...Journal 2: What barriers do immigrants face when they come to Canada? When immigrants come to Canada it’s a hard choice for some families leaving their home land and starting a new life in a different county with a different society, language, culture and believes. For some families they leave their home land to come to Canada for a better place to live, building a better future for their kids and a safe place. Immigrants that come to Canada face lots of barriers that are learning a new language, getting to know a new country, finding a home, job and new friends. My dad faced lots of barriers in life coming to Canada he make that choice for his kids to have a better life. My dad was a surgeon in Germany , he studied about 7 years not including the studies he did in his home land. Coming to Canada he had to start all his studies all over again since he had a German medical license not a Canadian medical license. These stories below are written by the authors what they had to face coming to Canada. The first story was by Isabel Vincent “ finding a nationality that fits” Isabel write a story about how their Portuguese family who tried to become “Canadianize” in order to be accepted in society. We often are left on our own to find ourselves in Canada. After a period of time living in Canada, may lose his/her family traditions, beliefs and values and it changes a person. Now, I see more young teens that came here with such innocence being involved in things that they shouldn't...
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...Assignment 5: Filmore Case Due Date: February 02, 2013 Submitted by: Summary: Fred Filmore established Filmore Furniture Ltd. in 1970, this particular company designs, manufactures, and sells colonial maple furniture to small retail stores and major chain stores. In 1983 Phil Filmore took ownership of this company and further enhanced it through modernizing the plant, as well as introducing aggressive management skills, new marketing strategies, and merchandising ideas, causing an increase of $3.8 million in sales income within a ten year time frame. The business was very successful, however its profits and cash flow was not adequate to afford paying for modernization programs, which resulted in selling 31% of the company shares to 5 investors. In 1999, Phil Filmore died in a car accident leaving his debt, and 63% of the company’s shares, to his wife Lucinda, who faced with 3 decisions: to retain the ownership of the company, merge with another company within the industry or simply sell it. Statement of Problem & Objective: Mrs. Filmore has to make a decision regarding this company that will release her from the entire debit left behind, as well as maintaining her financial needs and high quality standard of living. To achieve this, Mrs. Filmore has to choose 1 of the following options: * to retain the ownership of the company, * merge with another company within the industry * Sell it. SWOT: Strengths * Modernized manufacturing facilities...
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...Filmore Furniture Ltd Company Background * Incorporated in 1970 by Fred Filmore, a sole proprietor. * In 1983, Phil obtained his father’s furniture business and acquired the management of the business. * In 10 years the sales income increased to $5,100,000 and employed 58 full-time employees. * He is an aggressive manager and strategist. * During 1986 to 1993, Filmore Furniture modernized its manufacturing facilities. * Phil owned 63% of the share, 31% the five investors and the rest is retained by the employees of the company. Problem She is having a tough time choosing between whether she should sell the business, or manage the business herself. Objectives Choose the best option that will favor in Mrs. Lucinda Filmore, and provide her with an income that would benefit her financial situation. Also, an income to assist her to have a good standard of living for her and her children for the years to come, with the lowest short- and long term debt possible. Situation Analysis PEST Analysis Political:- * Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (1989) brought increased import competitors from larger American companies. * Opportunity to export in large US market Economical:- * During recession, additional fixed cost may be risky * The furniture industry is very competitive Social:- * Innovations resulted in good reputation, and goodwill in the furniture industry * Relationship with financial institutions; Customer...
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...FILMORE FURNITURE LTD Filmore Furniture Ltd. manufactures colonial maple furniture. The company was incorporated in 1970 by Fred Filmore, who had been the sole proprietor prior to that. In 1983, Fred Filmore retired and sold his business to his only son Phil, age 38, for a small sum. That year, annual sales totalled $1,300,000. Phil Filmore was an aggressive manager and strategist. He modernized the plant, introduced new product designs and accessories such as mirrors and lamps, and implemented new marketing strategies and merchandising ideas. These innovations were quite successful, and helped the company to establish a good reputation in the furniture industry. From 1983 to 1993, sales income increased to $5,100,000, and the company had 58 full-time employees on the payroll. While sales grew quite strongly, the highly competitive nature of the furniture business held profits to relatively low levels. In 1998, the company's after-tax profit amounted to $204,000, or 4.0 percent of sales income, which was very close to the industry average. Phil Filmore was clearly in charge of the key activities of the business, including all of the strategic decisions mentioned earlier. The company employed five sales representatives who called upon the smaller accounts, but Phil personally handled the responsibility of calling on the major accounts. Of particular importance were the company's relationships with major chain stores that Phil had developed in the years after he took...
