...landed a job with the Federal Government to perform economic analysis on various countries to determine the need for our governmental support. My first assignment with my new company requires me to travel to an island country of Kava in the South Pacific. I will travel to Kava and work with Alex who is our director of strategic planning. I have been told Alex is very experienced, very demanding and a very influential executive of the organization. Facts Upon arriving at Kava, I noticed the local area and the company to be at disarray. The organization had set up a make-shift office in a trailer. Alex held the position of our strategic planner and the office receptionist. I was briefed that the local populist consisted of over 50% under the age of 15 with an ethnic mix of indigenous South Pacific tribes, Asian (primarily Chinese), African, French, Spanish and a sizeable number of Americans. Local languages consist of numerous Indigenous, as well as English, Spanish, and French. The religions among the people are 50% Indigenous with the remainder closely divided between Christian, Buddhist, and Islamic. Petroleum, coffee, cocoa, spices, bananas, sugar, tourism, fishing, and natural gas as well as inexpensive, quality labor support the economy of Kava. Various natural threats are common in Kava; which includes tidal waves or tsunami, typhoons and hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, fires, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes. There is also an ongoing threat of HIV/AIDS...
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...Background • Harland Sanders – 6th grade dropout – casual cook. Late 40’s – developed a recipe for chicken based on a pressure-cooking method and secret seasoning mix of 11 herbs and spices. • Sold 700 franchises < 9 years. • Sander’s management style – relied on basic goodness of people around him and trusted the franchises to play fairly. There were no formal management systems or strategic controls in place. • Sanders in his 70’s – Jack Massey offered him $2 million, lifetime salary, and position in control of business. • Explosive growth – revenues increased from $7 million to $200 million. • Loy Weston took the challenge to open the first store in Japan. o Studied the culture of Japan. o Performed test marketing – found that Japanese did not like mashed potatoes and the cole slaw was too sweet. Changed to French fries and lowered the sugar content in the slaw. Company Culture - Industry and Growth – the industry norms and rules of the game of the fast food industry • Expansion via franchising. • Location – important for economies of scale – high fixed costs and small returns on sales required high traffic volume. • Effective store management – keeping waste, shrinkage and inefficiency to a minimum. • Market image – focused on theme or product – consistency and reliability throughout all stores was critical. Organizational Structure • Headquarters structure over all franchises – Functional...
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...expectation. Generally, operating in a harsh business setting, proceeds improved by 9 % whereas attuned working profits went up by 10% and the attuned incomes per share increased by 13% in the preceding year. Over the last three years, ABF’s share price has outperformed the FTSE 100 share index and other listed food producers. Diversification of Associated British Foods Being a multinational corporation, ABFs operate in five key areas: Sugar, Agriculture, Retail, Grocery and Ingredients. It is a leading multinational producer of sugar and sugar derived products. In Europe, it has Azucarera as its largest producer. Similarly, its British sugar is the only processor of sugar beet crop in Europe with the company being a supplier of half of the UK’s sugar requirement. In Africa, the company has Ilovo as the largest sugar processor. In China, it blends the production of both cane sugar and beet sugar with the former taking precedence in the South and the latter in the North East. The overall annual production of the company is approximately 5 million tonnes of sugar and 600 million litres of ethanol. With respect to company’s...
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...------------------------------------------------- International University-VNU ------------------------------------------------- International University-VNU BIBICA REPORT Table of Content * Identify what operations management concept the company is following * How Bibica makes to achieve these above OM concepts * Good examples of OM concept of Bibica I/ Identify what operations management concept the company is following The country is growing, resulting in the fact that the confectionery industry is expanding. Every year, there are more new businesses appears, making the competition in the market be fiercer, more aggressive. Market customer preferences are also increasing. To survive and thrive in this environment, every enterprise must make hard effort for building and creating its own identity, characteristics. During the manufacturing process, Bibica always put quality criteria, food safety, and health benefits for customer above profit targets. Besides, Innovation in package and creativity are also interested by Bibica as well. Bibica focuses on improving constantly management, product quality and service, maintaining mutually beneficial relationships with dealers, distributors, suppliers and other business partners to get the best service and the best price. In addition, having social responsibility, positive contribution to society, environmental protection for the quality of life of the community; Improving the quality of human resources...
