Nokia can trace its roots back to 1865 and a pulp mill in south-west Finland. A century and a half later‚ Nokia’s handset business is being bought by Microsoft for €5.44bn after a troubled few years for the mobile phone giant. Here we track Nokia’s rise‚ and subsequent fall. 1865: Mining engineer Fredrik Idestam sets up a wood pulp mill at the Tammerkoski Rapids in south-western Finland. 1871: The Nokia name is born‚ inspired by the Nokianvirta river on the banks of which Idestam opens a second
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An investigation on consumer behavior and preferences towards apparel‚ purchase by Indian consumers age 15 – 25 Submitted by Karthikeyan Sundarraj S105650 MASTER OF SCIENCE Branch: Applied Textile Management Swedish School of Textiles‚ Högskolan i Borås‚ S-501 90 Borås Revised 6 August 2011 The Swedish School of Textiles Högskolan i Borås‚ S-501 90 Borås An investigation on consumer behavior and preferences towards apparel‚ purchase by Indian consumers age 15 – 25 Bonafide record
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Financial Plan In financing any business the business owner must have a clear financial plan. A clear financial plan provides invaluable help in keeping a business focused and generating a profit. Without a financial plan it is impossible to know how the business is performing. In the Denny’s franchise agreement a potential franchisee must have a minimum net worh of €800‚000 of which €250‚000 must be cash. Denny’s insist on a clear financial plan so that they are satisfied that the potential
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Executive summary About the project Within a short span of time‚ the use of cosmetics by Indian consumers has increased significantly with more and more women and men taking greater interest in personal grooming‚ increasing disposable incomes‚ changing life styles‚ influence of satellite television and greater product choice and availability. This cosmetics and personal care industry has been growing at an average rate of 20 per cent for the last few years. The growing Indian cosmetics market offers
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In may 1992 the finnish company Nokia started to focus on telecommunications‚ and they are selling the first GSM-mobilephone. The companies goal in 1994 was to sell about five hundred thousand mobile phones. The goal was pulverised by selling more than twenty million mobile phones. Today‚ Nokia is a world leader in digital technologies‚ including mobile phones‚ tele-communications networks‚ wireless data solutions and multimedia terminals. In 2007 Nokia was worlds number one manufacturer
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Brief discription Nokia is a Finnish multinational communications and information technology corporation with headquarters in Keilaniermi‚ Espoo‚ Finland. Its principal products are mobile telephones and portable IT devices. It also offers internet services including applications‚ games‚ music‚ media‚ and messaging‚ and free-of-charge digital map information and navigation services. Nokia has a joint venture with Siemens‚ Nokia Siemens Networks‚ which provide telecommunications network
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Problems at Nokia Nokia‚ considered to be the pioneer in smartphones and a global leader in the mobile phones market‚ started to face severe challenges to its dominance in the smartphone market in 2007. The problems came mainly in the form of competition from the new mobile operating systems that entered the market like iOS and Android. Nokia had started the smartphone business and had been the leader since the release of its smartphone OS Symbian in 1997. But the release of Apple’s revolutionary
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INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT - NOKIA a. Describe the industry-level strategies adopted by Nokia. More specifically: i. Which positioning strategy does the company follow? Nokia has not been acting well. Its strategy is not well organized; it’s more like an “old-fashioned” strategy. That’s because they centralized in making esthetical mobile phones‚ but the problem was that the technology was not well at all. Another error is that Nokia has been making a lot of different mobile phones in a short period
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CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR TOWARDS ONLINE SHOPPING (E-Shopping) Submitted To‚ L.J. Institute of Business Administration Vastrapur‚ Ahmedabad Project Guide‚ Prof. Saurin Shah Submitted by Name Roll No. 1. Siddharth Iyer 47 2. Raj Joisar 55 3. Keval Amreliya 05 4. Dhanraj Solanki 145 5. Akash Gupta 43 6. Simpy Harwani 45 7.
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in the course of this study. These include the previous researches which are as: 1. Sourabh Bhattacharya (2011) conducted research on “Consumer Attitude Towards Green Marketing In India”. According to him‚ Marketing is the process which begins with identifying the needs of the consumer and further includes product development‚ delivering products to the consumer and providing after sales service. The conventional marketing process is not specifically concerned or bothered about environmental safety
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