Blinds to Go: Staffing a Retail Expansion In 1954‚ from Montreal‚ Canada‚ Blinds to Go (BTG) business began as a retail fabricator of window dressings. Mr.Shiller was the sole operator of the company and until his son joined in 1970s‚ He persuaded his father to focus on selling blinds. The new business plan generated positive customer responses and by year 2000‚ the business has expanded widely across North America. The business continues to grow. Even though they were growing fast‚ they faced
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Introduction Nokia Corporation once transcended its current business of mobile and telecommunication service production as it is currently known. The corporation started out as a paper‚ rubber and cable manufacturer. It later in its life expanded to include consumer electronics and mobile and telecommunication. Due to certain constraints and shortcomings‚ and also new opportunities for growth in mobile-telecommunications‚ the corporation built its new identity with only mobile-telecommunications
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Ever since the end of world war two‚ tension between the US and USSR has constantly been present. This long constant tension between the two countries came to be known as the Cold War. Many attempts of soviet communistic expansion occurred over the span of the cold war‚ where many of those occurrences are tied to the US. Instances of communism in Germany‚ Asia‚ and Cuba could be highlighted as the most diplomatic of the cold war‚ and were all handled differently by the United States. After the
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Assignment 1: International Expansion 1. Develop a revised international product life cycle plan. Introduction Phase The introduction phase is when the public first sees or hears about a product. The product appears in stores for the first time‚ and people start seeing print and television ads. As the global manager of a retail company‚ the prices of product will be set high to recoup initial expenses that went into producing the product. For innovated products‚ a retail company with new
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Note Service Chapter 11 Section 1 - King Cotton and Southern Expansion American Communities Natchez - Under - the - Hill I. The flatboat men from the Mississippi are angry because of the tax on their merchandise. The tax was supposed to eliminate competition from weaker captains who could not afford to pay the 10 dollars. Their goods were confiscated and they responded by declaring violent threats only to be stopped by the militia. II. French originally owned this territory and obtained it from
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Corporate Finance: Chapter 5: Financing East Coast Yacht’s Expansion Plans with a Bond 1. If the company benefits from the provision of the bond‚ then the coupon rate will be higher. If the bondholder’s benefit‚ then the bond will have lower coupon rate. a. Bond’s with collateral will have lower coupon rate as bondholders have claim on collateral no matter what. It provides an asset which lowers default risk. Downside to company is that this collateral cannot be sold as an asset and needs to
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From 1800 to 1850 territorial expansion tore the United States apart. Territorial expansion itself was not a debated issue. Spurred by the concept of Manifest Destiny‚ almost everyone believed that America should extend from sea to shining sea and maybe even farther. But it was the issue of the expansion of slavery into the new territories that pitted the North against the South and split our nation apart. The first real crisis over territorial expansion took place in 1819-1821 over the admission
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Slavery‚ as America knew it 1860 change with the election of the Republican President‚ Abraham Lincoln. The South wanted to expand slavery to the West while the republican party wanted to prohibit the expansion of slave states. Emancipation of the slaves and expanding slavery westward had been an emerging conflict between the North and South for some time. The South vowed to withdraw from the Union if Lincoln claimed victory. The Confederate leaders believe that if Republican abolitionists won‚ they
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Executive summary: The main objective of this report is to evaluate the problem faced by Blinds To Go in recruiting the right set of people and developing them in order to achieve the company’s growth objectives. The report starts with a brief summary of BTG wherein there is a discussion about the company’s hiring objectives and the changes made to the compensation structure along with reasons for the same. In order to find more suitable employees‚ BTG is using several channels of hiring like employee
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Western expansion is one of the defining moments in United States history. The country grew tremendously and the country became the powerhouse it is today. Another moment that is more debatable was the Monroe Doctrine. In 1823‚ President Monroe published a document that outlined American policy on European involvement in North America. It stated that any foreign interference on the continent would be taken as a threat to American democracy. Some historians claim that the Monroe Doctrine opened the
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