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...TERM PAPER ON STRATEGIC ANALYSIS OF AGRICULTURAL MARKETING COMPANY LTD Date: April 4, 2011 Letter of Transmittal April 4, 2011 ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ Subject: Term Paper on Strategic Analysis of Agricultural Marketing Company Ltd. Dear Sir, It is our great pleasure to submit the Case Study on Blockbuster’s Challenges in the Video Rental Industry which is a part of the course Strategic Management of EMBA program to you for your kind consideration. We have made sincere efforts to study related materials for preparation of the report. Within the time limit we have tried our best to compile the pertinent information as comprehensively as possible and if you need any further information we will be glad to provide it. Thanking you, |SL |Name |Signature | |1. | | | |2. | | | |3. | | | |4. | | | Table of Content Introduction 05 Business Analysis 07 Porters’ Five Forces 08 Financial Performance 13 Future Plan 16 SWOT Analysis 17 Strategy Analysis...
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...The Objectives, which we have taken under consideration for this project The objectives which are proposed for this project go through many different variables: * To present and provide the problems the company faced post and pre 2009 recession which was absorbed throughout the market. * A very important field which the company really needs to pay more attention towards is the idea of CSR (Corporate social Responsibility.) We are planning to make the company start changing their ways of production and actually realize the factors which need to be taken under consideration as this is one of the most important ideas in the mind-set of the consumers. * In order to maintain the CSR (Corporate social Responsibility) the company needs to undergo the process of CRM (Cause-Related Marketing.) This is also a very important factor in enlightening the image of the company and their products. * This project is also supposed to give you an understanding of one of the old traditional lifestyle of local nationals of the United Arab Emirates. Background and History The Karak chain we are talking about is named after the owner, a 85 years old local Emarati man called “Obaid Bin Kusaiba”. The chain was already established in the early 1985 where it originally started with one restaurant located in Al Mamzar area in Dubai. This restaurant has now expanded to over 24 restaurants all over the UAE, many residents of UAE start their day from this restaurant and also...
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...ventured into. The founder of Craving Puffs Sdn Bhd (from here on will be referred to as CPSB) is Mr Ali who was born and raised in Kedah. Curry Puffs is among the famous traditional snack, loved by Malaysians all over the country. It is also known as “Karipap”, “Karipap Pusing” or “Epok-Epok” in Bahasa Malaysia. The light and flaky pastry of curry puff, hold the contents of the delicious curry or sambal (read as spice and chillies) stuffing. With Ali’s great vision and enthusiasm in entrepreneurship, he decided to venture into this challenging business with a future plan to expand the market at international level. He left his job with determination to become a successful entrepreneur. CPSB was later joined by Ali’s business partners, Ina and Fatimah, and started selling the homemade curry puffs in a small shop in his hometown, Kedah. As the business grew, another two business partners joined the company namely Hassan and Ahmad. A good curry puff's pastry is light, crispy and flaky yet moderately firm. The stuffing includes creamy potatoes, spice, morsels of mutton, or chicken. The combination of a great pastry and deliciously prepared stuffing brings you "home" to the good of home style cooking, where food is lovingly prepared. 2. PURPOSE OF THE PAPERWORK The purpose of the paperwork is to present the expansion plans of CPSB to run the frozen food business in Malaysia. 2.1 We wish to apply for loan, with the sum of RM50,000 from HSBC Bank...
