Business
In the Business section, you can find material dedicated to all things business. This section collects data on the activities of the various companies operating in markets all over the world.
17,334 Essays on Business. Documents 2,791 - 2,820
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Chrysler Corporation
Chrysler Corporation Chrysler Corporation, one of the largest automobile and truck manufacturers in the country, entered a financial crisis in the late 1980's, early 1990's. In May, 1998, company reports indicated that the company only sold 17,713 vehicles outside of the United States, due to powerful competitors. Therefore, due to the company's lack of competitive drive globally, the company sought out sources to merge with “the largest industrial company in Germany, Daimler-Benz; this merger
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Chrysler, Gm Ford
I. Financial Performance ROE Profitability Asset Utilization Leverage NI/E = Ni/S x S/A x A/E 1983 1982 1983 1982 1983 1982 1983 1982 GM 17.90% 5.20% 5.00% 1.60% 1.63 1.45 2.20 2.26 FORD 24.70% -10.90% 4.20% -1.80% 1.86 1.68 1.96 1.60 Chrysler 51.50% 17.10% 5.30% 1.70% 1.96 1.60 4.96 6.32 1. Profitability Differences Chrysler is #1 because of greater demand for its new small front wheel drive cars. GM # 2 because of economies
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Church and Dwight
Strength: Church & Dwight have many different strengths but their main strength is brand recognition. Church & Dwight manufactures Arm & Hammer products which I believe is there strongest recognized brand product in the company. That little yellow box can be seen in millions of households across the country. This product can be used for baking, cleaning, and deodorizing. This product can also be mixed with other products to create such things as a drain
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Cigarette Ads
Cigarette ads In today’s society many people come to find themselves influenced by ads and visual aids. Many first stream companies use this greatly to their advantage. One of the biggest industries in the United States is the tobacco industry. In many cases the ads for cigarettes have been done away with due to the influence on younger kids. If one is to see a cigarette ad he/she would thing wow this is glamorous and
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Cigarette Smoking
Cigarette smoking is the greatest preventable cause of disease and premature death in the United States. Secondhand smoke causes numerous lung cancer deaths annually. Measures have been taken in both workplaces and public places to limit exposure to secondhand smoke. The economic cost of smokers to society is phenomenal. It includes monetary costs, lost workdays and shortened work lives. Many states are establishing and maintaining comprehensive tobacco-control programs to reduce tobacco use. They provide
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Cigarettes in the Product Life Cycle
Cigarettes as a “product category” are in the mature stage of the product life cycle. When referring to the product category, I am referring to the marketing territory in which a particular manufacturer’s product competes. For example, Marlboro, Camel, and Winston compete in the cigarette product category. Most products we see every day reside in the mature stage of the product life cycle. Marketers of cigarettes in the mature stage use both advertising and sales
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Cima Case
Like many family held businesses, CIMA Mountaineering, Inc. (Cima) finds itself at a strategic crossroads. After having enjoyed a whirlwind rise to success, Cima has now begun to experience a slow down in growth in revenues and profits. Faced with a substantially changed environment, Cima must decide either to remain in its present niche or to move the company into new markets. These two different alternatives are represented by two distinct proposals. One of these
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Cinco Fuerzas Que Dan Forma a La Estrategia
Cinco fuerzas que dan forma a la estrategia. Para mantener una rentabilidad a largo plazo hay que responder estratégicamente a la competencia, a la experiencia de los consumidores (que fuerzan los precios hacia abajo), proveedores poderosos (que elevan los precios), Nuevos competidores (con nuevas capacidades y que quieren ganar una porción del mercado) productos sustitutos (que alejan a los clientes). Analizando estas cinco fuerzas se puede tener una visión general de que influye en la
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Cingular and Att Merging
Cingular and AT&T/Bellsouth Merge Cingular and AT&T/Bellsouth Merge Lucretia J. Franklin University of Phoenix In the world of business, a new merger arises. The marriage of Cingular and AT&T/BellSouth springs forth with Cingular having 60% and AT&T having 40% (Cauley, 2005). The major reason given for this merger was to create a more effective and efficient provider in the wireless, broadband, video voice, and data markets. This acquisition will streamline the ownership and operations of
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Cingular's Blackberry Wireless E-Mail
This advertisement is a pure attention getter. Notice all the two thumbs up for 42 people from every color and every gender, and every age group over 18 (notice there are no children’s thumbs) the orange background reflects the colorful image of the two thumbs up of different people in terms of race, color, and attitude (some people are professionally dressed others are casual dressed) but it also reflects the color of Cingular. The first
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Cip-Community Internship Program - How Could Ups's Cip Help the Organization Improve Its Response to Diversity?
