...William Bill France Sr The founder of NASCAR Who was a mechanic and would later own an auto repair shop owner got into Daytona’s racing scene and help promote races but ,After witnessing that ruled that very from race to race and how it dishonest promotion were. Bill felt that there was a need for rules and restrictions. Bill gathered a group of racing members to Discuss about stock car racing and they came up with Nascar or The National Association for stock car auto racing and NASCAR was born Being officially Corporation in 1948. The first NASCAR race was raced on Sandy beaches of Daytona Beach course on February 15, 1948 but Nascars first race on a paved surface was in Darlington International Raceway in on September 4th 1950 they raced...
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...History of NASCAR Did you know NASCAR was started because of a historical event in America’s history? The reason I have chosen this project because I grew up watching NASCAR every Sunday, and helping with my dad’s best friend’s race car. The thing I was trying to accomplish in this project was to get a better understanding of the background and history of NASCAR. The process I took in accomplishing my goal was writing a rationale, writing down research questions, and finding Wisconsin’s state standards that I would meet in my project. What I hope that the reader takes from this paper is all of the things that helped NASCAR get started, what they raced on back then, and how NASCAR changed over time. In this paper you will read about the prohibition, Bootleggers tricks and advantages[, Bill Frances Sr., history of NASCAR, Technological advancements, racing legends, aerodynamics, How NASCAR got so big and Wisconsin’s traditions. NASCAR has an interesting background. It all started with bootleggers racing from town to town delivering their moonshine without getting caught. NASCAR is linked to American history and it comes with some interesting tales. This paper will tell you everything you need to know about NASCAR and aerodynamics of the car. Some things that this paper will contain are famous drivers and their impact on NASCAR, how safely has changed over time, how NASCAR got started, what NASCAR drivers first raced on and why it changed over time, how NASCAR fit its time period...
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...The National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Clover Park Technical Commnity College The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing NASCAR (national association for stock car auto racing) was founded by Bill France in Daytona Florida in 1949, in hopes to organize a stock car racing club bound by some simple traditions. Dating back to the prohibition days when moonshine runners would deliver alcohol, many would soup up their cars and give chase to the police and tax collectors. Today, NASCAR is a spectator sport and holds six of the top 20 Television ratings for most viewed sporting event next to American football. What started from a group of renegades and informal races became a multi-million dollar family owned sports division full of triumph and tragedy. The Beginning When moonshine runners would deliver their bootleg liquor, many would modify their cars to avoid the law, or to slip by the tax collectors. Soon the regular runners would heckle about who was better and faster, so to settle the score many runners gathered at Daytona Beach for informal races. In their plight to decipher the good drivers from the bad they would end-up setting world speed records for the day and time. Organizers would come in promising fortune and a future in racing, then would skip town leaving the drivers high and dry again. (Wikipedia) So in 1947, a service station owner and stock car driver Bill France saw the potential...
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...Stock Car History Have you ever thought about stock car history and how it grew so big in today’s society? Stock car racing is a form of automobile racing found mostly in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Great Britain, New Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. In the US today the big races are the ones done by the professionals, and that is in NASCAR. NASCAR is a sport where men and women can race automobiles that are upgraded for speed and aerodynamics. On some tracks race car drivers can drive up to 200 and 600 miles at speeds of 200 miles an hour. Racing was started by moonshines back in the 1920s where they had to out run the law because they were smuggling alcohol which in there time was banned because of 18th amendment, and...
