...A Case study On PepsiCo Burma connection Executive summary: The case mentions about how PepsiCo had to withdraw all its assets from Burma despite the fact that they were doing very well in this country. In July 1988, decline in economic conditions led to large-scale and bloody rioting in cities in Burma. In Sept 1988, the army under General U.Saw Maung replaced the Government with the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), a group of military officers. In 1990, SLORC proposed a new government and allowed free elections with the confidence that it would win, but 80% of the seats were won by the civilian opposition party led by Suu Kyi. But it refused to turn over the power to the civilian government. It outlawed the opposition party, and arrested its leaders including Suu Kyi. It invited foreign private investors and companies to invest in Burma to restore the economy. Pepsi Co responded favourably to the invitations of SLORC and other companies from US also started doing business in Burma. In 1991, Pepsi Co decided to enter a joint venture with Myanmar Golden Star Co, a Burmese owned company by Burmese businessmen named Thein Tun. Myanmar Golden Star would own 60 percent of the venture. This included setting up a bottling plant with 10 year licence to bottle and distributes PepsiCo-owned products in Burma, including Pepsi Cola, 7 up, and Miranda soft drinks. US department of State accused SLORC of numerous human rights. Citizens continued to...
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...Business Case Study: Siam Canadian Food Co., Ltd [pic] By 510009196 Introduction of the Company : SIAM Canadian Foods, founded and managed by Jim Gulkin, is a Bangkok-based Canadian-owned company that has been involved in the seafood brokerage business for almost 10 years. It was started in April 1987 after Canadian Jim Gulkin quit his job in the oil industry and invested his life saving of Cdn$130,000 in the business. When first starting out , Gulkin was total inexperienced in the food brokering business. SC’s role as a food broker was to indentify overseas customers, usually food importers, and negotiate sales with them on behalf of food processors in Thailand. Siam deals with an extensive assortment of frozen, canned, and dehydrated products that include: frozen seafood, frozen poultry, canned and frozen fruit, canned and frozen vegetables, dehydrated fruit, and, lastly, juice concentrates. The company was founded in April, 1987 and first achieved profitability in 1991, and has continued to be profitable ever since. That same year Jim Gulkin’s exporting operations have expanded to Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh City. In 1991, Gulkin opened up new representative office in Vietnam with the help of Philippe Vo. Earned an average commission revenue of 1.25% on sales contracts, usually denominated in US dollars. Problem Statement: a) Jim Gulkin's dilemma to invest in Burma: Jim Gulkin, the founder and managing director of Siam...
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...Unocal in Burma Charles L Currier ETH 316 September 8, 2014 John Bevell Unocal in Burma What is the moral responsibility of all participants? Burmese Government /Military: The moral responsibility of this Government / Military should be to make sure that their countrymen are compensated for the work that they do. Sense the hard labor is done by the Burmese people then their Government should hold Unocal responsible for paying them a daily wage for the work that they do. Unocal: Moral responsibility of Unocal is to take the responsibility to do research on the said territory and could choose not to go into an impoverished country where the Government / Military have no regard for the rights of humanity. Choosing to continue embarking on business agreements with impoverished counties without doing the proper research is unethical and immoral, and can show how a company can continue turning a blind eye to make a profit. What are the stakeholders' moral failings? The moral failings of the Burmese Government / Military, and Unocal are that they hold no regard for the Burmese people. Value, Virtue, nor ethics are being used here; it is an exploitation of a people. There is no one being held accountable for their actions. Unocal puts up a good front for special visitors, even though the United States State Department released findings that state differently about what is going on in Burma. What ideals or obligations are in conflict? The ideals and...
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...While reading this case, “Unocal in Burma”, I thought that there were human rights issues but there were also situations that I thought might have been beneficial to the residents. There were improvements in the country due to the companies that decided to invest in the Yadana project. I will analyze four approaches namely, utilitarian, rights, justice and caring and discuss my point of view in relation to the case. Firstly, let us take a look at utilitarian approach in connection to Unocal and its Partners decision to invest in the Yadana Field project. Burma is a poor country and has been dealing with poverty for years now. Unocal and the other companies see that if they invest in this project there will be benefits for the companies but also for the people of Burma as well. Although it may be dangerous to transport gas above the ocean in a region where people live, the bigger picture would be how much people will be affected directed or if any at all verses how much revenue this would generate for the country along with benefits. This might be tricky since it is not possible to put a value or cost on someone’s life. Hence the greatest sum total of utility would be the revenue generated from the project allowing the government of the country fifteen percent of the stake, employment for the Burmese, improved health care, improvement in education, small business opportunities and new transportation infrastructure along with the profits for the company. Everyone has gained something...
