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Yakult Honsha Co. Ltd, a Japanese listed company that is world-renowned for manufacturing probiotic products, created Yakult (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd in February 2004. This subsidiary upholds the Yakult philosophy of promoting good health and preventing diseases through the use of probiotics.There is only oneYakult factory located in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan that produces not just for … Read more
The organization and mission and vision statements that will be discussed are from SGT (Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies), Inc. which is an aerospace services company that was founded in 1994 by Harold Stinger and Dr. Kam Ghaffarian. They are headquartered in Greenbelt, Maryland with locations throughout the country and I had the pleasure to work for … Read more
Virgin Mobile is a mobile phone company owned by the Virgin Group. The company was founded in 1999 and launched its service in the UK in 2002. Virgin Mobile offers both pay-as-you-go and contract mobile phone plans. In 2006, Virgin Mobile entered the Australian market. However, the company’s Australian operations were sold to Optus in … Read more
Hampton Machine Tool Company was established in 1915 and served aircraft and automobile manufacturers located in the St. Louis area. The company saw great success throughout the 1960s but sales declined sharply in the mid 1970s. In order to sustain their business and keep up with their competitors, they had to take out a loan … Read more
Fisher-Price is always looking ahead to the future. Our mission is to provide the best toys and products that inspire, entertain, and develop children everywhere. We aim to achieve this by creating safe, high-quality products that are innovative and spark the imagination. We are guided by our company values: respect for our consumer, teamwork, integrity, … Read more
The Zara company is known for its vertical integrated supply chain, which allows the company to bring new products to market quickly and efficiently. The company has a network of over 2,000 stores in more than 100 countries, and it relies on its supply chain to keep these stores stocked with the latest fashion trends. … Read more
Tata Motors is one of the largest automobile manufacturers in India. The company offers a wide range of vehicles, including passenger cars, trucks, buses, and more. Tata Motors has been in business for over 50 years and has a strong reputation in the industry. The company has recently been facing some challenges, however. In recent … Read more
CMR Enterprises is a publicly traded company that operates in the retail sector. The company’s revenue and price performance has been impressive in recent years, making it one of the top companies to watch in the retail space. Here is a look at the company’s key financials: – Revenue: CMR Enterprises generated $12.3 billion in … Read more
Amazon is one of the world’s largest online retailers, with over $100 billion in annual sales. The company started as an online bookstore, but has since expanded to sell a wide variety of other products, including electronics, furniture, and apparel. Amazon is also a major provider of cloud computing services. In addition to its retail … Read more
Gainesboro Machine Tools Corporation was founded in 1923. It is a publicly traded company on the stock market and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. The company produces various types of machinery and tools, including lathes, milling machines, grinders, and presses. Gainesboro’s products are used in machining operations throughout the world. The corporation has a strong … Read more
L’Oreal is a company that values ethics and virtue. Its culture revolves around these core principles, and the company strives to live up to them in everything it does. L’Oreal is committed to being a force for good in the world, and its corporate citizenship initiatives reflect this commitment. The company has been recognized for … Read more
Marketing is an important aspect of any company, and Truearth has been able to utilize marketing to build their brand and expand their business. In this case analysis, we will take a look at how Truearth has used marketing to grow their company and how they can continue to use marketing to reach new heights. … Read more
Meeting #1 The decision regarding whether Gina should continue bootstrapping her side venture Productizer, or start raising capital is one that needs to be carefully thought out. After all, bootstrapping and seeking out funding are both accompanied with a different set of benefits and drawbacks. Gina has positioned her business to where raising capital has … Read more
TJX Maxx was founded in 1976 by Bernard Cammarata, in Framingham Massachusetts. The original name of the company was Zayre until they sold their name and renamed themselves to the TJX Companies Incorporated. TJX is a retail store selling items like apparel, shoes, toys, furniture, and many other items. TJX has stores not only in … Read more
Basketball players want to be like Mike, but shoe companies want to be like NIKE. NIKE is the world’s number one shoe company and controls more than 40% of the athletic shoe market. The company designs and sells shoes for just about every sport, including baseball, volleyball, cheerleading, and wrestling. Nike doesn’t only sell athletic … Read more
On July 12, 1854 in the village of Waterville Maria Kilbourn and George Washington Eastman had a child that would change the way the world took pictures forever, and that child was George Eastman. When George was five his father sold the family nursery business and moved to Rochester where he founded the Eastman Commercial … Read more