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...PREPARED BY: NAJIHAH BINTI AHMAD ABDILLAH 1110967 Report Submitted to Mrs. Azlinda bt Lahadzir SEMESTER V SESSION 2013 CONTENT Introduction …………………………………………….. 3 History ………………………………………………….. 4 Key Issue ………………………………………………. 5 NASCAR’S challenges ………………………………... 5 NASCAR’S Branding Strategy………………………… 6 Questions and Answers ………………………………... 7 - 9 Conclusion and Recommendation …………………… 10 INTRODUCTION The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is a family-owned and -operated business venture that sanctions and governs multiple auto racing sports events. It was founded by Bill France, Sr. in 1947–48. As of 2009, the CEO for the company is Brian France, grandson of Bill France, Sr. NASCAR is the largest sanctioning body of stock car racing in the United States. The three largest racing series sanctioned by NASCAR are the Sprint Cup Series, the Nationwide Series, and the Camping World Truck Series. It also oversees NASCAR Local Racing, the Whelen Modified Tour, the Whelen All-American Series, and the NASCAR iRacing.com Series. NASCAR sanctions over 1500 races at over 100 tracks in 39 US states and Canada. NASCAR has presented exhibition races at the Suzuka and Motegi circuits in Japan, Mexico, and Calder Park Raceway in Australia. NASCAR's headquarters are located in Daytona Beach, Florida, although it also maintains offices in four North Carolina cities; Charlotte, Mooresville,Concord, and Conover. Regional offices are also located in New York City...
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...He was the first Nascar driver to win the AP Male Athlete of the Year Award in ‘09. Jimmie Johnson is considered one of the top drivers in NASCAR racing history. His charity, The Jimmie Johnson Foundation, was created by Johnson and his wife Chandra in 2006. His foundation helps families, communities, and children in need. The foundation has also assisted the American Red Cross with disaster relief efforts. When Jimmie Johnson wins races, he doesn't just win the race, he wins the hearts of his fans and everybody that enjoys Nascar. Johnson is a very valuable, and beloved Nascar driver. He has won races such as: Daytona 500, Duck Commander 500, S.T.P. 500, and plenty more. He does not define Nascar, only Richard Petty does, but he does a superb job representing the name of Nascar. Unrecognized talent? Look no further than Jimmie Johnson, you say his name anywhere in the south, you’ll get plenty of great, uplifting, even inspiring reactions, in the north, much fewer, if any responses. Undoubtedly will go down in the books as one of Nascar’s best drivers, and the Nascar driver with the best attitude. Since 2001, the 39 year old Jimmie Johnson...
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...Hailed as the "Ace of all Aces", American Eddie Rickenbacker was a man of many incredible accomplishments. With a remarkable track record of around 135 separate close calls with the "Great Spirit in the Sky", it seemed Rickenbacker was a professional at cheating death. A product of the mechanical age of automobiles and airplanes in the early American 1900s, Rickenbacker had a large history in the beginning and development of both, due to his large interest in machines. Edward Vernon Rickenbacher (Later changed to Rickenbacker) was born to Swiss immigrants Elizabeth and William Rickenbacher in Columbus Ohio on October 4th, 1890. As a youngster, Rickenbacker was quite troublesome. He started smoking at the age of 5, and was the head of the Horsehead...
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...MGMT 522 Apple 1984 Super Bowl Commercial 1. Apples 1984 commercial was one of the best of its time. Addressing social issue of conformity and government control that were big in the 1980’s with the USSR expanding. The principles of 1984 were close to people’s minds. It had an unheard of budget of $900,000. It was a time before Microsoft dominance were IBM was the big competitor in the computing game. Apple in that era pushed innovation through there graphic design interface. Where IBM pushed boring boxes for computers. The 1984 was highly successful with over 3.5 million dollars of Macintoshes were sold after the ad ran; Although Apple 1984 is a great commercial and used and innovative approach that was not seen before in marketing it is not the greatest. It was only aired twice. Other commercials like Where Is the Beef? Or Plop Plop Fizz Fizz or Coke Big Joe Green have much more play time and a better overall return on investment, having spinoffs. Apples commercial has not aged well because they don’t sell Macintosh anymore and their symbol has completely changed. Where where’s the Beef? Is still relevant. Having a much lower cost of production and played over and over again. Apple movie was like a master piece that did well at the box office not amazing. It is like Shawshank redemption a critically acclaimed movie. Maybe the best of all time but not the most profitable for the movie studios. Great cinematically and innovative using new marketing techniques but did...
