STARBUCKS Company Background Howard Schultz is the Chairman‚ and Chief Global Strategist in Control of the Starbucks Company. In 1971‚ a small coffee shop which specialized in selling whole Arabica beans was opened in Seattle’s Pike Place Market by Gerald Baldwin‚ Gordon Bowker and Ziev Siegl. In 1982‚ Schultz joined the Starbucks marketing team and he was inspired by the Milan’s coffee culture to set up an espresso bar in the corner of its only downtown Seattle shop. At that time‚ he stated‚ “The
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FINANCIAL INCLUSION: banking the unbanked Aluwani Nengovhela Milpark Business School Research paper on financial inclusion by the banking sector 18/10/2013 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Millions of South Africans are either not banked (as many as 13 million people) or are under-banked by the banking sector and are therefore financially excluded. The exclusion of so many South Africans from the financial system‚ limits the ability of a material portion of the population to ultimately
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Take your corporate brand or brand of any product/ service that your organization offers. What is the promise of the above brand? Also identify the brand elements and their role in building brand equity. I work for MSD India Pvt Ltd. Merck & Co.‚ Merck Sharp & Dohme‚ MSD outside the United States and Canada‚ is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Merck headquarters is located in Whitehouse Station‚ New Jersey. The company was established in 1891 as the United States
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Navigating Pay Equity: Developments in Legislation March 24‚ 2014 Agenda • Historical legislation • Lilly Ledbetter • Paycheck Fairness Act • Impact and advice for HR professionals Equal Pay Act (EPA) • Passed in 1963 as an amendment to the FLSA • Requires equal pay for substantially equal work ▫Skill‚ Effort‚ Responsibility‚ Working Conditions • Gender claims only • Not required to show discriminatory intent EPA - Affirmative Defenses • Seniority system • Merit system • System which measures
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personalities such as competitive‚ winners‚ strong‚ and better than the rest. This also is a way for Nike to obtain credibility and quality. With the Air Jordan line‚ Nike sold over $100 million shoes in the first year (129). Nike’s sources of brand equity hit all the way to the top of the CBBE pyramid for American consumers. Within the first two years alone Nike had 50% of the market share for athletic shoes. Salience is huge with the Nike logo. About 97% of Americans were able to recognize the Nike
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Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION 2 2. INDUSTRY 2 3. MAJOR MACROECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT 4 4. MOTIVATION TO CHOOSE THIS SECTOR 5 5. ACCOUNTING POLICIES 5 5.1 Accounting Policies of Cipla 5 5.2 Comparison of accounting policies of Cipla with other players 8 6. ANALYSIS OF RATIOS 11 6.1 Liquidity Ratios 11 6.2 Solvency Ratios 13 6.3 Profitability Ratios 15 6.4 Efficiency or Turnover Ratios 19 7. DUPOINT ANALYSIS 22 8. VALUATION 23 9. CONCLUSION 24 10. REFERENCES
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liberalization and economic reforms that allowed Banks to explore new business opportunities. Banking in India has evolved through five distinct phases. Each phase could be separated from the other by a landmark development in the sphere of Banking Sector. Phase I –Pre-independence Phase (up to 1947) India had centuries old tradition of indigenous Banking. There existed many evidences showing that the concept of Banking was not new to India. As Chanakya‟s Arthashashtra about 3000 B.C. showed
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• First Choice The role of tour operators is to plan out a holiday for a family; they do this because they want to provide a suitable holiday‚ worth the money of the customer‚ because their aim is to make a profit. The sector that Tour Operator falls under is the Private Sector‚ because their main aim is to make money off the customers they serve. Travel Agents A Travel Agent is someone or a company that sells or arranges trips or tours for customers Examples: • Multiple – travel agencies
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they are willing to invite there investible funds. In the last decade investment opportunities have increased in all the sectors .It is a known fact the service sector has grown much faster than any other sector and its contribution to GDP is much greater in this background‚ I consider it appropriate to undertake a project study on “investment opportunities in service sector”. Investment is a process of sacrificing some use of funds today for the benefits to be in future. More specifically‚ investment
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The retail pharmacy industry in Slovakia faced huge competition‚ owing to the presence of a large number of pharmacies [2005 pharmacies‚ as of 2011‚ or roughly one pharmacy for every 2683 inhabitants]. Stiff guidelines and directives issued by the Ministry of Health‚ wherein it was required that every pharmacy have a “responsible pharmacist”‚ and only one pharmacy be operated per license‚ led to the rampant mushrooming of the retail pharmacy outlets throughout Slovakia. Under such stiff competition
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