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...FILMORE FURNITURE LTD Filmore Furniture Ltd. manufactures colonial maple furniture. The company was incorporated in 1970 by Fred Filmore, who had been the sole proprietor prior to that. In 1983, Fred Filmore retired and sold his business to his only son Phil, age 38, for a small sum. That year, annual sales totalled $1,300,000. Phil Filmore was an aggressive manager and strategist. He modernized the plant, introduced new product designs and accessories such as mirrors and lamps, and implemented new marketing strategies and merchandising ideas. These innovations were quite successful, and helped the company to establish a good reputation in the furniture industry. From 1983 to 1993, sales income increased to $5,100,000, and the company had 58 full-time employees on the payroll. While sales grew quite strongly, the highly competitive nature of the furniture business held profits to relatively low levels. In 1998, the company's after-tax profit amounted to $204,000, or 4.0 percent of sales income, which was very close to the industry average. Phil Filmore was clearly in charge of the key activities of the business, including all of the strategic decisions mentioned earlier. The company employed five sales representatives who called upon the smaller accounts, but Phil personally handled the responsibility of calling on the major accounts. Of particular importance were the company's relationships with major chain stores that Phil had developed in the years after he took...
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...Mohammad Adeel, Jaimie Mejia, Shan Pasha, Satnam Saini and Manish Sharma. 1. Case Summary - Key Events - Issues a) Summary: During an early snowstorm in 1999 Mr.Phil Filmore died in a car accident, leaving his wife with all his shares. Mrs. Lucinda Filmore has to make an important decision on rather to sell or continue on with the furniture business, her husband has diligently worked hard on. She has not worked for 14 years leaving her job to take care of her two children. She has not been informed or been involved with her husband’s company. She does not believe she can manage it, having the decision to hire within the company or outsiders for a management position. But then again, she has the advice on perhaps just selling the business. With all the different suggestions and advice she feels more confused about this while situation. What should she do? b) Key Events: - 1983 Phil Filmore become sole proprietor of Filmores Furniture. -Invited five local professional people to become shareholders of the company. -Phil Filmore owned 63 percent of the shares and the five investors 31 percent. -1999 Phil Fimore dies in a car accident. c) Issues: Leaving 63 percent of the company's shares, to his wife, Lucinda. Phil's life insurance provided a disappointingly small amount of money for Mrs. Filmore. Since in 1999 the standard of living had change considerably it was lower and interest rates much higher, so the investment income from the proceeds of the policy would...
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...Sheridan College | Filmore Furniture Ltd. | Case Study Analysis | | Instructor R. MichaudOctober 1,2014 ByCassandra KaslerAbdul QadirMuhammad Jamal | | Summary Fred Filmore incorporated Filmore Furniture Ltd. in 1970 as a sole proprietor. The company designs, manufactures, and wholesales colonial maple furniture to small retail stores and major chain stores. In 1983 Phil Filmore, Fred’s son purchased the company from his father who was going into retirement. He developed the company through modernizing the plant, as well as introducing assertive management skills, new marketing strategies, and merchandising concepts. This generated $3.8 million in increased sales income within a ten year time period and enhanced the reputation of the company. However its profits and cash flow could not meet the expense of paying for the modernization, which resulted in 31% of the company shares being sold to 5 local investors. Phil Filmore pass away in a car accident in 1999, leaving his debts, and 63% of the company’s shares, to his wife Lucinda who was a house wife with little to no experience and knowledge of how to run a business. Problem Statement Lucinda Filmore has to decide what to now do with the company her husband has left behind for her. She has two children to raise, is unemployed with minimal skills and has a high standard of living. She needs to decide what to do with the company that will help her be freed from the debit left behind, in addition to sustaining...
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...SWOT Analysis (Filmore Furniture Ltd) Strength - Phil Filmore was a good and talented manager because he is well – organized, modernized the plant, create new product designs and accessories and come up with many ideas and marketing strategies, so make the company run well and more profitable - Have a good partner + Jean Lechaise who is an excellent operation manager and work efficiently, so he produces high quality products with timely. - Phil has a good relationship with major chain stores that help him Weakness - The profit margin of the furniture industry is low so he is not able to afford the modernization of the manufacturing facilities. - Older staff + Many of the staff are aging and wanting to retire soon, specially trusted Lechaise does not want to assume responsibilities for the business (would like to retire in 3 – 4 years) - Product line is limited to a single type of furniture (colonial maple furniture) this means that buyers may pursue suppliers with a more diversified product line - High competitive market that after – tax profit was 4% of sales income, so make the profits relatively low levels. Opportunities - Anticipating Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (1989) so + The company has opportunities to expand into US market + Low Canadian dollar increases sales to the US by making furniture less expensive than US imported furniture. Threat - Canada – US Free Trade Agreement + Increased import competition from larger...
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...ago, the majority of teens and youths knew most of the officers by name and viewed them as a source of protection. Now it seems like we’re distrusted—seen only as the bad guy that comes out and ruins their fun. That’s not how it’s supposed to be.” Senior class president Carly Roy fully endorses the idea: “Having access to an officer who can answer our questions and just maintain a presence in the school will be a really great step toward keeping things friendly between us and the cops. They won’t just be these stiff, mean people who are out to get us. It won’t be an ‘us vs. them’ thing anymore.” Officers Roger Filmore, Cecilia Moore, and Guy Perrier have already volunteered to spend time in the high school’s guidance office from 3 to 4 pm and talk to students on a first-come, first-served basis. “I remember being a kid,” said Sgt. Filmore, “and if you don’t know an officer personally, it’s really easy to see us as intimidating or as jerks, depending on what you’ve been hearing from other kids, siblings, or parents. I don’t want there to be any kids who don’t come to us because they think we don’t care. We’re not just here to stop crime; we’re here to keep you safe in every way possible, even if that just means giving advice.” This initiative comes...
