...Synchronization— The Next Generation of Business Partnering How Leading Companies are Delivering Actual Results People Strategy The GROCERY MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION (GMA) represents the world’s leading branded food, beverage and consumer products companies. Since 1908, GMA has been an advocate for its members on public policy issues and has championed initiatives to increase industrywide productivity and growth. GMA member companies employ more than 2.5 million workers in all 50 states and account for more than $680 billion in sales. The association is led by a board of member company chief executives. For more information, visit the GMA Web site at www.gmabrands.com. The FOOD MARKETING INSTITUTE (FMI) conducts programs in research, education, industry relations and public affairs on behalf of its 1,500 member companies — food retailers and wholesalers — in the United States and around the world. FMI’s U.S. members operate approximately 26,000 retail food stores with a combined annual sales volume of $340 billion — three-quarters of all food retail store sales in the United States. FMI’s retail membership is composed of large multi-store chains, regional firms and independent supermarkets. Its international membership includes 200 companies from 50 countries. For more information, visit the FMI Web site at www.fmi.org. WEGMANS FOOD MARKETS, INC. is a 71-store supermarket chain with stores in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, and Maryland. The family-owned...
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...conversation touched on playing at the Yellowjacket Invitational, the shape of the Valley Foothill League and what courses are the most fun to play. GD: Well Rich, on Monday your girls played in the Yellowjacket Invitational. How’d it go? RC: We only took three girls because they moved the midseason league tournament up a week, so we are going to play that next Monday. And our girls missing two monday’s in a row wasn’t good. So there were just three girls who were able to miss class for the two weeks. So we took Jessie Thompson, Olivia Fonseca and Emma Canepa. And they did OK. GD: I know it’s still relatively...
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...INTRODUCTION In order to understand the impact of internet on tourism in full depth a little bit of history about the pre-internet industry systems, the implementation of the changes bought about by internet and the present impact of the development of internet since, need to be understood thoroughly. the traditional distribution system needs to be discussed.The traditional pattern of distribution was dependent on the GDS and the CRS, by 1960 the initialization of the Data Processing System was completed known as SABRE then followed the Amadeus and Galileo till 1980, the first set of reservation system introduced with one prime objective, of making the airline reach to a level of excellence. By 1990 internet was introduced making a huge impact on the distribution channel of tourism industry, where all the airlines went global with one prime source the internet. “Distribution channels often both influence consumer behaviour, and determine the ability of the industry to respond to consumers’ requests efficiently” (Buhalis Laws 2001, p.7).There have been few quotes for distribution been mentioned by authors like , “link between the producers of tourism services and their customers” (Gartner & Bachri, 1994, p. 164), there is also a quote been published by WTO (World Tourism Organization) “a distribution channel can be described as a given combination of intermediaries who co-operate in the sale of a product. It follows that a distribution system can be and in most instances is...
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...Ad Agency Report Jodie L. Hebner Grantham University GSD&M was established in 1971 in Austin, TX by a group of men who did not want to leave the area after graduating from the University of Texas. Over the years the company has went through many ups and downs while embracing many challenges to become one of the top 30 advertising agencies in the United States.to include opening and operating a second location in Chicago, IL. GDS&M is owned by third largest advertising agency in the world, Omnicom Group. (Answers, n.d) The company has now grown to have over 500 employees who help the company promote many popular organizations to include Wal-Greens, the Air Force, AT&T, John Deere, and Campbell Soup. GSD&M has a different take on how ideas can be created for their customers. GSD&M uses four primary approaches to creating ideas. First off, GSD&M believes, “your butt’s connected to your brain” this is seen in the many “war rooms” that are used throughout GSD&M when creating new ads for their customers. “It turns out that thinking outside the box requires deep immersion in the here and now: where you sit determines what you think.” (Imperato, 1997) Employees can visit the Chili’s Grill & Bar war room, which is almost an exact replica giving the employees the needed information needed to come up with great ideas. The second item used to generate ideas is known as the thought “big ideas come from small groups”. “To grow big and yet think fast, GSD&M...
