...1.INTRODUCTION As per the tin 100 rankings in the years 2011 to 2013 Fisher and Paykel Appliances stands first (tin100.co.nz/tin100/rankings This prestigious company started designing products since from 1934 and made a remarkable growth in to a global company operating in 50 countries and its manufacturing in New Zealand and China and challenged conventional appliance design to deliver products to human needs (https://www.fisherpaykel.com/nz/company/about/) (fisher and paycel appliances ltd NZ) Fisher and paycel concentrating more fundamental principles of sustainable design and developing as a global premium brand within the groups stable. Fisher and Paykel company specializing in European cooking products. 2. INTERNAL ENVERONMENTAL ANALYSIS 2.1 values and company culture Fisher and paykal image has genuine substance and is conveyed with trustworthiness by normal individuals with additional customary aptitude and responsibility to construct associations with our clients through trust and reputation.( www.fisherpaykel.com/nz/company/about/ )and thinks about clients, kin and our planet and have an eagerness and soul of openness all through business. Life speaks the truth normal as much as it speaks the truth the unforeseen, and provides food for both. Clients are individuals with schedules and customs, desires and shocks, occupied and calm times, delights and...
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...1. Estudia el mercado de los juguetes: juguetes de moda, presentaciones en las tiendas, catálogos, precios, marcas, publicidad, etc. Estudio de los márgenes en jugueterías: La media anual de una juguetería es de un 35,5 % aunque en la temporada de navidad esta media se puede ver incrementada en un 10-15 %. No todos los proveedores dan los mismos márgenes de beneficio. Las marcas mas fuertes son Mattel (que absorbió a Fisher-Price). Y Hasbro, ambas son de EEUU, tienen productos similares y sus margenes de beneficio rondan el 12 %. Mattel abarca marcas como Fisher-Price, Tyco, Polly Pocket, Barbie, y algunos juegos de mesa. Estas marcas ofrecen descuentos a las grandes superficies, debido al volumen de compra de éstas, mientras que al detallista no ofrece facilidades. Hasbro tiene entre sus marcas a Playskool, Actino Man, Sindy y una amplia línea de juegos (MB entre ellos). Los proveedores de juguetes importados, como el caso de Atosa dejan mas margen de beneficio al comerciante en algunos casos hasta el 60%. Famosa es una casa española y lleva marcas como Spiderman, Barriguitas, Nancy, etc.... Luego hay otras marcas como Lego que no ofrecen descuentos ni al detallista ni a los grandes almacenes, y tiene un servicio post-venta muy bueno, ya que dan la posibilidad de hacer devoluciones, servicio de financiación y van a los comercios y montan escaparates y stands a los comerciantes. He observado 3 catálogos de distintos comerciantes (Toys’rus, Juguettos y Juguetecas)...
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...Examination and Reactions to the Movie Antwone Fisher MCPY 600 August 16th, 2007 The movie, Antwone Fisher is a wonderful and thought provoking film full of symbolism, pain, and hope. Antwone Fisher takes the audience through a journey of various subsystems of communities: prison, orphanage, foster care, homeless shelter, and the Navy. However a community encompasses more than a system. Community is ever changing, evolving, and interacting with the needs of the people developing into their own. Communities are influenced by environment, political climate, and economy. We watch Antwone Fisher dream of his perfect family, and the need he has to make a connection with his past. However, the journey he goes through with the help of his Psychiatrist, Dr. Davenport and his girl friend Cheryl, is trying, sometimes turbulent, and full of pit-falls. Antwone reaches his own epiphany when he learns who he is, meets his family, and is able to trust others while overcoming his fear of rejection and abandonment. As I watched the events unfold through Antwone’s eyes, I asked myself what specific influences kept him from turning to violence and crime on the streets. I find those answers by carefully examining the progression of events, Antwone’s choices, positive influences, as well as looking at the meaning and symbolism behind the scenes. The first scene of Antwone Fisher sets the tone for the character development throughout...
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...The film Antwone Fisher is an autobiography directed by Denzel Washington, based on the life of a United States Navy sailor, named Antwone Fisher, with emotional problems and a violent temper that can often be triggered by rage. Essentially it can be concluded that the psychological and emotional problems Antwone experiences are what make him such a prime example of social determinism. When further examined, Antwone was more specifically influenced by early childhood trauma, his naval psychiatrist Dr. Jerome Davenport (Denzel Washington), and the emotional connection he makes with Cheryl (Joy Bryant) a fellow officer in the navy. As a child Antwone was frequently abandoned and abused; in the end, this ultimately affects his emotional and physical response to the people in his everyday life. His mother, Eva Mae Fisher, abandoned him after he was born and unknowingly sent him to a foster home in which Mrs. Tate, Antwone’s foster mother, abuses him and calls him derogatory names throughout the entity of his childhood. However it doesn’t stop there, as the movie progresses Mrs. Tate eventually kicks him out of the house and leaves him alone and starving out on the streets of Cleveland, but not before his childhood babysitter had her way with him. Antwone later reconnects with his...