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...Marking Guidelines Cases studies are due on paper at the beginning of each class (e.g. xx.00pm). Late cases get zero. |Marks | | |5 |Key Events / Case synopsis | | |Maximum of six (6) sentences here. Provide a brief history of the company up to the time of the decision / problem. | |5 |Problem Statement and Objectives | | |Be clear what the problem is. Sometimes it is a specific decision to be made, most of the time it is a larger issue.| | |This means that the problem statement will rarely, if ever, be, “Should decider do A or B” | | |Note the objectives of the key character. If secondary characters have objectives that might have an impact on the | | |recommendation, note these here. | |25 |Situation Analysis | | |Start with a paragraph that summarises the business situation (eg do strengths outweigh weaknesses? Is it an | | |attractive...
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...Fugitive Slave Act also known as the Fugitive Slave Law is a federal law that was passed by the United States congress on September 18, 1850. This act allowed the capturing and returning of runaway slave within the United States. The Fugitive Slave Act was part of a group of laws referred to as the Compromise of 1850. This federal law was a controversial part of the Compromise of 1850, and raised Northern fears of a slave power conspiracy. The Fugitive Slave Act was signed and favored by the United States president Millard Filmore. The earlier Fugitive Slave Act was written to enforce Article 4 section 2 of the United States constitution. Article 4 section 2 of the United States constitution required to return the runaway slaves. Many Northern...
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...The problem is that often times, like in the case of Richard Rodriguez in “Aria”, people learning English aren't really becoming bilingual. Instead they are subjected to “subtractive bilingualism”, where they forget their first (home) language in favor of learning the new language, usually English (Wong Filmore, 323). Rodriguez forgot so much of his native tongue that he lost his ability to communicate in Spanish with family and family friends. He explains further, “Pocho they called me… a Mexican-American who, in becoming an American, forgets his native society.” Rodriguez did not lose his memory of his familia, or any of the traditions that he was raised in. However, losing Spanish was taken by many as losing his heritage. If he doesn’t have the ability to speak in his mother tongue, then how connected can he be to to his culture? George Steiner once said ““when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world. ” When Rodriguez lost his ability to speak Spanish, he lost the way of understanding that...
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...The Pharma Innovation Journal 2014; 3(7): 08-12 ISSN: 2277- 7695 TPI 2014; 3(7): 08-12 © 2013 TPI www.thepharmajournal.com Received: 14-08-2014 Accepted: 28-08-2014 Rizwan Raheem Ahmed Professor, Department of Business Administration & Commerce Indus University, Pakistan Pharmaceutical marketing mix strategy and physician’s prescription behavior Rizwan Raheem Ahmed ABSTRACT Purpose: This research paper gives an insight about the processes used by local and MNCs pharmaceutical companies in Pakistan.The purpose of our research is to examine that what factors affect physician prescription behavior based on ethical grounds. Methodology: This research focuses on the strategies and marketing tools used by pharmaceutical companies in Pakistan, and how Physicians behave against all these marketing strategies in terms of Prescription patterns. The questionnaire survey method is used for data collection and SPSS is used for Correlation and Regression techniques for the understanding of Physician’s prescription behaviour. Findings: The data analysis figuring out the correlation of these variables with the subject of the study i.e. factors influencing the prescribing behavior of the physician. The data shows the significance level of individual independent variable as Promotional tools. According to the results of Multiple Regressions Analysis (MRA) the researchers can conclude that independent variables have significant relationship with dependent variable. Therefore other all hypotheses...
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...Gene Resilience Within Acropora hyacinthus Ethan O’Leary, Talea Wilson, Raekwon Filmore Clarkson University Department of Biology Spring 2018 BY-445 Background Coral reefs are one of nature’s most diverse ecosystems. The variation in organisms and plant life is what drives many scientists to understand how something so unique can occur. Because coral reefs are so diverse, they help the environment they inhabit in various ways. Coral reefs are biologically diverse and economically important to the ecosystems of the planet. The reason for this importance to the ecosystems is that it provides services that are essential to human life and industries through fisheries, coastal protection, building materials, new biochemical compounds,...
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...Heritage Railway Industry -‐ Market analysis Content 1. Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 1 2. The Five Forces of Porter .................................................................................................................... 2 2.1 Threat of new entrants ................................................................................................................. 3 2.2 Power of suppliers ........................................................................................................................ 3 2.3 Industry competition ..................................................................................................................... 4 2.4 Power of buyers ............................................................................................................................ 4 2.5 Threat of substitutes ..................................................................................................................... 4 3. STEEPLE Analysis ................................................................................................................................. 5 3.1 Social / Culture...
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