...Unhealthy Lunches By Christine Zimmerman Business Law and Corporate Ethics | BUS212 A01 Instructor: Douglas Wert July 22, 2012 One can drive down any street in America and find all types of fast food style restaurants. We are all familiar with those top named facilities. The task of finding a child and/or adult who doesn’t know the chains of Burger King, Wendy’s, Taco Bell, KFC, or McDonald’s would be a hard task to accomplish. The question at hand is how often do we all eat at these establishments? It has been proven over and over that the more often someone, regardless of hereditary, race, if you are an adult or child, or stature, if you make unhealthy eating choices on a daily basis, you will become obese. Parents should teach their children about healthy choices. Exercise and nutrition are an important part of one’s lifestyle. I stop and think how every new mother buys baby food such as carrots, peas, squash, grain cereal, and various fruits for their infant. However, by the time a child reaches the age of 3 or 4, most know what a McDonald’s chicken nugget and French fries are. A few years ago, we could have included school lunches in this unhealthy choice category. Government and U.S. Department of Agriculture are still working vigorously to bring school lunches to a healthier standard. On top of working with schools to incorporate healthy choices and nutrition, contracting with Drive-In Don’s fast food restaurant who sells the most delicious burgers in town at the most...
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...serve Real food straight from farm to the fork. All the vegetables come straight from garden market, bread from their bakery and cheese, milk and yoghurt from the creamery. All the products comes from artisan suppliers and maintains the same quality and sustainability. All the work is complete transparent and everyone is welcome to visit the farm and take a look at how the animals are kept, where the vegetables are grown etc. 2.Potential Market segment The increasing importance of health and the impact that food production has on the environment and consumer food choice is well documented in the literature (Jolly et al., 1989; Jordan and Elnagheeb, 1991) The United States is both a major exporter and importer of agricultural With this the United States is also expanding in the field of organic food. As people want to consume natural and organic food as they are concerned about the exposure to toxins found in non-organic food Demand for Organic food has been grown by 20 % annually and experts suggest that the industry share for the food market of U.S is expected to grow from about 2 % to 3.5 % by the end of the decade. United States has seen sales for organic food growing since year 2000. Organic food sales generated around 31.32 billion dollars. American farmers have also made transition to organic food production on about 2.3 million acres of land, according to the UDSA's Economic Recourse Service. The purpose of this report is to target the use of organic food in local...
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...Corporate Marketing Ethics and its Relative Importance Vivek Parashar Lecturer of Marketing Center for Management Development (CMD) Dr. K.N Modi Foundation Modinagar – 201204 Email id- vparashar.edu@rediffmail.com vparashar@in.com Mob: 08899080891 |Abstract | |Markets present a clash of interest between various players. There is competition for resources, customers and price etc, which breeds ground| |for activities that may not get ethical sanctions. A certain code of conduct, policies and practices called ethics are required to manage | |markets and marketing. | |Marketing is the heart of all businesses and all other functions depend upon the same for keeping the business moving. It is one business | |function that interacts the most with markets, in fact markets are meant to sell and they exist only when they sell! In such a scenario there| |are bound to be multiple players and a clash is inevitable. Such clash leads to malpractices like hoarding, price competitions, brand wars | |and use of unfair tactics, which is precisely where marketing ethics come into play. | |It is important when addressing marketing ethics to recognize that...
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...January 1, 2012 8:52 PM Chapter 44 Lecture Note # 1 by Spring Walton Note edited by Spring Walton on 01/03/2012 08:07PM Chapter 44 Consumer Protection I. Introduction Consumer law issues include those of contracts (including UCC sales), torts, crimes, and product liability, often acting as a backup to the failures and shortcomings of those other areas of the law. All of them provide some measure of consumer protection, yet none stand alone as being complete. They are interdependent and, as such, students must be aware of the big picture of consumer protection. This chapter covers the fourth major set of venues within a quadripartite of remedies available to a wronged or injured consumer. First, there is criminal law. Victims of consumer fraud and similar offenses have always been able to seek state-supported sanctions against wrongdoers. This venue may provide some ephemeral satisfaction for the victim and may even, at least temporarily, protect society from further harm. But criminal law does not truly make the victim whole. As a matter of fact, most of the miscreants convicted of consumer fraud are also judgment proof, i.e., they have no assets from which civil judgments can be satisfied. The second area of consumer protection is found in tort law and the permutations of intentional tort, negligence tort, and strict liability. These remedies can and do provide meaningful substance to civil correction of wrongdoing...
