a) What happened to sales of batteries in the period 2004-8? Provide a quantitative estimate. How do you explain the fact that over that period the amount of batteries sold increased whereas the value of sales declined? From figure 20 we can see that the volume of sold batteries from 2004 (584 million batteries) to 2008 (611 million batteries) has increased by 27 million batteries. During that period of time the volume has slightly raised‚ where in 2006 was the highest volume of batteries sold
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CASE STUDY: Effect of 2004 Tsunami on Economy of India The earthquake of December 2004 is well known as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and is the fourth largest earthquake in the world since 1900. This was an under-sea earthquake‚ which happened at 7:58:53 am local time. The epicenter of this earthquake was in the west coast of Sumatra‚ Indonesia. As an effect of this earthquake‚ Tsunamis occurred throughout the Indian Ocean‚ killing loads of people and caused immeasurable damage to the coastal
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There’s a reason Otto Eduard Leopold‚ or more commonly known as Otto von Bismarck‚ is nicknamed the Iron Chancellor. His impacts on both national German/Prussian and international history are arguably second to none throughout all of history. The Iron Chancellor’s impact can still be seen and still continue to influence the world today‚ which truly shows how large his significance on history is. His military and political victories strengthened Germany into a global world power which lasted for almost
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Tsunami [pic] INTRODUCTION The term tsunami comes from the Japanese language meaning harbour ("tsu") and wave ("nami"). Although in Japanese tsunami is used for both the singular and plural‚ in English tsunamis is well-established as the plural. The term was created by fishermen who returned to port to find the
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Discuss the importance of von Thunen theory in our appreciation of rural geography The Von Thunen model of agricultural land use was created by farmer and amateur economist J.H. Von Thunen (1783-1850) in 1826 (but it wasn ’t translated into English until 1966). Von Thunen ’s model was created before industrialization it mean it was created in a rural environment concept and is based on the following limiting assumptions: The city is located centrally within an "Isolated State" which is self
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Humoristische Karte von Europa im Jahre 1914 The cartoon impression of Europe shows a facial expression for each country on the map. There a 6 main forces: Germany‚ Italy‚ Austria- Hungary‚ Russia‚ England and France The German has a war helmet over his head‚ to show he is protected. He is full stretched and has the Frenchman by the throat and is beating aside the Russian bear. You can tell this is easy for the German as he is smiling. Its in the centre of all the controversy so it can fight
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lecture notes and spending quite some time browsing the internet‚ I found three things that dramatically changed between the 2004 and 2008 Presidential elections. Media influence‚ technology and the change in demographics played major roles in the 2008 elections. Media influence was the number one change between 2004 and 2008. Although the media played a big part of the 2004 elections‚ that election does not compare to the media frenzy of 2008. In 2008‚ television became the primary medium for conveying
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It is the journey‚ not the arrival‚ that ultimately transforms the traveller - particularly for imaginative journeys‚ which often occur spontaneously and is undecided in its destination. The experiences one encounter during their travel/travail is what evolves them to better understanding of themselves and the world‚ inspires them to spiritual reform‚ which constitutes the educative and/or therapeutic qualities of the imaginative journey. While the philanthropic vision of Coleridge‚ in This Lime
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Conservatism‚ Nationalism‚ and Prussification as driving forces of unification After the creation of the German Confederation‚ Otto von Bismarck‚ the Prussian representative in the union of German states‚ was determined to unite them into one single empire‚ with Prussia as its core. Prussia officially took over the rest of German sates by 1871‚ but in the meantime Bismarck implemented several internal and foreign policies to make that happen along with unification. After his speech on September
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Table of Content TABLE OF CONTENT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 INDUSTRY OF AMAZON AND COMPETITIVE DYNAMICS 1.1 DEFINING THE INDUSTRY 1.2 COMPETITIVE DYNAMICS 1.3 DIRECT COMPETITORS 1.4 INDIRECT COMPETITORS 1.5 SUBSTITUTE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES 2 KEY SUCCESS FACTORS 2.1 DEFINITION KEY SUCCESS FACTORS 2.2 KEY SUCCESS FACTORS OF AMAZON 2.2.1 Key success factors concerning customers 2.2.2 Key success customer concerning competitors 3 ANALYSIS OF AMAZON’S RESOURCES AND COMPETENCIES
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