Strategic Operation Management Assignment Zara fashion Zara is a clothing and accessories retailer selling stylish apparel at affordable prices‚ and it is also the most profitable brand of the Spanish clothing retail group Inditex SA. Ortega planned for this new Zara outlet‚ located near his factory in La Coruna in northern Spain‚ to sell this overstock merchandise himself. Since then‚ Zara has expanded into 500 stores in 68 countries as of January 2007 and has become a leader in customized
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KFC spreading its wings and more throughout China By Ted Anthony The Associated Press BEIJING - The late Colonel Harland Sanders‚ whose bearded‚ down-home visage adorns chicken restaurants from Kentucky to Karachi‚ is headed for a new frontier: the mountains of Tibet. There’s more: The Mexican-style fast food of the Taco Bell chain will expand across China in the near future. Pizza Hut will step up its home deliveries. And KFC’s already imposing presence in the world’s most populous country
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Tutorial PHP by www.w3schools.com Organized by Nur Dwi Muryanto‚ 2009 PHP Tutorial PHP Tutorial PHP is a powerful server-side scripting language for creating dynamic and interactive websites. PHP is the widely-used‚ free‚ and efficient alternative to competitors such as Microsoft ’s ASP. PHP is perfectly suited for Web development and can be embedded directly into the HTML code. The PHP syntax is very similar to Perl and C. PHP is often used together with Apache (web server) on various operating
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Q1) With a key focus on the grocery industry‚ it has become widely accepted by numerous companies across a number of regions‚ that Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) has become a key catalyst for supply chain reform (Szymankiewicz‚ 1997). ECR drives forward a number of efficiency initiatives with an aim to re-engineer existing supply chains in the industry in the following areas: product development‚ product replenishment‚ store assortment and promotion. These aforementioned initiatives are enabled
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Homelessness is a global tragedy that is an ongoing problem which arouses anxiety in government and civil society. There are many difficulties in defining what ‘homelessness’ really means. There has been a long debate about the definition of homelessness in Western countries (Neil & Fopp‚ 1992). Questions arise such as; how should we define people who don’t own their own accommodation but are staying temporarily with other households? Should they be labelled as homeless? This leads to the debate
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Writer: Linber LewisSchool: President’s College‚ GuyanaIf one asks the question‚ what can floods do?‚ then the following may seem like fitting answers. During the summer monsoon season‚ heavy rains cause destructive floods in Southeast Asia. In China‚ the floods of the Huang He River have been so frequent and devastating that the river is called Chinas Sorrow. Likewise in the US‚ record spring and summer rains in 1993 caused the Mississippi Rover to overflow its banks‚ flooding farms and towns from
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Insomnia Insomnia affects almost half of adults living in America. (# 8‚ 2012) This is a shared sleeping disorder that many people across the universe are diagnosed with. Several causes of insomnia include exercising too much‚ stress‚ withdrawal from alcohol or a certain drug‚ physical circumstances‚ and diseases. People with insomnia usually have trouble going to sleep or staying asleep‚ which causes people to have poor-quality sleep‚ which will affect their mood‚ energy‚ and productiveness
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This article focuses on hyperacusis is‚ how it works‚ and the different treatment approaches based on what is currently known. Hyperacusis is defined as “ unusual tolerance to ordinary environmental sounds and‚ more pejoratively ‚ as consistently exaggerated or inappropriate responses to sounds that are neither threatening nor uncomfortable loud to a typical person‚” (Baguley 2003) I learned in class that due to cochlear hearing loss caused by the loss of outer hair cells‚ patients have a smaller
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Momordica charantia The phytochemical prospection of the fresh and dried leaves extracts‚ fruits‚ seeds‚ and bark of the plant contains resins‚ alkaloids‚ flavonoids‚ glycosides‚ steroids‚ terpenes‚ cardiac glycoside‚ saponins having various medicinal importance viz. anti-HIV‚ anti-plasmodial‚ shigellocidal‚ anti-diarrheal‚ anti-septic‚ anti-bacterial‚ anti-viral‚ anti-inflammatory‚ anti-microbial‚ hypoglycemic‚ antioxidant‚ analgesic and hepatoprotective properties. PubMed.gov http://www.ncbi
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of Economic Geography Advance Access published October 23‚ 2007 Journal of Economic Geography (2007) pp. 1–18 doi:10.1093/jeg/lbm035 Global sourcing: insights from the global clothing industry—the case of Zara‚ a fast fashion retailer Nebahat Tokatli* Abstract Until recently‚ Zara‚ a major international clothing retailer and pioneer of ‘fast fashion’ principles‚ kept almost half of its production in Spain and Portugal‚ earning the reputation of being one of the exceptions to globalization
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