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...business around the world. Are the environmental challenges and ethical dilemmas Fisher & Paykel currently face outsourcing manufacturing to a developing country beneficial to Australia? Globalisation can be described as the intertwining processes of the world. It is not only an economic process, which involves rising communication and integration of all countries’ economies through the growth in international trade and investment, but also the rapid cultural, social, technological and industrial exchange between nations (IYP, 2002, p. 11). Globalisation presents significant opportunities, as well as many challenges, for business around the globe. Many companies are currently making the decision to move production offshore to lower expenditure and increase profits. However, there are numerous environmental challenges, as well as ethical dilemmas involved with outsourcing. Throughout this essay I will show how globalisation is connected with the present issue of New Zealand’s ‘Fisher & Paykel’ (F&P) Brisbane plant outsourcing manufacturing of their whitegoods to Thailand. Shown by exploring the reasons and challenges involved both in the business environment and ethical arena. Such ethical issues under scrutiny at present are the loss of Australian jobs and the replacement of low wage employment offshore. After the analysis of various sources of information, it will be clear that the move by Fisher & Paykel, to commence production offshore, is in fact beneficial to the Australian...
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...Fed’s Fisher Says Too-Big-to-Fail Banks Should Be Shrunk Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher said the government should break up the biggest U.S. banks rather than allow them to hold a “too-big- to-fail” advantage over smaller firms. The 12 largest financial institutions hold almost 70 percent of the assets in the nation’s banking system and profit from an unfair implicit guarantee that the government would bail them out, Fisher said today in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland. The biggest banks enjoy a “significant” subsidy, enabling them “to grow larger and riskier,” he said. “These institutions operate under a privileged status,” Fisher said. “They represent not only a threat to financial stability, but to fair and open competition.” The biggest banks came under scrutiny yesterday at a Senate hearing on JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), which hid trading losses, according to a report by the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The New York-based firm under Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon lost more than $6.2 billion last year in a credit derivatives bet by Bruno Iksil, known as the London Whale. Fisher said in a phone interview with Bloomberg News that his proposal “will not lead to the denial of credit for U.S. corporations.” The cost from big banks “far exceeds the benefits,” and the U.S. doesn’t need “to have the largest banks in the world to compete,” Fisher said after his speech. ...
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...Fisher & Paykel Appliances Holdings Limited FPA Stock Exchange Release ASX/NZX 17 April 2008 Fisher & Paykel Appliances Announces Global Manufacturing Strategy Fisher & Paykel Appliances today unveiled its new global manufacturing strategy. As announced earlier today, the Company has acquired land and buildings and a refrigeration manufacturing plant located in Reynosa, Mexico. The new global manufacturing strategy involves shifting three of the Company’s manufacturing facilities to a combination of existing sites in Thailand and Italy and its recently purchased facility in Mexico. Inclusive of the Reynosa acquisition and the new North American DishDrawer line announced late last year, the financial benefits arising from the new strategy are expected to be in the vicinity of $50 million per annum, at a one off cost of approximately $50 million, both at a pre tax level. Capital expenditure is estimated at approximately $100 million. The cost of the moves will be substantially funded from the sale of what will become surplus property in New Zealand and Australia, which is expected to realise approximately $100 million. Additional savings are also anticipated from the sourcing of components from the respective local vendors. Working capital required for the shifts will be globally neutral. The one off costs of the relocations will be substantially provisioned for in the 2008/09 financial year. The Range & DishDrawer factory in Dunedin, New Zealand, along with the refrigerator...
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...Antwone Fisher 10/27/2012 Erik Erikson, a developmental psychologist, stated the first stage of human development is one of the most important. Because an infant is entirely dependent upon his or her caregivers, the quality of care plays an important role in the shaping of the child’s personality. In the case of Antowne Fisher, with his unfortunate circumstance of the death of his father and the incarceration of his mother, he lacked the care and love only parents can provide. However, once he entered the foster care system, Mrs. Nellie Strange, a savior of sort and his foster mother, became the tool in his development through the first stage of Erickson’s stages of development. It is evident within the first stage of development; trust versus mistrust. “…The major emphasis is on the mother’s positive and loving care for the child…if we pass successfully through this period of life, we will learn to trust that life is basically okay and have basic confidence in the future” (Harder, 2003). During this time period of Antwone’s life, in contrast to what is to occur in the future, it should be addressed the profound care and attention he received from Mrs. Strange. His foster mother, Mrs. Nellie Strange, showed the genuine care and love a true mother envelopes her child in. The attachment of Mrs. Nellie to Antwone and his trust for his foster mother was evident as she begged to keep while Antwone “…let out a lust yell…” as he was removed from her...