CIP-Community Internship program How could UPS's CIP help the organization improve its response to diversity? The Community Internship program helped the organization improve its response to diversity by allowing them to see exactly what goes on in poverty states and their communities. It gives them a sense of structure in understanding problems and concerns their employees face because of their race, ethnicity and cultural background. Without experiencing this crisis, UPS's management would not be able
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Circuit Board Fabricators
CBF has hired you to help determine why they are not able to produce the 1,000 boards per day. 1. What type of process flow structure is CBF using? The company is using a batch shop process flow structure. CBF, Inc. bases its board fabrication process on the average job size or on its typical order. This means that the company proceeds with the manufacturing process in batches so as to meet the specific requirements
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Circuit City Strategy
Farnaz Jafari Under the Academic Honor Code of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and on my honor as a student, I hereby certify that: 1. I have read the Academic Honor Code of the Georgia Institute of Technology 2. I understand and accept my responsibility as a member of the Georgia Tech community to uphold the Academic Honor Code at all times. 3. I have neither given nor received unauthorized aid on this submission. 4.
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Circular Flow of Income and Product
CHAPTER II Circular Flow of Income and Product (2nd Week) A closed household economy is a society's economic system in which goods are not traded. Instead, those goods are produced and consumed by the same households. In a barter economy, goods are bartered (traded against each other) without any medium of exchange such as money. The closed household economy and the barter economy are together referred to as non-monetary economies. However, goods and services are
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Circus-Circus Summary
Circus-Circus was an unprofitable business and a small time casino when William Bennett and William Pennington purchased it in 1974 for $50,000. With a new marketing program in place and a stock offering in October of 1983, the company was rejuvenated. What it has become is a hotel/casino that is targeted mainly towards middle income gamblers as well as family oriented vacationers, but has not strayed away from the high rollers that are found in
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Circus-Circus Summary
Circus-Circus was an unprofitable business and a small time casino when William Bennett and William Pennington purchased it in 1974 for $50,000. With a new marketing program in place and a stock offering in October of 1983, the company was rejuvenated. What it has become is a hotel/casino that is targeted mainly towards middle income gamblers as well as family oriented vacationers, but has not strayed away from the high rollers that are found in
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Cirque Du Soleil – the High-Wire Act of Building Sustainable Partnerships
Founded in 1984 in Quebec, the Cirque du Soleil is a traveling circus that mixes circus arts and street theater and features original music, special effects and spectacular costumes but no animal acts. Performed in one ring and exotically titled (e.g., Saltimbanco, Quidam, Varekai ), each Cirque du Soleil production centers around a unique theme and features spectacular theatrical effects by performers that are masters of clowning, stilt-walking, trapeze and other acrobatics, juggling, contortionism, mime,
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Cis 319: Computers and Information Systems - Databases in My Organization
Databases in My Organization CIS319: Computers and Information Systems Abstract Databases have been in use since the early days of computing programs. An Information Technology services company, such as Getronics, not only utilizes databases for information and record management, it earns revenue by providing database management services. Getronics uses Microsoft SQL Server 2000 as its database software. The clients that contract Getronics for Information Technology services rely and depend on the accuracy and currency of
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Cisc
HISTORY OF CISC CISC is a CPU that came about to maximize the performance of early computers. At that time computers executed instructions sequentially. The first instructions had to complete the execution cycle before the next instruction could begin. Designers combined sequences of instructions into single instructions. This reduced the amount of time spent retrieving instructions from memory, although these instructions did require multiple clock cycles to execute. Characteristics of CISC CISC used microcode to
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Cisco
Introduction Cisco systems Inc. was founded by two computer scientists at Stanford University in 1984, to develop and manufacture networking systems. There was a problem of machines on local networks not able to communicate easily with machines outside that network at the beginning, but later other problems came up as a result of expansion/growth like difficulty in control, inadequate employees. As an approach to overcome these problems, Cisco developed innovative technologies like multi-protocol routers, internet
