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Australia's Orix Fleet Services Planning

In six pages this Australian owned subsidiary of a Japanese company is discussed in terms of goals, performance, and parent corpor...

Financial Analysis of Starbucks Corporation

This indicates the level at which direct costs account take up revenue. Gross profit 2001 2002 2003 2004 Revenue (a) 2,649.0 3,28...

Adaptec Financial Analysis

been a first mover when the opportunity has arisen, developing the pioneered SCSI (Small Computer System Interface), as well as dr...

Knowledge Management, Topps Tiles and the Price of Wheat

This 22 page paper is written in 3 parts. The main part of the paper discusses the concept of knowledge management, looking at wha...

Macro Economic Influences on Apollo Group Inc.

with some students dropping out and a lower demand for the services due to economic pressures. Inflation will also have an impac...

Singapore Airlines

history of the company dates back to the 1st of May 1947 when the first flight took off from Kallang Airport operating under the n...

Increasing HR's Strategic Influence

benefits programs and tracked information such as vacation and sick time available to each employee. When that was HRs only funct...

Strategic Hotels and Resorts

when it is considered that there is only an average 5.5 percent increase in room rates in the North America market and 17.4 percen...

Juicy Red Tomato Company Case Study

findings of the first consultant are that JRT need to invest in both the managerial and front line staff and need to improve commu...

Post-Merger Problems

with similar expertise but with a slightly different viewpoint; it may be expanding vertically by acquiring a company either above...

Case Study of Steinway and Sons

the relevant segment of the industry. Differentiation is described by Porter as "when it [the company] provides something ...

United Group Limited, Woodside Petroleum Limited and Babcock & Brown Limited

to United Group Ltd. As part of the growth there has been a strategy of acquisition, companies acquired which have added r...

Considering the Implementation of an Information Technology Strategy for Local Government

the research to develop which takes all of the potential factors into account; dependant and interdependent influences as well as...

HRM Case Study; Erroneous New Policies

any legislation employment legislations outlawing the discrimination against smokers, the overweight, those with speeding tickets ...

Investment in Delta Airlines Assessment

difficulties, the 2001 figures were poor, the operating margin was -11.5% and the 2002 figure was a lower loss at -9.8% the twelve...

3 Successful American Company Examples

that is doing well and giving back to the community. Microsoft is easily another American success story, as is the older, but stil...

Introducing Technology and Defining Positive Change

also a paradox in itself as for every $1 spent on IT we can see that there will be an associated increase in market value of the c...

Stock Purchase Appraisal of Coca Cola

that is strong, worldwide, Coke, combined with all the brands it owns commands about 50% of the total soft drinks market., The mai...

The Tootsie Roll Co. and Microsoft

through change. While the firm has also been through ups and downs, it has fared well. In evaluating this case in respect to the...

Biopharmaceutical Company LifeTec Group Ltd.

may be seen not only in terms of the companys own performance but also as a result of the general economy and performance of the H...

Comparative Analysis of the Financial Performance of Target and Wal Mart

common stock (Target, 2003). The 1970s saw both growth and innovation. In 1971 the revenues hit $1 billion (Target, 2003). The i...

New Synthetic Motor Oil Development

time, there was, of course, virtually no interest in a synthetic motor oil anywhere outside of a laboratory. Application in aviat...

China Construction Industry

considered China, when joining the World Trade Organisation (WTO) declared itself as a developing nation, may be expected. The gro...

Case Studies on PepsiCo and Wal Mart

niche, bottled water quickly proved to be a market that (unlike the cola market) was anything but static. Intrigued with the conc...

Employee Appraisal

for effective performance management. These include: aligning individual performance expectations with organizational goals; conne...

The Impact of External Influences on the Performance of Shell

impact on the financial performance of the company. However, it is also possible to see the way in which the increasing oil prices...

History of the Rolls Royce Energy Engineering, Marine, and Aerospace Company

the use of resources one strategy is to increase the income gained form services, this has been successful with services income in...

Overview of Nortel Networks

Nortel is the number one supplier in the world of Internet telephony for service providers. Two families of solutions are offered:...

Performance Measurement Evaluations of Financial and Nonfinancial Data

In nine pages the various methods of performance evaluation are considered with a discussion of such approaches as net present val...

Financial Performance of SBC Communications Inc.

for the accounts that ended on the 31st of December 2001 showed a decrease in performance, with total revenues falling by 11% to o...