on new routes from their inception‚ by pitching their fares to be low enough to attract new customers but high enough to provide a satisfactory operating margin. By 1991 Ryanair recorded its first ever profit despite the damage done to the Airline industry by the Gulf war in 1991. Over the next couple of years Ryanair substantially slashed its fares further and managed to open up many new attractive routes. The new formula effected a turnaround in the fortunes of the company‚ and by
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RUSSIA Natural environment Among Russia’s most important environmental problems: * Water pollution is the most serious concern. Less than half of Russia’s population has access to safe drinking water. While water pollution from industrial sources has diminished because of the decline in manufacturing‚ municipal wastes increasingly threaten key water supply sources‚ and nuclear contamination could leach into key water sources as well. The head of Russia’s environmental protection committee
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has even basic knowledge about cameras and imaging technology. In particular‚ their lineup of DSLR cameras is recognized as one of the best in the world for digital photography. Yet‚ as in any technology-based industry‚ Nikon has its challenges to deal with. The following PESTEL analysis is an outline of the factors that impact these challenges. Political Japan’s political environment is very stable and has been for a long time. The country had encountered some hard times during the 1990’s but
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into reverse mortgage options‚ it can be hard to decipher between fact and myth. It is important to understand the aspects of the program to make sure that it is right for you and your situation. Simply‚ a reverse mortgage is a type of loan that provides you with a monthly income‚ a lump sum of cash‚ or a line of credit. Or any combination you wish. It also pays off your existing loan‚ if you have one. So you have no house payment. The monthly income you receive from the reverse mortgage is guaranteed
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IndustryStructure With regards to industry structure and size‚ Dubai has over 700 jewellery retail shops. The traditional Gold Souk alone has more than 275 shops within an area of 0.5 km square‚ which is considered the densest concentration in the world. The retail market is also divided into 80% stand alone retail outlets and 20% chain outlets. On the other hand‚ Dubai has developed its jewellery clusters to be [Benchmarking] Page 135 Egyptian Jewellery Industry Draft Report in the form of highly
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developed as ways of cataloguing the vast number of possible issues that might affect an industry. A PEST analysis is one of them that is merely a framework that categorizes environmental influences as political‚ economic‚ social and technological forces. Sometimes two additional factors‚ environmental and legal‚ will be added to make a PESTEL analysis‚ but these themes can easily be subsumed in the others. The analysis examines the impact of each of these factors (and their interplay with each other)
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Country Risk Analysis The Netherlands Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 1.1 Background 3 1.2 General Facts 3 2. Political Risk Factors 4 2.1 Political Structure Analysis 4 2.2 Key Internal Political Risks 5 2.3 Key External Political Risks 6 3. Economic Risk Factors 7 3.1 The Real Sector 7 3.2 The Public Sector 8 3.3 The Monetary Sector 8 3.4 The External Sector 9 3.5 The Labour Market 10 3.6 Economic Risk Assessment 11 4. Social
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PEST analysis From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia "PEST" redirects here. For the special forces unit of the Slovenian Military Police‚ see Specialized Unit for Special Tactics. PEST analysis (’Political‚ Economic‚ Social and Technological analysis’’’) describes a framework of macro-environmental factors used in the environmental scanning component of strategic management. Some analysts added Legal and rearranged the mnemonic to SLEPT; inserting Environmental factors expanded it to PESTEL or
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COUNTRY ANALYSIS - VIETNAM Political Examining the political situation of Vietnam is complex since country itself represent a colorful political history (Sterling‚ 2006). According to Thompson G (2009)‚ the policies of the current government operate under the name of communist‚ however‚ country’s government has a very positive attitude towards welcoming foreign direct investment (FDI) and developing Trade relations which are the opposite of the whole Communist systems. Vietnam government launched
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CHINA’S TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY INTRODUCTION China has developed a huge telecommunications sector. Today China is one of the largest telecom subscribers in the world’s telecommunication market. China’s telecommunications industry started to expand during early 1990s due to economic growth‚ technological improvements‚ low tax rates‚ and institutional changes‚ which allowed competition. Figure 1 shows that electronic-telecom industry had the fastest growth of sales revenue during
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