Supply Chain Management and Fair Trade Executive Summary Resources are scarce and overstretched as a result of the fiercely competitive global environment which is as a result of globalisation‚ population increment and development of new technologies. On the basis of food food supply chain’s dependency on these scarce resources‚ sustainability of food has to be adopted through various approaches – the conventional approach (freetraide food supply chain) and the alternative approach (fairtrade
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such as the UAE‚ patterns arise in the key demographics who buy products such as Fair and Lovely. In the case of Fair and Lovely‚ we find that the Sub continental female demographic are the most likely to buy the product as being fair is considered to be a sign of success and good health in that culture. In the same way that it is important in the Sub continental demographic‚ importance in the use of fair and Lovely can be seen to diminish in the Arabian and European demographics‚ as those cultures
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Project Background A friend works with HUL and in one of our conversations there was a casual reference that Fair & Lovely (F&L) as a brand is so huge for HUL‚ that it covers the entire salary cost of the company. We were intrigued by this fact. We checked the HUL annual report and collected some primary data and were surprised to see this was partially true. Employee Benefits Expenses for 2010-11 was Rs. 961.26 Cr and for 2011-12 was 1107.28 Cr. Market share of F&L is on an average
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There is no doubt that Fair and Lovely is “doing well” financially according to the author. Controlling 50% - 70% share of the skin whitening market in India‚ with two closest competitors sharing 16% of the market. The second fastest growing brand out of 63 brands in HLL’s portfolio with a growth rate of 21.5% per year as of 2002 in a market valued at over $200 million in 2006. Ankita Rao equally acknowledged financial benefits in the skin whitening market when she said “the market-which is set to
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What are the foundations of the fair-trade movement? The foundations of the fair-trade movement are built upon the producers‚ the famers‚ who everyone who participates in the coffee market relies upon. Their main principles are market access for marginalized producers‚ sustainable and equitable trading relationships‚ capacity building and empowerment‚ and consumer awareness raising and advocacy. These principles are instated to protect the famers from greatly fluctuating prices and the volatility
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Analysis of Vanity Fair Magazine Cover (May 2006) Kress and Van Leeuwen (1996) have provided a toolkit for visual analysis that Unsworth (2001) draws upon in his analysis of images. In this short essay I will use the meta-functional framework as adopted by Kress and Van Leeuwen and presented by Unsworth (representational/ideational‚ interactive/interpersonal and compositional/textual) to conduct a short analysis of the special Green Issue of Vanity Fair magazine cover from May 2006. In the analysis
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53 FAIR PRESENTATION---AN ETHICAL PERSPECTIVE ON FAIR VALUE ACCOUNTING PURSUANT TO THE SEC STUDY ON MARK-TO-MARKET ACCOUNTING Sharon S. Seay‚ Macon State College Wilhelmina H. Ford‚ Macon State College ABSTRACT Fair value accounting has received a significant amount of blame as the cause of the current financial crisis. Fair value accounting does not cause illiquidity or volatility in financial markets. Banks‚ rather than accounting‚ caused the existing crisis‚ ultimately through bad lending
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[Abstract] This paper firstly gives the concept of fair value and its application environment‚ and then analyzes the fair value in the new standards specifically. Finally in combination with the concrete background in China‚ we put forward some advices on the carrying out of the fair value in the accounting practice. [Key words] Fair Value; China new accounting standard Since January 1‚ 2007‚ the China new accounting standards will become mandatory for listed Chinese enterprises. The adoption
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Instructor Student November 14‚ 2010 A Sociological View of a Non-Profit Organization: Fair Housing Internship Introduction This paper will provide an analysis of an internship performed at the Central Alabama Fair Housing Center (CAFHC)‚ Montgomery‚ Alabama. This paper will give an overview of the internship program and its requirements‚ the history of the Fair Housing Act‚ a sociological review of fair housing‚ and discuss the responsibilities and observations made during the internship.
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Design Science in Information Systems Research Alan R. Hevner Information Systems and Decision Sciences College of Business Administration University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler Avenue‚ CIS1040 Tampa‚ FL 33620 Phone: (813) 974-6753 Fax: (813) 974-6749 Email: ahevner@coba.usf.edu Salvatore T. March Owen Graduate School of Management Vanderbilt University Nashville‚ TN 37203 Phone: (615) 322-7043 Fax: (615) 3437177 Email: Sal.March@owen.vanderbilt.edu Jinsoo Park College of Business Administration
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