Finding a new location for an Armani store - in a Hotel

Finding the right location for a luxury fashion brand is one of the most important elements of a successful business operation. Giorgio Armani produces high price clothes for women and men; therefore the location of a new store is fundamental for a high number of sales. A store such as Armani would be located in a busy, luxury hotel such as Hotel Kempinski. Due to the fact Kempinski is a five star luxury brand; the image of the hotel guarantees the ongoing visitor occupancy, leading all stores inside the lobby to run successful businesses. An expensive hotel usually drives people of higher social classes to enjoy their services, so it can be highly assumed that those who have respect for quality will also buy clothes from Armani.

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FINANCIAL MOTIVE OF ATTOCK CEMENT PAKISTAN LIMITED (ACPL)

Cement is one of major industries of Pakistan. Pakistan is rich in cement raw material. Currently many cement plants are operating in private sector. Pakistan Cement Industry has huge potential for export of cement to neighbouring countries like India, U.A.E, Afghanistan, Iraq & Russian States. There has been a robust growth of cement demand seen both in domestic and exports market during the financial year ended June 30, 2007. The industry achieved an overall growth of 32% with domestic demand of cement increased by 24.95% whereas the exports increased by 111.86%. The overall growth achieved by many cement factories for the year under review was 111.29% consisting of domestic and export markets at 71.02% and 335.12% respectively.

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Different views of globalization

Globalization is one of the developments in the world that can not be avoided. It is true that as human beings, we are living in a world which is full transformations which in the real situations affects our lives from the food we eat to the interactions with other people. The whole world is currently being propelled into an order which is global which is not fully understood by any of us as human beings but the effects of this are felt to a large extend by us. Globalization is one of the components of this world which has fully found its way in the current century. It is rooting itself firmly in the world that in everything being done, there must be an aspect of globalization.

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Expatriate compensation

The research on expatriate compensation has been scarce although many other aspects related to international transfers have been dealt with quite frequently (Briscoe, 1995: 128). Bonache and Fernandez (1997: 457) state that compensation is the aspect of expatriation which has received least attention (see also Suutari and Tornikoski, 2000). On the other hand, expatriate compensation is a complex issue both for individual expatriates and for international companies. Hamill (1989: 26) states that the compensation package is one of the most difficult elements in expatriate policy. The complexity is linked to the diversity of the goals, which should be taken into account in the development of international compensation policies and practices, as will be discussed later. 

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Feasibility by assessing the opportunities

For this report we have analysed Joost, who is a online video provider. We reviewed the background and potential opportunities which this firm has. Joost is a US-based website started by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom with an initial focus to deliver online TV by using peer-to-peer (P2P) distribution technology in 2007. In 24 November 2009, Joost was acquired by Adconion Media Group after its failure to capture the market with competition from other providers like Youtube and Hulu.

The objective of this project is to evaluate the feasibility by assessing the opportunities, for the Venture Capitalists to invest with the available information.

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Ethics in the Gambling Industry

There is little doubt that legalized commercial gambling is now "big business" in many countries, providing a range of economic benefits such as increased government revenue, regional economic development and job creation. However, it is equally recognized that gambling has a range of negative social impacts, with problem gambling arguably attracting the most vocal concern. A significant business issue now facing many gambling providers is growing pressure from a range of stakeholders to adopt more ethical practices in their gambling operations to prevent or minimize problem gambling and its harmful effects (Hing, 2001).

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Event Relationships in the Digital Economy

This report concludes that online marketing should be incorporated into a companies integrated events marketing communications strategy from the planning stage to prevent a dislocated campaign. To further this end the report thus aims to explore prove why companies should opt for online event relationship management to compliment traditional marketing activities for events and that whether the use of Internet could infact add value to the entire process of event relationship management.

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Everyone is an entrepreneur

Baron's (2002) definition of entrepreneurship indicates that entrepreneurship involves a complex process in which specific individuals recognize opportunities and then act to convert them into tangible economic benefits by setting up a new business. This corresponds with Schumpeter's (1934, from: Elliot, 1983) early definition of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs. He states that an enterprise is "a carrying out of new combinations" and entrepreneurs are the individuals whose function it is to "carry them out". According to Schumpeter everyone is an entrepreneur only when he is actually "carrying out new combinations, and he loses that character as soon as he built up his business.

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Employee Relations: Trade Unions & HRM

Employee relations are critical to the success of the organisation. Good communication channels need to be in place for information flow between employers and employees. This holds true for both small and large organisations. In large organisations, there are legal rules in place to engage employee representatives. Employee representation could be in the form of trade unions, works councils, joint working groups and ad-hoc groups. In small companies, the emphasis is on direct communication between employer and employees. Small firms do not require elaborate representational systems and the legal framework excludes them from laws to consult with worker representatives in some cases.