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...* Investing in Myanmar (Burma) can be very lucrative with such a diverse range of business opportunities. With the Country extending from the snow-capped mountains of the Himalayas to the tropical forests of the south Myanmar has much to offer the investor ~ and never have the opportunities been better than right now as the country is on the verge of great development... * The 2013/2014 season was the busiest ever for visitors to Myanmar and now is the best time to invest in the travel industry: the hospitality industry is presently in its infancy and with so much to offer the tourist Myanmar stands ready to become the prominent player in the region. The weather varies considerably from North to South and it's possible to develop skiing in the North and Scuba Diving in the South !! The seasons are generally consistent, with the winter being cool and sunny; in the mountainous areas, which comprise much of Myanmar, the temperatures can be very cool indeed in the winter. Presently scope exists for the development of accommodation in many areas including Yangon, Bagan, Mandalay and Ngapali Beach: as tourism expands, as it assuredly will, additional hotels will be required throughout the country. * Investment Opportunities in the wood industry: Myanmar has an ECO forestry policy resulting in sustainable supplies of many hardwoods including Teakwood, Yamane and Padauk. Bamboo and Cane are also very plentiful. * Investment Opportunities in Farming: much of the countryside is farmed...
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...1.0 Introduction Arnott’s is an icon in Austalia. Million of Australians have known about Arnott’s for 146 years. For Australian, Arnott’s is more than a food company, but Arnott’s is part of Australia history and national icon. Arnott’s manufacture biscuit and crackers, it require ingredients such as flour, butter, and sugar. (Arnott’s Biscuit 2011) Manufacturing Arnott’s products into Myanmar can be operating by exported the final goods from Australia, or build industry that produce Arnott’s products. 2.0 Political Environment 2.1 Government Stability Myanmar was formerly known as Burma and has been under military rule since 1962. Junta was formed in 1988, discarding the result of a democratic parliamentary election in 1990 which was won by the party led by Aung San Suu Kyi. Since taking office in March 2011, the new President, U Thein Sein, has signaled a sharp break from a very centralized policy and erratic in the past. Mr Thein Sein now has to rewrite the laws on taxation and ownership of property and consider loosening restrictions on the media. (The New York Times 2011) 2.2 Government and Contribution Myanmar is special footing because of the strategic and geopolitics, especially access to the Indian Ocean. China’s use hydro power projects, mining, and gas in myanmar more than 62 quantity. (South Asia Analysis Group 2011) Friendliness toward foreign investment in Myanmar is great in agriculture. The Union of Myanmar Foreign investment law was promulgated in...
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... Target geographic area Infrastructure construction is expected to have the fast growth, especially, in capial town like Yangon ,as the government of Myanmar is now concerning for infrastructure development to support the country’s economic growth. Myanmar is planning one more new hotel zone in Yangon, to cope with growing prospective visitors. It is expected to be constructed along with the project of the Hanthawaddy Airport. Furthermore, 2014 Asian Summit will be held in Myanmar, the demand for hotel and land has started rising in cities such as Yangon in preparation for supporting foreign investors and tourists to the country. These all are a huge opportunities to growing cement business in Myanmar. Analysis: Discuss how geographic environment could have impact on your business operations Myanmar's roadways are not easily access by cars, but by jeeps or ox carts. The railways aren't much good for transportation. There are about 2,000 miles of track, but they don't connect with railways outside of Myanmar, only with major...