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...The Non-Stationary and Tax Effects Results of the Fisher Hypothesis Jodi Bob RES 342 September 9, 2010 Paul L. Worthey, MBA, MA.Ed, BSIT The Fisher Hypothesis The long-term Fisher hypothesis relates the long-term nominal interest rate to an expected one period inflation rate. The analysis explores interest rates and inflation and the non-stationary process. The Fisher hypothesis tests the long-term coupon-bearing bonds when presuming nominal interest rates and inflation to be non-stationary stochastic processes. In the article descriptions on the issues of whether interest rates are measuring in pre-tax or after-tax terms. The hypothesis questions the usefulness that interest rates contain regarding future inflation and if it is a concern for policy-makers. Second, it questions whether monetary authorities are good indicators of pressures from inflation on the economy. The paper written in 1975 by Fama on the implications of the Fisher hypothesis expectations has caused several investigations with the relationship between nominal interest rates and expected inflation. Fama’s analysis offered fundamental insight under the assumption that a constant expected real rate and the efficiency that the bond market implies that a one-period nominal interest rate would be a possible indicator of a one-period inflation rate. The methods of this hypothesis were applied...
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...Antwone Fisher The focus of this paper is on psychodynamic (intergenerational and psychoanalytic) family therapies; and how these concepts apply to helping the protagonist in the major motion picture Antwone Fisher overcome traumatic incidents he experienced during his childhood and adolescent years, as well as help him to manage his current anger issues. Psychodynamics, in its broadest sense, is an approach to the study of human behavior that emphasizes the study and use of the psychological forces that underlie human behavior, feelings and emotions; how they relate to early childhood experiences . . . (Sher & Sher, 2015). Intergenerational and psychoanalytic family therapies can be described as an approach to the study of how a person’s maladaptive behavior is influenced by unresolved issues within the family dynamics and multigenerational processes. Psychodynamic (intergenerational and psychoanalytic) family therapies apply to the protagonist in the major motion picture Antwone Fisher because of the traumatic incidents he experienced during his childhood and adolescent years: childhood physical, sexual, and mental abuse; neglect and abandonment; death, grief, and loss; repressed emotions, identity and self-worth issues, interpersonal relationships, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). These concepts also apply to Antwone because of current rage/anger issues he is exhibiting. According to the Association for Advanced Training in the Behavioral Sciences (2015...
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...Organization Background Fisher & Paykel Ltd. (F&P) Located in Auckland, New Zealand was the largest home appliance manufacturer of major appliances in the country with eight operating divisions. It’s major appliance sales amount to $135,000,000 with total sales of $270,000,000 annually including annual export sales and royalty income of $36,000,000. The Laundry Division of F&P has spent two years developing a new washing machine with a projected annual production level of 75,000 to 100,000 and 50,000 for the first full year of production to start the beginning of next April. Defining the issue The key concerns are: 1. Getting the best quality, quantity, price and service for the required parts while adhering to the New Zealand’s importing licensing policies 2. Coming up with clear parts sourcing decisions and direction quickly Due to the automated production process planned for the new machines, new plastic cable ties with new specifications will have to be produced as none of the existing ties suppliers actually have them in stock. Each machine will require 45 plastic clips with 6 different part numbers for a total of 4,500,000 annually given the projected production of 100,000 machines a year. With the lead times involved before the first production run in April, F& P must resolve the 2 key concerns above as soon as possible. Analyzing the Case Data There are 4 possible plastic clip suppliers: Olson Plastics: * Quoted 4 out of the 6 items...
