...-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eat Your Heart Out | Paper Magazine Does a Super (Duper) Market Culture, Food By JANE HERMANJuly 13, 2012, 1:30 pm 2 Comments Paper Magazine's Super (Duper) Market Atisha Paulson Brucie Atisha Paulson Scribe Winery Atisha Paulson 123Loading “I’m crying. And dying,” Paper magazine’s Kim Hastreiter says halfway through the tour of her Super (Duper) Market, which will be open Friday through the weekend in Manhattan’s meatpacking district. She is completely elated and, more important, satiated, by what’s in store: “The best ice cream (Humphry Slocombe), the best cornbread (Red Rooster), the best olive oil (Sciabica’s),” she says. Here, at what is a smorgasbord of carefully procured and exquisitely packaged food stuff, all the stars of Hastreiter’s bicoastal culinary-craft world collide. The vendors hail mostly from Brooklyn (Empire Mayonnaise, Morris Kitchen, Mile End) and California’s Bay Area (Boulettes Larder, Modern Appealing Clothing, Tartine Bakery and Cafe). “I’m kind of a maven, and these are really my favorite things,” says Hastreiter pointing to the Tang Brothers noodle stand. “Those are, like, the best noodles.” Walk through the mart and you might sample homemade mozzarella on honey-drizzled toast from the Cobble Hill restaurant Brucie, buy a Sol LeWitt star bowl (Hastreiter’s pick) at...
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...Before the Beginning: A Look at Pre-Amberverse Cosmology "...And the Queen of Kashfa sees with the Eye of the Serpent." "I don't know that she sees with it," I said. "She's still recovering from the operation. But that's an interesting thought. If she could see with it, what might she behold?" "The clear, cold lines of eternity, I daresay. Beneath all Shadow. No mortal could bear it for long." Suhuy & Merlin, Prince Of Chaos Long ago, before even Chaos reigned, there dwelt a race of Ancients. How these creatures came into being is unknown, perhaps even by them. Some speculate they spontaneously formed, others would have one believe a greater power yet created them. Whatever the truth of the matter, they existed before all that is now known. The Ancients set about the task of creating a place for themselves to dwell. They created a fabric of existence, a latticework of power which defined the Universe and gave a meaning to space and time. They used these "Pathways" like a giant web, travelling along it and creating homes (referred to now as Shadows) upon the structure. Within this universal framework they would dwell, war, and finally they would die. No one can name the reason for their wars. Perhaps there was none, if there ever is such a thing. At first they fought with their creations, creatures of lesser power who were products of their works. They bound these creatures, whom some would call Gods, into the latticework and created Artifacts of Power to draw...
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...ediMedia Planning & Research - Presentation Transcript Media Planning & Research Client: Intrigue Visuals PowerPoint slides are crafted by ziqq. Media Planning “ What are the best means of delivering advertisements to prospective purchasers of my brand or service?” Media Plan Media Objectives Target Audience Analysis Media Selection Rationale Creative Media Options Media Strategy IntrigueVisuals IntrigueVisuals is a production house dealing in the services of photography,design,3D animation and video. Objective of this campaign? IV has no brand name The market is saturated They have a portfolio but no where to showcase it IV has no extensive network to reach out to for jobs To create awareness about Intrigue Visuals (IV) Based on these insights: Target Audience? People who have interest in the Arts, more specifically photography. Different Mediums Print TV Internet Radio Outdoor Client’s pick Is this the best medium for this campaign? Is it the BEST medium? How do we gauge which is the BEST medium for this campaign? We have to look into: 1) Which is the most suitable and effective medium for our targeted audience 2) We have to consider criteria such as budget and time for production for each medium use Media and their characteristics Outdoor Advantages Reaches potential customers close to point of sale Communication can be quick and simple Repetition easy in high-traffic areas Disadvantages Short message may limit creative breadth Despoiling...
