Manufacturer Article Reviews Samples For Students

Article Analysis

Inditex's Zara And The Power Of Comparative Advantage. Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/06/07/inditexs-zara-and-the-power-of-comparative-advantage/#1e3259fa6b4a
This news article was published in the Forbes newspaper on June 7, 2015. In the article, the author attempts to explain factors that give Inditex comparative advantages in the strongly competitive textile industry. Inditex is a Spanish multinational apparel manufacturer and distributor. Currently, it is the largest fashion group in the world, and its best-known brand is Zara. This brand offers a wide range of high-quality designer clothes and personal accessories for men, women and children. Being the largest fashion retailer in the world, Inditex enjoys several comparative ...

The website explains in detail how the drug development takes place and how investments made in pharmaceutical companies are affected by this process. The website begins by asserting that there is higher probability of getting 12 male children in a row than a drug seeing the shelf of a pharmacy (Williams par. 1). With that noted, it is therefore imperative for an investor in the health sector to understand the dynamic of drug-manufacturing.
The initial stage is the drug discovery which involves identify a molecule e.g. a protein or gene that participates in a disease (Williams par. 2). If ...

The article “Identifying Customer Requirements for location-based Services” by Matthias Möller, Sascha Vukovic, Jonathan Landgrebe aims to explore strategies that can be effectively used in the early development phase of location-based mobile technologies. They define location-based services as those providing location-specific information additionally tailoring it to user characteristics and personal details. Some examples of such services could be car navigation or tourist tour planning (Schiller & Voisard, 2004). This technology can significantly reduce user effort in finding information that is specific to his/her current location and time. Successful implementation of these strategies, according to the authors, could ...

Management

In the article ‘Vendor Managed Inventories’ or VMI, the author tells that VMI is a distributional medium, in which the inventory at the distributor or retailer is managed and supervised by the manufacturer or vendor. However, it includes various tactics such as determining the quantities of order, controlling the products, and organizing the levels of stocks appropriately. Preliminary problems in the VMI are usually due to systems or data limitations. VMI cn be beneficial for both manufacturers and distributors in number of ways. For example it is advantageous for manufacturers because of lower investment of inventory in supply chain as ...

Introduction

The use of condoms has been steadily growing over the last few decades as a result of increased public awareness about the potential danger of sexually transmitted diseases like HIV/AIDS. Many industrial players have tried to capitalize on this and the condom manufacturing industry has witnessed massive product innovations.
Durex is the number condom manufacturer in the world. The condom brand has a 29% share of the five billion condoms that are sold each year in the globe. The brand is actually the market leader in very many countries.
Since the use of typically begins from a young age, Durex ...

Article Review: Apple buys mobile security firm AuthenTec for $356 million

This article regards the acquisition of a fingerprint sensor by the Apple Company from the technology developer Authen Tec. The article reveals that the technology can be used in individual computers and mobile appliances. This essay provides a review of the plans to acquire the fingerprint sensor from its manufacturer at the price of 356 million dollars.
In the introduction, the article provides a preview of the price of the shares that Apple agreed to purchase the fingerprint sensor. The article reveals that the fingerprint sensor manufacturer agreed at $8 per share. At this price, the article says that Apple gets ...