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...|Name |Siddhartha Dhar | |Roll No. |P152062 | |Hometown |Tinsukia, Assam | |Work Industry/ Company / City/ Year |1)IT/TCS/Chennai-Pune/2011-14 | |e.g. |2)Construction /S.D Engg/Assam/2014-15 | |1) IT/ TCS/ Chennai/ 2013-15 | | |2) Auto/ Tata Motors/ Delhi/ 2011-13 | | |LinkedIn Profile Link, if any |https://in.linkedin.com/pub/siddhartha-dhar/52/3a7/88b | |Pagalguy Handle, if any |@sunnyda59 | 1. What makes you a right fit for the Great Lakes PGPM Admissions Committee?(~ 300 words) I firmly believe the statement right fit depends on one’s ability to work hard and harder towards the...
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...personal accounts of Group Discussions and Personal Interviews during MBA admissions to India’s best business schools. In this edition: The IIMs at Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Lucknow, Indore & Kozhikode. Written by Loads of MBA aspirants Compiled by The PaGaLGuY MadCapz Team PaGaLGuY GD-PI Anthology Copyright © 2011, PaGaLGuY.com All text and content in this document is solely owned by PaGaLGuY.com. Reproduction without permission in any form or means is illegal. Special copy prepared exclusively for mustafa rokerya Get your own Free personalized copy (with your name on it) of this book from http://www.pagalguy.com/books/ What this book is about What is a real IIM interview like? What kind of questions do they ask and what judgments do applicants have to make while answering them? Since 2003, those with real Group Discussion and Personal Interview calls from India’s top bschools have been posting entire and detailed transcripts of their admission interviews immediately after they happen, so that others slotted for later interviews can learn what GDPI is going to be like this year. This book is a collection of dozens of handpicked GDPI experiences from the country’s top bschools during the admission years 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. In this edition, we have included over 180 GDPI experiences from the admission processes of IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta, IIM Indore, IIM Lucknow and IIM Kozhikode. A team of 33 volunteers, who are themselves...
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...YOUR OWN GROUP DISCUSSION HANDBOOK A RAPID READER FREE GUIDE BY KAUSHIK DAS HR CREST Release © 2012, 1st Edition. All Rights Reserved. www.hrcrest.com HRCREST YOUR OWN GROUP DISCUSSION HANDBOOK For More Tips & Tutorials, Products Visit www.hrcrest.com YOUR OWN GROUP DISCUSSION HANDBOOK BY KAUSHIK DAS © 2012 HR CREST. All rights reserved worldwide. PERMISSION The author grants full permission to distribute this HR Guide freely, in your ezine, website, blog, forum, RSS feed or print publication and/or distribute it as a free bonus with other products, provided it is left completely intact, unaltered and delivered via this PDF file for FREE and not be sold. You are also permitted to forward this ebook to friends, families and networks. If you would like to re-print or re-purpose any of this content, please use proper attribution (Courtesy of HR CREST Release & The Author, Sudakshina Bhattacharya) and provide a link back to ( www.hrcrest.com ). You must agree to include the FULL Resource box or SIG line provided below in your distribution and to make the link active/linkable with no syntax changes. Resource Box/SIG Line: Kaushik Das, currently associated with an MBA Institute of International Repute as the Associate Vice President - Corporate Relations. He is also one of the distinguished faculty at the Institute. In addition to that, Kaushik is a contributory author for HR Crest and his posts and HRcrest youtube channel videos are highly popular amongst "In...