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...Background In 1989, Sebastian Spering Kresge opened Kmart, a five-and-dime store in Detroit. The low prices appealed to shoppers and he was able to open 85 more stores in 1912. By 1927, the Kresge Company started opening locations that sold items for $1 or less. Ten years later, he opened a store in a shopping center in Kansas City, Missouri (Sears Holdings, History). In 1968, Kmart begin to air television commercials to entice shoppers to the stores. Harry B. Cunningham became president in 1959, and developed a new strategy for the organization. While Cunningham was president, Kmart opened their first discount department store in 1962 in Garden City, Michigan; that same year seventeen more stores were opened. In 1976, Kmart made history by opening 271 stores in one year. In 1977, the company changed its name to Kmart Corporation. In order to fully focus on discount merchandising, Kmart sold the remaining Kresge stores (Sears Holdings, History). In 1990, Kmart took on a new logo and a new plan. As part of the plan, Kmart opened the first Kmart Supercenter in Medina, Ohio in 1991. Kmart was totally redesigned in 1996 and became known as Big Kmart. In 1999, Kmart launched a Internet presence, BlueLight.com; it offered free internet services (Sears Holdings, History). In 2002, the company filed Chapter 11 in the US Bankruptcy Court. Julian Day was promoted to CEO in January of 2003. Under his leadership, the company emerged from the Chapter 11 reorganization process (Sears...
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...have Capital Rationing restrictions All IMC projects are not mutually exclusive IMC provided us with its optimal capital structure, which will be maintained throughout the life of the project The project’s CFs can be reinvested at the firm’s cost of capital Complete shut down after life of project, no chain method or equivalent annual cost method used. Same effective tax rate for the length of the project IMC will have the same share of the company at end of project life as at beginning Monetary policy and Fiscal policy in USA and Mexico will not change for the next 10 years. Alex Massi Analyst November 26, 2015 Francisco Molina Salcedo Analyst November 26, 2015 At Year 0, Page 1 TO THE PRINCIPALS OF IMC The direct quote for USD in Mexico is Ps 7.2 / 1 USD Mexican inflation is projected to be 20% annually U.S. inflation rate is expected to be 10% annually Using the International Fisher Effect to calculate FX rates F= S∗ Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4...
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...and OSX operating system, ICloud and accessions. This company also sells and deliver digital contents and application through the ITunes store, Apple store, IBook store and the Mac App store. Apple sells product worldwide through its retail store. The company was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 1976 and it is headquartered in Cupertino CA. Apple is worth $672.0 B . But getting there did not just happen, Apples strategy to them the where they’re right now. "Generally in war, the best policy is to take a state intact: to ruin it is inferior to this ....for to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not to acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skills." Sun Tzu The quote above in relation to business is saying that since the goal of business is to survive and prosper, you must capture the market but not in a way that may destroy it. When I say destroy it I mean not in a way where you change the market until people won't recognize it for what it is. Apple is a company that has taken Sun Tzu strategy and has somehow made it into a company. Before Apple reinvented the phone, they're were cell phones that were already hot in the game already like the Black Berry and Android. People liked the idea of having keyboards on a cell phone, but Apple thought that the people might like touch screen better. Apple announced on January 9, 2007 after years of rumors and speculation that they were inventing their own brand...
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...Chapter 18 - Superannuation 1 18 SUPERANNUATION Superannuation: An overview.........................................................................................18.000 Thresholds.................................................................................................... ................... 18.002 Superannuation: A quick guide........................................................................................ 18.004 Contribution acceptance and deductibility table................................................................ 18.008 Contributions.................................................................................................... ................18.010 Acceptance of contributions............................................................................................. 18.015 Concessional (before-tax) contributions............................................................................ 18.020 Non-concessional (after-tax) contributions........................................................................ 18.030 Contribution caps.................................................................................................... ......... 18.040 Excess contributions tax................................................................................................... 18.050 Tax file numbers and superannuation............................................................................... 18.060 Reportable superannuation contributions...
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...Sebastian Mallaby, author of “Progressive Wal-Mart. Really.” and columnist for the Washing Post, finds views such as Olssons comically dysfunctional. Mallaby’s brief article overrides these skeptical cruel theories towards Wal-Mart by explaining globalization. Wal-Mart’s globalizing economic decisions for the underprivileged leads Sam Walton’s idea wanting to not only build America but moreover, build the world. Confident in Wal-Mart being a cruel company, Olsson provides multiple miserable quotes from employees. For instance, introducing her essay is the portrayal of Jennifer McLaughlin, one that “wears wide-leg jeans and spiky plastic chokers, dyes her hair dark red, and works at Wal-Mart”(606). McLaughlin’s day-to-day demands from managers may be to “hop on a mechanical lift to retrieve something from a high shelf, catch fish from a tank… or field questions”(607). Depressingly, Olsson feeds this tone all throughout her essay to twist the logical information provided. By doing so, all quotes and facts on Wal-Marts’ economic decisions throughout her essay are worded perfectly together to create a sense hopelessness regarding their employees. Even though Olsson does a noble job of crafting emotional appeal for...
