...Bucky is a small pony who has proven that "the outside of a horse is good for the inside of man". We are proud to have him nominated to the Tennessee Animal Hall of Fame. His story is as follows. Lynn Petr received a call one evening from our farrier, Ed Meador. After much hesitation, he prefaced his request with, "Now I don't recommend horses to anyone and Lord knows I don't recommend ponies, but a client has one that's just too good to kill". With further explanation it seemed a lady was selling all her horses and had one pony left. He was turned out on 80 acres of grass by himself, so of course he foundered. Instead of taking the time necessary for his recovery, this lady was sending the pony to the killers. Ed had known the pony for a few years and realized he had special qualities not always found in ponies - manners and no vices. He was hoping STAR would save him. You have to realize in this business, Lynn receives calls all the time from people trying to give us horses. Many of these give-a-way horses are old, lame or full of vices, so she has to be very critical and emotionally detached. Her normal procedure is to screen the animals in person before bringing them to the farm for more in-depth testing. We didn't have this kind of time. There wouldn't be a place to send him if he failed our screening and Ed couldn't even remember how big this pony was (or he conveniently forgot!) But, against all her normal policies, for some reason she agreed to take the pony if Ed would...
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...Shaunya Fraysher Arabians LTD began as a tax deduction with five Straight Egyptian Arabian mares used for breeding in the 1970s. This company has become the world’s leading breeder of these rare horses. Arabians LTD enjoys annual net income of approximately 1 million dollars, not bad for a couple who started out looking for a tax break. Currently they market mostly oversees in Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and other countries in the Mid-East. Here in America their marketing is limited to Arabian horse magazines. This is the most efficient marketing campaign for the company at this time; however, I see opportunities for advancement. Egyptian Arabians are so rare that if not for being in captivity they would be on the endangered species list. This breed is the oldest know horse, both archeologically and recorded breeding, in the world. After all, who has not admired the hoses of the Pharaohs? Every horse must be able to have its ancestry traced to the Egyptian desert, wild caught prior to the early 1800s. No intentional breeding for physical characteristics other than that of the originals is permitted. In 2006, there were 17,000 true SE Arabians in the world. Using this as a marketing strategy here in the US could potentially bring in new investors who might invest for this reason. Expanding the advertisements into other horse magazines, web sites, and social media adds expressing the need to save this breed could potentially bring in financing or purchasers wanting to help “save”...
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...emerged, the Quarter Pony. There is certain criteria a Quarter Horse must have, the Quarter Pony must meet certain criteria, and since the Quarter Pony comes from the Quarter Horse breed the two are alike and different. Even though the Quarter Pony is a small replica of the Quarter Horse, the Quarter Horse is one of the most recognized horse breeds in America. The Quarter Horse has certain criteria it must have to be considered for registration with the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA). The following is some of the AQHA regulations that are required (AQHA, 2011). The horse must be 14.2 Hands High (HH) or taller, but not over 15.3 HH, must be from a bloodline of registered Quarter Horses (mother and father must be registered with the AQHA), the horse must be one of the 17 basic Quarter Horse coat colors, and must be tall, muscular, lean, and fast. The quarter Pony has certain criteria it must meet to register with the International Quarter Pony Association (IQPA). The following is some of the IQPA regulations that are required (IQPA, 2011). The horse is required to be under 14.2 HH and over 11.2 HH, must come from one parent that is registered with the AQHA (the mother or father must be registered with the AQHA), the horse does not have to be one of the 17 basic Quarter Horse coat colors, and must be short, stocky, and muscular. Although the Quarter Pony is a small replica of the Quarter Horse, they are alike and different. A Quarter Pony is known for its compact...
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...2013 Chevy Camaro I. The Chevrolet has an abundant product family that is versatile across the entire automobile spectrum. Chevrolet offers any type of car that is on the consumer market, with the Camaro as their affordable sport car selling at a basic price of $23,000. The Camaro is an affordable and economical rear-wheel-drive performance sports car with a V-6 or V-8 engine. The Camaro is a two door coupe that seats four people comfortably with an estimated 30 miles per gallon. The Camaro can be classified as a red ocean as it competes directly with other retro-inspired muscle cars, including the Dodge Challenger and Ford Mustang. This car is geared for optimal customer user experience. The powerful engine and old American muscle car style gives the user a full exclusive sports car experience. For Chevrolet, safety is extremely important to their brand. The innovation of having high performance headlights with multiple air bags helped give the car the rating of a perfect NHTSA Crash Test Ratings of 5 stars. II. The Chevy Camaro is targeted and segmented to a specific market because there is a particular customer group who is interested in this product. For starters, Chevy cannot start marketing and targeting families with children because this car would be impractical for that situation. It would be just as impractical for Chevy to target businesses and market this car as a flexible all work condition vehicle. This car is clearly a sports car, and should be...
