THE HERSHEY COMPANY ANALYSIS Pursuant to Securities Exchange Act of 1934 Form 10-K & Schedule 14A Proxy Statement BUS 500A Accounting Fundamentals Professor Dennis Kyte February 19‚ 2012 Olabisi Carr I. Background Information Name of the Company: The Hershey Company. See SEC Form 10K‚ front page 0. Hereinafter. “Hershey.” or the “Company.” See Proxy Statement‚ page 2. Fiscal year covered by the annual report: Fiscal year 2009. See SEC Form 10K‚ front page 0. Stock Exchange
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Hershey CEO defends company strategy * February 4‚ 2010 * source: just-food Hershey president and CEO Dave West has stood by the US chocolate maker’s strategy and insisted the company can deliver “long-term value” for shareholders. The business‚ which generates the bulk of its revenues in the US‚ has faced questions over its future growth after deciding not to bid for UK confectioner Cadbury. Hershey has ventures in Brazil‚ India and China but industry watchers have argued the company’s international
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Charlene Andrews Professor Wittke BUSS100-Business Principles Hershey’s Homework 1. Does Hershey use process manufacturing or the assembly process? Is the production of Hershey ’s chocolate an intermittent or continuous productions process? Justify your answers. Hershey uses both process manufacturing and the assembly process to produce and manufacture their products. Process manufacturing is used during the chocolate creation phase by combining various ingredients together‚ such as cocoa beans
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The World Class City Concept and its Repercussions on Urban Planning for Cities in the Asia Pacific Region By Arif Hasan ( 04 September 2009 ) Email: arifhasan@cyber. net.pk (Paper prepared for the IAPS-CSDE Network Symposia on Culture‚ Space and Revitalization‚ Istanbul‚ Turkey‚ 12 – 16 October 2009) An Alternative to the World Class City Concept? What is the alternative to the World Class city concept? An inclusive city based on the principles of justice and equity
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LECTURE NOTES ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGEMENT Emad Elbeltagi‚ Ph.D.‚ P.Eng.‚ Professor of Construction Management Structural Engineering Department‚ Faculty of Engineering‚ Mansoura University Construction Project Management 2009 Copyright © 2009 by the author. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means‚ or stored in a data base or retrieval system‚ without the prior written permissions of the author. PREFACE In the Name of
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CRITICAL PATH METHOD (CEE 320 – VDC SEMINAR) 4 February 2009 Jesse Santiago & Desirae Magallon Overview Background & History CPM Defined The CPM approach Definitions Class Exercise Background & History Developed in the 1950s by the US Navy Originally‚ the critical path method considered only logical dependencies between terminal elements Since then‚ it has been expanded to allow for the inclusion of resources related to each activity‚ through processes called activity-based resource
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PERT‚ CPM‚ and Agile Project Management. Robert C. Martin 5 October 2003 Some time in the late 60’s my father brought home a book that he thought I’d be interested in. The title was Introduction to Operations Research by Frederick S. Hillier and Gerald J. Lieberman‚ Holden-Day‚ 1967. I was probably 15 or 16 years old. The book languished on my shelves for perhaps ten years. Then‚ as a young software professional‚ I pulled the book down and ‚thumbing through its pages‚ I noticed a chapter on PERT
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Homework Problems 3.28 The following represent activities in Marc Massoud’s Construction Company project. a) Draw the network to represent this situation. b) Which activities are on the critical path? c) What is the length of the critical path? Activity Immediate Predecessor(s) Time (weeks) Activity Immediate Predecessor(s) Time (weeks) A — 1 E B 2 B — 4 F C‚ E 7 C A 1 G D 2 D B 5 H F‚ G 3 3.29 A small software development project at Krishna Dhir’s firm
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ONLINE SUPPLEMENTAL APPENDIX PROJECT SCHEDULES WITH PERT/CPM CHARTS Chapter 3 of Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World explains the techniques and steps required to build a project schedule using the Gantt chart view in MS Project. This appendix provides a similar explanation of how to build a project schedule‚ but it is based on using a PERT/CPM chart or diagram for the schedule format. A Gantt chart and a PERT/CPM chart both provide essentially the same information about project
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MARKETING & THE Economy Hershey During uncertain economic times‚ there are still some things that today’s consumers just aren’t willing to give up—such as chocolate. But as with eating out and clothing purchases‚ they are trading down. That is just fine with Hershey‚ America’s best-known chocolate maker. For years‚ riding the good times‚ premium chocolates grew faster than lower-priced confectionery products. Slow to jump on the premium bandwagon‚ Hershey lost market share to Mars Inc.’s
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