: MARKETING PLANNING AND CONTROL TASK : Analyze the importance of control. (10mks) : Discuss any major problems that confront attempts to control and evaluate market activities. (10mks) : Marketing planning is difficult for Toy companies because toys tend to be fads and toy companies must replace 60% of their volume every year. Given the nature of this market‚ advice
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detailing how a new business sets out to achieve its aims and objectives. The business plan is a useful planning tool as it requires the owner to plan marketing‚ financial and human resources of the business. However‚ the main aim of producing a business plan from the entrepreneur’s point of view is to gain financial backing from lenders such as banks and venture capitalists. It can also be used by other stakeholders such as shareholders to assess the potential gains from their investment in the business
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is derived from Latin & Greek language. The term was first used by Lilly and Stillwell in 1965 to describe “substances secreted by one microorganism which stimulates the growth of another microorganism” i.e. which is exactly opposite of ‘antibiotics’‚ later in 1971 Sperti used the term probiotics to describe “tissue extracts that stimulate microbial growth”. But Parker in 1974 was first to give the term probiotic in a sense that is used now. He defined probiotic as “organisms and substances which
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of drinking coffee? Advantages: • Coffee is actually one of the healthiest beverages billions of people consume regularly. • Coffee containing with bitter orange‚ hydroxycitric acid‚ and chromium can encourage an increase up to 30% in metabolic rate. • Coffee with exercise when taking 300mg averages a 20% increase in energy and fatigue while burning fat increased 107% greater than without caffeine. • Caffeine in coffee keeps our brains alert and receptive
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R e se a rc h a n d Stat i s t i c s B r a n c h working paper 01/2009 FDI Policy Instruments: Advantages and Disadvantages UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION RESEARCH AND STATISTICS BRANCH WORKING PAPER 01/2009 FDI Policy Instruments: Advantages and Disadvantages Frank L. Bartels Unit Chief‚ Strategic Research and Regional Analyses Unit UNIDO S. A. de Crombrugghe Associate Economic Affairs Officer UNCTAD UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION Vienna‚ 2009 The
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There are many disadvantages of DTCA as there are advantages. Like‚ damaging relationship with their health-care provider‚ misinforming patients‚ overemphasizing drug benefits‚ inappropriate prescribing‚ promotion of new drugs before safety profiles are fully known‚ and most important of all increasing health-care costs. DTCA is often criticized for its potential impact on the patient-provider relationship. Providers often find themselves challenged with increased work and frustration when a patient
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Chapter 10 – The Nature of Planning and Control The most important issues to consider however are those concerned with the nature of planning and control. Although planning and control are two separate activities‚ in practice‚ very difficult to separate.. These determined the ‘ingredients’ to be put into the operation and how those ‘ingredients’ were going to be positioned relative to each other. Planning and control is the next task – taking the designed operation and making it work on a continuous
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many negative or controversial sides‚ throughout this paper I will discuss these points and discuss them in depth. Empowerment is a trend that has been hitting companies since the 1990 ’s. The movement had originally started in the 1980 ’s when managers were encouraged to give their workers more involvement in work-related decisions but has now grown into its own controversial topic as 31% of companies define themselves as empowered. Advantages Many companies believe that being in an empowered
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Advantage (depending upon implementation some of these can turn into disadvantages) employment (1 emp/1000 tourist) (labor intensive‚ few administrative positions‚ little upward mobility.) infrastructure development (roads‚ water‚ electricity‚ telecom and cybercom‚ but not necessarily local priorities.) cultural preservation (economic incentives to preserve food‚ fashion‚ festivals and physical history‚ but these tend to be superficial elements of a culture.) environmental protection (econ incentives
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The chemical element copper‚ with Atomic Number 29‚ has been extensively used for thousands of years because of several primary properties that have dictated its use throughout history. Among them we can count durability‚ strength and‚ as a semi-noble metal‚ good resistance to corrosion. With a hardness of 3 on the Mohs scale‚ pure copper is relatively soft and malleable‚ which makes it an easy metal to work with. Analyses of artefacts from lithic civilizations have shown that native copper had not
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