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Cisco and Juniper Financial Analysis
In view of comparing the various accounting parameters of Cisco and Juniper, financial statements for the fiscal year 2006 are used for both the companies.  Stock Options grants: Both the Companies have adopted the Statement of financial accounting standards No. 123 (revised 2004) SFAS 123(R). This standard requires the measurement and recognition of compensation expense for all share based payment awards made to employees and directors including employee stock options and employee stock purchases
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Cisco Case Study
________________ About CISCO * Established in 1984 * Primary product was Router * In 1997 entered into elite club of fortune 500 * Among top 5 companies in return on investment and in return on assets * Exceptional growth in 1998 as companies’ market capitalization passed $100 billion mark (15 times 1997 sales) * Financial year divided into four quarters starting from 1st August IT Department at CISCO * Pete Solvik joined as CIO in
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Cisco or Crisco?
Cisco or Crisco? Cisco, one of the largest companies in the world in terms of market cap, grew with the height of the dot-com boom in the 1990s. After the IT bubble had burst in 2001, Cisco’s value decreased tremendously. However, it still maintained one of American’ leading firm in the market. Therefore, there are strengths that should be studied and weaknesses that could become a great lesson Acquisition is the most critical core competency
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Cisco Overview
Corporate Overview Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco's Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks. Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with
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Cisco Systems
COMPANY PROFILE Cisco Systems is one of the largest network communications company in the world. Cisco provides networking solutions that customers use to build a integrated information infrastructure of their own, or to connect to someone else's network. Cisco also offers an extensive range of hardware products used to form information networks, or to give them access to these networks. Cisco also has it's own software called IOS software, which provides network services and enables
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Cisco Systems
COMPANY PROFILE Cisco Systems is one of the largest network communications company in the world. Cisco provides networking solutions that customers use to build a integrated information infrastructure of their own, or to connect to someone else's network. Cisco also offers an extensive range of hardware products used to form information networks, or to give them access to these networks. Cisco also has it's own software called IOS software, which provides network services and enables
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Cisco Systems Case Study
COMPANY PROFILE Cisco Systems is one of the largest network communications company in the world. Cisco provides networking solutions that customers use to build a integrated information infrastructure of their own, or to connect to someone else’s network. Cisco also offers an extensive range of hardware products used to form information networks, or to give them access to these networks. Cisco also has it’s own software called IOS software, which provides network services and enables
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Cisco Systems Inc.: Implementing Erp
Table of Contents Introduction 2 ERP Implementation Process 3 Implementation Obstacles 8 Implementation Success Level Analysis 9 Suggestions for Improvement 10 Conclusion 10 References 12 Appendix 14 Introduction To be successful in today's competitive and continuous evolving information technology (IT) market companies must be able to utilise their skills, information and knowledge to the highest efficiency level possible. Utilisation of and control over these factors will aid companies in acquiring and maintaining competitive advantages over
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Citadel Case Study
Nothing is perfect. The society we live in today is no exception. We as humans have different ideas on what it will take to make a great society. If asked, we might describe a society that emulates our upbringing. Like the values we grew up with and ideas we have been exposed to. If this so why don't we live in a society similar to the one we would describe? Society doesn't happen overnight it
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Citi Bank N.A and Pay Link Service to Customer
1. Introduction 1.1 Objective: The main purpose of the study was to compare the theoretical knowledge with practical scenario. It was to help us to understand the basics of Operational design and process analysis as well as apply those concepts in reality. To gather a more hands-on experience, we conducted process analysis on the process followed by Citibank, N.A. to provide pay link service to its customers. 1.2 Goal of the Project: The goal of
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