...Darden Restaurants, Inc. | | Type | Public | Traded as | NYSE: DRI[1] S&P 500 Component | Industry | Restaurant | Predecessor | Green Frog Restaurant (1938-1967) Red Lobster Inns of America (1968-70) General Mills Restaurants (1970-95) | Founded | First Restaurant (The Green Frog) opened in 1938 in Waycross, GA. | Founder | Bill Darden | Headquarters | 1000 Darden Center Drive Orlando, Florida, U.S. 32837 | Number of locations | More than 1,500 - 2015 Annual Report | Area served | Worldwide | Key people | Eugene Lee (President & Chief Executive Officer) Jeffrey Smith (Chairman) | Services | Foodservice | Revenue | US$ $7.999 billion (FY May 2012)[1] | Operating income | US$ 638.0 million (FY 2012)[2] | Net income | US$ 475.5 million[1] | Total assets | US$ 5.944 billion (FY 2012)[2] | Total equity | US$ 1.842 billion (FY 2012)[2] | Number of employees | 200,000[1] | Website | darden.com | Footnotes / references [3][4] | Darden Restaurants, Inc. is an American multi-brand restaurant operator headquartered in Orlando.[3] The firm owns several casual dining restaurant chains: Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Bahama Breeze, Seasons 52, Eddie V's Prime Seafood, The Capital Grille and Yard House. Until July 28, 2014, Darden also owned Red Lobster. Darden has more than 1,500 restaurant locations and more than 150,000 employees, making it the world's largest full-service restaurant company.[1] As of 2012, Darden is the only...
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...1867 under water there was a lobster and his father. Him and his father would train in his Dojo in the art of Ninjutsu. There were other lobsters training with him and his friend Pirate alligator. After two months the father’s lobster graduated and become a true ninja lobster. The kid lobster couldn’t think of a name so he named himself ninja lobster. One day ninja lobster’s father told him to go get some food for him to eat. He left the Dojo and went searching. Little did he now that would be the last time he saw his father. When he returned with dinner he then saw a python and a wolf with an bubble surrounding them so they can breathe. Ninja lobster sees his father swimming to the surface and he chased after him. But the...
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...EA TOOLS & MATERIALS END USER LICENSE Electronic Arts Inc, and its subsidiaries, affiliates and licensors (collectively, “EA”) grants you a non- transferable non-exclusive license to download and/or install and use one copy of the software tool (“Tool”) and/or materials (“Materials”) (collectively the “Tools & Materials”) solely for your personal noncommercial use in connection with EA’s products, in accordance with the terms below. EA owns all of the rights, title and interest in the Tools & Materials. You may not alter any of EA’s trademarks or logos, or alter or remove any of EA’s trademark or copyright notices included in or with the Tools & Materials or EA’s products. Your right to use Tools & Materials is limited to the license grant above, and you may not otherwise copy, display, distribute, perform, publish, modify, create works from, or use any of the Tools & Materials. Without limiting the preceding sentence, you may not modify, reverse engineer, disassemble, license, transfer, distribute, create works from, or sell the Tool, or use the Tools & Materials to further any commercial purpose. Without limiting the foregoing, you may not use the Tools & Materials to promote another product or business, or on any site that operates or promotes a server emulator. You may include materials created with the Tools & Materials on your personal noncommercial website for the noncommercial benefit of the fan community for EA’s products and provided that if you do so, you must also...
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...picture from this section alone. Assume that the reader reads nothing else. Darden Restaurants, Inc., a multi-billion dollar full-service restaurant company, is facing – and will be facing many difficult challenges. In addition to billions in lost revenue from the economic downturn and a severe shortage in their most served menu item, they have recently been challenged by a new minority shareholder who is pressuring them to reorganize their corporate structure. This activist investor, Barington Capital Group, LP, is known for being particularly aggressive and frequently getting what they want. Darden’s revenues are down significantly over the last couple of years in their two flagship – and typically most profitable restaurants, Red Lobster and Olive Garden. While they have consistently held the majority of the market share of the sector for quite some time, their top position is in peril – both because of poor performance, and an almost imminent battle with Barington. They have recently acquired another chain to add to their “specialty” line of restaurants for $435 million – an amount some think was entirely too much. They...