The biggest area of expansion for Dell is the consumer market. In order to develop more sales in this market Dell needs to focus more advertising on the needs and wants of the consumer. Currently Dell promotes its direct model, which is a key factor Dell needs to create a better position for itself in … Read more
Drill-Bit Manufacturing company, Inc. wants to license its product out to Mexico. Dill-Bit should take certain steps to protect its IPR. Within the Mexico licensing agreement, Drill- Bit manufacturing should lay out what its expectations are and how they should be met. Drill-Bits success largely depends on the quality of its products. This has been … Read more
Ford Motor Company is one of the world’s largest producers of cars and trucks and one of the largest providers of automotive financial services marketing vehicles under the eight brands shown below. The Company is a publicly traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. During 2002, the company made 6.7 million vehicles and … Read more
The purpose of this report is to analyse the problems of employee motivation at Ilanco Inc. , a relatively small manufacturing company located in Montreal. For many years, this company operates in sweater production, and belongs to the section of clothing manufacturing industry. Currently, approximately 70 employees are working for the company. As many manufacturing … Read more
Gillette is leading worldwide home applicants, such as razor, battery, electronic and manual toothbrush, manufacturing company. On April 14, 1998, the company introduced the worlds first triple blades razor and begun to sell July 1, 1998 in the United States and September in the Western Europe. Since Gillette launched new razor in 1998, the company … Read more
The Coca-Cola company started out as an insignificant one man business and over the last one hundred and ten years it has grown into one of the largest companies in the world. The first operator of the company was Dr. John Pemberton and the current operator is Roberto Goizueta. Without societies help, Coca-Cola could not … Read more
Dell’s mission is to be the most successful computer company in the world at delivering the best customer experience in markets we serve. In doing so, Dell will meet customer expectations of: Individual and company accountability Best-in-class service and support Flexible customization capability Dell’s vision of excellence through quality, innovation, pricing, accountability, service and support, … Read more
Strategy is usually related and sometimes confused by people with planning. But as time course shows in the study of companies, there are different approaches of how a company can develop its strategy. Johnson, and Shcoles, in their book “Exploring Corporate Strategy” had studied the different ways that companies develop their strategy. The authors had … Read more
In early August of 1997 the United Parcel Service (UPS) had a predicament on its hands, a teamsters strike. UPS, the worlds largest package distribution company was coming off a year [1996] in which they reported sales of $22. 4 billion. UPS Employed 75,000 management and non-union employees compared with 185,000 teamsters who are part … Read more
Most of us see aviation as a means of transportation and an alternate mode of travel. Boeings businesses are clearly doing one of the things that core businesses are suppose to do. They are making lots of cash. For many years Boeing has been the leader, earning an average cash flow of a billion dollars … Read more
The organisation studied for the purpose of this investigation is Broken Hill Proprietary / Limited (B. H. P. ). B. H. P. is Australias largest company and was ranked 125th on the fortune global 500 list of the worlds largest industrial companies in 1993. The company was incorporated in 1885 and began mining silver , … Read more
Companies should examine the issues facing their industry in general and their company in particular, such as the trend to prevent cancer in the smoking industry. Companies should also look at the impacts they have on the community and region [the petrol case]. Doing these two things would keep the company fresh and familiar with … Read more
A Company like Procter and Gamble can attract the attention of any one in the whole world. It made and still makes the life of any individual much easier by providing him with reliable products that he appreciates for their superiority and their safety. Today, in Egypt, the products of Procter and Gamble have conquered … Read more
It can be argued (convincingly) that human’s usage of fossil fuels is responsible for a large part of the world’s pollution problems. The area that I will discuss is the interaction that the big oil companies have had with the environment surrounding their businesses in Alaska. I will not tackle the issue of whether it … Read more
Bombardier took on its present form in 1976 when MLW-Worthington, a manufacturer of locomotives, acquired Bombardier Ltd. , a manufacturer of snow tractors and snowmobiles. The company was renamed Bombardier Inc. in 1978. The company has been active ever since in the acquisitions of various aerospace and transportation companies around the world. Nature of the … Read more
Napster: (http://www. Napster. com) is a company that operates exclusively online as a virtual music forum. Napster not only allows its visitors the ability to participate in ongoing discussions through its message board forums and online virtual chat rooms, but it also allows its visitors the capability to exchange music files (MP3s) with other Internet … Read more
Most of us think of logistics as a one-way street. Products are manufactured, packaged, stored in a warehouse, sold, and then shipped off to the customer … end of story. Yet for many logistics managers today, that’s not the end of the story. In addition to managing outbound goods, they also are responsible for reverse … Read more
