African Studies Quarterly Home | Current Issue | Previous Issues | Submission Guidelines | Books for Review Volume 8‚ Issue 4 Summer 2006 Causes of Small Business Failure in Uganda: A Case Study from Bushenyi and Mbarara Towns[1] Charles Tushabomwe-Kazooba Print/Download PDF Version Abstract: The privatization drive and the Civil and Public Service reforms that began in the early 1990s in Uganda laid a foundation for an increased number of small business
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Cola Wars Continue : Coke and Pepsi in 2006 1. Why historically has the soft drink industry been so profitable? * High rate of consumption increasing at an average of 3% per year * Increasing availability of CSDs * Introduction of diet and flavoured varieties Year | 1970 | 1975 | 1981 | 1985 | 1990 | 1994 | 1996 | 1998 | 2004 | Consumption in Cases (million) | 3090 | 3780 | 5180 | 6500 | 7780 | 8710 | 9290 | 9880 | 10240 | 2. Compare the economics of concentrated
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increasing sales‚ variable and fixed costs must be controlled. Increased competition must be tackled. Solutions must be found to hasten operational breakeven without losing customer focus. Options: Modify the hub/spoke model. Add more spokes so that there is greater market penetration. At the same time‚ there must be some hubs and distribution centre set up to service the spokes. At the start of 2006‚ more spokes should be established as the fixed costs involved are less. Once they achieve break even
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Case Study : Clean Edge Razor - The evaluation of Possible Solution Niche Market Launch PROs CONs *Cost for advertising‚ consumer and trade promotion is lower compare to mainstream. *Huge market to explore – Emotional Shaver makes 39% of nondisposable razor user *The advantage of being enter to niche market is by conquering the small portion of market its easier to control the customer buying response and also easy to evaluate customer feedback. By then‚ it also can improve more in the future
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The Population Solution Question... 1. Most people assume that human numbers will stabilize at some point in the future. Discuss the conditions which can contribute to the solution of the population explosion. "Let us suppose that the average human being weighs 60 kilogram ’s. If that ’s the case then 100‚000‚000‚000‚000‚000‚000 people would weigh as much as the whole Earth does. That number of people is 30‚000‚000‚000‚000 times as many people as there are living today. It may seem to
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TUTORIAL 2 Linear Programming - Minimisation Special cases Simplex maximisation 1. Innis Investments manages funds for a number of companies and wealthy clients. The investment strategy is tailored to each client’s needs. For a new client‚ Innis has been authorised to invest up to $1.2 million in two investment funds: a stock fund and a money market fund. Each unit of the stock fund costs $50 and provides an annual rate of return of 10%; each unit of the money market fund costs
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The financial institutions can scarcely be regarded as a form of innovation. Certainly its tradition virtue and recognized ways of doing business have been a source of pleasure to the sector (Bradley‚ L et al‚ 2003). There are different types of financial institutions. Generally speaking‚ financial institutions are ranked by their capitals or assets. According to the categorization structure of “Istward and Holland”‚ banks with capital less than US $40 billion are measured as small banks; those with
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SYS702 PROBLEM SOLVING FORMALISMS FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LECTURE 1: UNDERSTANDING IT WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF SYSTEMS Systems Science Perspective IT and Problem Solving Socio-technical Systems SYS702 Jan-Apr2011 Prepare by Nor Laila Md Noor 2 LEARNING OUTCOMES • Upon completion of this topic‚ students will be able to: • Demonstrate a good understanding of the systems science perspective in contrast with the computer science perspective. • Demonstrate a good understanding
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lead to the ruin of the earth – as testified by a lot of the movies and more seriously by one Thomas Malthus who gave the world the very interesting theory of population. Jokes apart‚ overpopulation solutions need to be humane and quite frankly doable. So here are some of the overpopulation solutions‚ which might ease overpopulation problems. Education : It is one of the most commonly agreed causes of overpopulation that a lot of the uneducated people have more penurious children and the whole
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| Nitish @ Solutions Unlimited | | Submitted By:Nalini Bansal13PGDMHR27 | Executive Summary Nitish‚ a young MBA graduate has recently taken up the position of Senior Consultant 2 at Solutions limited‚ which wants to realign its image to a management consultancy‚ and wants to capitalise on Nitish’s competence in this particular area. He however faces a lot of issues with the HR department while trying to settle in his new job after his encounter with a senior HR
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