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...Historical Events on this Day in History Events in History for Tuesday 18th February 2014 ◀ Jan February Mar ▶ | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | | All Events Birthdays | Weddings Deaths | Events 1 - 167 of 167 3102 BC - Epoch (origin) of the Kali Yuga. 1129 - Jerusalem taken by Emperor Frederik II 1268 - The Livonian Brothers of the Sword are defeated by Dovmont of Pskov in the Battle of Rakovor. 1332 - Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces. 1478 - George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is privately executed in the Tower of London. 1503 - Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII) 1536 - France & Turkey sign milt/trade agreement against King Karel 1563 - Huguenot Jean Poltrot de Mere shoots gen Francois De Guise 1574 - Zeeland falls to Dutch rebels 1634 - Ferdinand II orders commander Albrecht von Wallenstein, execution 1678 - John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is published 1685 - Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas. 1688 - Quakers conduct 1st formal protest of slavery in Germantown, Pa 1713 - French invade under Jacques Cassard on Curacao 1735 - 1st opera performed in America, "Flora," in Charleston, SC 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlies troops...
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...9 -5 1 2 -0 5 2 REV: FEBRUARY 10, 2012 ROHIT DESHPANDÉ KAROL MISZTAL DANIELA BEYERSDORFER The Swatch Group Most people of my age would probably never have bought an Omega. Their father would wear one, and their son would own one. We have therefore lost part of this generation, definitely. — Stephen Urquhart, President, Omega In 2006, when I told the press before the Olympic Games in Turin that the objective of Omega is to overtake Rolex, its natural competitor, people were smiling and saying that Rolex is in a different league, up there. But this positioned Omega, inside and outside, totally. — Nick Hayek, CEO, Swatch Group On the afternoon of March 15, 2011, the only day closed for visitors during Baselworld, the major global watch and jewelry trade show held in Basel, Switzerland, Nick Hayek, the CEO of the leading Swiss watch manufacturer Swatch Group, completed a series of informal meetings with his watchmaking counterparts. After all that had been said behind the glamorously showcased watch collections, Hayek lit a cigar to reflect on the discussions’ impact on his watchmaking empire. The late Nicolas G. Hayek (hereafter Hayek Sr.), the charismatic founder of the Swatch Group (and Nick Hayek’s father) who passed away nine months ago, would have applauded the group’s exceptional 2010 results which encouraged the company to set a sales goal of 10 billion Swiss Francs (CHF) within the next four to five years (see Exhibit 1 for the group’s key financials)...
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...1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Brief History History of Pepsi:- Pepsi was first introduced as "Brad's Drink" in New Bern, North Carolina, United States, in 1893 by Caleb Bradham, who made it at his drugstore where the drink was sold. It was later labeled Pepsi Cola, named after the digestive enzyme pepsin and kola nuts used in the recipe. Bradham sought to create a fountain drink that was delicious and would aid in digestion and boost energy. In 1903, Bradham moved the bottling of Pepsi-Cola from his drugstore to a rented warehouse. That year, Bradham sold 7,968 gallons of syrup. The next year, Pepsi was sold in six-ounce bottles, and sales increased to 19,848 gallons. In 1909, automobile race pioneer Barney Oldfield was the first celebrity to endorse Pepsi-Cola, describing it as "A bully drink...refreshing, invigorating, a fine bracer before a race." The advertising theme "Delicious and Healthful" was then used over the next two decades. In 1926, Pepsi received its first logo redesign since the original design of 1905. In 1929, the logo was changed again. In 1931, at the depth of the Great Depression, the Pepsi-Cola Company entered bankruptcy – in large part due to financial losses incurred by speculating on wildly fluctuating sugar prices as a result of World War I. Assets were sold and Roy C. Megargel bought the Pepsi trademark. Megargel was unsuccessful, and soon Pepsi's assets were purchased by Charles Guth, the President of Loft Inc. Loft was a candy manufacturer with retail...
