2008 JOHN DEIGHTON Dove: Evolution of a Brand In 2007‚ Unilever’s Dove was the world’s number-one “cleansing” brand in the health and beauty sector‚ with sales of over $2.5 billion a year in more than 80 countries. It competed in categories that included cleansing bars‚ body washes‚ hand washes‚ face care‚ hair care‚ deodorants‚ anti-perspirants‚ and body lotions. It competed with brands like Procter and Gamble’s Ivory‚ Kao’s Jergens‚ and Beiersdorf’s Nivea. Dove had recently launched what
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VIETNAM Introduction Vietnam is a country officially known as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam found in Southeast Asia. Vietnam is bordered by Cambodia in the Southwest‚ China in the North‚ Laos in the Northwest and South China Sea in the East. The Republic of Vietnam is the 13th most populated country with a pollution of 86 million people. The capital city is Hanoi and the official language is Vietnamese. The economy of Vietnam was largely based on agriculture with wet rice cultivation as the
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New Zealand’s Involvement in the Vietnam war Introduction The Vietnam War was also known as the Second Indochina War and referred to by the Vietnamese as the American War. It was a conflict that went from 1955 to 1975 between the Communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam (currently known as North of Vietnam) and the Republic of Vietnam (currently known as South of Vietnam). North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union‚ China and other communist allies. South Vietnam was supported by the United States
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HANOI—As Vietnam’s economy has boomed in recent decades‚ so too have pollution levels in its major cities‚ with experts concerned that air pollution could pose a major public health concern. "Environmental pollution in Vietnam is a real problem‚" said Tuong Lai‚ former dean of Vietnam’s Social Science Institute. "It’s not just foreign visitors who have complained about our dust pollution—people in our country are also very dissatisfied with it‚" he said. A study conducted by employment consultants
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Delaunay and Torrisi: FDI in Vietnam INDIA‚ CHINA AND AMERICA INSTITUTE 1549 CLAIRMONT ROAD‚ SUITE 202 ● DECATUR‚ GA 30033 USA WWW .ICAINSTITUTE.ORG FDI in Vietnam: An Empirical Study of an Economy in Transition Christian Delaunay & C. Richard Torrisi Journal of Emerging Knowledge on Emerging Markets Volume 4 November 2012 Produced by The Berkeley Electronic Press‚ 2012 1 Journal of Emerging Knowledge on Emerging Markets‚ Vol. 4 [2012]‚ Art. 4 FDI in Vietnam: An Empirical Study of
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Global Restaurants‚ Inc (KFC Vietnam 2008). The company now was known as Yum! Brands Inc which included all the restaurants: A&W Restaurants‚ Long John Silver’s‚ Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. KFC has more than 11‚000 restaurants operating in more than 80 countries and territories in the world. Today it is one of the most famous and strongest brand names in the fast food market (Entrepreneur Media 2009). In 1997‚ KFC restaurants opened its first outlet in Ho Chi Minh City - Vietnam. Today‚ due to the trend
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Black Hawk Down is illustrious movie depicting a mission-gone-wrong during the U.S.’s peacekeeping mission in Somalia in 1993. This is the story of a planned 30-minute mission that turned into 15-hour blood bath when American troops were sent unprepared into Mogadishu to capture the ruling warlords. The film gets off to a rather slow start. Its attempt to set up the characters just does not work. We get some rather stale comments from a few soldiers about whether they think the US’s place in Somalia
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It is one of the fastest growing segments within the tourism industry‚ generating millions in revenues for cities and countries. MICE is also the popular trend of tourism in almost every country in the world‚ including developing countries like Vietnam. However‚ Europe and America still remain the major markets worldwide in respect of the number of meetings‚ conferences and exhibitions. Here is the rank of countries which have the highest number of meeting last year 2007. You can easily find out
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Do WTO Rules Create a Level Playing Field? Lessons from the Experience of Peru and Vietnam∗ Christina L. Davis Department of Politics Princeton University† ∗ The author thanks Marc Busch‚ Thomas Cottier‚ Judith Goldstein‚ Eduardo Perez Motta‚ and John Odell for comments on the paper‚ and thanks Anbinh Phan and Courtenay Dunn for valuable research assistance. The research benefited greatly from interviews with officials involved in the negotiations‚ who have not been cited by name at
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3 (February 14) – Vietnam: market entry decisions Answer the following questions: 1. Does Vietnam represent an attractive investment opportunity? Vietnam is 12th nation in the world with more population and its economic growth is expected to keep increasing in the following years. Thanks to the Doi Moi economic reforms since 1994 the country’s GDP is the third in growth rate in Asia‚ the inflation has decreased from 775% to 14% and the FDI is everyday more important. Moreover‚ the population
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