make informed decisions about whether to purchase stock or remain invested. The annual report of a publicly traded company is available for anyone to review; it discloses the financial health of the company to potential or current investors. Investors use the annual report to determine what the company plans to do in the future, as well as compare the financial information from the previous year(s). Annual reports show if the company's sales, assets, and liabilities have increased, decreased, or stayed
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Online Marketing Research: Reliability and Appropriateness of Social Network Sites Wendy Tapia Abstract The widespread acceptance that the web 2.0 platform offers new opportunities and possibilities to meet the current marketing research challenges requires an in depth appreciation of the advantages and disadvantages involved in its implementation. The purpose of this paper is to take a critical look at the use of Social Network Sites as an Online Marketing Research tool
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discounting and offering a variety of new products to attract customers, they also seek to shed their “cheap and greasy” image with new store designs. Major competitors in the hamburger segment of the fast-food industry in order of annual sales are McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy’s, and Hardees. Since these chains recognize the importance of drive-through customers (65 percent of sales), they are all trying to increase the speed of drive-through delivery. Strategies include using timers to encourage employees
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companies with a central focus on value investing such as: General Motors and McDonalds. But at the start of the year, Nike’s share price had been declining at a rapid rate. Even while the surrounding market around NorthPoint was declining and the S&P 500 fell 10.1 percent in 2000, they earned a return of 20.7 percent, so they were doing extremely well during the hard time and in 2001, stayed positive at 6.4 percent while the S&P 500 stayed in the negatives. On June 28th, 2001, Nike held a meeting
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income and income distribution of the people living in the country. That’s why all the classes are the target market of KFC. And the most important factor is the political instability. But since Oman the political instability is good, which means KFC s market will be high when it comes to politics. When it also comes to safety regulations the security at KFC is always safe, and it as well as protected through the CCTV cameras to ensure safety and total security. The employment law KFC states that
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Panera Bread Company – History In 1978, Louis Kane purchased Au Bon Pain, a fast casual restaurant that focused on artisan breads. Kane merged Au Bon Pain with Ronald Shaich’s company The Cookie Jar in 1981. Au Bon Pain, looking to move away from their urban niche market, acquired the St. Louis Bread Company in 1993, a 19 store company with a more suburban marketplace. In 1999, after performing market research and studying their newly acquired bakery-concept, the company decided to sell Au Bon Pain
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387 From supply chains to value chains: A spotlight on CSR Malika Bhandarkar and Tarcisio Alvarez-Rivero* 1. Introduction Corporate social responsibility (CSR)1 has become a hot topic in boardrooms across the world. Changes in corporate value systems are being driven by pressures from different actors, including governments, consumers, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and institutional investors (diagram 1). Multinational corporations (MNCs) have operations spread across the globe
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Journal of Applied Psychology 2008, Vol. 93, No. 2, 453– 462 Copyright 2008 by the American Psychological Association 0021-9010/08/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.93.2.453 Employee Resistance to Organizational Change: Managerial Influence Tactics and Leader–Member Exchange Stacie A. Furst University of Cincinnati Daniel M. Cable The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The authors explored the relationship between managerial influence tactics and employee resistance to organizational
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fund2 managed by William H. (Bill) Miller III, had outperformed its benchmark index, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (S&P 500), for an astonishing 14 years in a row. This record marked the longest streak of success for any manager in the mutual-fund industry; the next longest period of sustained performance was only half as long. For many fund managers, simply beating the S&P 500 in any single year would have been an accomplishment, yet Miller had achieved consistently better results during
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business S-corporation-called the "C-corporation" (C-corp) for reasons we'll see shortly-and the system of taxing first the corporation and then its owners is called the "corporate double tax." "Pass through" taxation. The entity (called a "flow-through" entity) is not taxed but its owners are each taxed (more or less) on their proportionate shares of the entity's income. The leading forms of pass through entity (further explained below) are: Partnerships, of various types. "S-corporations" (S-corps)
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