The Europeans were motivated to embark on voyages for discovery had many motives. One motivation was to find the fantastic lands described in works such as the Travels of Mandeville and the legends of the magical kingdom of Prester John. Columbus even took a copy of Marco Polos Travels with him on his voyages. The most important motive was economic. The conquests of the Ottoman Turks had cut the Europeans off from trade with Asia. The overland trade routes were controlled by the Arab Muslims
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San Miguel Corporation is one of the Philippines’ largest and most diversified conglomerates‚ generating about 6.5% of the country’s gross domestic product in 2013 through its highly integrated operations in beverages‚ food‚ packaging‚ fuel and oil‚ power and infrastructure. San Miguel is one of the nation’s largest employers‚ with a direct workforce of about 18‚000 employees. For each job created within the San Miguel system‚ many additional jobs are created through suppliers‚ distributors‚ retailers
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The NBA’s Expansion into China A Look at the Marketing Efforts of the NBA in China The first game played in the NBA was on November 1‚ 1946 in Toronto‚ Canada. The game was played between the Toronto Huskies and the New York Knickerbockers. The final score was 68-66‚ and there were 10‚000 people on hand. At that time‚ the NBA was named the Basketball Association of America‚ and was made up of eleven teams. The first 11 teams were from New York‚ Chicago‚ Cleveland‚ Detroit
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industry recorded retail sales of $857 million in 2006‚ while sales volume is forecast to hit $1.1 billion by 2010. Skincare products attributed more than 20% of this. Malaysian consumers prefer to use imported skincare products as they associate them with higher quality as oppose to local products. As the local cosmetic industry is still less productive‚ imported products will continue to be high demand especially for the middle and high-income earners. The cosmetic industry is in a state of flux
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it is extremely critical for firms to adopt global and regional business strategies in order to attain sustainable competitive advantage. But the question arises regarding classification of a MNE (Multinational Enterprise) as a global firm. This essay critically analyses the work on regional strategy as a response to Osegowitsch and Sammartino and attempts to cover the following aspects in detail. Notion of Globalization and Global Strategy This section highlights the notion of globalization
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deteriorating‚ high-cost business whose weaknesses were exposed brutally when the financial crisis triggered a global recession in late 2008. Major corporations slashed information technology budgets to cut costs‚ hurting companies like Lenovo‚ whose ThinkPad line had dominated the commercial PC market. Lenovo was late to enter the consumer segment‚ where rivals like Apple‚ Hewlett-Packard Co. and Taiwan’s Acer prospered with sleek new models and strong marketing. The company would need major surgery to stanch
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Test tube Mortar pestle Dilute HCl Disodium hydrogen phosphate NH4OH AlCl3 NaOH Cobalt nitrate Ammonium carbonate Preparation of the sample: Ten of marketed products (tablets/ capsule) is taken and crushed in mortar pastle. This powder is used as a sample through out the experiment. Sample is taken‚ then dilute HCl is added‚ when dissolved the solution then filtered the sample‚ which is a stock solution. Test
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its local market by keeping tight control over the operations and catering to the taste and appetite of the local people. With the success in the home country‚ the company then expanded its operations into other countries under the leadership of Tony Kitchner. When Noli Tingzon joined the company‚ it was at a critical point‚ where it began to revisit its strategies to expand its international operations and explore new markets. Advantages in the Filipino market Jollibee’s early strategy in the
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The International Marketing Dilemma Standardization VS . Customization Spiderman Becomes an Indian Product Idea P&G – Connect & Develop Strategy • Develop brands tailored for similar consumer cohorts living in different countries‚ rather than producing strategies on a nation-by-nation basis – Consumers in Mumbai have more common with consumers in Shanghai‚ Tokyo‚ New York than with consumers in rural India • Expertise from one part of the globe to another – Taboos over feminine hygiene
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Determinant Expansion by Minors Also known as "Laplacian" determinant expansion by minors‚ expansion by minors is a technique for computing thedeterminant of a given square matrix . Although efficient for small matrices‚ techniques such as Gaussian elimination are much more efficient when the matrix size becomes large. Let denote the determinant of a matrix ‚ then where is a so-called minor of ‚ obtained by taking the determinant of with row and column "crossed out." For example‚ for a matrix
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