GLOBAL CROSSING LTD. Entity Background Global Crossing is a telecommunications company providing computer networking services worldwide. It was founded in 1997 by Gary Winnick‚ Abbot L. Brown‚ David L. Lee and Barry Porter through Pacific Capital Group. It is said that Global Crossing was the first global communications provider with IPv6 natively deployed in both its private and public backbone networks. It raised about $400 million on its initial public stock offering. Global Crossing was
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Bridging brands and borders: Trends and tactics to connect global brands with Asian consumers This article briefly states the idea of brand internationalization. Whether brands should localize themselves based on the tastes of the market or they should keep their identity intact. The author‚ Craig Briggs states that certain risk is involved when a global company tries and changes too much as per the local tastes. The articles also stresses on instances from the past on Global companies like Starbucks
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in the global beer industry? Going forward‚ what strategies do you suggest Heineken pursue to become a major competitor in the era of global/major brands? Heineken has undertaken several strategic approaches to propel themselves as a top brewer in Western Europe. Previously managed and ran only by the “family‚” in which created Heineken‚ a non-Dutch‚ non-family member CEO has been appointed to help Heineken generate goals to globalize their brand as well as enter more markets. The case discusses
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Shanghai Tang: The First Global Chinese Luxury Brand 1. What is a luxury brand and how is it different than a mass market brand? How does one build a luxury brand? 2. What might have accounted for Shanghai Tang’s unsatisfactory early results in building a global luxury brand? What could they or should they have done differently? 3. What strategies did they use to promote the brand? What worked and what didn’t work? How did they expand the brand? Was it a good strategy? 4. How
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the economy. Household behaviour is the lifecycle model‚ which assumes that people determine their consumption and savings at each point in their lives by looking forward to their future income and desires‚ rather than considering only their current income and desired expenditure. Households have planning horizons that extends beyond their own lives and choose their consumption and savings to allow for bequest for their children. The effect of interest rate changes on households Considering the
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Organization Structure $10.6 Billion Revenue (2005) Operating in 200 Countries 70% of sales outside the US Compete in Oral Personal & Home Care; Pet Nutrition segments Brands: Colgate‚ Palmolive‚ Speed Stick‚ Ajax‚ Hills Science Diet Consistent unit volume‚ revenue and gross margin growth. Focus on high margin core businesses. Case Facts: Colgate Max Fresh Colgate Max Fresh (CMF) launched in 2004 Less cannibalization than expected More trading up than expected USA China Mexico May 2005 launch
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Fresh: Global Brand Roll-Out Nigel Burton‚ the president of global oral care at Colgate-Palmolive Company (CP)‚ is reviewing market launch plans for a new toothpaste‚ Colgate Max Fresh (CMF) by CP’s Chinese and Mexican subsidiaries. Both launch plans involved departures from the CMF marketing program for the USA launch six months earlier. Burton must decide whether the costs of marketing program adaptation in China and Mexico can be justified. “Was CMF launched in the U.S. with a global marketing
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PART B: BRAND ATTITUDE The statements in this section refer to brand attitude is defined as the general appreciation of a brand by a consumer. Please indicate your level of agreement or disagreement with the following statements as a result of the hypothetical scenario involving your national carrier as discussed earlier. Brand attitude 1. Overall‚ I still think this airline is good. 1 2 3 4 5 6 2. Overall‚ I still think this is a nice airline. 1 2 3 4 5 6 3. Overall‚ I still think this airline
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L Brands‚ the parent company of Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body works‚ sells lingerie‚ personal care & beauty products‚ apparel‚ and accessories. It owns the brands Victoria’s Secret‚ PINK‚ Bath & Body Works‚ C.O. Bigelow‚ La Senza‚ White Barn Candle Co.‚ and Henri Bendel brands and stands as one of the largest specialty retailers in the U.S. with over 2‚600 US specialty stores. It does also operate in Canada and in 40 other countries‚ through licensing and franchise agreements. In addition‚ it
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out”‚ homosexuals winning custody cases‚ and adoptions as an alternative‚ the idea of homosexuals as parents have entered mainstream society. Homosexual couples raise children as well as heterosexual couples which is proven by the social/psychological aspects and the relationship between gay parents and their children. In the article Concerns and issues faced by families headed by a gay/lesbian couple‚ the focus is on issues affecting lesbian headed households‚ particularly the stigma related to
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