...Abercrombie & Fitch * Over 300 stores in U.S. * Chairman: Michael Jeffries * Founded in NY on June 4th, 1892 * 1055 locations (13 countries) * 9,000 full-time and 76,000 part time employees (2010) Abercrombie & Fitch is one of the most popular retailers of casual cloths in U.S. It was founded in Manhattan of NYC, NY by David Abercrombie and Ezra Fitch. They started current business style since 1988 by Michael Jeffries who is presently a CEO of A&F. Before that, A&F was a sports brand. Jeffries switched it to the casual cloth brand for teenagers and they start advertising their brand with high tone of sexuality. Their cool designed clothes and attractive marketing increased sales and popularity since then, and in 2000, they became the 6th popular brand among teenagers in U.S. after opening the first flagship store in the fifth avenue in NY, they made more reputation. Their brand concept was “ Casual Luxury,” showing them to attempt to design clothes that not only are comfortable but also have a high luxury. Their clothes are sold by high prices compared with other similar type of brands. They managed two more brands, Hollister Co. and Gilly Hicks, and both are also popular among teenagers. Abercrombie & Fitch is also popular all over the world. They expanded their business world widely. The first shop opened outside of the country was in Canada. After succeeding in the expansion to Canada, they opened stores in Europe and Tokyo...
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...Secrets of Successful Learning Top of Form |[pic] |[pic] | Bottom of Form TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2012 Time Management "Don't wait. The time will never be just right. " One always has time enough, if one will apply it well. Many students discover the need to develop their time management skills when they arrive at college. Unlike high school where teachers frequently structured the assignments and classes filled the day, in college, students will have less in-class time, more outside of class work, and a great deal of freedom and flexibility. Keys to successful time management include: • Self knowledge and goals • Developing and maintaining a personal, flexible schedule |[pic] | |Quantumlearn (2012) | Class Activity Assessing Your Time Management Skills 1. I like my watch to be set a few minutes ahead of the correct time. 1. I tend to arrive at most functions at least 5 minutes early. 1. In the course of my daily activities I tend to take my time. 1. In high school I almost always completed my daily assignments. 2. I sometimes spend more than 15 minutes at a time on the telephone. 2. I like to finish assignments and reports exactly on their due dates. 1. I rarely spend more than an hour eating a meal. 1. I never watch more than 1 1/2 hours of TV on a weeknight. 2. I...
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...CARDIFF MET SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT Case Study Brief BLC6004 International Business and Cultural Diversity Case Study (Year 2013-2014) THIS CASE STUDY COUNTS 50% TOWARDS YOUR GRADE FOR THIS MODULE. Based on the attached case, “Organizational and National Cultures in a Polish-U.S. Joint Venture”, write an analytical paper that addresses the following questions (2000 Words). Note: The format of the paper is to be as follows: Typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman font (size 12), One-inch margins on all sides. Appropriate referencing is expected. Use headers for each of the subjects being covered, followed by your response. CASE. Organizational and National Cultures in a Polish-U.S. Joint Venture This case looks at differences in the cultural values and beliefs of Polish and U.S. managers comes from data collected from interviews with Polish and expatriate U.S. managers. Background The U.S./Polish Company The company was a joint venture with a Polish partner and a wholly owned subsidiary of a U.S. multinational corporation located in Poland. The U.S. company started operations in Poland in 1990. The joint venture started two years later. The joint venture was a small, non-bureaucratic organization with 140 employees. Everybody knew each other and a family type of relationship existed among the managers. Both local Polish managers and U.S expatriates reported a friendly work climate even though all top managerial positions were held by the...
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...mohsinhamid.com home about novels essays stories interviews connect The Reluctant Fundamentalist Published in 2007 in these languages. Became an international bestseller with over a million copies in print. Was adapted for the cinema. Awards Won the Ambassador Book Award, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Asian American Literary Award, Premio Speciale Dal Testo Allo Schermo, and South Bank Show Award for Literature. Was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Commonwealth Writers Prize, Arts Council England Decibel Award, Australia-Asia Literary Award, and Index on Censorship T R Fyvel Award. Was named a Book of the Decade by the Guardian and a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. Reviews 'An artist of fantastic cunning... demonstrates what certain trumped-up laureates of post-modernity seem incapable of grasping: that it is possible to simultaneously address the byzantine monstrosity of contemporary existence and care about the destiny of one's characters... [a] resounding success... not unworthy of Nabokov.' -- The Village Voice (full review) 'Taut and accomplished... Changez's story, which seems to gush from him like blood from a wound, traces the self's shifting sense of itself against the rumblings of a rudely shaken world... Dostoyevskian.' -- San Francisco Chronicle (full review) 'Changez's voice is extraordinary. Cultivated, restrained, yet also barbed and...