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...BN2004/0601 Briefing note: IT IS TIME TO ACT ON BURMA 2 SHOULD THE SPDC BE ALLOWED TO GET AWAY WITH LIES? Patience & Flexibility 3 WHY ACT NOW? SPDC’s Broken Promises Lack of Democratic Progress Continuing Human Rights Abuses Releases from international pressure Security Concerns, Military Threat 4 PRESSURE WORKS Archbishop Desmond Tutu Daw Aung San Suu Kyi U Lwin, NLD Spokesman Asian Activists Malaysian Parliamentarians Sen. John McCain & HE Madeline Albright Sanctions Take Time Engagement is not working 6 WHAT THE REGIME IS BEING URGED TO DO 6 WHAT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY CAN DO 6 A BAN ON FINANCIAL REMITTANCES – THE PRACTICAL OPTION 7 A LIFELINE FOR THE DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT 7 A NON-VIOLENT BARGAINING CHIP 8 TAKING AIM AT SPDC’S ECONOMIC LIFELINES 9 CREATING DOMESTIC PRESSURE FOR CHANGE Undermining Moderates? 10 INSTIGATING REGIONAL ACTION 11 SPDC – FEIGNING REFORM & ROLLING OUT THE CHARM 11 DAMPENING EFFORTS Relabeling Enabling Remittances Business Diplomacy 13 SANCTIONS & SEX WORK Burma’s biggest pimp Increasing since 1988 Jumping the Gun Low Factory Wages Insufficient evidence Numbers of job losses disputed Job losses from capital flight Reforms needed 14 PEOPLE OF BURMA SUPPORT SANCTIONS 15 PREDICTIONS : Brief Chronology of ‘Predictions’ by the Thai Government 17 RECENT ARMS&...
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...Task 1 Creating a Family Business My family and I have decided to open a tea shop in Yangon. However, saying it is easy but making it happens is hard. Creating a business in the real business world is not as simple as people have thought. There are a lot of factors that need to be put into consideration. Financial standpoint, location, same business competitors, consumers, market demand and also, organizational structure of the organization that wanted to be set up should be carefully considered, researched and set goals to realize it as an organization. An organization should be looking the same goal and mission. Only then, a business would stand out among the competitors and be at the top of the market. Thus, in this paper, the plans and the factors that should be considered to open a family business will be presented in terms of organizational structure, stake holding personnel and policies of the country to operate the business. Organizational Goal, Values, Vision and Mission For the family business to be able to survive and sustain itself in the market, we need to set goals and missions for the organization to realize and carry it out. It is important that every person in the organization is working towards the same goal to be able to succeed as an organization. Without a goal, the organization will not be able to thrive forward. The employee within the organization will not be sure what to do. They might be heading in different directions and goals. Then, the organization...
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...of his school’s unfairness towards the poorer students he stuck his heads in books and sooner than later graduated. When graduated Orwell family did not have enough money to pay for a university thus Orwell joined India Imperial Police Force in 1922. Orwell living in Burma was a significant time for the understanding of social class and imperial rule. By experiencing discrimination in school and now holding power of Burmese gave Orwell a chance to analyze social structure in political matters. Exposed to executions and other developments of imperialism Orwell altered his views on imperialism therefore making Burma a point of change for Orwell. By experiencing discrimination in school and now holding power of Burmese gave Orwell a chance to analyze social structure in political matters. While hatred developed for the British Government upon the Burmese Orwell was as well developing his opinions on what sooner becomes his platform of releasing his opinion of similar governments. Burma was the development of an extensive political resume of experience shared in literature allowing work like, “Shooting an Elephant” to expose the truth behind the structure of imperialism in cultures. Disgusted with policing in Burma, Orwell hit a dead end when he fought in the Spanish Civil War. When joined Republican militia Orwell explains how it was, “impossible to fight for any side without recognizing it as an unjustifiable tyranny.” Understanding how Americans, the British, and Communists fighting...
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...Executive Summary Myanmar, the last frontier of Asia. With abundance of untapped natural resources and potential growth is the key to her future success. The recent signed “Telecommunication Law” makes Myanmar the last few untouched telecommunication markets in the world. Although sadden with poor infrastructure, the country will be abled to leverage on the “Telecommunication Law” to bring potential growth to other sectors. Although the country is seem as corrupted and with Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) at rank 156th out of 175 countries, President Thein Sein has made many political reforms to improve the governing situation. Overseas investors are starting to gain confidence and build their businesses in Myanmar. Myanmars main exporting commodities includes natural gas, wood products, pulses, beans, fish, pulses rice, gems, jade and clothings. And its mainly being exported to Thailand,India, China and Japan . The opening of Japan's Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) is a new milestone achieved as it is the first foreign bank to operate in Myanmar for decades. In this report, we will analyse Myanmar’s recent developments and its new found global and evalute how Myanmar should prioritise over the next 5 years. Table of content 1 Introduction 5 2 Myanmar’s recent developments and its new found global status 6 3 Analysis of Myanmar 7 a. Political 7 i. Politics and issues 7 ii. Corruption 7 b...
