A Character Analysis of Kerima Polotan Tuvera’s The Virgin Kerima Polotan-Tuvera’s “The Virgin” is a short story that is centered on two characters namely Miss Mijares and The Carpenter. The title “The Virgin” reflects the subject virginity which is an important and cherished value for Filipinos. A Filipina should be proud to have maintained her virginity but in the case of the thirty-four-year-old Miss Mijares‚ she is ashamed of it. In her thirty-four years of existence‚ she had never been
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Introduction 1.1 Purpose The purpose of this report was to analyze the best possible pricing strategy for the Virgin Mobile venture into the United States. 1.2 Situation Virgin is a global company that has 200 corporate entities involved in everything from planes and trains to beverages and cosmetics. The newest addition is the Virgin Mobile USA entity‚ which was created after Virgin was able to successfully penetrate the U.K. cellular market. However‚ the company was not so successful with the
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The Virgin by Kerima Polotan The title of Kerima Polotan’s "The Virgin" gives us the subject-virginity‚ female virginity‚ a cherished value of Filipino Male culture. By presenting its protagonist as "victim" rather than heroine of this value system‚ the text subverts it. Reflecting on her virginal state‚ Miss Mijares does so "with a mixture of shame and bitterness and guilt" The story’s eroticism is heightened by the lyrical‚ almost cadenced language. (The eroticism is quite explicit for it’s
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luxury brands travel? Avoiding the pitfalls of luxury brand extension Mergen Reddy a‚ Nic Terblanche b‚ Leyland Pitt c‚*‚ Michael Parent c a Capgemini Consulting‚ P.O. Box 785827‚ Sandton‚ 2146‚ South Africa Stellenbosch University‚ Private Bag X1‚ Matieland‚ 7602‚ South Africa c Segal Graduate School of Business‚ Simon Fraser University‚ 500 Granville Street‚ Vancouver‚ BC V6C 1W6‚ Canada b KEYWORDS Luxury brands; Brand extensions; Degree of adjacency; Premium adjacency matrix Abstract Brand extensions
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STUDENT: | Louis-Claude ROUX | PROFESSOR: | Philippe René Gillet | CASE: Virgin Mobile USA “Pricing for the first time” | DATE: 20/02/2012CLASS: MBS-Entrepreneuriat | PART I) ANSWERS BASED ON MY “GUT FEELINGS” Virgin Mobile targets the 14 to 24-year-olds market. The case lays out three pricing options. Which option would you choose and why? I would go for option number two for several reasons. The first one is that I think offer number one is not sufficiently different from the rest
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Virgin Group Virgin group is one of the leading international investment group and one of the famous and respected brands in the world. The founder that is Sir Richard Branson has successfully grow his company business in sectors ranging from mobile telephony‚ travel‚holiday‚ leisure‚ services‚ music‚ financial and health & wellness. Their group have employ more than 50‚000 people around the world and their services are provided over 50 countries. Every manager of their group have four management
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launching a new product‚ it is better to pursue a brand extension strategy‚ than to develop a new brand Brand extension is a brand strategy which using the existing brand name to develop a new product or enter into a different product category market or industry. The new brand can be called as a “sub-brand”‚ and the original brand is referred as a “parent brand”. There are basically two different types of brand extensions. The first one is “line extension”‚ which means to launch a new product which
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Considering the youth that Virgin Mobile is targeting‚ we conclude that the best strategic decision will be to establish a new plan that offers no contract requirements‚ lower than industry average minute prices‚ fixed minute rates with no additional or hidden fees‚ prepaid plans internet and text messaging included and subsidies of around 40 dollars per cellphone. This new plan is necessary to differentiate Virgin Mobile from its competitors and retain market share. By having the new venture with
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Virgin mobile pricing Document Transcript VIRGIN MOBILE USA – ‘FIRST PRICE’ STRATEGY (An analysis of the Pricing Decision alternatives that Virgin has to undertake to create an alternate customer segment and monetize their buying power)VIRGIN XTRAS – OVERVIEWThe Virgin Mobile USA service involved content‚ features and entertainment‚ called “Virgin Xtras”.Collaboration with MTV networks as it was the most recognized youth brands in the country and unparalleled reach forthe under-30 market segment:
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competitors done that has resulted in Virgin Australia’s introduction of different classes of travel? Originally a one-class service‚ with the introduction of Jetstar in 2004 and Tiger Airways Australia in 2007‚ Virgin Blue was forced to re-think its original market offering of cheap‚ no-frills air travel‚ aimed predominantly at the leisure market. Tiger and Jetstar were undercutting their prices and making a large dent in the leisure market‚. As a result‚ Virgin Blue introduced a premium economy
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