It’s not news that Sony is a global company or that (25%) of all Play Station profits’ for the past seven years came from Sony to Japan. After all that’s what international marketing and the global economy are all about, companies like Sega, Nintendo, Microsoft, X-Box doing business around the world. The global economy now … Read more
AIM Investments is a mutual fund company that is located in Houston’s Greenway Plaza. Founded by Ted Bauer in 1976, the company has grown from a handful of investors and employees to one of the leading fund companies in the United States with over 2000 employees. This paper will describe the organization’s structure, the communication … Read more
Ben and Jerrys is a successful ice cream company with many strengths and weaknesses. The company faces serious competition, financial struggles, economic and social influences, all of which are covered in my paper. I also discussed some recommendations I have for the companies success. Ben and Jerrys is one of the top ice cream companies … Read more
Napster (http://www. Napster. com) is a company that operates exclusively online as a virtual music forum. Napster not only allows its visitors the ability to participate in ongoing discussions through its message board forums and online virtual chat rooms, but it also allows its visitors the capability to exchange music files (MP3s) with other Internet … Read more
Establish Starbucks as the premier purveyor of the finest coffee in the world while maintaining our uncompromising principles as we grow. The following six guiding principles will help us measure the appropriateness of our decisions. Provide a great work environment and treat each other with respect and dignity. Embrace diversity as an essential component in … Read more
Monsantos downfall could be attributed to several reasons. The passion of Alan Shapiros vision blinded the Company into making rash decisions and the large amounts of money spent pursuing the objective prevented any U-turns later. The companys unshaken beliefs that it was correct had made it arrogant and not listen to the outrage all around. … Read more
For my strategic sports marketing project, I decided to report on the sports marketing activities of a particular corporation. I specifically wanted to report on the marketing operations of a rather diverse company; one that offers more than one product line for more than one sport. Oakley, Inc. is a company that offers several different … Read more
Limon Dance Company is the nations oldest modern-dance company. Jose Limon established Limon in 1946. In the beginning the company only survived by word of mouth but eventually grew to be one of the Nations best and well-known Modern Dance Companys. The Limon Dance Company survived with many of its original dances intact, these dances … Read more
In 1984 Ken Lay became chairman and Chief Operator of Houston Natural Gas. It quickly doubled when it bought Florida Pipeline Company. The next year in 1985 Houston Natural Gas merged Internorth Incorporation. With the merger they both combined to own around 40,000 miles of pipeline and shortly after they changed their name to Enron. … Read more
Introductions of new ideas into different cultures happens all the time. Some examples are in Africa people trying to introduce new technologies to the people there to improve the lives of the people there. Another example is how the McDonalds company is sprouting new franchises in countries all over the world. The idea of new … Read more
When people think of animated cartoons, one name immediately comes to mind “Walt Disney. ” He is the most popular and known animator in the world. He wasn’t successful at the beginning of his career but he was a taskmaker and entrepreneur. Walt’s hard work and entrepreneurship made the world’s best popular cartoon character “Mickey … Read more
When I learned that I had to write this research paper, instead of procrastinating, I convinced myself to JUST DO IT. This phrase also happens to be one of the signature phrases of the leading athletic apparel company, Nike. The JUST DO IT campaign has been very successful for Nike, but it is not he … Read more
Through a combination of tactics that many people would consider monopolistic Microsoft is now involved in almost every aspect of the computer and computer-related telecommunications markets and is emerging as a major player in Internet commerce and on-line media ventures. As of March 1997, 87% of all the software developers were actually developing the Windows … Read more
General Nutrition Companies Inc., was founded 65 years ago in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on the premise that Americans wanted to maintain control over their health. David Shakirian founded the company. In 1935 he launched a dream of his by establishing a little health food store in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He called it Lackzoom. The products that were … Read more
The Mattel Company, best known for its Barbie dolls, is the world’s largest toy maker. In March 1997, it acquired Tyco toys the third largest U. S. -based toy maker. Its product lines include Fisher-Price and Sesame Street preschool items, Disney-related products and Hot Wheel miniature vehicles. They type of industry Mattel is located under, … Read more
GreenPages, Inc. hereinafter referred to as GP is a dynamic organization that most closely fits the sociotechnical model put forth by Trist (1963) and Rice (1963) of the Tavis Institute. GP was created by Kurt Blieken in 1992 to be as he put it the most elegant company in existence today. Starting with a blank … Read more
20th Century Insurance was established in 1958 and was the first company of its kind to sell automobile insurance without a middleman, known in the industry as a broker or agent. This direct sales approach allowed 20th to offer insurance at a much lower premium than its competitors. To date, 20th Century Insurance is still … Read more
