Product Recall Due To a Quality Issue The product recall I will be discussing is that of Motrin Infants drops which occurred in early September of this year. These infant drops are manufactured and distributed by Johnson & Johnson in the US through their subsidiary McNeil Consumer healthcare. Motrin is a baby drop formula used to treat fever‚ aches and pains in children 2 years or younger (webMD.com 2013). The recall occurred when plastic particles the size of a poppy seed were found in a batch
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Mnemonic devices are those handy verbal tools that help people remember the names or patterns of larger data items. A classic example of such a device is the little ditty most of us were taught as children‚ the one that begins “Thirty days hath September…” That’s a simple way to remember the lengths of the months‚ one that manages to stick with us well into adulthood. I don’t know about you‚ but the phrase “…all the rest have thirty-one…” still comes in handy many decades after I learned that song;
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Toyota Recall 1. WHAT ARE THE PRIMARY CAUSES OF TOYOTA’S RECALL PROBLEM? The primary cause of Toyota’s recall was outsourcing their pedal manufacturing and assembly. To this day Toyota has recalled an estimated 2.3 million cars in the U.S. affected by the accelerator assembly problem‚ 4.2 million vehicles to fix the floor mat issue and out of all those vehicles 1.7 million of them were involved in both recalls (Linebaugh & Shirouzu‚ 2010). Amongst them are the 2008-2010 Sequoia sport utility vehicles
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1. The main reasons of Toyota’s recall issues Lately‚ people most concerned about the recall event which happened on the world’s largest vehicle manufacturers‚ Toyota. This event affect all over the world including China‚ USA‚ Europe. The incident makes the corporate brand image dropped and also loss the consumer confidence. Why this event did occur? During the research and analysis‚ the major cause of Toyota’s recall is the quality issues. For example the accelerator pedal problem‚ many different
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Financing the Toyota Recall. INTRODUCTION In May of 2006‚ The Toyota Motor Corporation initiated a recall of nearly one million vehicles around the world to replace faulty parts that could cause drivers to lose control of the steering wheel. The recall affected vehicles across 10 models‚ including the popular Prius. The intermediate shafts and sliding yokes in the recalled cars lacked the necessary strength and could distort or crack under strong pressure‚ causing drivers to lose control
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Levels of processing and recall (memory). Abstract: It has been suggested that the number of words recalled would increase if the levels of processing were deeper. ) According to levels of processing theory only elaborative rehearsal helps improve long term memory (Eysenck 1977). The study carried out investigates whether deeper levels of processing would aid the memory recall as it has been hypothesised; however the results obtained from this study clearly illustrate a positive correlation. There
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there was shocking news from automobile industries. It was Toyota recall crisis. Since the company had been iconic for its great quality‚ and wonderful reputation‚ the news was even more backstabbing. The problems first arrived with a single‚ car crash that took place in southern California in the U.S August last year. The crash was attributed to flaws in the pedal and killed the one whole family. Toyota called two separate recalls covering over 7.5 million cars. They were forced to stop all sales
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Mattel toy recall Discussion Questions 1. How could Mattel have allowed these problems to happen? Aside from simply not using Chinese suppliers‚ could Mattel have avoided the toy quality/safety problems to begin with? Explain your answers. 2. Were Mattel’s responses to the toy recalls appropriate? Why or why not? 3. As supply chain trading partners‚ what responsibilities do Mattel and Early Light have towards one another? Should Mattel continue to use Early Light as a supplier-partner
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KOLEJ TEKNOLOGI YPC-iTWEB Merck‚ the FDA‚ and the Vioxx Recall Coursework 1 Business and Society YPCBM4005B Miss Rozlina binti Mat Shadid Student ID Name B124001 Ahmad Wahab bin Muklis LJMU ID: 639986 Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction Merck‚ one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical markets‚ had enjoyed a long reputation as one of drug companies that prioritize ‘ethical and socially responsible’ as their company’s main core values. They once had
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Mattel – Case Study “The Chinese-Made Toy Recalls at Mattel Inc.” PAPER submitted at the IMC Fachhochschule Krems (University of Applied Sciences) Master Programme International Business and Export Management by Matthias EBNER Stefan RAFFERSEDER Jaroslav SIVY Course: Strategic Purchase and Global Sourcing Lecturer: DI Rainer DAUBECK Submitted on: 04.12.2012 TABLE OF CONTENT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION .......................................................................
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