T-Mobile started selling the iPhone in their UK stores. Introduction This report explains the practical aspects of value chain management at o2. It portrays the communication and integration of customer value with o2’s operational capabilities. There are three major parts of this report which are pro-forma A‚ pro-forma B and pro-forma C. Pro-forma A: overall information about the value of o2’s products and services will be described here. A primary research was also carried out. The type of research
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SHOPRITE PTY LTD Background The Shoprite Group of Companies started from small beginnings in 1979 with the purchase of a chain of 8 Cape-based supermarkets for R1 million. In 1983 the Group opened its first branch outside the Western Cape – in Hartswater in the Northern Cape and expanding in other provinces too. Shoprite was listed on the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa with a market capitalisation of R29 million It then owned 33 outlets. Two years later Shoprite ventured over
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387 From supply chains to value chains: A spotlight on CSR Malika Bhandarkar and Tarcisio Alvarez-Rivero* 1. Introduction Corporate social responsibility (CSR)1 has become a hot topic in boardrooms across the world. Changes in corporate value systems are being driven by pressures from different actors‚ including governments‚ consumers‚ non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and institutional investors (diagram 1). Multinational corporations (MNCs) have operations spread across the globe‚ relying
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2013 Case Study: Implementation One of the problem plaguing the cruise industry is lack of brand recognition. There are at least 17 different brands in the industry with very little differentiation between them. While there are different categories including contemporary‚ destination‚ premium‚ and luxury‚ there is not much to separate one brand from another in these categories. Many people will decide that they want to go on a cruise and choose one of these categories without considering what the
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Developing Robust Asset Allocations1 Working Paper First Version: February 17‚ 2006 Current Version: April 18‚ 2006 Thomas M. Idzorek‚ CFA Director of Research Ibbotson Associates 225 North Michigan Avenue Suite 700 Chicago‚ Illinois 60601-7676 312-616-1620 (Main) 312-616-0404 (Fax) tidzorek@ibbotson.com Abstract Over the last 50 years‚ Markowitz’s mean-variance optimization framework has become the asset allocation model of choice. Unfortunately the model often leads to highly concentrated asset
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Carnival Cruises enjoyed a pretty good run prior to the September 11‚ 2001 terrorist attacks. The company held 32% of the overall market‚ making it the largest cruise line in the world. As a result of the terrorist attacks cruise lines were forced to offer deep discount‚ which hand an impact on the bottom line. Bookings were down along with profit. This scenario was all too familiar to Carnival Cruises. In the beginning Carnival had struggled‚ but begin to gain popularity‚ by appealing to
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large share of the industry’s output or sales‚ it is a consolidated industry. The type of competition in fragmented industries is generally very different from that in consolidated industries. A consolidated (concentrated) industry‚ like the cruise industry‚ typically has a more attractive industry structure‚ though the nature and extent of competition in consolidated industries is hard to predict. Such industries typically exhibit high entry barriers‚ differentiated products‚ established brand
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Introduction: Cruise ship industry are viewed as travel for pleasure in the sea. They defined “cruise ships” not only as transportation but also as trip for pleasure in the sea. As Cooper‚ Fletcher‚ Gilbert and Wanhill (1993) stated‚ “Cruising is more a leisure product than a mode of sea transportation.” The cruise ship industry is increasingly being popular as floating resorts Dowling (2006). This floating resort has bars‚ restaurant‚ entertainment spot‚ sports facilities‚ shopping centers‚ and
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A cruise is providing customers with an experience of a lifetime. The company seeks to fulfill the following needs of the customers to the extent of delighting them: • Customer Service • Delivering on its Promise MARKET TRENDS: The tourism industry has been growing at a high rate for the last few years. Due to busy lives‚ people are willing to spend more on vacations than anything else. Though most vacation packages are costly‚ but they provide a feeling of satisfaction and serve as a source
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Executive Summary Cruise tourism is becoming an increasingly popular “leisure choice” worldwide‚ and keeping this point in mind cruise tourism potential of India is vast and is still in infancy stage. Mumbai as the commercial capital and gate way of India possess the great potential of cruise tourism as this place sees the highest number of tourist coming in and going out so it becomes the necessity of the time to convert Mumbai port from “port of call” to “home port”. This report has been prepared
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