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Critical evaluation of the international strategy of Procter & Gamble

This report is mainly focused on the critical evaluation of one of the leading companies in the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturing industry, named Procter & Gamble. The report has looked upon the globalisation drivers of the company and the industry within the micro and macro environment of the company. In addition, it also looks at the internationalisation process of the company related which specifically looks at the company's core competencies, value chain analysis , company structure and SWOT analysis. It is then compared with the financial performance of the company.

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Buyer behaviour

The task of marketing is to identify consumers' needs and wants accurately, then to develop products and services that will satisfy them. For marketing to be successful, it is not sufficient to merely discover what customers require, but to find out why it is required. Only by gaining a deep and comprehensive understanding of buyer behaviour can marketing's goals be realised. Such an understanding of buyer behaviour works to the mutual advantage of the consumer and marketer, allowing the marketer to become better equipped to satisfy the consumer's needs efficiently and establish a loyal group of customers with positive attitudes towards the company's products.

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Employees' Motivation

Employees' motivation is "The heart of giving the people what they really want most from work" (Dell, 1988, pp. 9-10). The more you are able to provide what they want, the more you should expect what you really want, namely: productivity, quality, and service. Jones and George (2010, p. 17) argue that employees' motivation consist "the psychological forces that determine the direction of a person's behaviour in an organisation, a person's level of effort, and a person's level of persistence." The behavioural direction of a person is described as "the many possible behaviours that a person could engage in." Effort indicates how hard people work. Persistence on the other hand refers to whether, when dealing with roadblocks and obstacles, employees keep trying or give up.

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Erp, bpr and organizational culture questionnaire

I am currently doing a study on the impact of enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation on business process reengineering (BPR) and organizational culture in the United Nations. This study will attempt to measure the impact on BPR and organization's culture using an ERP, BPR and cultural values questionnaire, then find the link between ERP and/or BPR implementation projects and organization's culture in the United Nations.

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Ethical Issues in Marketing

This report aims to describe, how ethical issues can affect each component of the marketing mix. The report starts of by introduction to the ethics in an organisation and the importance of business ethics in the society. The report also examines the various factors which have a impact on the ethical nature of the marketing decisions. Two well-known companies have been taken into account for better understanding and demonstration of the discussion.

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Equality and Discrimination

Every democratic country's laws and constitution, have inherent in it somewhere or the other, a law that entitles all of its citizens to be given free and equal treatment. From United Kingdom to Nigeria, or from one of the world's largest democracy India, to Australia. All countries guarantee to its citizens the right against discrimination.

Gilmore and Williams (2009) define discrimination as the means to distinguish between one thing and another. In terms of people, to discriminate means to choose one person over another based on something that is irrelevant. This discrimination can be on grounds of age, sex, marital status, gender, race, religion, belief, sexual orientation etc.

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Employee Development

«HRD consists of organized learning experiences provided to employers, within a specified period of time, to bring about the possibility of performance improvement and/or personal growth». This definition of HRD by Nadler explains perfectly the need for Training and Development in a business as well as for its employees. Indeed, all staff, from the lowest levels of hierarchy up to the CEO needs to develop their skills, abilities and methods of working in order to be able to solve the everyday, constantly changing problems that arise during their work.

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Environmental Review for Al Jubail City

Core purpose of conducting the environmental review is to explain the organisation's impact on its pertaining environment and the needed action required by the organisation for maintaining the environmental standards. Environmental review also increases the awareness within the organisation about hazardous environmental issues. Management system for environment is best illustrated and introduced by the environmental review.

Environmental review starts with the flow and efficient usage of energy, waste, transport and water.

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Environment of business

In the present situation, the environment of business is greatly affected by variability and uncertainty and due to it's continues changing environment, companies are experiencing huge competitive challenge. In this critical environment of competiveness, it is widely accepted and proved that Information technology acts as an important component in maintaining sustainability and a vital factor for competitive advantage. In the present economic conditions, it is recognized that effective use information systems and technologies is essential for survival and profitability of the organization.

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Effective communication for business organizations

Business organizations, like other social systems, require effective communication in order to operate efficiently and meet their objectives. Intercultural communication is a communication process in which people from different cultures try to understand what others from different cultures try to communicate and what their messages mean (Ferraro 2010). The two major components of Intercultural communication are made up of verbal communication and non verbal communication. To ensure that effective cross-cultural communication occurs, is it more important to address issues and problems with respect to both verbal and nonverbal communication. It is important that both verbal and nonverbal communication contributes to effective cross cultural communication as they both complement each other to portray a complete message.

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E-commerce businesses

E-commerce businesses were riding on a wave of fast growth till 2007 when the sales grew 18% YoY. Sales growth slowed to 13% in 2008 and is expected to slow down further to about 10% in 2009. This growth has come in spite of the global economic crisis, and is a clear indication of the strength of e-commerce.

E-commerce websites have been growing by double digits over the last few years. The economic recession has slowed down the growth, but sales are still rising, contrary to the falling sales of brick and mortar stores. 

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