1 B&Q Background B&Q PLC is the UK retail arm of Kingfisher Group PLC and is the UK’s leading DIY and garden centre retailer. It was founded as a privately held company in Southampton‚ England in 1969 and went public in 1979 before acquiring Scottish DIY chain Dodge City in 1980. B&Q was itself acquired in 1980 by F. W. Woolworth only to be sold two years later to current owners Kingfisher Group. B&Q PLC contributes 45% of Kingfisher’s total retail sales. B&Q dominates its sector‚ in competition
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Assignment 9: Marketing (20 points) In Section 9‚ you learned about marketing. Now‚ you’ll apply what you learned. 1. Visit a Web site for a company that sells products online. Then go to that company’s corporate Web site. Compare the company’s product sales site with its corporate site. Describe at least 3 differences between them. (1-3 sentences. 3.0 points) The website of the company I visited was Ebay. Its corporate site and the product sales site differ in many ways‚ for example the
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1. Quality is an attribute of a) Product b) Process c) Standard d) Policy 2. What does “IEC” expands to (E.g. As used with ISO/IEC 12207)? a) International Electronics Committee b) International Engineers Confederation c) International Electrotechnical Commission d) Internal Electronics Association 3. Which of the following defines the “SPICE”? a) SEI CMM b) ISO/EIA 12207 c) ISO 9001:2000 d) ISO/IEC TR 15504 4. The two components of the “Manage By Fact” process are a) Meeting
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Instruments in Research Review Problems and Exercises: 1. What is the role of data-gathering instrument in research? * Instruments are materials‚ concrete or verbal or non-verbal communications‚ used to collect data for the research study. Instruments are very important components of the overall research design. Without these‚ the researcher will not be able to obtain data and information that will be analyzed for findings‚ presentation and interpretation. 2. Characterize “good”
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Question 1 (1 mark) The methods that a firm can use to evaluate a potential investment: 1) ‘Discounting’ Methods: Net Present Value (NPV): the present value of the future after-tax cash flow minus the investment outlay made initially. The decision rule for the NPV as follows: invest if NPV> 0‚ do not invest if NPV< 0 Internal Rate of Return (IRR): calculates the interest rate that equates the present value of the future after-tax cash flows equal that investment outlay;
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Minding the store 1- There are nine specific ways to foster empowerment. Ken Hoffman didn’t follow these rules and thus failed to produce a sense of competence choice‚ impact value and security. The first rule that Ken Hoffman violated was articulating a clear vision and goals. When Ruth Cummings was made the branch manager‚ she was told to make the store one of the best in the system. He failed to share the vision of where the organization is going and how Ruth can contribute as an individual
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audience. A university library’s main audience is its students and faculty members‚ and accordingly the University College London-Qatar (UCL-Q) library reflects the identity of the institution it was created for. As UCL-Q offers only heritage and culture degrees‚ the books within the library are predominantly on the subject of heritage and culture. UCL-Q library resides
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1. Management is as a factor of production along with machines‚ materials‚ and money. Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively. 2. Four main factors of management are: * Planning‚ Planning requires that managers be aware of environmental conditions facing their organization and forecast future conditions. It also requires that managers
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Company Q and Social Responsibility EST1 Evaluation Company Q’s attitude toward social responsibility reflects a negative reputation on them as a corporation in their current community. The geographical location in a major metropolitan area should sustain the business with a solid consumer base and maintain reliance of current investors. However‚ they closed two stores in high crime areas for consistently losing profits‚ waning investor trust and damaging employee faith. The decision to close
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Contents Executive Summary 3 1. TASK ONE 4 1.1 Introduction 4 1.2 Possession and practice 4 3.3 B&Q case 5 3. TASK TWO 8 3.1 Introduction 8 3.2 Time distance 9 3.3 Technological distance 10 3.4 Social distance 10 3.5 Cultural distance 11 4. Bibliography 13 Executive Summary In a modernized and globalized world‚ knowledge creation and synergization of knowledge in an organization is truly crucial. As data and information are readily available‚ and information communication
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