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...CHRYSLEY CORPORATION When someone mentions Chrysler, what comes to your mind: Dodge Ram Truck, Sam Elliott or the unstable financial investments made by management at Chrysler? Several eras at Chrysler have had ups and downs, mostly influenced by ownership and troublesome economic times. The company has experienced the most trying times in the ladder of its existence. Encountering financial turbulence in the late 1970’s prompted a Congressional bail . This was all accomplished under Lee Iacocca, President and CEO of Chrysler in 1978. Iacocca stabled the near bankrupt company, allowing paying back the loan seven years earlier than expected. In 1987, the No. 4 automaker, American Motors, was bought by Chrysler and the consolidation was yet another financial crisis that lead to restructuring of the company . Chryslers 1990’s were a comeback with its Jeep lineup and vehicles like the powerful Dodge Viper. The company was acquired by Damler Bentz of Germany in 1998, and with inconsistent financial results the shareholders prompted Damler to seek a buyer in 2007. The company was sold to Cerberus Capital Management, an investment fund, which instilled Robert L. Nardelli as chief executive, formally CEO of Home Depot. Nardelli vowed a comeback for Chrysler being yet again an American owned company but suffered a deep sales slump and the recession took hold. In September 2008 sales were down 32.8 percent and prompted Chrysler to search for a merger partner, potentially with...
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...• 1. Provide a systematic, well-researched description of the critical success factors of Norwalk. Where is the strength of this company and what are the key risks? In other words, what would be the scarce attention of the management of Norwalk should focus mainly on? 2. Rate the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) Norwalk (Exhibit 2). To what extent does that with the analysis of assignment 1? What changes / additions are needed to the Balanced Scorecard makes sense to deploy management control within the division Norwalk? Ensure good argumentation, in which attention is paid to the balance between short and long term and to the balance between the different performance perspectives. 3. Norwalk developed by the Balanced Scorecard is designed primarily as a reporting tool for Chadwick. To what extent does the card as shown in Exhibit 2 for this specific purpose? In light of this purpose the explicit restriction to hard, objective data a good idea? Again, pay attention to the motivation of the answer. Reply belonging to question 1 In order to answer this question, we must first understand the business strategy of Norwalk. We must determine the keys to the business strategy or the “Critical Success Factors.” Critical success factors are dependent on which strategy is implemented. For Norwalk, the following critical success factors should be Included: • Relationships and Current Networks: The salesmen are trained to sell new products alongside the existing product lines...
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...FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION ‘Freedom of expression’ is an amalgamation of several concepts and rights that includes freedom of speech and choice of what a person is allowed to say, do, hear, feel or express. If we break down the words and analyse them from their core, the simple meaning according to various dictionaries of freedom is ‘the power to determine action without restraint’ or ‘exemption from external control, interference, regulation, etc’ this implies that freedom is liberty without constraints, whereas expression is nothing but the act of putting forth things in words or describing or expressing current emotions through multiple means at different levels, for example spiritual, mental, physical or social. Since we are discussing ‘Freedom of expression’ in regard to social media and in specifics to social networking websites like Facebook and Wikileaks who assimilate multimillion threads of information and personal data every day, what they do with it and how it can affect various functional groups in the society like the (3 tier spread): 1. Government 2. Society 3. Corporations Freedom of speech is not generally seen as an absolute right, but a prudential right. An absolute right is a right that cannot be interfered of overridden, no matter what the public interest in doing so may be. Keeping the above in mind there are two aspects that have to be relatively analysed that is the positive and negative, and how different components of society’s composition are...