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...competitors to the established global distribution system (GDS) companies emerged. By 2002, traditional GDS operators competed with each other as well as with airline websites, some Web-based travel agencies and a new entrant called Orbitz, an online travel agency owned by a group of airlines. In 1996, less than one percent of airline tickets were sold online. By 2001, 20 percent of airline flights in the United States were booked online, and the percentage was expected to grow to 25 percent by 2004. Seemingly overnight, forty years of comparative stasis in the business models governing airline reservation and ticket distribution turned into a dogfight as airlines, brick and mortar travel agents, online travel agents and GDS operators clashed over the approximately $180 billion market for airline travel. With ticket distribution costs comprising the third largest expense at some airlines, the battle promised to be fierce. The rapidly growing tourism sector in China has provided a good market environment for tourism enterprises, including travel agencies. In the five years through 2012, revenue for the Travel Agencies industry in China has increased at an annualized rate of 11.3% to $47.5 billion. With increasing demand for diversified tourism products such as luxury and high quality products, travel agencies have been developing new tourism products in order to meet the needs of the consumers. Revenue from the top four firms in the Travel Agencies industry in China – CITS...
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...Guinness 1.0 Company History Guinness is part of the global Diageo business. Diageo was formed in 1997 through the merger of GrandMet and Guinness. Their main business is the premium drink market. Seagrams was added to the portfolio in 2000. Diageo possess the broadest and most recognized collection of premium drinks brands. Their brands include Guinness, Smirnoff, Baileys, Johnnie Walker and Gordon’s. Diageo provide a lot of information about its vision, marketing and brands on www.diageo.com which should be a key source for your research. Guinness is one of Diageo’s priority brands. It is the number 1 stout in the world, brewed to suit local tastes in 50 countries and sold in more than 150. For more information on the brand you can download the attachment. The Guinness website www.guinness.com provides more information on the history of the brand, examples of TV, poster and press advertising over the years and much more. It is also the hub of all the current online marketing to the existing Relationship Marketing consumers. 2.0 The Marketplace Guinness is GB’s fifth largest beer - 1 million pints sold every day in the UK. Guinness considers itself to be within the broader “beer” category, not restricting itself to the specific “stout” category within which it holds an effective monopoly. Its main competitors by volume are the likes of Fosters, Carling, Carlsberg, Stella Artois and John Smiths. The most widely distributed beer brand in this...
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...distance learning mode has increased, many working professionals seek to upgrade their academic qualifications for a better career. Every year, lakhs of students and professionals apply for MBA programs at top business schools in the country. However, with limited seats, there is tough competition to get an entry into one of the top institutions. For this purpose, management entrance exams are conducted to filter out candidates at a primary level. After clearing the entrance exam, a candidate has to pass through the rounds of Group Discussion (GD) followed by Personal Interview (PI). An aspirant successfully clearing all the three rounds is eligible for admission to distance MBA programs at top B-Schools. Personal Interview is a generic interview. Here, the interviewer seeks to test the confidence, communication and presentation skills of the candidate. A number of students get eliminated at this level due to inability to produce impressive answers. There are some typical questions that are asked in the PI rounds of various colleges. Here are a few. Tell us something about yourself. This is the most common interview question not only asked in PI interviews forpart time MBA professionals, but in several other interviews. Here, the interviewer intends to assess your presentation and how you pitch yourself in front of others. Communication is, ofcourse, an important factor for judging. You need to be as casual and real as you can be while answering this. You should mention about your...
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...The Top Fat Loss Secrets for Flat Six-Pack Abs and a Lean Stomach an interview by Geovanni Derice with Mike Geary - Certified Nutrition Specialist, Certified Personal Trainer I had the pleasure of being interviewed recently by a fitness professional from NYC, Certified Personal Trainer, Geovanni Derice. The interview is below and I think you're going to like it... I reveal some of the hardest hitting strategies for getting rid of that stubborn stomach fat to uncover those flat six pack abs that everyone wants. "GD: Welcome Mike to our 4-ever-Toned Fitness Journal. For those who do not know you, please tell us a few things about yourself and how you can help our readers with their fitness and health. MG: Thanks for having me, Geo. Well, to go back a little, I have been heavily involved in fitness and sports for about 17 years now, ever since I was a teenager. Being involved in sports in high school got me interested in strength training and conditioning. At that point, once I started feeling more energetic, getting stronger, and looking better, I was instantly hooked for life. I'm 33 now and still addicted to the way living a healthy and fit lifestyle makes me feel energetic, confident, strong, and youthful on a daily basis. I decided earlier in my 20's that I wanted to make the commitment to help other people experience the excitement of being fit and getting in the best shape of their lives, especially since we've reached an epidemic of obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer...