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...1. Why is sustainable marketing important? Sustainable marketing is “socially and environmentally responsible marketing that meets the present needs of consumers and businesses while also preserving or enhancing the ability of future generations to meet their needs.” Businesses prosper from day to day by determining the current needs and wants of their target group customers and by fulfilling those needs and wants more effectively and efficiently as their competitors can. This is recognized by the marketing concept, along with focusing on meeting the company’s short-term sales, growth, and profit needs by giving the company’s customers what they want when they want it. Satisfying consumers' immediate needs and desires isn’t always in the best interests of either customers or the business. For example, a company may start out with an idea that satisfies what its customers are asking for, for it in turn cause its customers to believe the company is causing more harm to their health, the environment, or any other causes. This in turn can cause a loss in the company’s profits forcing the company to develop another strategy for running its business. The societal marketing concept takes into account the future welfare of its consumers and the strategic planning concept considers the company's future needs, the sustainable marketing concept considers both the consumers and company’s future welfare; this calls for socially and environmentally responsible actions that meet both the...
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...Corporate Responsibility Report | 2008 “Bringing Our Best To You” For more than 100 years, corporate responsibility has been at the foundation of Kellogg Company and a key part of our heritage and culture. We are pleased to share this report with you. It provides an overview of our corporate responsibility approach, priorities and targets, as well as a baseline performance review in several key areas. Welcome Welcome to Kellogg’s first global Corporate Responsibility Report. We hope this report provides information useful to our stakeholders, including our consumers, employees, customers, investors, business partners, community members, and governmental and nongovernmental organizations. We plan to publish a corporate responsibility report on an annual basis, expanding and improving upon this first effort. Data in this report are for 2007 except as noted. Although the report focuses primarily on calendar year 2007, it includes discussion of some 2008 events that were particularly relevant to our corporate responsibility strategy. The report covers Kellogg’s wholly and majority-owned operations, and complements other information about Kellogg available on our company Web site (www.kelloggcompany.com) and our nutrition Web site (www.kelloggnutrition.com). As part of our strategic focus to pursue selective growth opportunities, we have recently acquired several new businesses around the world. Those acquisitions are being integrated into our company, and we intend...
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...A. Compliance Status When a patient checks into Nightingale Community Hospitals they believe the hospital will put there care first and provide quality medicine. Looking at the recent compliance reports there are areas of patient care this hospital needs to improve in. Reporting critical results within 60 minutes, labeling medication containers and reactions with anticoagulation therap.0y are areas that this hospital needs to improve upon. Improving these areas would be just one step toward increasing patient care and satisfaction at this hospital. There are three areas to focus on that Nightingale Community Hospital is not in compliance with according to the Joint Commission standards. These areas are reporting critical results within 60 minutes, labeling medication containers and relations with anticoagulation therapy. One is in reporting of critical results hospital-wide. The survey results showed the hospital’s average in regards to reporting critical results within 60 minutes was 70% of the time. In the survey there were only three months August, October and December, where the hospital scored in the 80% or higher range. All other months they scored between 56% and 78%. To be in the Joint Commission standards the hospital’s scores should be in the 100% range. The Joint Commission survey results showed that three of the staff nurses that were interviewed indicated the leaders had not effectively communicated to the nursing staff Nightingales reporting policy. (The...