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...makes them. Describe three generations of that product (past, present, and future). Then in a multipage write-up, answer why was there change, what changed, and what will be the challenges and issues (business and technical) of the future generation. On September 12, 1966, General Motors first displayed a preview of their next generation car, the Camaro. There were two main reasons why General Motors came out with this car. First, General Motors was trying to create a new type of car to satisfy consumer’s desire for a strong and faster type of car. Second, it was General Motor’s way to compete with Ford’s new Mustang. When the Camaro first came out, it was classified as a compact car. However, they later changed the classification to a pony car, and it has been seen more as a touring car, sports car, or muscle car. Along with the changes in names, there have also been many changes in style, technology, features, and specifications. General Motors is now in production of their 5th generation Chevrolet Camaro. On January 6th, 2006, General Motors started brainstorming ideas and concepts for this new generation car with a new body, wheelbase, engine, transmission, suspension, and much more. After two years of designing, engineering, manufacturing, and problems, on July 21, 2008, General Motors officially unveiled the production of the 2010 5th generation Camaro. This new generation Camaro was able to enhance or surpass most, if not all, of the 4th generation’s features....
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...hand-in-hand. Every year we change 'the organizational structure in tandem with changes in strategy. Jack Ma, Chief Executive Officer of Alibaba Group, stared through the fog at the cable stays of the Hangzhou Bay Bridge whistling past on his drive to the offices of Taobao ("hunting for treasures"), Alibaba's online marketplace for Chinese retailers and consumers. The longest transoceanic bridge in the world had a long gestation period: the feasibility studies took a decade. and even after their approval the plans changed to connect the northern end of the bridge to Jiaxing, rather than the Jinshan suburb of Shanghai as initially planned. When the bridge was opened to the public just over a year earlier, in May 2008, it cut the trip between the cities of Ningbo and Shanghai and southern Jiangsu province from 400 kilometers (km, equivalent to 249 miles) to just 80 km (50 miles), boosting economic integration and development in the Yangtze River Delta, which was home to 72.40 million people living in almost 100,000 square km of land comprising Shanghai, Zhejiang province, and Jiangsu province.? Ma couldn't help but smile to himself as he thought of the obvious similarities between the Hangzhou Bay Bridge and the Alibaba Group of companies. Just as the proposed bridge changed form as its plans progressed, the Alibaba Group evolved over an equally long period from its founding by Ma and a small group of friends in 1998, to the point where it now captured approximately one half of business-to-business...
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...Ankit Singh and Juan Alberto Calero Part A – e-Commerce in China vs USA 1. Overall, what are some key opportunities and challenges (obstacles) that confront ecommerce in China? How are these challenges similar / different from those confronting e-commerce in the US (or other countries that you are more familiar with)? Some of the key opportunities of e-commerce in China are: The internet penetration rate in China is growing at a much faster rate as compared to other countries. 25.5% users in China have engaged in e-commerce, while in US 71% has done so. This represents an enormous opportunity for e-commerce services, given that there is room for growth in China. The market is China is still in the beginning of its growth stage. The manufacturing prowess of china provides an excellent complement to the ecommerce market. Online shopping market has grown 64.1% over last year to $1.5 Billion. Online B2B market is valued at 65.7 B 69.8% yearly growth. With these accelerated growth rates, the e-commerce market will developed very quickly, players need to be aware of the stage of e-commerce in China and address the market accordignly. Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) contribute to 68.8% of nation gross industrial output. Only 28% of SMEs utilised third-party B2B e-commerce platform. The government has a plan to increase it to 80% by 2012. Given this, the projected demand for e-commerce is known. In addition , players also known which type of businesses are using e-commerce...
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...COMPANY NOTE Initiating Coverage 27 October 2014 CHN | Technology | Internet BUY Price target $118.00 Price $95.76 The Powerful E-Commerce Ecosystem Connecting Half of China; Initiate at Buy Key Takeaway China's changing Internet user demographics and mobile development support our favorable view on e-Commerce for the next decade. Alibaba is the largest Chinese ecommerce player, with 80%+ GMV market share, but is only selling to less than 25% of the population now. We estimate well over half of Chinese population will be shopping on Alibaba’s platforms in 10 years. Initiate with Buy; PT USD118. Changing demographics & mobile support ecommerce in the next decade. As discussed in our sector note, "A Taste of Domestic Consumption: The Unleashing of China's E-Commerce Power" published on Sept 19, 2014, China’s e-Commerce growth for the next decade benefit from: 1) changing Internet user demographics towards 30+ year old age groups; 2) accelerating structural shift to online from traditional retail; 3) Chinese government’s massive support for urbanization and domestic consumption; 4) proliferation of affordable smart devices; 5) improving wireless and transport infrastructures in lower tier and rural markets, and 6) rising consumer demand for better quality, design & fashion, authenticity and timely delivery. Growth driven by mix shift towards Tmall, and improving mobile monetization. We expect Alibaba, as the largest e-Commerce player, to sell to...
