KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) INTRODUCTION: KFC is a fast food restaurant chain headquartered in Louisville‚ Kentucky‚ United States‚ which specializes in fried chicken. An "American icon"‚ it is the world’s largest fried chicken chain and the second largest restaurant chain overall after McDonald’s‚ with over 17‚000 outlets in 105 countries and territories as of December 2011. KFC was founded by Harland Sanders‚ who began selling fried chicken from his roadside restaurant in Corbin‚ Kentucky during
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investment has increasingly been identified as a major growth-enhancing component in most developing countries. FDI promotes economic growth in the host country in a great number of ways. From a more compressed perspective‚ these effects of foreign investment could be direct through a certain investment source or indirect through certain spillover effects. In a more broad view however‚ FDI could be said to put pressure on the firms in their host countries to improve their competitiveness leading them
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McDonalds 2012 Kanika Markland McDonalds SIC # 5812 NYSE: MCD Revenue 2011: $27‚006M McDonald’s Corporation is the world’s largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants‚ serving around 68 million customers daily in 119 countries. Headquartered in the United States‚ the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by the eponymous Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948 they reorganized their business as a hamburger stand using production line principles.
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1. What are some of your initial reactions about the differences you notice between home country and host country operations of a multinational fast food chain such as the McDonalds? Cultural differences though difficult to observe and measure are very important‚ especially when doing the business in the foreign markets. Failure to comprehend these differences can lead to embracing missteps‚ strain relationships and impact the business performance. Therefore‚ It appears as if catering to the Indian
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Kavigan is actually a form of Bengali folk performance wherein folk poets sing and perform. History of Kavigan Kavigan was born out of a synthesis of various art forms prevalent in different parts of Bengal at different times having peculiar names such as tarja‚ panchali‚ kheur‚ akhrai‚ half akhrai‚ full akhrai‚ danra kavigan‚ basa kavigan‚ dhap kirtan‚ tappa‚ Krishna jatra‚ tukkagiti etc. The existence of kabi songs may be traced to the beginning of the 18th century or even beyond
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macro-environmental factors in India. To give some more debt to this answer‚ I found it convenient to use the PESTEL analysis as a tool to identify the key macro-environmental factors that were relevant for McDonalds when they entered India‚ and then shortly comment on each of them what McDonalds did that was so good. Political/Legal Until the early 1990s‚ India’s political parties were critical of foreign companies operating in India. After that the market opened more up‚ but still the political
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In the 8th annual Ernst & Young European Attractiveness Survey‚ Ireland’s attractive position for foreign direct investment (FDI) in Europe has felt to 10th in 2009. However‚ Ireland still attracts FDI that bases on political economic perspective. This essay will discuss factors that help Ireland to create a center of FDI attention such as political stability‚ low taxes rates‚ economic growth‚ a transparent judicial system‚ the workforce‚ cooperative labour relations. 1. Ireland from a failure
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according to the customs and tastes of individual countries. For example‚ most Indian is forbidden eating beef for Hinduism. So McDonald changes their ingredient and recipe. If you visit to McDonald in India‚ you can have potato patty in burger. McDonald offers good example of standardization. Q2. Do you think government officials in developing countries such as Russia‚ China and India‚ welcome McDonald’s? Do customers in these countries welcome McDonald’s? Why or why not? Answer: Despite concern
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The direct FDI impact in the short term from retail chains will be modest. If you look at the numbers -- as per [financial information services firm] CEIC Data -- FDI in 2008 was in the ballpark of US$35 billion and declined in 2009 and 2010. FDI in 2011 came in at around US$27 billion or so. So if we ask the question: Will international retail chains in the shorter term -- an 18-to-24 month horizon -- bring in US$8 billion to get back on track‚ the answer is probably not. Large retail chains
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FDI in retail will benefit consumer‚ create opportunities: US Washington‚ Dec 8‚ 2012 (IANS) The US government and corporate America alike have welcomed the Indian parliament’s approval of foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail‚ saying it would spur investment in infrastructure and benefit the consumer. "We believe direct foreign investment in retail will grow markets in India as it has in China‚ Brazil‚ and many other developing economies‚" State Department spokesman Mark Toner
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