1. Company Profile and Competitive Advantage Company History: Alfamart is a chain of convenience stores in Indonesia. Alfamart stores generally sell a variety of food products‚ beverages and other living necessities‚ able to meet the daily needs of consumers. Alfamart’s history began in 1989 by Susanto Djoko and Family. Founded under the name of PT Sumber Alfaria Trijaya Tbk (Company). Trade and distribution business in the retail sector in 1999. On June 27‚ 1999‚ PT. Alfa Top Mitramart
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University of Zululand Faculty of Commerce‚ Administration and Law Department of Business Management Assignment topic: Chapter 7 Summary – Corporate strategy and diversification Name: Mr T Mdletshe Student number: 200903233 Module code: CBM 503 Module Description: Advanced Aspects of Management 1. CORPORATE STRATEGY AND DIVERSIFICATION This chapter is about choices of products and markets for an organisation to enter or exit. Organisations often choose to enter many new products and market areas
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INTRODUCTION Competencies refer to the fundamental knowledge owned by the firm‚ and to be distinctive they are not confined to functional domains but cut across the firm and its organizational boundaries (‚ 2002). The notion of distinctive competencies‚ first discussed by (1957) and (1965)‚ was further reiterated by and (1990). In their analysis‚ key resources‚ skills and technologies are called core competencies. The following takes the Integrated Electronics (Intel) case and analyses the
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Tesco Plc Proposed Market Entry Strategy - Indian Retail Food Market Background Britain’s retail market for food is highly competitive and extremely sophisticated. During the past three decades the market has increasingly become to be dominated by the big four of Sainsbury‚ Asda‚ Tesco and Morrison’s at the expense of the independent sector and smaller specialist grocers‚ butchers or bakers. The major chains have led the market into out of town retail complexes and into bigger and bigger stores
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International Financial Reporting Convergence: Evidence from Three Continental European Countries PASCALE DELVAILLE‚ GABI EBBERS AND CHIARA SACCON† ESCP-EAP‚ Paris‚ France‚ Allianz AG‚ Mu¨nchen‚ Germany and †Universita` Ca’ Foscari di Venezia‚ Venezia‚ Italy ABSTRACT Listed companies in the European Union are required to apply International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in their consolidated accounts as of 1 January 2005. The purpose of this paper is to compare developments
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Introduction This assignment compares and contrasts the roles‚ responsibilities and issues faced by UK based retail buyers when purchasing branded versus own branded fashion goods. It draws on examples from retailers‚ trade press and academic sources. Fashion retailers are an important sector of the fashion industry‚ and are the link between fashion products and consumers. These retailers have power over the industry and are able to set trends. Over the past few years‚ retail own-labels have
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References: Lester Lloyd-Reason‚ Terry Mughan‚ (2002) "Strategies for internationalisation within SMEs: the key role of the owner-manager"‚ Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development‚ Vol. 9 Iss: 2‚ pp.120 - 129
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Hitlerian Nationalism What was the nature of the nationalism used by Hitler in Mein Kampf? Where did it’s focus lie? To what extent was this nationalism merely a tool of Hitler’s ambition and to what extent did he really believe in it? Before being able to study the extent to which Hitler employed nationalism as a tool in his policies evident in his seminal work Mein Kampf (My Struggle/Battle) we must first clarify what we understand to be his definition of nationalism. Nationalism can cover
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Perspectives on the FM market development Glenn Hodge (ISS US)‚ Reinhard Poglitsch (ISS AT) & Peter Ankerstjerne (ISS Group) This paper discusses the evolution of the Facility Management industry from the 1980s to the present and offers some predictions about where the industry is heading in the future. The changing demands in the market require a new way of thinking about the delivery of FM. The industry is transforming from a predominantly single-service local outsourcing model to an integrated
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Section 1: Literature Review Topic: E-Recruitment 1988 words Introduction In terms of human resource management‚ the Internet has dramatically changed how recruitment is being treated from both a job seekers and an organisational point of view (Epstein et al.‚ 2003). Nowadays‚ traditional recruitment procedures are thought to be time-consuming with long hiring cycle times‚ high costs per process and of course‚ minimal geographical reach (Lee‚ 2005). On another hand‚ the rapid introduction
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