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...“Market Acceptability of RC Cola’s Green Claim in Bangladesh” Introduction Whether it is hot or cool and in any Festival? - No talk we need soft drinks. It seems that it is a part of daily life. Truly, the demand of soft drinks is increasing in such a pace that it is an alternative to drinking water. Fashionable, refreshing or unhealthy whatever it is Partex group has brought RC cola in Bangladesh. At present, RC Cola is very much accepted drink item in our country. Within a short time this product has ensured its position both in urban and rural area. Yes, here and there, blank pots of different beverages are a continuous view and we also reuse it for different purposes. However several global trends are affecting consumer behavior like growing concern over energy conservation, emphasis on basic brand attributes, increased desire to buy green, interest in big ticket green products, attention to packaging etc. For sustainable marketing activities a firm must invest a lot in research and development activities. Both the people of urban and rural areas are giving RC cols much money, but are RC cola taking the healthy and environment friendly factors in consideration? RC cola claims that they are real sustainable marketer. The whole report will justify their beliefs. The project Paper of "Green Marketing - Market Acceptability of RC Cola's Green Claim" has been oriented as an academic requirement for the Bachelor of...
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...A PROJECT REPORT ON ORGANISATIONAL STUDY CONDUCTED AT NAGARJUNA HERBAL CONCENTRATES LTD. THODUPUZHA Submitted to M.G University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Master of Business Administration DONE BY NIVEA K MOHAN Jai Bharath Arts & Science College 2008-2010 DECLARATION I, herby declare that this project report entitled “AN ORGANISATIONAL STUDY AT NAGARJUNA HERBAL CONCENTRATES LTD, THODUPUZHA”, submitted to M.G. university, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Master of Business Administration is the original work done by me during my period of study 2008-2010 at Jai Bharath Arts & Science College under the guidance of Mr. Varghese K.X. Place: Date: NIVEA K MOHAN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First of all I would like to express my gratitude to GOD who helped me to complete this project. Then I would like to thank Dr. K.R Baburaj, Director, Jai Bharath Arts & science College, who gave me an opportunity to do the project. I am also thankful to Mr. Varghese K X, Faculty, Jai Bharath Arts & Science College, for his meticulous guidance and constant encouragement throughout my project. I express my sincere thanks to Mr. Devadas Namboothirippadu, managing director, Nagarjuna Herbal Concentrates Ltd, Thodupuzha...
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...Chain Challenges in Food Industry 3 Opportunities & Recommendations 5 Food Processing Sector in India Food is the largest consumption category in India... Food Consum ption in India 250 So urce: B M I, Q12009 & CSO C A G R : 5 .3 2 % 229.7 210.3 200 180.1 168.6 151.7 157.7 184.4 191.4 198 1 50 1 00 50 0 2005 2006 2007 2008e 2009f 201 0f 201 f 1 201 2f 201 3f Significant Opportunity India as a huge Consumer Market 6 Food Processing Sector in India India has huge supply advantages due to diverse agro-climatic conditions and wide ranging raw material base… • 52% cultivable land compared to 11% world average • All 15 major climates in the world exist in India • 46 out of 60 soil types exist in India • Largest livestock population • Largest producer of milk Significant Opportunity • Largest producer cereals • Second-largest fruit and vegetable producer • Among the top five producers worldwide of rice, wheat, groundnuts, tea, coffee, tobacco, spices, sugar and oilseeds. India as a...
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...Analysis OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT AT BRITANNIA INDUSTRIES Acknowledgement It would be of great pleasure for me to take the opportunity of thanking nearly everybody who had been of great help in the completion of my dissertation. My sincere gratitude goes to MR.KAPIL GARG (DEPPT. OF MANAGEMENT) and MR.MANORANJAN (DEAN). My institute guide, without whose help this dissertation would have seemed impossible. I owe immensely for the minute help that was forwarded to me by friends in my organization. Both of the above mentioned persons supported me incredibly and guided me with suggestions and probation’s for the betterment of my accomplished work. It has been of great learning to be on the job and doing the dissertation simultaneously, which enriched my knowledge and developed my outlook. I am looking forward to continued support from my friends and colleagues in future as well. Only with their encouragement and coorporation. SARITA KUMARI Contents Chapter 1: Introduction -Need of the study - Background Chapter 2: Research methodology -Objectives of the study -Research Methodology (sample size, instrument used, Methods of data collection) Chapter 3: Descriptive work of subtopic on study Chapter 4: Data analysis & Interpretation ...