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...CHAPTER 1 THE NATURE OF REAL ESTATE AND REAL ESTATE MARKETS ------------------------------------------------- Test Problems 1. A market where tenants negotiate rent and other terms with property owners or their managers is referred to as a: b. User market 2. The market in which required rates of return on available investment opportunities are determined is referred to as the: d. Capital market 3. The actions of local, state, and federal governments affect real estate values d. All of the above 4. Approximately what portion of U.S. households own their own home? b. Approximately two-thirds 5. Of the following asset categories, which class has the greatest aggregate market value? d. Nongovernment real estate 6. Storm water drainage systems are best described as: b. Improvements to the land 7. What is the single largest asset category, in terms of value, in the portfolio of the typical U.S. household? a. Housing 8. Real estate markets differ from other asset classes by having all of the following characteristics except: d. Homogeneous product 9. Which of the following is not important to the location of commercial properties? c. Access to schools 10. Which of the following attributes of a home are the most difficult to observe and value? c. location attributes ------------------------------------------------- Study Questions 1. The term real estate can be used in three fundamental ways. List these...
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...not by driving distance. Science centers/museums may create their own local reciprocal freeadmission program. ASTC does not require or participate in these agreements, or dictate their terms. 2. Based on residence: To receive Travel Passport Program benefits, you must live more than 90 miles away “as the crow flies” from the center/museum you wish to visit. Admissions staff reserve the right to request proof of residence for benefits to apply. Science centers and museums requesting proof of residence are marked by (IDs). Visit www.astc.org/passport for a list in larger type font. CALL BEFORE YOU VISIT TO CONFIRM YOUR TRAVEL PASSPORT PROGRAM BENEFITS. DON’T FORGET TO BRING YOUR MEMBERSHIP CARD! ALABAMA Anniston Museum of Natural History 800 Museum Drive, Anniston 36206 (256) 237-6766 www.annistonmuseum.org F: All living at one address Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center 65 Government Street, Mobile 36602 (251) 208-6893 www.exploreum.com F: Parents or grandparents (two adults) and up to six children or grandchildren under 18 years of age. Fees will be assessed for IMAX and certain exhibit areas. Mary...
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...Corporate Diagnosis | | | Diana Lucia PERDOMO Mauricio BARAHONA Salvador MARTINEZ Louise NICOLAS Katarzyna FLUDRA | The Swiss watches’ company is present all over the world. It has successfully managed environment changes, as well as it resources and competences. This document seeks to analyze the external and internal forces that have influence on the company, in order to determine strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities. Nevertheless, the core of this work it to diagnose the interaction between the above, and the Marketing and Communication strategies that Swatch implements nowadays The Swiss watches’ company is present all over the world. It has successfully managed environment changes, as well as it resources and competences. This document seeks to analyze the external and internal forces that have influence on the company, in order to determine strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities. Nevertheless, the core of this work it to diagnose the interaction between the above, and the Marketing and Communication strategies that Swatch implements nowadays CONTENT Corporate Presentation 3 External Analysis 9 PESTEL 10 Political 10 Economical 10 Social 10 Technological 10 Ecological 10 Legal 10 Porter's 5 Competitive Forces 12 Mc Kinsey matrix 14 Internal Analysis 16 Value chain 17 Infrastructure 17 Human resource management 17 Technology development 18 Procurement 19 Operations 20 Outbound...
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...Michelle L. Stotts, Charles B. Shrader and Samuel M. DeMarie Victory: The New American Motorcycle Celebrates Its First Decade on the Road Now that we are in our 10th year and have a fairly complete line of premium cruiser and touring motorcycles, it is clear what we stand for, and who we appeal to most. Victory stands for class-leading quality, innovation and style. Victory is American and new- always looking forward. We are all about the future of American motorcycles. - Mark Blackwell, Victory Vice President1 Mark Blackwell, vice president in charge of Victory Motorcycle at Polaris Industries, glanced up at company headquarters in Medina, Minnesota as he pulled his gleaming cruiser into the parking lot. An accomplished rider himself, winning the national 500cc motocross championship and being inducted into the American Motorcycle Association’s Hall of Fame, he knew his company’s bikes had come pretty far since they were first introduced to the riding public in 1998. With the development of the new Vision, a luxury touring bike, and the steady release of aggressively-styled cruisers, the company had continually innovated throughout its first decade in business. Yet Blackwell pondered the recurring questions facing Victory Motorcycles and Polaris. He wondered if the initial decision to diversify into heavyweight motorcycles was the right road to take. He realized Polaris took a big risk by moving into motorcycles and going up against the recognized powerhouses in the industry...
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