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...Alibaba Group is a Hangzhou-based e-commerce/e-auction company, specializing in global trading. It was founded in 1999 by Ma Yun (Jack Ma), and operates five e-commerce sub-companies which operate different aspects of trading. Employees 4,400 (June 30,2007). As of January 2009, the Alibaba Group is made up of 6 sub-companies: 1. Taobao.com: Online auctions web site for customers. 2. Alipay: Online payments web site, processing mainly payments within China. 3. Alisoft: Provider of web services to the Chinese Small and Medium-sized Enterprise market place. 4. Alimama: Online advertising exchange, which allows web publishers and advertisers to trade online advertising inventory. 5. China Yahoo ! As a powerful portal with excellent searching engine, it provides high- quality basic application services for internet users including email, IM, information services and so on. 6. Koubei.com: China's largest communities for exchanging basic life information such as that on clothes, food, housing and travel. In 2009, Alibaba Group employed nearly 17,000 people, 70% worked in Alibaba’s B2B business. CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS 1. Clear Strategy To be the best e-business website not only in China, but also all over the world is the mission of Alibaba Corporation. The clear strategy is the beginning of the team of Ma Yun and the highest demand of all the team members. The right strategy born with the right period of e-business development in...
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...Ma was born in Zhejiang Province, China, in 1946. Ma taught himself English and graduated from Hangzhou Teacher's institute in 1988. Jack Ma is the CEO of Alibaba Group, the Chinese leader in e-commerce with counts five companies specialized in online shopping as Tabao.com, the second global site behind eBay and Yahoo China, the search engine and portal bought by Yahoo in 2005. In his younger years, Jack Ma was a tour guide; his excellent command of English and his perfect knowledge of the province of Hangzhou where he comes from allow him to be really good in this job. Graduated from Hangzhou Teachers' Institute in 1988, Jack Ma taught for some time before creating a translation agency that knows a big success thanks to U.S. and foreign companies who move in China. During a trip he made in the USA as an interpreter, Jack Ma discovers computers and internet. Fascinated, he ordered to a friend a website for his translation agency. Back in China, he borrowed $ 2,000 from friends and launched the website China pages, considered as the first commercial website in the country. The site has difficulties to find its business model and stops. Jack Ma got a job at the Ministry of Foreign Trade, a position which enabled him in 1998 to meet Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo. Jack Ma really wants to invest in the web. He managed to borrow $ 60,000 for the launch of Alibaba.com in 1999. Quickly, the company is a leader in the sector of business-to-business (B2B). The credibility...
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...Does IT Matter? I do not think that with Nicholas Carr’s article ‘IT Doesn’t Matter” that Carr necessarily meant that Information Technology does not matter, but more that it has become a “commodity” as stated in the article. Meaning that businesses are now so dependent on IT, and it is now so common in the business world; therefore, IT now only offers little competitive advantage between companies. Companies view Information Technology as such and important success factor that businesses world wide, even during this economic downfall, continue to spend over $2 trillion a year on Information Technology, where in 1965 less than 5 percent of a company’s capital expenditures went to IT. Carr’s suggestion is that since the return on companies investment in information technology is so low, that business owners should contemplate the amount that they pay for Information Technology. In my opinion, I think that Information Technology does matter, and companies should use IT to their advantage, and that companies can profit off of using IT. To me the most important assets that IT provides are the ease and convenience of the Microsoft Windows applications as well as the Internet for research. For example companies using Excel to keep organized records of customers, associates, employees, and etc. People using the IT to do research on companies and products that they may have an interest in purchasing. However, I am still firm believer that we should not forget how to use...