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...------------------------------------------------- ethical AND UNETHICAL practices of pepsi Class: BBA Hon’s Semester: 6th Topic: Ethical and unethical conduct of pepsi in different countries Submitted to: Madam Mehwish Name of Participant: Mubashir Irshad Safeer Hashim Usama Fiyyaz Shahriyar Shahid ACKNOWLEDGMENT Alhamdulillah first and foremost, we would like to thank God as finally we were able to finish our assignment. Secondly we would like to thank to our supervisor of this assignment, Sir Mehwish for the valuable guidance and advice. He inspired us greatly to work in this assignment. His willingness to motivate us contributed tremendously to our assignment. We also would like to thank him for showing us some example that related to the topic of our assignment. This research assignment would not have been possible without the support of many people especially group members; Mubashir, Safeer, Usama and Shahriyar for sharing the literature and invaluable assistance. Without helps of the particular that mentioned above, we would face many difficulties while doing this Introduction of Pepsi Co. International: Mr. Caleb Bradham a young pharmacist from New Bern, North Carolina City. In January 1898, this was the starting period of Pepsi-cola. Caleb Bradham created a drink, which is call "the Brad Drink". In 1903 Brad index the name drink Pepsi. At Marco level he ongoing his own produced and build his own organization. The trade extended and this drink...
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...lawtube politics IP Law Tuesday, December 11, 2012 ChanRobles Virtual Law Library Home Law Firm Law Library Philippine Laws Jurisprudence Contacts CHANROBLES VIRTUAL LAW LIBRARY ? Law Library Philippine Laws, Statutes & Codes Philippine Supreme Court Decisions Significant Legal Resources WorldWide Legal Recources US Federal Laws, Statutes & Codes US Supreme Court Decisions The Business Page ChanRobles Virtual Law Library LawList - FREE LISTING DATABANK On-Line Bar Review cralaw_chanroblesbar MCLE: cralaw_lawnet DebtKollect cralaw_debkollect Intellectual Property cralaw_iplaw Chan Robles Virtual Law Library THE CONSUMER ACT OF THE PHILIPPINES - CHAN ROBLES VIRTUAL LAW LIBRARY Bookmark and Share Sponsored by: The ChanRobles Group A collection of Philippine laws, statutes and codes not included or cited in the main indices of the Chan Robles Virtual Law Library. This page features the full text of Republic Act No. 7394. REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7394 THE CONSUMER ACT OF THE PHILIPPINES TITLE I GENERAL PROVISIONS Article 1. Short Title. - This Act shall be known as the "Consumer Act of the Philippines." Art. 2. Declaration of Basic Policy. - It is the policy of the State to protect the interests of the consumer, promote his general welfare and to establish standards of conduct for business and industry. Towards this...
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...divided into two categories namely macro environment and microenvironment. In addition, environmental factors can be political, social, ecological, cultural, technological, and ethical in nature. Whereas, any organization that develops a product or service globally must consider the impact each of the environmental factors may have. For instance, factors can result in the failed attempt to market a product, which may be successful domestically, in other countries where there is a significant market potential. Furthermore, this essay will identify the environmental factors that affect global and domestic marketing decisions, impacts of technology, and the importance of social responsibility and ethics as related to PepsiCo marketing. PepsiCo is a world leader in convenient snacks, foods, and beverages with revenues of more than $39 billion and over 185,000 employees, which conducts both domestic and global marketing(PepsiCo, 2009). At the same time, PepsiCo is committed to protecting their natural resources and operating in a way that minimizes the environmental footprint, with the goal of reaching a net-neutral impact. In addition, as a multinational company, PepsiCo value the unique contributions and perspectives that people from different culture bring to their business. Therefore, the company continues to promote diversity and believe they have a responsibility to ensure the health and wellness communities they serve (PepsiCo, 2009). PepsiCo, success can be affected...
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...purchased their basic necessities. If people still have enough money after getting what they need they will be more able to spend money on what they want. 4. What factors influence a buyer’s willingness to spend? Willingness to spend is inclination to buy because of expected satisfaction from a product. A products price and value also influence almost all of us. Another factor is if people have the power to buy. 5. What are the goals of the Federal Trade commission? List the ways in which the FTC affects marketing activities. Do you think that a single regulatory agency should have such broad jurisdiction over so many marketing practices? Why or why not? They are trying to stop false advertising, misleading pricing, and deceptive packaging and labeling. The effect marketing because people need to be more honest or they will have to choose their words when trying to...