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...Fisher & Paykel 1934 Company founded in Auckland by Woolf Fisher and Maurice Paykel to import Crosley refrigerators, Maytag washing machines and Pilot mantle radios. 1938 Sales agreement signed with Kelvinator Corporation, Detroit. 1939 Manufacture of refrigerators and wringer washing machines. 1953 Installation of first washing machine conveyer line. 1955 First stage of Mt Wellington plant starts production of refrigeration and laundry products. 1956 Manufacture of rotary clothes dryers designed and patented by company. Formed association with HE Shacklock, Dunedin. 1957 Allied Industries Ltd established to manufacture Murphy radios and radiograms and later (1960) television receivers. This was the forerunner of Fisher & Paykel Electronics. 1958 Fisher & Paykel open a London office. 1965 Agreement signed with Matsushita Electric for sole distributorship in New Zealand. 1966 Head Office moved to Mt Wellington. Champion Spark Plug New Zealand established. Allied Industries began manufacturing Waikato electric fence controllers. 1969 Allied Industries began manufacturing television tubes. 1970 First respiratory humidifier sold. 1971 Agreement with Matsushita Electric for marketing and eventual manufacture of National Panasonic products. Manufacture of respiratory humidifier(the beginnings of Healthcare). 1972 East Tamaki refrigerator manufacturing plant opens. 1974 One millionth refrigerator and one millionth laundry unit produced. Allied Industries...
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...Philip Fisher Philip Fisher was born in 1906 and died at the age of 96 in 2004. Fisher’s career in business first began in 1928 when he took a job as a securities analyst with a bank in San Francisco. He then switched to a stock exchange firm before opening up his own money management business in 1931 “Fisher & Company”. Mr. Fisher was a very private man, possessed no airs about himself, gave few interviews, and was not well-known to the public until his first book publication in 1958 (Greatest). Today, Philip Fisher is known as one of the most influential investors of all time. He is known as one of the pioneers of the modern investment theory. Fisher’s thoughts have been widely accepted over time, and have been followed by top financial professionals including Warren Buffet. In 1958, Fisher published the first investment book to make the New York Times bestseller list. This book was titled “Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits” and the strategies in the book are regarded as being a gospel to investors today (Greatest). Fisher was the first to consider a stock’s worth in terms of potential growth instead of price trends and absolute value. His principles include identifying long-term growth stocks and their foreseen value, rather than choosing short-term trades to try and inquire initial profit. Fisher also believed in buying a small amount of stocks and tended to hold about 30 stocks, so that he could follow and get all the details about the stocks that he invested...
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...Esta película narra como el protagonista fue física y psicológicamente maltratado en su niñez, por parte de su madre adoptiva y su entorno. Este episodio violento, provoca que manifieste problemas para tener contacto con otras personas y produce una inseguridad al joven y este la proyecta a otros, incitando pleitos y afectando la comunicación con los demás. Para controlar su ira, Antwone Fisher es obligado a seguir terapias con el psiquiatra, y aquí es donde se observa la misión importante de un terapeuta, que es lograr una buena sintonía con su paciente y cada paciente es diferente, así que necesita distintas maneras de romper el hielo. Marcó los límites al atender a Antwone, nunca se mostró intimidado por el comportamiento altamente agresivo y confrontacional que tenía, respetó cuando Antwone estaba listo para hablar, no lo presionó hasta que él solo decidió abrirse, además le dio tareas para que empezara a entender sus problemas con otra perspectiva. Pero a pesar de que había una mejoría en su comportamiento, recae nuevamente y su reacción inmediata a cualquier situación que no le agrada es la agresión lo cual muestra que tiene problemas más allá de lo que realmente dice. Para ello el Dr. Davenport le aconseja que busque a su verdadera familia y vuelva nuevamente donde vivía y afronte a esas personas que le hicieron daño y a todos esos temores que lo atormentaban. Y finalmente, el tener la convicción y perseverancia para buscar a su madre biológica...
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...REASON BEHIND KINGFISHER AIRLINE’S FAILURE: “AN EYE OPENING CASE STUDY REVEALING THREE KEY WORDS FOR AVIATION INDUSTRY SUCCESS: COSTS, COSTS, COSTS” * JAYANT SRIVASTAVA (Asst. Professor, Trinity Business School, Murad Nagar, Ghaziabad) ** ASAD ALI & AKANSHA TIWARI (Students PGDM, Trinity Business School) ABSTRACT: Our research paper try to throw lights on some major reasons which were somehow responsible for the current crisis going inside the kingfisher Airlines which can be realized by the press statement from KFA, on 12 March 2012, highlights the challenges: “The flight loads have reduced because of our limited distribution ability caused by IATA suspension. We are therefore combining some of our flights. Also, some of the flights are being cancelled as a result of employee agitation on account of delayed salaries. This situation has arisen as a consequence of our bank accounts having been frozen by the tax authorities. We are making all possible efforts to remedy this temporary situation.” RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The key objective of this research study is to investigate the reasons behind the failure of the Kingfisher airline in the year 2012. To investigate the government policies and the various steps taken to fix the current crisis. To investigate the reasons due to which the whole Aviation Industry is suffering from higher operating losses. What went so terribly wrong with Kingfisher when rival Jet Airways has comparatively much higher debt? INTRODUCTION: Global...
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