1. INTRODUCTION The history of the automobile begins as early as 1769‚ with the creation of steam engined automobiles capable of human transport.[1] In 1806‚ the first cars powered by an internal combustion engine running on fuel gas appeared‚ which led to the introduction in 1885 of the ubiquitous modern gasoline- or petrol-fueled internal combustion engine. The year 1886 is regarded the year of birth of the modern automobile - with the Benz Patent-Motorwagen‚ by German inventor Carl Benz. Cars
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Wal-Mart’s Strategic Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction MGT/449 December 5‚ 2010 Dr. Olivia Herriford Wal-Mart’s Strategic Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction One organization that has become successful in many aspects of satisfaction and quality is Wal-Mart. This organization started out providing basic products to customers during certain hours of the day and evening‚ and then expanded the become Wal-Mart Supercenters by also providing groceries and becoming a 24-hour
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In Proceedings of the 17th IEE UK Teletraffic Symposium‚ Dublin‚ Ireland‚ May 16-18‚ 2001 QUANTIFYING CUSTOMER SATISFACTION WITH E-COMMERCE WEBSITES Hubert Graja and Jennifer McManis1 Abstract E-commerce is an increasingly significant part of the global economy. Users of E-commerce Web sites often have high expectations for the quality of service‚ and if those expectations are not met‚ the next site is only a click away. A number of performance problems have been observed for E-commerce Web sites
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investment and to provide evidence of the return on investment. After all‚ advertising uses the scarce resources that could be invested in a number of ways. Therefore‚ the question that management poses is‚ “Did our promotional strategies reach the customers and show any effect?" And it is the job of the advertising campaign planner to be able to answer that question. To do so usually requires some form of promotional evaluation. Evaluation of advertising campaign effectiveness is a form of research
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Customer Satisfaction in the Banking Industry Case Study – Barclays Bank of Kenya Ltd. Customer satisfaction is a major issue in almost all sectors. This can basically determine the success and profitability of a company as a satisfied customer would most likely to ‘spread the good word’ or would have be happy to do business again with the firm. It is an important theoretical and practical issue for market researchers and consumer researchers (Meuter et al‚ 2000). With positive results in most research
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the fast food movement on the slow food movement Everything today is fast. People think fast‚ speak fast‚ walk fast‚ write fast and eat fast. "Fast food has become such an integral part of the busy American lifestyle that there are more than 300‚000 restaurants offering it throughout the United States today" (Dorfman‚ 2001). Since everything is becoming "fast" in the world‚ the slow food movement if gradually being taken over by the fast food movement and significant factors of the slow food movement
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Impact of Fast Food The Impact of Fast Food Fast food especially McDonalds and KFC from the United States has brought a lot of impacts since the first day it arrived in China. You can notice that many people especially the youth and kids like fast food so of them even declare fast food is more tasteful than Chinese food. So some nutritionists warn that maybe some day fast food will take the place of Chinese food. But I don’t think so. Yes fast food does have some advantages. For example fast food
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FAST FOOD NATION Section I - The American Way Chapter 2 - Your Trusted Friends The concepts of conformity and organizational homogenization‚ while repugnant in a democratic society‚ can actually aid big businesses and more specifically franchises in promoting quality assurance and brand loyalty. Large corporations‚ such as McDonald’s‚ are able to maintain stability and control by removing any factors that may create unfamiliarity for their customers. The goal of McDonald’s is to create a fast
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4 The 51st US state? Labour relations in the UK fast-food industry Tony Royle Politicians of most political persuasions have at different times emphasized the importance of the UK’s ‘special relationship’ with the US‚ something that was arguably at its peak during World War II and under the Conservative Thatcher governments of the 1980s and early 1990s. Under the Thatcher administrations‚ government policy appeared to be drawing strongly on the US economic model and trying to move away
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Some trace the modern history of fast food in America to July 7‚ 1912‚ with the opening of a fast food restaurant called the Automat in New York. The Automat was a cafeteria with its prepared foods behind small glass windows and coin-operated slots. Joseph Horn and Frank Hardart had already opened the first Horn & Hardart Automat in Philadelphia in 1902‚ but their “Automat” at Broadway and 13th Street‚ in New York City‚ created a sensation. Numerous Automat restaurants were built around the country
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