...Juice Bar project 1) U.S. sales of organic food and beverages have grown from $1 billion in 1990 to $26.7 billion in 2010. Sales in 2010 represented 7.7 percent growth over 2009 sales. Experiencing the highest growth in sales during 2010 were organic fruits and vegetables, up 11.8 percent over 2009 sales. Organic food and beverage sales represented approximately 4 percent of overall food and beverage sales in 2010. Leading were organic fruits and vegetables, now representing over 11 percent of all U.S. fruit and vegetable sales. According to Organic Monitor estimates, global organic sales reached $54.9 billion in 2009, up from, $50.9 billion in 2008. The countries with the largest markets are the United States, Germany, and France. The highest per capita consumption is in Denmark, Switzerland, and Austria. 2) The growth in popularity of juice bars has been directly related to the push for more health conscious beverages. Many juice bars offer healthy 'boosts' or mix-ins, which add to their popularity. Juice and smoothie bars are popping up everywhere--in gyms, airports, grocery stores, cafes, malls and college cafeterias. Soaring juice sales and growing demand for healthy, natural produce make the consumer market ripe for juice bar businesses. If you are thinking about starting up a juice bar business, you will need to study the market and competition, and acquire the necessary licenses and permits. You may also want to consider hiring a consultant with a track record of helping...
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...William Wilberforce is remembered today for his long Parliamentary campaign for the abolition of the slave-trade. It was a difficult task while he had ties with the church, you see, the church had invested a great amount of money in the slave buisness of Africa and West India. On March 25th of 1807, the Act of Parliament for Abolition finally received the Royal Assent and became law. (Blah blah blah) However that was not the end of slavery. The law strictly prohibted the trading of human beings, not the right to owning them as property. Wilverforce was born inn Yorkshire, 1759, an only child. His father was a wealthy merchant, his grandfather had made a fortune in maritime trade, and had been elected mayor of hull twice. He spent most of his younger life in boarding schools. While away he became interested in the church and what it had to offer. His beliefs greatly different from the church and those around him, but that did not detur him from making a change in the church. The book William Wilberforce - "Take Up the Fight covers a large amount of smaller fiction* events in his life, while still keeping his story as close to the truth as possible. Throughout the story he spends his journey convincing parliment of the negative consequences of slave trading, and how the Bible tells us it is wrong. It ranges from the time of his birth, his time with his aunts and uncles he stayed with while he was attending school, to the time he spends in his later life as he...
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...Identify risks to agency operations Task 1 Find a newspaper/magazine/internet article that relates to one of the risks to agency operations (economic, financial, social, technology, human behaviour, occupational health and safety, legal, political, social, property and equipment, environmental and natural events). Using the table below, say how the subject of the article will possibly affect the business, it’s likelihood, consequences, level of risk and what steps could be taken to minimise or transfer the risk: |Newspaper/magazine/internet article: | | | |Business risk is the risk which is associated with core business activities, for example, Demand creation, supply, operations, production, raw | |material procurement etc. If an organization fails to properly manage these activities then the probability of impact of these failures on revenue| |becomes too high and the business can loose some part of its sales. Due to lower revenue the profits of business gets negatively impacted, | |particularly in case where Fixed Cost is very high the magnitude will be very high. | |while on the other side, financial risk is associated with the debt level...
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...Is Wal-Mart Good For America? Introduction We all want to do what is best for our families, our friends, ourselves and our country. However, our nation’s number one corporation is under constant ridicule for being a negative part of the American way. Wal-Mart is the overall number one on the fortune 500, over taking Exxon Mobile after a one year slip to the number 2 spot. However Wal-Mart is constantly being ridiculed by media and everyday citizens, its employees included. These opinions are often brought forth because of four major issues; the pay and benefits packages of Wal-Mart employees, the quality and buying of their goods from China, big box corporation killing local businesses ,and Wal-Mart taking jobs away and not creating new, stronger jobs .To answer each question I will use research from many different mediums, financial statements, and my personal experience as a three year Wal-Mart employee, and present facts and numbers that would be crucial in making an educated decision, following this information I will present what I believe is strong and weak about Wal-Marts current way of doing business, and then offer my solutions to answer these questions and answer the big question. Is Wal-Mart good or bad for America? Does Wal-Mart Treat Their Employees Right? As a Wal-Mart employee, I have gotten to see how things are ran, how we receive the goods, how they are taken to the floor, how it is stocked, and cleaned. I have been an overnight stocker at one of the...