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...The Summary of "Shooting an Elephant" George Orwell, in the essay, narrated the whole process of killing an outrageous elephant when he was in the post of a police officer in Burma. (One kernel that I have to mention, because it is important for proper understanding of the essay, is that he held the ambivalent feeling for the Burmese. For one thing, he extremely hated the Thyestean imperialism. Second, he was furious about the yellow-faced, evil-spirited Burmese.) One day, he was informed that an elephant which had obviously lost control under the attack of "must" was ravaging a bazaar, and there was only one felicitous thing to do--stop it at once lest more damage or injury occur. He sent for a rifle, rode on a pony and was on the way to have the elephant that had done great crabbing to public properties, even revitalization. Without much effort, George, along with a big crowd of people, found the elephant, which was peacefully eating like a cow, showing no signs or symptoms of "must." It was clear that George ought not to shoot the elephant. Instead, the mahout should be called for to take it back to the chain it was behooved to belong to. But the crowd behind just would not agree. They were gleeful and anxious to see the elephant having committed felonies get shot. If the gunshot was not fired, it would be jeering and sneering, which would definitely produce more execution than the trample of the prodigious foot...
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...Question 1(a): Write a detailed account of the Burma Road Riot in Nassau, Bahamas. In the 1940s, World War II was still happening. The Americans and British wanted to set up bases in West Indian islands, and this included New Providence, Bahamas. A riot came about by the labor dispute amongst the Bahamian workers. They were dissatisfied with the wages they were receiving and decided to address the government about it, but they only received placation from them. During this point, one of the intrepid workers had uttered the words, ‘’Ise a Man’’, for the whites addressed the black workers as ‘boy’. Because of this, the blacks eyes began to open, and this point in history led to the Burma Road Riot. So they rioted and acted amongst themselves. So during the time on June 1st and 2nd, 1942, the riot went on. During the time of World War II, the Americans wanted to build their bases on the island of New Providence. This was known as ‘The Project’, and it would employ over 2,000 Bahamians. People from both New Providence and the outer islands, had flocked to Nassau to be employed on this project. They were looking forward to the high wages that were usually brought along with foreign projects. But their disappointment was evident because they were paid lower than expected. But not only that, the laborers were also angry because the Americans were biased with their pay. The Americans who worked along with them, and did the same jobs as them, were paid higher. The laborers were...
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...Socialisation &Feral Children Summary In this lecture we learned about socialisation and Wild or Feral children. The class started off with a question asking what we believed feral children were and what we thought socialisation consisted of. It seemed apparent that about half of the class were aware of what feral children were with the majority having an idea of what socialisation is. To explain to the class fully we were more than told what the meaning was but also shown videos to show the extent of the meaning. We learned that feral children we raised with no or minimal human interaction which resulted in them growing up basically alienated from human culture or lacking in socialisation skills. The video clips we watched showed harrowing examples of stories about feral children. For instance Oxana a girl from the Ukraine who lived for years with a pack of wild dog, the video clip showed her on all fours acting like a dog. We also learned of girl called Genie who was held captive alone in a dark room from the age of 1 to 13 by her father. She rarely saw other human beings and was spoon fed soft food which she could barely survive on. When she was discovered she could not walk, talk or stand up and was not toilet trained. We then discussed how once she was rescued how she struggled to adapt to socialisation and now lives in sheltered accommodation. There were numerous other examples given with the authenticity of some open to debate but all came back to the same point...
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...(Useem 2014). It is a complex system as well as who possesses the power, the government effects on the country economy and the evolved people, and ways of dealing with the unsustainable religious problems (Heywood 2012). Benefit * US’s open investment policies is none as the largest economy in the world (Cullingworth and Caves 2013). Undeniably. The US is giant power and energetically have a strong support for the free trading (Odell 2014). It is one of the freest market in the world (Caruso, Vohs et al. 2013). (Appendix 2) * Because of the solid democratic system of the United States government, it has one of the most attractive business and investment environment for FDI (Vadlamannati 2012). (Appendix 3)The United States is ranked as fourth compare 185 countries in the ease of doing business terms, since it has the most clear business regulations (Bank 2015). Moreover, USA has better FDI regulatory restrictiveness (Appendix 4). * The United States has prosperous free market with a essentially stable political system infrastructure which advantage the wealth with an opportunities for FDI (Wald and Calhoun-Brown 2014). Mainly, more freedom rising voice and answerability, fighting corruption, government efficiency, regulation excellence and the government research programs in improving the attraction of FDI (Franco 2013). Risks * There are a noticeable rising in socioeconomic inequalities. That would increase the anger, which will lead to social conflict. In addition...
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