Wholesale Banking customers. Consumer Banking provides credit cards‚ personal loans‚ mortgages‚ deposit taking and wealth management services to individuals and small to medium sized enterprises. Wholesale Banking provides corporate and institutional clients with services in trade finance‚ cash management‚ lending‚ custody‚ foreign exchange‚ debt capital markets and corporate finance. Standard Chartered is well-established in growth markets and aims to be the right partner for its customers. The Bank combines
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The Taliban is arguably one of the biggest hybrid threats that US forces face today. Every soldier knows them as our enemy. But what is their history? How have they been able to sustain themselves for so long? These are some of the questions I will try to answer while highlighting the threat they pose internally in Afghanistan and abroad. The first thought that comes to mind when thinking about the Taliban is terrorist organization. One cannot forget‚ however‚ that the Taliban was the recognized
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declared to be in recession following two consecutive quarters in 2008 during which economic growth dropped (BBC‚ 2009). Many businesses‚ including British Airways‚ have found it increasingly difficult to survive in the resulting testing macroeconomic environment. The Recession A recession will often occur when inflation grows rapidly; goods become more expensive at a time when consumers have less money to spend. As consumers spend less money‚ supply begins to exceed demand within the markets. This causes
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Are electric vehicles really good for our environment? An electric vehicle is a vehicle that runs on renewable resources instead of gasoline. In the early 1800’s‚ innovators in the United States‚ Netherlands‚ and Hungary began to experiment with the concept of a battery powered vehicle and created some of the first small-scale electric cars. Electric cars grew popular in the 1900’s because it didn’t have any issues with gasoline‚ it didn’t produce any smelly pollutants‚ and it was easy to drive
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Student Number: 7305-272-8 Due Date: 15 March 2011 [pic] a) Five-forces diagram for analysis of the retail car industry in the greater Johannesburg area 1. Competitive Rivalry Competitive rivalry exists between companies with the same or similar products/services and similar markets. Factors to be considered include: • The number and size of competitors • The rate of industry growth • Differentiation and switching costs • Fixed costs or perishable products • Expansion
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Nintendo Micro Environment Analysis Suppliers: Companies being the developers of their own video games become the suppliers themselves. The augmented products used in the development of these games may include cd’s‚ hard disks‚ electronic components‚ software’s‚ game writers‚ packaging of the consoles‚ printing of manuals and additional features like graphics etc to make the games more popular. Distributors: Distributors play a vital role in the video game industry. They include the
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SUBMITTTED BY ABHILASH VISWANATHAN REG NO: 09095101 S2 MBA ICM POOJAPPURA SUBMITTED TO: SIVAPRAKASH CS | MARKETING ENVIRONMENT OF INDIAN AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY | | | | | | MARKETING ENVIRONMENT OF INDIAN AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY Introduction Forty years since India’s independence from the British in 1947‚ the Indian car market was dominated by two localized versions of ancient European designs - the Morris Oxford‚ known as the Ambassador‚ and a old Fiat. This lack of
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the service of delivering rental vehicles will be considered to be in the mature phase. Enterprise has a unique mix of products and services that differentiate it among its competitors. Enterprise was the first rental-car company to offer free pick up and drop for its customers. Hertz‚ Enterprise’s main competitor has only recently started offering pick up services and it is only offered at a few select locations. The idea for this service came from an entry level employee in Orlando‚ Florida
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Evolution of hybrid online marketplaces – A perspective The ecommerce sector in India has been growing at unprecedented rates in recent years. With revenues touching US$1.2 billion in 2012 and adoption surging among Indian consumers‚ it has become an ideal breeding ground for start-ups. The successes of companies like Flipkart‚ Myntra and Jabong lend credence to the massive potential of the sector. These companies have traditionally operated as inventory-led “first-party” 1P ecommerce sites. However
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Diageo is a company that produces and distributes alcoholic beverages. Its products include all three branches of this industry – spirits‚ wine and beer. The brands that the company produces include well-known names like Smirnoff‚ Johny Walker scotch whiskey‚ Baileys‚ Captain Morgan rum‚ Tanqueray gin‚ Guiness beer‚ Don Perignon champagne‚ and many others. One can find the products produced by this company in nearly 180 countries all around the world. The company’s offices are located in 80 countries
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