Executive Summary Four Star Industries‚ one of the top local mattress manufacturers in Singapore‚ has been facing operational problems and ineffective inventory management which results in declining of its sales and order fulfillment year by year. Over three decades of its establishment‚ more and more varieties are added to its product range in order to satisfy its customers’ request and to remain competitive in the market. As a result‚ high inventory build-ups and high inventory holding costs occur
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Mango Briefing Book Edition 1.1 September 2009 Prepared by the USAID Pakistan FIRMS Project USAID Pakistan FIRMS Project Mango Briefing Book‚ page 2 Preface This briefing book on mango and Pakistan has been prepared by the USAID Pakistan FIRMS Project in an ongoing effort to develop and support the execution of a four-year strategy to make Pakistani mango a force in the international marketplace. It is a compilation of primary and secondary research. This is the first edition. Subsequent
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people want to do is pause and refresh‚" said Coca-Cola chief marketing officer Joe Tripodi. Pepsi‚ the world’s second-largest soft drink maker‚ launched a new marketing campaign at the beginning of the year‚ while No. 1 Coke launched its campaign three weeks later. Soda makers‚ who have seen their highest-profile products lose ground to energy drinks and pricey bottled water in recent years‚ are turning away from the lifestyle marketing that has dominated the soda wars. Now‚ they hope to draw customers
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1. Introduction 1a. Article Summary In this article Michael Baker discusses the livelihood of small retailers in a market subjugated by the financially dominant oligopolies‚ Woolworths and Coles. While the small independent retailers in direct competition with Woolworths and Coles provide some competitive respite for consumers‚ as they encourage competitive pricing‚ albeit predatory pricing‚ it is clear that Woolworths and Coles control the supermarket industry in Australia‚ in the formation of a
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which innovators are kings‚ interest in internal corporate ventures has grown tremendously. In my literature review‚ I would like to share my insights from reading the book titled “Corporate venturing: creating new businesses within the firm” by Zenas Block and Ian C. MacMillan. In this book‚ the authors shared their views on the importance of corporate venturing especially in this competitive global economy. Also‚ other aspects of venturing like the management‚ organisation and control of the ventures
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management effectiveness: lessons from worldleading firms Michal Biron a a b ‚ Elaine Farndale & Jaap Paauwe b b Graduate School of Management‚ University of Haifa‚ Mount Carmel‚ Haifa‚ Israel b Department of Human Resource Studies‚ Tilburg University‚ LE Tilburg‚ The Netherlands Available online: 30 Mar 2011 To cite this article: Michal Biron‚ Elaine Farndale & Jaap Paauwe (2011): Performance management effectiveness: lessons from world-leading firms‚ The International Journal of Human Resource Management
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For a firm to survive it needs to know as much about the business cycle as it knows about its markets. Discuss. The business cycle is a sequence of economic activities typically characterized by recession‚ fiscal recovery‚ growth‚ and fiscal decline. Some firms will be more vulnerable to changes in the business cycle then others‚ the extent of which depends on the income elasticity of demand for the firm’s products. For example the car industry and firms producing new cars will be sensitive to
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in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House‚ 37-41 Mortimer Street‚ London W1T 3JH‚ UK The International Journal of Human Resource Management Publication details‚ including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rijh20 Jos Gamble a & Qihai Huang b a aSchool
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Does Corporate Social Responsibility Affect Firms’ Performance?1 Laura Poddi2 Sergio Vergalli3 July 28‚ 2008 Abstract In the last two decades in the OECD countries there have been a raising development of firms certified as Social Responsible (CSR is the acronym of Corporate Social Responsibility). This kind of certification is assigned by private companies that guarantee that the behaviour of a certain firms environmentally and sociologically correct. Some papers (among others Preston
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How can the Mistakes of Other Firms Help Sainsbury’s to Successfully Enter Chinese Markets Over the last few years‚ China has emerged into the world market. While the retail sector has only existed since 1992‚ this now accounts for 20% of total sales in China. There has been significant growth in this sector since 2001‚ and it shows no signs of stopping. This is driven largely by the middle class‚ who has had an increase in numbers from 42 million in 2005 to an estimated 200 million in 2015‚ leading
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