large part of the public into other financial assets—their own liabilities—which are preferred more by the public. This transformation involves at least one of four economic functions: (1) providing maturity intermediation; (2) risk reduction via diversification; (3) reducing the costs of contracting and information processing; and (4) providing a payments mechanism. Maturity intermediation involves a financial intermediary issuing liabilities against itself that have a maturity different from
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clothing and footwear in the UK. The company has found in 1970 ’s by John Hargreaves. Matalan also has an relationship with few designers and brands such as Jeff Banks‚ Calvin Klein and Farah according to Matalan ’s website. Their main competitors are-Primark‚ Asda (George)‚ Tesco‚ TKMax etc. Matalan has 200 stores across the UK and continue to work with franchise partner in the middle east‚ opening 3 new stores in the current financial period‚ one in Abu Dhabi and second stores in Dubai and Jordan(Matalan
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Contents Page Executive summary........................................................................................................1 (Jolly‚ Ivana) Introduction to Prêt a manger and the type of international marketing..........................2 (Ivana‚ Micheal) Prêt a manger’s 7P’s.......................................................................................................4 (Ivana‚ Michael) SWOT analysis of the Prêt a manger..........................................
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architectures 18 Division of labor and division of knowledge 18 How to organize to maintain competences? 19 • vertical scope (vertical integration) 19 • geographical scope 19 • product scope (diversification) 19 Degree of diversification: 19 Competitive advantage from diversification 19 Economic of scope: 19
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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STRATEGY OF PARENT COMPANY When a firm decides to go international with their business they must face many competitive decisions. Two of the most important decisions a company will face are the pressures for cost reduction and pressures for local responsiveness. The pressure of cost reduction forces a firm to lower their value of the cost of creation. Firms can outsource to places where costs of their products are much cheaper or they can mass-produce a standardized product
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References: Ansoff‚ I. H. (1957) Strategies for Diversification‚ Harvard Business Review‚ Vol. 35 (5)‚ pp.113-124 Ansoff‚ H Economic Review (2005) ‘Performance of Oil and Gas Sector.’ Economic Review‚ Vol. 36‚ pp4- 13 Christensen‚ C.‚ Cook‚ S.‚ and Hall‚ T CNet (2008) The complete history of Apple’s iPod [online]
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Strategic planning is an organization ’s process of defining its strategy‚ or direction‚ and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy. In order to determine the direction of the organization‚ it is necessary to understand its current position and the possible avenues through which it can pursue a particular course of action. Generally‚ strategic planning deals with at least one of three key questions: “What do we do?”‚ “For whom do we do it?”‚ and “How do we excel?”. In
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strategies are: - Product Centric diversification – include new unrelated products or services. In this case products like Coke Diet‚ Juices‚ Vitamin water‚ etc. could be considered as centric diversification part. - Joint venture – a kind of strategy that occurs when two or more company form a temporary partnership for the purpose of capitalizing on some opportunity. Joint venture with Cadbury has been suggested in this part. - Conglomerate Diversification – include new unrelated products. Entering
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example of unrelated diversification. True (p. 206) 5. One of the risks of vertical integration is that there may be problems associated with unbalanced capacities or unfilled demands along a firm’s value chain. True (p. 206 - 207) 6. Vertical integration is attractive when market transaction costs are higher than internal administrative costs. True (p. 208) 7. According to the text‚ the two main sources of synergy in unrelated diversification are parenting and financial
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nor producing to help in self sufficient‚ which created a problem needed to be solved‚ two suggested solutions are taxation with some benefits resulted from a previous study between high tax countries and low tax countries the other solution is diversification and its effect on economy and socially and two supportive examples Introduction Rentire states is the country that receives its revenues mostly if not all from outside worlds (rent) on regular basis. Most of the sources of rent paid by those
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