IKEA to quickly response the child labor issue in public media. In this way, IKEA could assure that they will be more aware of social responsibility and potential upcoming social issues in the future. However, the German Video Program won’t allow the company to preview the video and that the program clearly “planned to take a confrontational and aggressive approach aimed directly at IKEA”. If they go to the invitation with no preparation of what kinds of issue and questions could probably be faced with
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later turned into a catalog business operations selling furniture. In developing IKEA’s furniture retailing business model, Kamprad was confronted with a cartel of furniture manufacturers that kept prices high by controlling the Swedish industry. This issue later became the vision of the company “creating a better life for the many people”. IKEA also introduced their key feature of self-assembled furniture where customers bought furniture in flat packages and put them together at home. This was known
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While the marketing of Nike’s products was based on selling a high profile fashion item to affluent Americans, the manufacture of these sneakers was based as an arms-length and often-uneasy relationship with low paid, non-American workers. Key Issues Nike's strategy of shaving costs caused ethical dilemmas that ultimately damaged its reputation. Nike outsources all of its manufacturing. This approach has provided Nike with huge profits, from a 1972 level of $60,000 to a startling $49 million
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approach with their use of sexual imagery. Arby’s Restaurant took such a constructive approach with its one-page advertisement in the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Arby’s sells their new Roastburger to men aged 18-25 by cleverly placing their product in a place no man can deny looking at. Men who flipped through this issue undoubtedly did a double take and read the entire advertisement and were affected through the suggestive placement of the product. The ad featured two of Arby’s
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Vol. 7(31), pp. 3078-3089, 21 August, 2013 DOI: 10.5897/AJBM12.1193 ISSN 1993-8233 © 2013 Academic Journals http://www.academicjournals.org/AJBM African Journal of Business Management Full Length Research Paper Social vices associated with the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in a Private Christian Mission University, Southern Nigeria. Omonijo, Dare Ojo1*, Nnedum, Obiajulu Anthony Ugochukwu2, Fadugba, Akinrole Olumuyiwa3, Uche, Onyekwere Chizaram Oliver4 and Biereenu-Nnabugwu
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1964 to 114 stores in 1994 to 231 stores in 2007 in 24 countries welcoming a total of 522 million visitors. Besides its success stories, the company has faced environmental and social issues. IKEA’s Global Sourcing Challenge involving Indian rugs as well as child labor is a complicated case of social issues. Whenever a company founds itself involved in a child labor controversy, it can severely damage the customer’s perception of the company. This impact can prove to be irreversible. In 1994
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HALLYU IN VIETNAM I. Introduction: In recent year, the Korean wave has been significantly popular among Asian countries such as China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand and Indonesia. Korean wave is usually called Hallyu which “is a neologism referring to the increase in the popularity of South Korean culture since late 1990s” (Korean wave, n.d.). This Hallyu trend not only gains popularity in Asian countries like Vietnam, Japan, China and Thailand but also spreads to South America and Europe
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Good morning to Miss Liana and fellow classmates, my name is Chua Wen Yee and the topic I’m going to talk about today is K-Pop. First of all, I’ll start off with some basic facts. K-Pop is a musical genre originated from South Korea. The pioneer of K-Pop is Seo Taeji and The Boys, which one of the member is the CEO of YG Entertainment, home of Big Bang and 2NE1 now. K-Pop was strongly criticized by a lot of people, including me. However it has been rising day by day and not only conquered the Asia
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SM Entertainment, which is the one of largest entertainment companies in Korea. In the past decades, SM creates numerous world-class artists like BoA, Girls’ Generation, Super Junior, etc. In this article, the author illustrates the company and how SM company uses these artists to achieve its business goal. We can also see why Korea becomes a huge entertainment empire in such a short time. From this passage, I get three main reasons which can explain what makes SM so powerful. Firstly, SM coined
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2NE1 MEMBER PROFILE Standard 2NE1 (투애니원) Means: New Evolution of the 21st Century Entertainment Company: YG Entertainment Debut Date: May 16, 2009 Fan Club: Blackjacks Fan Color: Hot Pink Twitter Facebook YouTube Park Bom (박봄) Born: March 24, 1984 165CM (5 feet 4 inches) 45KG (99 IBS) Blood Type: AB Position: Main Vocalist Twitter Me2Day Instagram Fun Facts: Has lymph nodes Can speak English, Japanese and Chinese Used to live in the United States Favorite color is green
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