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...Clearwater guaranteed their customers to never be served other than what they ordered, avoiding what a study found is frequently happening in seafood restaurants (Johnson, 2013). Similar to any company, Clearwater was aiming to expand its operations and reach out to new customers. The management of Clearwater was able to get the company to its current position by targeting major markets with large seafood demand and studying them to find entry strategies. As a result Clearwater had entered the Chinese market where restaurants industry is going thru a dynamic expansion that is expected to continue in the coming years along with an increasing rate of its population (Market Line, 2014). This can be illustrated in Figure 1 and Figure 2. Since China is the largest producer of seafood in the world with increasing export and import figures over the years, Clearwater placed a representative in...
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...Notting Foods Inc.—Background Notting Foods Inc. is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. It was founded in 1939 and is now the world’s largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef and pork. The company produces a wide variety of branded, processed food products and is the recognised leader in almost every retail and food service market it serves. With revenues of US$30 billion, Notting has 142 800 employees and more than 360 facilities and offices in 32 US states and 22 countries. Notting Foods’ vision is to be ‘the world’s first choice for protein based foods while maximising shareholder value’. ‘Segment, concentrate and dominate’ has long been its approach to business. The company anticipated consumer demand, segmented a market, concentrated on production and marketing so that it subsequently dominated the segment. Market domination, in conjunction with exacting cost control measures, is the company’s approach to achieving superior profits in fluctuating markets. In 2006, WEALTH magazine ranked Notting Foods Inc. as America’s most admired company in the food production industry. The survey ranked the 10 largest companies by revenues in 66 industries, including large subsidiaries of foreign firms. According to WEALTH, the survey results reflected the opinions of 10 000 executives, directors and securities analysts who rated the companies in their own industries using eight criteria, including innovation, employee talent, use of corporate assets, social responsibility...
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...the industry’s players. The industry is split in two sectors: full-service restaurants (FSR) and limited-service restaurants (LSR). FSRs typically have a wait-staff; LSRs do not have wait-staff. The top five countries, in terms of total number of foodservice outlets, are: China, India, Brazil, Japan, and the US. The industry is of low concentration. Combined, the top industry players make up less than 3% of total global industry revenues. In terms of size, 2013 global sales were $2.6T, up 4.9%. The 2013 global labor force was 62.4M employees, up 2.4%. In accordance with Porter’s Five Forces framework, the forces that shape competition in the restaurant industry have a moderate to high impact on competitiveness. There is a moderate threat of new entrants and a high threat of substitutes. Buyers have a high degree of bargaining power and suppliers have a moderate degree of bargaining power. The restaurant industry is highly competitive and experiences intense rivalry. In terms of macro-environmental factors, emerging markets around the world over are having an impact on how restaurants execute strategy both domestically and abroad. The growth of the middle class in emerging markets, such as China and India, presents a new demographic and an opportunity for quality growth in an industry that is simultaneously experiencing levels of maturity in the US and European markets. Internal analyses of the industry’s top players yields an in depth look into McDonald’s, Yum...
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...FREE Cookbooks!! Stop Searching, Start Cooking! http://recipes2u.tk/ Main Source www.recipies2u.tk Author Is : Shungoo chicki FREE Cookbooks!! Stop Searching, Start Cooking! http://recipes2u.tk/ Table of Contents Introduction.........................................................................................................................................................1 Almond Chicken ................................................................................................................................................2 Almond Biscuits ................................................................................................................................................3 Barbecued Spareribs ........................................................................................................................................4 Bean Curd with Oyster Sauce ..........................................................................................................................5 Bean Sprout Salad .............................................................................................................................................6 Beef with Broccoli .............................................................................................................................................7 Beef Kwangton ....................................................................................................................................