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...Value Alignment Team Names University of Phoenix Integrated Business Topics BUS/475 Instructor Due Date Value Alignment Analyzing team values in comparison with another organization’s values can assist in understanding alignment between values. In evaluating such an alignment, Team D chooses to analyze Starbucks’ values. Team D will first evaluate personal values specific to the team. Furthermore, a review of how the team’s values drive actions and behaviors will illustrate the alignment between such. Thereafter, Team D will analyze the alignment between values and actions. Finally, as the team analyzes the differences between the values of the team and Starbucks’, the team hopes to understand more about the alignment of values, and more about the team’s values in general. Personal and Workplace Values During childhood, values originate from interaction and observations of parents, family, teachers, and friends. Guiding decisions and beliefs, values play an integral role in actions and behaviors of individuals and society. As individuals grow, values are assimilated and influence decisions on personal choices: friends, lifestyles, and employment. Honesty, integrity, doing what is right, respect, and family are examples of values but vary from one individual to another. As individuals enter the workforce, they bring their values with them into the organization. Organizations and companies also adopt and possess values. In 1987, Howard Schultz...
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...Our prOgress in 2011 Creating a more delicious world Message from Our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer 2011 was another challenging year. Economic turmoil. Political upheaval. Natural disasters. The world as we knew it has surely changed. But despite the challenges, Kraft Foods not only survived but thrived— as evidenced by our top-tier financial performance and our growing reputation as one of the world’s leading companies. We did that by staying focused on what matters most—to our business and to our stakeholders—and by raising the bar across the company. Improved performance doesn’t happen by accident. It takes hard work (lots of it) and commitment. I’m proud to lead the team who made 2011 such a success for our company. And I’m equally proud that our success benefited not only our shareholders but also our employees, their communities, those we buy from, those we sell to and those who enjoy our delicious products around the world. From investing in sustainable agriculture to eliminating waste and promoting healthy lifestyles, we continue to evolve the way we do business to reduce our environmental impact and enhance our contributions to society while delivering outstanding financial performance. This report provides a snapshot about what we do, why we do it and how we’re getting on. It highlights key facts about the five areas that matter most to society and to our business. Building and sustaining brands people love and trust takes dedication. And our progress...
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...LEG 100 Final Exam Solution • Question 1 A statute of ________ prevents recovery for product injuries by limiting the time period for recovery from the date when the injury occurred. • Question 2 In Ramirez v. Plough, Inc., the case in the text involving the provision of warnings for non-English-speaking Hispanics, the California Supreme Court held that a manufacturer of nonprescription drugs has a duty to warn purchasers about the dangers of its products in ______. • Question 3 Which of the following members of the chain of distribution cannot be strictly liable in a products lawsuit? • Question 4 Sam wants to sue a book publisher based on strict product liability in tort because he became ill after eating food he prepared based on a book containing information regarding herbs that were safe for consumption. Which of the following is the publisher’s best defense? • Question 5 On a failure to warn claim, adequate warnings and instructions for a product’s safe use can shield a manufacturer from liability for a • Question 6 Under the doctrine of _________, when a person voluntarily and unreasonably assumes the risk of a known danger, the manufacturer is not liable for any resulting injury. • Question 7 In regard to successor liability, courts applying the ______ look for constancy between the buyer and seller to determine whether the successor company is essentially a mere continuation or reincarnation of the predecessor entity...
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...Steven Masetti Professor Guo 11/29/13 BU201 General Mills General Mills is a company engaged in the marketing and manufacturing of branded consumer foods sold through retail stores. The company operates about 50 facilities for the production of the wide range of food products. General Mills operates through three business divisions, U.S. retail, international services, and bakeries and food service. Its consumer brands include Cheerios, Fiber One, Haagen-Dazs, Nature Valley, Yoplait, Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Green Giant, Old El Paso, and Wanchai Ferry. Its main headquarter is in Minneapolis and the company operates in more then 100 countries. General Mills’ International operations have been growing rapidly in recent years. Fiscal 2012 international segment net sales are expected to exceed US$4 billion. including sales from the Yoplait international yogurt business acquired July 1,2011. International sales are growing 22%, although earnings will be flat with last year, capped by one-time charges in 2012 for acquisitions of brands in Canada, Brazil and the U.S. General Mills product line is very well increasing in revenue and one main product that has been a huge seller is the Greek 100. Greek 100 is General Mills’ biggest-selling new Yoplait product in at least 20 years. It’s expected to do $140 million in sales in its first full year. Only about 2 percent of new consumer product launches do over $50 million in their first year so that’s really a big move. Greek...
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