot of developing countries in which corruption and bribing is a common practice and large companies that are targeted to expand to those countries’ markets have no other option but to pay government officials or other demanding individuals. In the Siemens case which involves bribing for contracts it is partially understandable if the company’s convicted managers
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Competitor analysis on shampoo market Industry perspective In industry perspective‚ a company can define its competitors as other companies offering similar products and services to the same customers at similar prices. Competitive positions on existing brands: Market leader : Rejoice ‚ ‚ Vidal Sassoon‚ Pantene and Head & Shoulders (P&G is the No. 1 consumer goods company in Hong Kong. It is also the category market leader in Baby care‚ Shampoo‚ Conditioner‚ and Facial Moisturizer.- http://hk-tw
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