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...Taco Bell in Japan (Round Two Japan, will this time be a Fiesta or Siesta?) By Phillip Smith As a child, growing up on the West Coast of America, Taco Bell, was as common as McDonalds, with locations in every neighborhood. Its classic chicken quesadilla and bean burrito were staples of my college diet and I could not imagine a fast-food landscape without the spicy taco-sauce. Although, since moving to Japan in 2005, I’ve had to settle for eating Taco Bell only when traveling outside of Japan. That being said, every other major US fast-food chain seems to be serving its notable favorites in the land of the Rising Sun. For example, McDonalds operates over 3,100 units (Inagaki, 2015), Kentucky Fried Chicken has 1165 locations (Yum!’s, 2015) and Starbucks has 1117 (Loxcel, 2015); but where is Taco Bell? On 21 April, 2015, the multinational fast-food chain answered back with its launch into the Japan market with a new location in Shibuya, Tokyo. This is not Taco Bell’s first launch in Japan. Back in the late 1980’s it opened stores in two markets, Tokyo and Nagoya (Matayoshi, 2015). A few years later in the early 1990s, they closed all the Japan operations, abandoning the country. Will the second attempt be different? How will marketing play a role in its success? Did they invest in market research to gain insight in the lay of the land? How will its competitive environment contrast its first attempt to penetrate the Japan market? What type of competitive strategies...
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...CHAPTER 1: ARTICLES ABOUT WEDDING CUSTOM IN WESTERN 1. Western Wedding - Wedding in Western Countries By Uttoran Sen Wedding is a celebration in which couples begin their married life. Concept and customs of marriage varies between countries, religions, casts, cultures. Marriage also depends on economic condition of bride and grooms family. But both Eastern and western marriages has its own importance. Nuptial is the common adjective of "wedding" used in zoology. Wedding rings or wedding vows symbolizes the Western wedding, where as wedding chain symbolizes the Eastern wedding. There are many differences between Eastern and western wedding for example differences in wedding reception, wedding halls, wedding party and many other things. Wedding reception is very common in western wedding ceremonies. Sometimes receptions are arranged after wedding, some times before. Commonly receptions arrange in evening times. Dinner in reception is quite different from other dinners. Western wedding include dance, music, orchestras, poetry, prayer. Some traditions of Western wedding represents the bride's and her father's relationship and her relationship with new family. Some traditions symbolize the relationship between husband and wife. Modern couples are not giving importance to these traditions. Day by day these customs are vanishing. Wedding rings plays very big role in every western marriage. Wedding rings are the sign of expressing one’s love and affection to his...
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...Odette Jaller May 28, 2015 Politics and Processes Stephan Langdon Final Project: General Mills Company Background General Mills is a leading global producer of packaged consumer foods that was founded in 1928 (General Mills, 2014). General Mills is the world’s sixth largest food manufacture and the second largest producer of breakfast cereal in the United States. The company makes products in 15 countries and manages 40 production sites in the United States (General Mills, 2014). Within these sites, it employs about 35,000 workers, which allow the company to sell its products in more than 100 countries besides the Unites States. The company’s mission can be stated in two words: Nourishing lives. The company also has a strong international presence, selling its products in more than 100 countries. General Mills operates within three segments: US Retail, International, and Bakeries and Foodservice (General Mills, 2014). The company participates within the Cereal Production industry through its US Retail segment, which includes ready-to-eat cereal, organic cereal, granola bars and grain snacks. The cereal segment of its business is the most significant source of revenue, representing about 23% of US retail sales. Furthermore, it is estimated that US industry-specific revenue will grow at an annualized rate of 3.8% to $2.5 billion during the five years to fiscal 2013 (General Mills, 2014). Industry Analysis: Internationalization The breakfast cereal industry acquires raw...