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...INTERVIEWED WITH: ITC and Schlumberger Program- BTECH HIGHLIGHTS OF MY CAMPUS STAY CPI: 8.8 Volunteer in Ritambhara, participated in 2-3 robotics events etc. PRE-PLACEMENT PREPARATION - When it came to resume building, I mentioned my internship (which was in Samsung), projects I did and the co-curricular activities - I was confident about my aptitude and was focussing mainly core and analytics. - I didn’t prepare for GD but finally had to give GD in Coca Cola, ITC and Schlumberger. So you can never be too sure of what comes your way during the placements. PLACEMENT EXPERIENCE - I started my placement journey by getting shortlisted in Capital One on Day 1. They shortlisted 125 candidates on the basis of resume. Then they took a case study interview and reduced the number to 30. Then again took an aptitude test but finally didn’t give offer to anyone. - Then came Coca Cola on Day 2. They organised GD in the groups of ten each and then there was a single interview of about half an hour which mainly consisted of HR based questions. The topic of the GD was “Are Engineering students wasting time in studies ?”. The interview mainly focussed on the commitment to work with them and asked whether I did any activity depicting leadership skills. - Coca Cola shortlisted candidates with medium profile like moderate CPI with few extracurrecs. I had a target of gettng placed in Qualcomm from second year itself. It came on Day 2 and I got a call from Qualcomm in the middle of the interview...
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...1. What is the Type of your institute? [Put (√) mark in the box] |Self financed autonomous technical institution | | |Self financed deemed to be status technical institution | | |Self financed private technical institution | | 2. Discipline offered in your institute. (Choose as many as apply) |electronics & communication engineering | | |electrical engineering | | |mechanical engineering | | |chemical engineering | | |civil engineering | | |computers & IT engineering | | OTHER………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 3. Year of establishment of your institute. [Put (√) mark in the box] |Before 1950 | | |1951-1980 | | |1981-2000 | | |After 2000 | | 4. Number of UG programmes in engineering. [Put (√) mark in the box] |Less...
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.......................................................................................................... 2 External actors ........................................................................................................................................... 2 I.C.A.O................................................................................................................................................... 3 I.A.T.A. .................................................................................................................................................. 3 EUROCONTROL.................................................................................................................................. 4 The digital flight, how the e-business revolutionized the Airline Industry ...............................................4 Can we make the journey experience different? Should we do it?........................................................ 5 Multi Channels CRM and e-Business: a converging path .........................................................................5 The long path started with SITA and SABRE ....................................................................................... 6 Distribution History: toward the customer into the supply chain .......................................................... 6 Internet:...
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...Executive Summary Barilla and its distributors have decided to implement the Just-in-Time Distribution (JITD) approach. This will require a vendor relationship between Barilla and its distributors and investment in sharing information from its customers and the inventory on hand in the distributors’ warehouse. Because of Barilla’s poor performance caused by shortages it is imperative that JITD is implemented in a proper manner that emphasizes the short term and long term gains that Barilla and its supply chain will have. Although most of the implementation can occur in a short period of time, in order for the supply chain to truly be successful, there must be long term investment for the vendor relationship and relationship with its internal members to truly be effective and successful. Issue Identification The following are a list of issues that must be addressed: * Distribution System * Extreme demand fluctuations * Distributor resistance * Internal resistance Issue Identification including Root Cause Analysis Distribution system Barilla has employed two main approaches to meet the end users’ needs. Barilla carries extra inventory in its factories in anticipation of any large pulls from its customer because it can’t produce product fast enough within the constraints of its production facilities. However, holding extra inventory is extremely expensive because there is no predictability in demand. Second, in order to minimize its inventory carrying...
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