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...Technische Information zur Kennzeichnung pyrotechnischer Gegenstände ab dem 01. Oktober 2009 Mit dem 1. Oktober 2009 wird u.a. die europäische Richtlinie 2007/23/EG für das Inverkehrbringen von pyrotechnischen Gegenständen in Deutschland umgesetzt. Ab diesem Datum werden bis 2017 (Übergangsvorschriften) die neue und die alte Version der Kennzeichnung auf den pyrotechnischen Gegenständen zu finden sein. Sowohl das alte Zulassungszeichen z.B. BAM-PII-ZZZZ (Bsp. BAM-PII-0001) wie auch die neuen Zeichen. Davon wird es mehrere geben. Es sind: das CE Zeichen CE WWWW (Bsp. CE 0589) die WWWW bedeuten die europäische Kennnummer für die benannte Stelle, die die Überwachung des Qualitätssicherungsystems durchführt. Die BAM hat die Nummer 0589, die Registriernummer XXXX-YY-ZZZZ (Bsp. 0589-F2-0001) dabei stellt XXXX die Kennnummer der benannten Stelle, die die Baumusterprüfung durchgeführt hat (kann mit WWWW identisch sein) und YY die Kategorie dar (s. § 6 Abs. 6 der 1. SprengV in Verbindung mit Anlage 4 der 1. SprengV und nachfolgende Tabelle 1), die Identifikationsnummer nach § 6 Abs. 4 der 1. SprengV (mit Ausnahme der pyrotechnischen Gegenstände für Fahrzeuge) BAM-YY-ZZZZ (Bsp. BAM-F2-0001) die sicher stellen soll, dass die für den normalen Verwender verbotenen Gegenstände nicht in den allgemeinen Verkauf gelangen und die Gebrauchsanleitungen mit den Gefahrenhinweisen korrekt sind. ZZZZ bedeutet jeweils eine spezifische Nummer zur Identifikation des ...
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...line was and talk about buying more land from Mexico. Mexico refused to meet. Mexico had a new president Santa Anna who did not want to talk. What Happened Next… When Mexico refused to meet with the United States President Palk order our military to the border. On April 25, 1846 the Mexican Calvary crossed the Rio Grande river into Texas and began fighting with our military and that was the beginning of the Mexican American war. That event was very important in history because it would determine how much land Mexico would eventually have to give up. (Reference -Social Studies for Kids, website cited below) 1. Mexico gave up over 500,000 square miles of territory to the United States http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/wwww/us/mexicancessiondef.htm How did the War End… The United States won the war by driving the Mexican army out of California, New Mexico and other parts of the country all the way back to Mexico City. General Zachary Taylor took on the Mexican army with just 6000 men against 20,000 Mexican troops. The United States and Mexico then signed a treaty where Mexico agreed to give up the area north of the Rio Grande and in return the...
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...company to attract and retain employees. The company financial funds are stretched and Paul has been asked to develop a plan to address the problems that will not break the bank. Based on the survey Paul plan needs to focus on improving benefits & compensations, training, pay and performance, and safety bank. These areas are important to the strategy goals of the organization, motivation and performance of the employees. Benefits and compensation are very important to the organization and the employees. A health care analysis has shown that health care insurance can be very expensive and can cost Employees approximately $10,000 and employers can expect to contribute between $2000 -$3000 towards the premium per employee (wwww). Paul plans should look at what type of plans the employees have now and compare them to other plans that could reduce the cost to the employer and the employee. The most prominent ones are changing copayments and employee contributions and Utiliscan should look into using manage care programs such as preferred provider organizations or health maintenance organizations (HMO) and consumer driven health care plans (Mathis & Jackson, 2011). Life insurance and long/short term disability options should be taken into account and include options that could save the company and the employees money and benefit both...
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...Full Title of Paper Your Name Harding University Abstract The Abstract is a summary of the paper, not an intro. The reader should be able to read the Abstract and get a good idea of what the paper is about and the conclusion you drew. It is written in block form without the first line indented and should be 150 or less in length. The entire paper should be in Times New Roman 12 font, double spaced with no extra spaces between sections, headers and text, paragraphs, etc. Go to the Home tab of Word and click on Paragraph. Under Paragraph, choose 0 under the Spacing section. Choose Double Space under Line Spacing and First Line under Special. Again, the first line of the Abstract should not be indented, but the rest of the paragraphs in the paper should be. Full Title of the Paper For this section you will need to decide on a thesis statement for the paper. This is a general statement about your topic that shows your approach and point of view. It is an introduction and shows how the entire paper fits together. The length will vary, but should be at least a few paragraphs with new ideas in each paragraph Level 1 Heading Here is where you start the body of your paper. Tie it in with the previous section to make sure the paper flows well. Break your ideas into paragraphs, one idea per paragraph. Long paragraphs are difficult to follow, especially if they contain multiple ideas. The first sentence of each paragraph should...