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...Executive Summary McDonalds is known as the world number one selling Fast Food Company. They serve their famous burgers and fries in over one hundred countries around the world. While the majority of their restaurants are stand alone, they also have many franchises that are owned by everyday people like me and you. Their franchises have been their ticket to success; they are the top in the fast food industry because they stay unified in quality and marketing aspects. No matter which type of restaurant, whether corporate or franchised owned. Although, McDonalds are number one in the industry, in order to stay in their position they need to increase sales through expanding into new markets. They have been successful in the past in China and other markets. One of their strengths lies in their versatility to adapt to the culture of foreign markets. By serving traditional cuisine along with McDonald’s original menu items they can successfully target other backgrounds. Their competitors include most all fast food chains that serve meals quite like McDonalds and focus on convenience and price. Unlike some of their competitors, McDonalds has struggled with successfully introducing new menu items. They tend to be adventurous in products they want to introduce. Some of those...
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...0 Contents Executive Summary ..................................................................................................................................... 3 1. Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 6 2. Trade in Goods ................................................................................................................................... 7 2.1 Bilateral Trade between Australia and China .............................................................................. 7 2.2 South Australian Trade with China .............................................................................................. 8 2.2.1 Disaggregated Analysis of South Australian Trade with China ........................................... 8 2.2.2 South Australia’s trade and comparative advantage ........................................................... 9 2.2.2.1 South Australia’s Revealed Comparative Advantage in comparison to other States and Territories .......................................................................................................................................... 12 2.2.2.2 2.2.2.3 Disaggregated Analysis of Key Agricultural Products ....................................................... 18 2.2.2.4 Possible Impacts of ChAFTA Commitments on Agriculture for South Australia ............... 20 2.2.2...
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...cutlery! Same is the case with Chinese and Japanese foods which seem to taste better when eaten with chopsticks. The origin of chopsticks can be dated back to China, around 3000 to 5000 years ago. Widely used in Japan, China, Korea and Vietnam to eat all kinds of foods, most of the chopsticks are made of bamboo while some are also made of ivory, plastic, silver and jade. They are considered as extensions of the fingers and are considered much better than spoons and forks in their usage. Although the respective Asian communities use chopsticks as effortlessly and naturally as Europeans use forks, it doesn’t really come that easily for the rest of us. Despite the fact that most of the world thinks of them as impossible feats, chopsticks actually provides your hands with a physical affinity with the food — something that our quintessential spoons, forks and knives can never boast of. Having said that, we also acknowledge that eating with chopsticks could require some training and hence the next section that talks about how to use chopsticks. Eating With Chopsticks * Clasp one chopstick between your thumb and middle finger. The chopstick must be in such a position that it is placed at the base of your thumb and at the lower joint of the middle finger. While the bottom chopstick remains intact, the upper chopstick moves to grasp the food. This chopstick should not touch your forefinger. * Keep the other chopstick between your forefingers and thumb in such a way that the...
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...PHILIPPINE FLORA AND FAUNA Flora and fauna refer to plant and wildlife, respectively. The indigenous plant and wildlife of a geographical region is often referred to as that region’s flora and fauna. Both are collective terms, referring to groups of plant or wildlife specific to a region or a time period. For example, the flora and fauna of a warm region may consist of tropical to warm-temperate vegetation and exotic species of birds. By definition, flora is a word of Latin origin referring to Flora, the goddess of flowers. Flora can refer to a group of plants, a disquisition of a group of plants, as well as to bacteria. Flora is the root of the word floral, which means pertaining to flowers. Fauna can refer to the animal life or classification of animals of a certain region, time period, or environment. Fauna is also of Latin origin. In Roman Mythology Fauna was the sister of Faunus, a good spirit of the forest and plains. The flora and fauna of any given region is usually explained in biological terms to include the genus and species of plant and animal life, their preferred growing or breeding habits, and their connection to one another in the environment as well. In addition to geographical groupings, environment also helps further classifications of flora and fauna. For example, aquatic flora andfauna of a region refers to the plant and animal life found in the waters in or surrounding a geographic region. FLORA Garden Plants and Flowers By Johnamendall (see also Flowers...
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