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...Levels of Management of Nescafe In: Business and Management Levels of Management of Nescafe Levels of management Managers are organizational members who are responsible for the work performance of other organizational members. Managers have formal authority to use organizational resources and to make decisions. In organizations, there are typically three levels of management: top-level, middle-level, and first-level. These three main levels of managers form a hierarchy, in which they are ranked in order of importance. In most organizations, the number of managers at each level is such that the hierarchy resembles a pyramid, with many more first-level managers, fewer middle managers, and the fewest managers at the top level. Top-Level Managers Top-level managers, or top managers, are also called senior management or executives. These individuals are at the top one or two levels in an organization, and hold titles such as: Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Chief Operational Officer (COO), Chief Information Officer (CIO), and Chairperson of the Board, President, Vice president, and corporate head. Middle-Level Managers Middle-level managers, or middle managers, are those in the levels below top managers. Middle managers' job titles include: General Manager, Plant manager, Regional manager, and Divisional manager. Middle-level managers are responsible for carrying out the goals set by top management. They do so by setting goals for their departments...
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...MGB 4013 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT Group Assignment: An Analysis of Ready-meals Food Industry and Brahim’sHoldingBerhad Group TMB 1 HANAN BINTI HAMIDON 1110057 NUR FARIHIN BINTI AZNAM 1110060 SITI HAJAR BINTI ANNUAR 1110063 NUR ATIKAH BINTI ZAKARIA 1110067 SITI FARHANA BINTI YAHAYA 1110073 Lecturer: DrUmmiSalwa Ahmad Bustamam Content 1.0 INTRODUCTION 2 2.0 BACKGROUND OF BRAHIM’S FOOD AND BEVERAGES DIVISION 3 3.0 STRATEGY FORMULATION 4 4.1 Vision and Mission 4 4.2.1 Vision Statement 4 4.2.2 Mission Statement 4 4.2 SWOT Matrix and SWOT Analysis 4 4.3.3 SWOT Matrix 5 4.3.4 SWOT ANALYSIS 6 4.3 TOWS Analysis 9 4.4 Five Porter Forces ...
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...and tourists as the major target beneficiaries, tend to discover a place where to gather, relax, enjoy and eat something new. Having these ideas, the proposed business would be a place that would cater with that needs and wants. It would be first Food Outlet that would offer purely native meals and delicacies. The proposed business would be situated at Real Street, Sagkahan Tacloban City. It is therefore accessible and is located near with the prospective target consumers. The proposed business would not only offer products at reasonable price but also it would include upscale and quality services to meet the satisfaction and desires of the clientele. It is because Harampangan ha Sinirangan aims to bump into the expectations of the market since “quality is its first name; and excellent service is its priority”, and to make the proposed business a success, this Feasibility Study was conducted and it...
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...instructor Mr. Mahady Hasan for his successful guidance and very friendly conduct to complete this work. His kind and friendly behavior can’t be forgotten at all. Finally, we are thankful to our friends for their support and encouragement, . • Introduction of KFC: 4 • Company Overview: 9 • Product and Services: 12 • Conclusion: 25 • References: 28 • Appendix: 29 Introduction of KFC: Background: Kentucky Fried Chicken was founded by Harland Sanders in Corbin, Kentucky. Harland Sanders was born on a small farm in Henryville, Indiana, America, in 1890. Sanders loved to cook and to invent a new recipe. One day he tested to mix eleven herbs and spices with wheat flour until he got success and he had a secret recipe for cooking chicken. Sanders opened the first facility with a 142-seat restaurant, a motel, a gas station. During the 1930s an image that would became known throughout the world began to develop. First Sanders was named an honorary Kentucky Colonel by the state’s governor; second, he developed a unique, quick method of...
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