The pricing procedure of private medical practitioners has been under close scrutiny in the recent months as well-known doctor‚ Susan Lim has been found guilty of 94 charges. The main trigger of her trial was the accusation by Brunei officials that she had overcharged the sister of Brunei’s queen. The healthcare service‚ unlike any other form of service industries‚ is heavily subjected to the scrutiny of ethics. The medical profession emphasises on the idea of curing and healing above the remunerations
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What impact‚ if any‚ will minimum pricing of alcohol have on the trends of alcohol misuse amongst teenagers and young people in Scotland? Acknowledgements Acknowledgment and thanks are given to the management at Liber8 Lanarkshire who agreed to contribute to the research undertaken for this report and provided valuable insight into the topic in question. Introduction In 2009 “Changing Scotland’s Relationship with Alcohol: A Framework for Action” was
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Greyhound Lines History Greyhound Lines‚ Inc.‚ was founded in 1914 by Cark Eric Wickman and its first business was providing bus transportation for mine workers. After that the company continued to grow and expand its bus routes‚ by 1930 the name Greyhound Corporation was adopted and the running dog logo that became their unique brand sign was introduced. Over the next 20 years Greyhound continued to acquire bus interests in order to consolidate routes either by purchase‚ stock swaps or mergers
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Product Levels: The Customer-value Hierarchy The marketers need to address five product levels. Each level adds more customer value‚and the five constitute a customer-value hierarchy. 1. Core Benefit The fundamental need or want that consumers satisfy by consuming the product or service. Example 1: In case of a car Transportation from one place to another. Example 2: The customer in search of a hotel room demand only rest and sleep from a marketer. 2. Basic Product
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Appendices………………………………………………………………………….15 List of Figures Figure 1: ‘Market share’ (pie-chart)….............................................................6 Introduction The purpose of this project is to introduce‚ discuss and evaluate about The Air Line Industry and Qantas Company. The report has covered
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strategy for Aldus Corporation by splitting the company’s product family into two different product lines. His proposal would allow Aldus to develop two separate product and market strategies for two major market segments (Primis Online‚ 2002‚ p. 37). Product positioning is shaping the image of a product or service to be desirable by customers. Up until this point‚ Aldus Corporation had relied on “its success to date by offering a single product line that bridged the gap between business and creative
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How do you see the future of Durand line in the post with drawl scenario of U.S. led NATO forces from Afghanistan? A due consideration may be given to the nature of Pak- Afghan relations. The Durand line is referred to a 2‚640km long porous border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. It was established in 1893 after an agreement between Sir Mortimer Durand of British India and Afghan Amir Abdur Rehman Khan. The line with mild modification after the Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919 was inherited by Pakistan
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By definition‚ product placement is the purposeful incorporation of a brand into an entertainment vehicle. (Reichert‚ 2008) The textbook calls this strategic placement of products in TV shows‚ movies‚ and other entertainment vehicles‚ a hybrid of traditional advertising. This suggests that not only is the product being promoted‚ but it is done in such a way that the audience may not even realize they are being sold to. It has been said to “epitomize the blurring of the lines between advertising
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BEHAVIOUR Till the last decade it was almost unimaginable that there would be a fairness cream for men among male grooming products. As it turned out‚ men contributed significantly to consumption of HUL’s fairness product Fair & Lovely and even other fairness products. That shouldn’t be surprising as we live in a society which is obsessed with fair skin‚ just as the West is preoccupied with getting the perfect tan. This phenomenon was not restricted
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Waiting line management: unit 11. The waiting line is a list of customers who remains waiting for getting certain goods or services from service center. Understanding waiting lines or queues and learning how to manage them is one of the most important areas in operation management. In organizations or in personal life‚ there are examples of processes which generates waiting lines or queues. Such waiting lines occur because the current services facility is insufficient to provide service at that
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