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...provides business to customer and customer-to-customer sales and services via online. Electronic payments, cloud-computing services that are data centric and search engines for shopping are also included in Alibaba’s services. Jack Ma is a very successful person that brings up the whole company with Penh Lei, also known as founders of the company. Being an English teacher, which is lacked in computer knowledge, Jack Ma made up for this weakness with his vision. Jack and 17 of his friends launched Alibaba in 1999. By right, Alibaba Group is more successful than eBay and Amazon when put together. Srikanth An. (2015, June 25).Jack Ma- The Inspirational Story of Alibaba Founder. Retrieved from http://www.shoutmeloud.com/jack-ma-alibaba-founder.html In 2012, two thresholds of Ali Baba Group handled sales of almost $170 billion. Though the company was started in the year 1999, the group started earning profits only from the year 2001. Jack Ma was CEO of the group till 2013. Lacking the technical knowledge, Jack was never a typical CEO. Jack is the main pillar of Alibaba who presently acting as the chairman of the group. But the present CEO is Jonathan Lu. In September 2014, Alibaba’s first IPO took the US markets by storm. It boosted founder Jack Ma to become China’s Richest Man. Over 231 million customers spent a figure of $248 billion on Alibaba’s web portals in 2013. This is much more greater sales than eBay and Amazon when combined. Jonathan Lu, the CEO of Alibaba was quoted...
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...Milestone Alibaba’s 18 founders first gathered in Jack Ma’s Lakeside Gardens apartment in Hangzhou in 1999 and founded Alibaba.com. The founders and management would go on to launch a number of Alibaba’s core businesses from that apartment, including Alibaba.com.cn (now known as 1688.com), Taobao Marketplace and Alimama, meeting in the same spirit of partnership and with the same goal: to make it easy to do business anywhere. Jack Ma began operations in 1999 with Alibaba.com, an English-language marketplace for global trade. They founded Alibaba.com to help small exporters engaged in manufacturing and trading, primarily located in China, to reach global buyers. In 1999, they also launched a Chinese-language wholesale marketplace for domestic China trade among small businesses, now called 1688.com. This domestic platform has since evolved into a wholesale channel for merchants doing business on our retail marketplaces to source products. In 2003, Alibaba established Taobao Marketplace as a free platform for buyers to explore and discover products and for sellers to establish a low-cost online presence. According to iResearch, Taobao Marketplace was the number one consumer-to-consumer, or C2C, marketplace in terms of gross merchandise volume in China in 2013. In 2004, Alibaba established Alipay to address the issue of trust between buyers and sellers online. Buyers were unwilling to effect payment before receiving and inspecting their purchases, and sellers were unwilling to...
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...portable, is in the repair shop. The boys climbed the mountain, one of the highest in the West. Identifying Appositive Phrases. Underline the appositive phrase in each of the following sentences. Example: Our house, a brick bungalow, is on Oak Street. 1. Queen Victoria, one of England's greatest monarchs, ruled for sixty-three years. 2. Jane made the salad, a tossed one with French dressing. 3. Harvey Jensen, the pro at the country club, is giving me golf lessons. 4. James Hilton's book, Lost Horizon, has been filmed twice. 5. Chemistry, Sue's favorite subject, is easy for her. 6. Jerry is visiting in Peoria, his old home town. 7. Mr. and Mrs. Miller, our neighbors for the past eight years, are moving to Dallas. 8. Have you ever read The Red Pony, a novel by John Steinbeck? 9. Groucho Marx, the star of many film comedies, also had his own television show. 10. The boys repaired our television set, an eighteen-year-old portable. 11. The poem, one of Robert Frost's best, is called "The Death of the Hired Man." 12. I can't find my notebook, the one I use for history class. 13. Dick's new suit, a gray flannel one, makes him look much older. 14. We enjoy walking, an exercise which requires no great skill. 15. The theater, an old and drafty one, is nevertheless always crowded. 16. My math teacher, Miss Holmes, has taught for twenty years. 17. The garage, a two-car one, is attached to the house. 18. My sister, a graduate...
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...Ming Huang 2016/4/1 S.F. Express development in China Abstract SF Express emerging markets as China's express delivery companies, committed to improving the efficiency and improve the delivery of express transport service quality. The purpose of this study was to further investigate the impact of the SF Express in the different regions and SF Express courier services in China. The data collected is used to explain the purpose of the SF Express and stakeholders. Introduction S.F. EXPRESS in Guangdong, China was established in 1993, is mainly engaged in international and domestic express delivery business of Hong Kong enterprises. Initial business courier business today between Shun De and Hong Kong, with the increase in customer demand, S.F. EXPRESS service network extends to Zhong Shan, Pan Yu, Jiang Men and Fo Shan, S.F. EXPRESS is one of China express delivery industry's fastest courier companies. After ten years of development, S.F. already has more than 60,000 employees and more than 4,000 Taiwan-owned commercial vehicles, a more than 30 subsidiaries, more than 2,000 self-built outlets, service network covering more than 20 provinces, municipalities Hong Kong and Taiwan, more than 100 prefecture-level cities. To give customers better service delivery, SF still continue to invest heavily in strengthening the company's infrastructure, improve the technological content of equipment and systems, and improve the business skills of employees, their quality and sense...
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