"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
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BEST BUY [pic] [pic] Making Life Fun & Easy! [pic] Tiago Alves Andrew Bornstein Mae Brana Grace Tan Meredith Walters Table of Contents Business Summary 2 Vision Statement & Corporate Values 2 Rankings 2 Market Share 3 Stock Chart – 5 Year Performance 3 Financial Highlights 4 History 5 Key Executives 6 Strategy 7 Customer Centricity 7 Value-added Services Business 9 Supply Chain and IT Systems 9 New Store Openings 10 Mergers
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EIS Final Project RFID Technology A Comparative Study of E-ZPass and Wal-Mart Công nghệ RFID tại Wal-Mart Jose Malpartida, Sebastian Martinez Matias Moral, Avraj Sandhu, Phillip Wittwer 1. Technology overview RFID, or radio frequency identification, is a technology that allows for communication between two devices by means of radio waves. Thus neither a direct line of sight, nor a physical connection is needed. The first device is a reader or antenna, the second is a so called tag
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Operations Qiyuan Sun According to the annual report of T-Mobile in 2013, Cash provided by operating activities was $3.5 billion for the year ended December 31, 2013, compared to $3.9 billion for the same period in 2012. The decrease in cash flow provided by operating activities was driven by several factors. Selected Operational Data of T-Mobile from 2009-2013 Investor.t-mobile.com,. 2015. 'T-Mobile, Annual Report, 2013'. http://investor.t-mobile.com/Cache/1500059458.PDF?Y=&O=PDF&D=&fid=1500059458&T=&iid=4091145
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situation. ©2000 Dr. Warren J. Keegan. *The following case solely represents the opinion of the author and does not express the opinions of the Eastman Kodak Company of Fuji Photo Film U.S.A., Inc. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This case study reexamines the competitive relationship of the two giants of the photographic and imaging industry: Eastman Kodak Company and the Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. It uses the 1990 case study of Dr. H. Donald Hopkins of Temple University, “Kodak vs. Fuji: A Case of Japanese-American
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Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. Executive Summary Overview Sector: Consumer Staples Industry: Brewers Ownership: Public Parent: Anheuser Busch-Inbev Company A wholly-owned subsidiary of Belgium-based Anheuser–Busch InBev, is the largest brewing company in the United States. The company operates 12 breweries in the United States and nearly 20 in other countries. It was, until December 2009, also one of America's largest theme park operators; operating ten theme parks across the United
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American public multinational corporation that runs a chain of large discount department stores and a chain of warehouse stores. In 2010 it was the world's largest public corporation by revenue, according to the Forbes Global 2000 for that year.[6] The company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, incorporated on October 31, 1969, and publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange in 1972. Wal-Mart, headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, is the largest majority private employer[7] and the largest grocery
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Introduction The shift from a rural, agrarian economy to an urban, industrial economy is integral to the process of economic development. Policymakers in the least developed countries (LDCs) have, at various times, attempted to make agriculture the primary engine of economic growth and employment generation but this approach has not worked. The Ready-Made Garments (RMG) industry occupies a unique position in the Bangladesh economy. Bangladesh has a total population of over160 million. Among of
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which focuses on how to make the product at low cost, and the selling concept/orientation which focuses on promoting what you want to sell. In the production and selling orientations the company makes what it wants to make and tries to get the consumer to buy it. With the marketing orientation the company first figures out what people want to buy, then makes it, and then tells them about it. Market Oriented/ Market Orientation – see page 4. Means: Customer is focal point of company’s total
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which focuses on how to make the product at low cost, and the selling concept/orientation which focuses on promoting what you want to sell. In the production and selling orientations the company makes what it wants to make and tries to get the consumer to buy it. With the marketing orientation the company first figures out what people want to buy, then makes it, and then tells them about it. Market Oriented/ Market Orientation – see page 4. Means: Customer is focal point of company’s total
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