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...FBE-529 FINANCIAL ANALYSIS AND VALUATION Final Valuation Project Apple Inc. (AAPL) Jeffrey Bullock Zefu Chen Xiangyu Shi Xuezhou Xiao 4/24/2012 Company Analysis Apple Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, and portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. The Company’s products and services include the iPhone, iPad, Mac, iPod, Apple TV, a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications, the iOS and Mac OS X operating systems, iCloud, and a variety of accessory, service and support offerings. It also sells and delivers digital content and applications through the iTunes Store, App Store, iBookstore, and Mac App Store. The Company sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, and direct sales force, as well as through third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers. In addition, the Company sells a variety of third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products and various other accessories and peripherals through its online and retail stores. The Company’s business strategy leverages its unique ability to design and develop its own operating systems, hardware, application software, and services to provide its customers new products and solutions with superior ease-of-use, seamless integration, and innovative...
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...University of Nottingham Ningbo China Business School Academic Year 2015/16 Autumn Semester CORPORATE FINANCE Prof. Michele Geraci Analysis of Boeing Investment Plan Yuliana Tan Student ID: 6519982 Word Count: 2,220 (exc. Table of Contents, Tables, Charts & References) Executive Summary This paper discusses whether The Boeing Company should build a plant specializing in producing aircraft 787 in China. Having analyzed the project from a purely financial view, through the calculation of NPV, IRR, Profitability Index (PI) and Payback Period for 30 years, it is recommended that The Boeing Company do so. The project is assumed to start in 2016, with 2 years construction and sales beginning in 2018. The calculations are made on the assumption that all 787planes will be solely produced in China's plant with other plants ceasing the production of this model once China plant has been set up and sales start in 2018. With an initial investment of USD 6.5 Billion, The Boeing Company will be financing the project with 80% debts and 20% equities. Further assumption is made on the source of the capital. Equity will be gained by issuing stocks on the NYSE, hence, the calculation of the project is in USD; the cost of debt, in this case, follows the US lending rate (3.5%) assuming Boeing borrows from the American Bank with a constant rate. The plant will be located in Chong Qing province, specifically Jiangbei district. The reason for this is that Chong Qing is the fourth major municipal...
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...A STRATEGIC ANALYSIS OF A FACILITY SUPPLY DISTRIBUTOR IN BRITISH COLUMBIA by Derek Brooks B.A., Simon Fraser University, 1993 PROJECT SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION In the Executive Masters of Business Program of the Faculty of Business Administration ©Derek Brooks, 2014 SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY Spring 2014 All rights reserved. However in accordance with the Copyright Act of Canada, this work, may be reproduced, without authorization, under the conditions for Fair Dealing. Therefore, limited reproduction of this work for the purposes of private study, research, criticism, review and news reporting is likely to be in accordance with the law, Particularly if cited appropriately. APPROVAL Name: Degree: Title of Project: Derek Brooks Master of Business Administration A Strategic Analysis of a Facility Supply Distributor in British Columbia Supervisory Committee: _____________________________________ Dr. Aidan Vining Senior Supervisor CNABS Professor of Business and Government Relations & Area Coordinator, Strategy. _______________________________________ Dr. Andrew von Nordenflycht Second Reader Associate Professor Date Approved: _______________________________________ i ABSTRACT This paper presents a business level strategic analysis of RST Corporation’s facility supply division, in British Columbia Canada. The facility supply industry is in decline. Firms find it increasingly...
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...AB311 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT Course Outline for Seminar Groups 3, 5 and 8 ONLY Semester 2 of the Academic Year 2012-2013 Instructor: Clive Choo, awechoo@ntu.edu.sg Learning & Teaching Methods This course is structured in a seminar learning format, where a 4-hour seminar is conducted every week for a total of 13 sessions. Each seminar is intended to inform and equip students with the conceptual tools to synthesize, evaluate and analyze strategic or ethical issues. In addition, seminar activities have been developed to provide opportunities for students to sharpen their critical thinking and ethical reasoning skills through: 1. Case analyses, where students apply the conceptual tools that they have learnt in the seminar to critically analyze different strategic issues. 2. An ethical reasoning exercise (given in pages 7 and 8) where students can apply ethical concepts. 3. A critical thinking exercise where students could analyse specific case study issue with theoretical framework and concepts. 4. A group project, where each student group generates a strategic audit report of a publiclylisted firm. See pages 8 and 9 for details. 5. Collaborative learning, where students work in a group and participate in class discussion so that they learn to defend and/or integrate different perspectives on strategic issues in a critical manner. 6. A final exam, where students apply their knowledge of course material learnt throughout the course in an integrative manner. 1 Course Assessments...
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