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...Discussion paper Do you agree with the concept that there is only one social responsibility of business- to use it's resources and engage in activities to increase it's profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in free and open competition without deception or fraud? I feel that businesses have an obligation when it comes to social responsibilities to not only act ethically but to act responsibly when it comes to all business engagements. I don`t agree with the Idea of a business being created just for the idea of making money but I believe that the core of each business should be to improve the lives of others and their surroundings. If the cocept of others are placed in the heart of each business and if the businesses abide by it, then the amount of deception, fraud, and the lack of ethics that may be found in business today will dramatically decrease.I don`t think that there is only one social responsibility of a business but there are a few responsibilities that businesses should take in and apply. I can`t think of all the responsibilities because it can change do to the nature of the business, but a couple things that should always be the priority for all businesses are to take care of the workers and the customers. If the business can keep their workers and the customer happy, then it will be a foundation for a successful business."A firm that consistently fulfills its social obligations makes itself a desirable member of the community...
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...Social Networks THE NEXT GENERATION David A. Smith Chief Executive Global Futures and Foresight November 2010 Social Networks The next generation Contents Foreword Introduction 2 Chris van der Kuyl 3 David Smith Executive summary 1. 2.1. 2.2. 3.4. 3.5. History of social networks in the digital age in the UK. The present state of social networks. Innovative uses of social networks in today’s society o B2C - Business to Consumer o B2B - Business to Business o P2P - Person to Person (Peer to Peer) o G2C - Government to Citizen Key trends shaping the future of social networks 1. Broadband penetration 2. Rise of mobile technologies 3. Ambient technology - the 'internet of things' 4. 24/7 lifestyle 5. Data expansion 6. The future of the net: web v apps 7. Geo-spatial and augmented reality technologies 8. New era of mass communication 9. New business era 10. Trust 11. Education 12. Older social networkers 13. Gaming and virtual reality 14. Government intervention Tomorrow’s consumer o B2C - Business to Consumer o E-Government and the 'Big Society' o Educational networking o Social studies o Gaming and virtual worlds The evolution of social networks o Technological progress o Business models and revenue streams o From the web to the street o Privacy/security/ permissive marketing o Digital Asset Management o Longevity of digital assets o Impact on advertising Changing...
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...THE ROLE OF LEAN MANUFACTURING AND LEAN TECHNIQUES IN THE SUCCESS OF AN ORGANIZATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Requirements of this project were rather stringent as sufficient knowledge of the topic was not enough. It was also necessary to have abundance of devotion and willpower together with an ability and willingness to perform hard labour for successful completion of this project. It would be unfair on my part not to acknowledge the contribution of all those who had encouraged me all through and kept my spirits from flagging and that include my parents, friends and well wishers. These people, though not directly involved with the project, did most certainly provide the ambience that was sorely needed while undertaking such a strenuous task. I feel extremely fortunate that I had Mr/Ms Xxxx as my project leader and cannot thank him/her more for the unstinted encouragement I had received throughout this period. If his/her suggestions that resulted in necessary and timely course corrections were not there, I doubt very much whether this project would have at all seen the light of the day, let alone being successfully completed within the deadline. ABSTRACT The word that is most significant in Lean Manufacturing process is ‘lean’ which literally means a body or a system that does not have any unnecessary or avoidable flab or float. Such flab or float exists in manufacturing systems and are manifested through unnecessary or nil value movements or costs that do not add to the final...
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...Hybrid Cars IQP A Study on Hybrid Cars: Environmental Effects and Consumer Habits An Interactive Qualifying Project to be submitted to the faculty of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science. Submitted By: Michael Beliveau James Rehberger Jonathan Rowell Alyssa Xarras Submitted to: Submitted: 28 April 2010 Project Advisor: Prof. Chickery Kasouf 1 Hybrid Cars IQP Table of Contents List of Figures ................................................................................................................................................ 4 Abstract ......................................................................................................................................................... 5 Executive Summary ....................................................................................................................................... 6 Chapter 1. Chapter 2. Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 9 Literature Review ................................................................................................................ 12 2.1 Environmental Effects ....................................................................................................................... 12 2.2 Emissions ............................................
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