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...International Journal of Computer Applications (0975 – 8887) Volume 54– No.17, September 2012 6 5G: Future Mobile Technology-Vision 2020 Saurabh Patel EC Department NSIT,Jetalpur Gujarat,India Malhar Chauhan EC Department NSIT,Jetalpur Gujarat,India Kinjal Kapadiya EC Department NSIT,Jetalpur Gujarat,India ABSTRACT Currently, Mobile operators are busy with deployment of 4G technology namely, LTE-advanced or WIMAX 802.16m. This 4G technology will be concluded within two years. 5G technology is not standardizing yet, probably 5G standard will define in two to three years, and its deployment will start around 2020. In future, people will expect same quality of internet connectivity as the device is capable. This technology will include all types of advanced features, which make 5G technology more powerful. The main features we want to add in 5G mobile network is that user can simultaneously connect to the multiple wireless technologies and can switch between them. Forthcoming mobile technology has to support IPv6 and flat IP. This paper explains different technology which we want to include making future mobile technology more powerful and more in demand. Keywords 5G, Future Mobile Technology, IP, Mobile Networks 1. INTRODUCTION It's at the moment just over last few years since the smart phone changed the world of the mobile Internet and mobile connectivity is changing the way we live and work. Now a day Smart-phone selling is more compared to mobile phone selling...
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...2013 International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Signal Processing (ISSP) 5G Technology of Mobile Communication: A Survey Asvin Gohil Charotar University of Science and Technology. Changa-388421, Gujarat, India Hardik Modi Charotar University of Science and Technology. Changa-388421, Gujarat, India modi8584@yahoo.com Shobhit K Patel Charotar University of Science and Technology. Changa-388421, Gujarat, India shobhit_65@yahoo.com Abstract- The objective of this paper is comprehensive study related to 5G technology of mobile communication. Existing research work in mobile communication is related to 5G technology. In 5G, researches are related to the development of World Wide Wireless Web (WWWW), Dynamic Adhoc Wireless Networks (DAWN) and Real Wireless Communication. The most important technologies for 5G technologies are 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) and 802.16 Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks (WMAN), Ad-hoc Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) and Wireless networks for digital communication. 4G technology will include several standards under a common umbrella, similar to 3G, but with IEEE 802.xx wireless mobile networks integrated from the commencement. The major contribution of this paper is the key provisions of 5G (Fifth Generation) technology of mobile communication, which is seen as consumer oriented. In 5G technology, the mobile consumer has given utmost priority compared to others. 5G Technology stands for 5th Generation Mobile Technology...
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...Founded in 1921, El-Alamein is one of the leading companies in the Middle East in the printing and Packaging industry. With head-quarters (HQ) located in Alexandria, El-Alamein occupies an area of 40,000 square meters and employs more than 700 employees. El-Alamein has managed to obtain international quality certificates including: ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO OHSAS 18001, and BRC/IOP The company has two main Strategic Business Units (SBUs): offset fac- tory as well as a flexible factory."Since 1921, El-Alamein Co. led the revolution of the Printing and Packaging industry in Egypt. El-alamein is the approved supplier to the biggest inter-national companies in the fast food industry. The company produces paper cups for cold and hot drinks as well as ice-cream packages with their different shapes and sizes. The company also produces eight-cornered carton boxes to pack sandwiches and burgers, in addition to different shapes and sizes of fried potatoes boxes. The company produces wrap-ping paper for sandwiches and fast food, and pro-duces printed multi-layered paper bags by using automatic heat sealing for the bottom and side-seams." The company faces many challenges: there isn't a reliable infrastructure, network, servers, storage or PCs; there isn't an IT/IS department in the organization chart; competitors have taken serious steps in becoming digitally enabled, and information loss has taken many shapes for example lost orders, inaccurate inventory, and lack of integration between...
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...NTERAKTIF SESI: MANAJEMEN EL-Alamein UNTUK PERCETAKAN DAN pengemasan GOES DIGITAL Didirikan pada tahun 1921, El-Alamein adalah salah satu perusahaan terkemuka telah mengembangkan sebuah situs web perusahaan-perusahaan di Timur Tengah di cetak dan kemasan industri. Dengan kepala-perempat (HQ) yang terletak di Alexandria, El-Alamein menempati area seluas 40.000 meter persegi dan mempekerjakan lebih dari 700 pekerjaEES. El-Alamein telah berhasil memperoleh sertifikat mutu internasional termasuk: ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO OHSAS 18001, dan BRC / TIO Perusahaan memiliki dua utama Strategic Business Unit (SBU): offset faktory serta pabrik fleksibel. "Sejak tahun 1921, El-Alamein Co memimpin revolusi Percetakan dan Kemasan industri di Mesir. El- Alamein adalah pemasok terbesar disetujui untuk antarnasional perusahaan dalam industri makanan cepat saji. The perusahaan memproduksi cangkir kertas untuk dingin dan panas minuman serta paket es krim dengan dif mereka ferent bentuk dan ukuran. Perusahaan juga memproduksi kotak karton delapan-terpojok untuk berkemas dan sandwich burger, di samping berbagai bentuk dan ukuran kentang goreng kotak. Perusahaan memproduksi wrap- ping kertas untuk sandwich dan makanan cepat saji, dan pro- duces dicetak kantong kertas multi-lapis dengan menggunakan otomatis panas penyegel untuk bagian bawah dan samping jahitan. " Perusahaan menghadapi banyak tantangan: tidak ada handal infrastruktur, jaringan, server, penyimpanan atau PC, tidak ada IT...
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