Session 7 DISTIBUTION CHANNELS By the end of this unit‚ you should be able to: • Explain why companies use distribution channels and discuss the functions these channels perform. • Discuss how channel members interact and how they organize to perform the work of the channel. • Identify the major channel alternatives open to a company. • Discuss the nature and importance of marketing logistics and supply chain management. • Describe the major types of retailers
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Define and differniate between vertical integration and horizontal integration? Vertical Integration :- It describes a style of management control. Vertically integrated companies in a supply chain are united through a common owner. Usually each member of the supply chain produces a different product or (market-specific) service‚ and the products combine to satisfy a common need. It is contrasted with horizontal integration.Vertical integration is one method of avoiding the hold-up problem. A
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Vertical farming is cultivating plant or animal life within skyscrapers or on vertically inclined surfaces. The idea of a vertical farm has existed at least since the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. A vertical farm would be a large‚ independently operating structure centrally located in a major city. It would feature two multi-storey‚ skyscraper-like buildings working together- one to manage food production with nutrient film techniques‚ and another to manage waste through living machines and generate
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used vertical integration‚ a system of related businesses in which a parent company owns its suppliers‚ to increase his businesses efficiency levels. Carnegie bought out the companies and suppliers that carried the raw materials and services he required for his business. He was able to control everything he needed‚ and make agreements with other companies to buy his steel. Using this method‚ he saved money and increased his profits. The Walt Disney World Corporation also uses vertical integration
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http://www.growingpower.org/ access on November 17‚ 2010. citation: Zepeda‚ L Opinion. Sunday‚ August 13‚ 2006. Accessed online @ http://www.seattlepi.com/opinion/280951_focus13.html on November 17‚ 2010 citation: Despommier‚ D. 2009. The RISE of VERTICAL FARMS. Scientific American‚ 00368733‚ Nov2009‚ Vol citation: http://www.eoearth.org/article/Vertical_farming access on November 17‚ 2010. Guillou‚ M
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ASSIGNMENT-2 MELTEM MAĞDEN ING 102 CRN : 30095 JULY 18‚ 2013 VERTICAL ARCHİTECTURES With time is going on‚ people are trying to choose the best option for their living.When the population rise became in great members‚ vertical cities has been the best alternative for people.Having construction of hyperstructures that capacitates large quantities of population is the defination of some kind for vertical cities.As Abel explains‚ cities are anticipated to have eighty per cent of
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VERTICAL ANALYSIS Vertical Analysis Definition A method of financial statement analysis in which each entry for each of the three major categories of accounts (assets‚ liabilities and equities) in a balance sheet is represented as a proportion of the total account. The main advantage of vertical analysis is that the balance sheets of businesses of all sizes can easily be compared. It also makes it easy to see relative annual changes within one business.
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Vertical Democracy and Western Democracy A new model of democracy has been evolving in the east over the past few years through shifts and evolution of ideologies in China. This model‚ dubbed Vertical Democracy by political analyst‚ offers an exception to the system of modern Western Democracy that was long accepted as the only functional democracy for developing countries to aspire to. Vertical Democracy differs from traditional western democracy in the fact that there is bi party periodic elections
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Vertical Farming Vertical Farming is a modern way of farming‚ is a concept that argues that it is economically and environmentally viable to cultivate plant or animal life within skyscrapers‚ or on vertically inclined surfaces. Land and population: It is estimated that by the year 2050‚ close to 80% of the world’s population will live in urban areas and the total population of the world will increase by 3 billion people. A very large amount of land may be required depending on the change in yield
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What is vertical coordination? Vertical coordination is the process of implementing all the stages such as production line‚ marketing and selling the final output. The other important thing about the vertical coordination is that there should be an efficient communication between consumers and producers in that how much should produce the producer and also what quality should have the product. One of the main characteristic of the communist world was the state property‚ meaning that
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