University‚ UK (MBA1) Oxford Brookes University‚ UK (BSc. Hons) CICPA2 PO Box 117‚ Geylang Post Office‚ Singapore 913804 Tel: +65-83300960 E-mail: muzihemba@gmail.com Dr. K. C. Wong MBA Project Supervisor / Mentor Abstract: Qingdao Haier has been the world ’s largest white goods manufacturer since 2010. Haier has built a portfolio of unrelated diversification through mergers and acquisitions and had decentralizing its operational risks. Haier is confronting few strategic issues which might be more rational
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.‚ May 2002 Robert M. Grant Wal-Mart Stores 1. TO WHAT EXTENT IS WAL-MART’S PERFORMANCE ATTRIBUTABLE TO INDUSTRY ATTRACTIVENESS AND TO WHAT EXTENT TO COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE? A company has a competitive advantage over its rivals when its profitability is greater than the average profitability of all companies in its industry. It has a sustained competitive advantage when it is able to maintain above-average profitability
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Carrefour Introduction Carrefour one of the biggest retailers in Europe‚ which is working with the shopping area and discounters in the world. The company is headquartered in Paris‚ France.) The company started in France in 1959 and opened its first supermarket in 1960. The first major changes and expansions‚ which that it went through‚ were between the 70s and the 80s‚ a period that saw the stocks of the company being floated in 1970 in the Paris bourse. In 1970 the company presented in stock
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CARREFOUR CHINA‚ BUILDING A GREENER STORE Edizcan İkizoğlu Ertuğrul Ozan Özbahar Sırma Karakaya IE457|Case 2 Report Bilkent University November‚ 2013 I.SUMMARY In 1995‚ Carrefour entered China‚ with its first store opening in Beijing. By June 2006 the company was operating 73 hypermarkets in 29 Chinese cities and it was the number one foreign retailer in China having the fastest growing rate among its competitors [1]. The company planned to open 100 new stores in 2006-07 because the
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Report 2011 - 3 1 Consolidated Financial Statements Management’s discussion and analysis year ended December 31‚ 2011 Management’s discussion and analysis year ended December 31‚ 2011 This is a free translation into English of the Carrefour Group’s financial report for 2011 which is issued in the French langague‚ and is provided solely for the convenience of English speaking users. Sales and earnings performance MAIN EARNINGS INDICATORS (in millions of euros) 2011 81‚271 2
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Adopt Algorithm for Distributed Constraint Optimization Pragnesh Jay Modi Information Sciences Institute & Department of Computer Science University of Southern California http://www.isi.edu/~modi Distributed Optimization Problem “How do a set of agents optimize over a set of alternatives that have varying degrees of global quality?” Examples l allocating resources l constructing schedules l planning activities Difficulties l No global control/knowledge l Localized communication l Quality
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Adopt an Element Purpose To research two elements on the periodic table and create a neat‚ colorful‚ and creative 8.5’ x 11’ poster on colored paper that highlights the following information: • Symbol (lettering must be 11 cm high‚ minimum must be placed in the left hand corner) • Name of element (lettering must be 2 cm high‚ minimum Must be underneath the symbol.) • Atomic number (lettering must be 2 cm high‚ minimum Must be placed in the top right hand corner) •
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STRATEGIC PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT Fages Gaspard Introduction of the company Main address: Carrefour S.A.‚ BP 419-16‚ 75769 Paris Cédex1 6 Avenue Raymond Poincaré‚ Paris 75116‚ France Tel: +33 1 53 70 19 00 Fax: +33 1 53 70 86 16 Website: www.carrefour.com Carrefour is the world’s second largest retailer in terms of sales. Truly global player with operations in over 35 countries. Major formats are hypermarkets‚ supermarkets and discount stores. Well known for entering
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Case Study Analysis of “Wal-Mart: The Main Street Merchant of Doom” Issues/Problems: The rapid and enormous expansion of Wal-Mart and its market share have changed the landscape of Main Street in towns and cities across America. By 1981‚ Wal-Mart became Americas largest retailer. It has approx. 6‚700 stores worldwide‚ $345 billion in net sales (2007)‚ and roughly 100 million weekly customers. Wal-Marts massive footprint has had three primary areas of concern: 1) Putting local small business
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Persuasive Speech Self-Evaluation My topic for my Persuasive Speech was on‚ “Why should you adopt a pet?” In class‚ when we were in groups looking over our classmates outlines‚ my topic was on seatbelt safety law. I thought that topic wasn’t strong enough to have an argument with. Somehow‚ in my group we were talking about pets that we have adopted. Then‚ I thought why not a speech on why you should adopt a pet. I myself have adopted a dog and volunteered at the SPCA about a year ago so I thought
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