Trade Case Studies Samples For Students

Founded in 1999, Blue Nile Inc. is an online specialty retailer of fine jewelery. A seller of certified diamonds, the company was furnished into Blue Nile Inc. as we know it by Marc C. Vadon. Ever since, the company has raised and exceeded more bars than one can count. It showed a thirty per cent increase in sales from 2003 to 2004. In 2006, a mere seven years after its foundation, Blue Nile Inc. was larger than the next three largest online jewelers combined.

The factors that have propelled Blue Nile Inc. to the top of the game would be ...

‘Fashion and quality at the best price’ is the motto on which H&M bases its business concept. H&M had humble beginnings over sixty years ago in Vasteras, Sweden. It is now a highly successful, contemporary fashion group with a global reach. H&M’s Annual Report for FY 2013 reported 3,132 department stores worldwide; H&M department stores are now in 53 countries.

Outward processing trade (OPT) agreements work well for many segments of the textile production and marketing sectors. OPT is better than free trade regulations for H&M when using production facilities in countries in closer proximity to ...

Summary of Case Study

This case study talks about H&M, a clothing retailer which is based in Sweden. H&M is believed to be the second largest clothing retailer in the world. It faces stiff competition from firms such as Uniqlo, Gap, Zara, and Top shop. All the garments are designed in Stockholm, sent for production in various offices and finally to the manufacturers. H&M designs both fast fashion and staple items. As such, it sourcing strategy is split into two that is, sourcing strategy for fashion lines that turn around very fast and sourcing strategy for items that are not very urgent. The ...

International Business - H&M

H&M is ranked as one of the world’s largest clothing companies and is based in Stockholm, Sweden. As a clothing industry, the company has to ensure it captures the latest fashion trend in order to match the market demand for clothing industry. This is crucial because today’s customers tend to be trendy in terms of the type of clothes they wear. Given the changing dynamic of the fashion culture, the industry has to be cost effective in terms of their production to keep up with the customer’s demand. H&M is large clothing industry, which means it has ...

Abstract

This case study seeks to highlight the operations of 7-Eleven, the world’s leading retail convenience store chain with the aim to understand its business model on which its promotional strategy is based. The research and review of literature revealed that 7-Eleven has a promotion strategy based on value creation and product differentiation. Since its establishment, the company has undergone a tremendous change which has seen it evolve from a traditional convenience store to a multi-billion dollar convenience chain with a majority of its operations on foreign shores. It intends to utilize the same values to promote its existing as well as new outlets ...

Question 1:

Cost-based pricing is rather self-explanatory. It basically mirrors that costs that a company has faced while manufacturing a product in addition to the packaging, and might be a bit more, but never less than that. This method of pricing will beneficial to Cowgirl, for products such as Spicy Chocolate Truffle and even the Muslin bag because they form a majority of the revenues, 50% and 16% respectively. This entails that the demand for these products is relatively high and even if they’re highly priced based on their costs, customers will still purchase them. However, where competitive pricing lacks is that it doesn’ ...

Summary

Beijing Jeep Corporation was one of the leading industries in the production of the locally consumed automobiles in China. BJC was facing a major challenge in this industry after the liberalization of the market in China leading to the welcoming of the outside investors to indulge in the exploitation of the China Market. BJC was organized in such a manner that there were major players in the management of the industry and the potential buyers before the liberalization of the market were its own population and the upper hand producer in the industry was the BJC members themselves that is before ...

The options are ideal tools for position trading as well risk management. These options give their holders some right to buy and sell their underlying assets at a quoted price on or before the expiration date. A call gives a holder the right to buy an option while a put enables a holder to sell an option. The three major option strategies are as listed below in the various case studies.

Bullish option strategy

The McDonald Company has, in past five years, expected the underlying stock price of their diversified commodities to go upward. For this very reason, the company financial management decided to adopt the ...

Abstract

JC Penney is one of the largest retail stores in the world. It has a century long history of success. JC Penney has seen many big changes over the last 100 years in its product portfolio. However, the last effort to change it brand image went horribly wrong. It lost almost 33% of its customer base within a year, biggest in the history of retail industry. However, it has now realized that it needs to stick to its tried and tested brand image and also the operational tactics that have succeeded for the last 4 decades. Once those are in place, ...

Introduction

Amy’s Bread is a bakery in the New York City that deals with hand-made breads, decadent cookies, morning pastries, layer cakes, sandwiches among other products. The company is known of baking chewy and crusty breads made of moist crumb and flavor. The company makes its breads through traditional European techniques. Amy’s Bread is a key wholesale supplier of breads in different New York restaurants.

Strengths
Amy’s Bread has made investments in different areas that have made it outstanding in the industry. Strengths are usually as a result of internal activities of an organization and they are major determinants ...

International Microeconomics: Trade Dispute Case Study ‘USCOOL’

Introduction
The advent of bilateral trade talks started all before the general agreement on tariff and trade (GATT). Although the reciprocal tariff act of 1934, came into action after the smooth Hawley tariff act of 1930 as a result of the stock market crash. The reciprocal tariff act served as a negotiating model for GATT. GATT prompted countries to negotiate and reciprocate tariff reduction. The World Trade Organization (WTO) was formed in 1995 after 8 rounds of talk under GATT from 1947 to 1994 to discuss varying issues of trade. WTO was formed to provide an avenue to manage the ...

Regional integration refers to a process of states entering into regional agreement in the bid to enhance regional cooperation following regional rules and institutions. Despite the merits that the process may possess, there are extensive disadvantages that go along with regional integration. This element of trade may become exclusively significant through combination with other factors that may enhance performance. Having proper understanding of free trade, various measures must be undertaken.
Free trade is a major policy in international trade. Following the exclusive drawbacks of regional integration, free trade should not be allowed to take its natural course. One of the ...

Global and regional free trade

H &M ranks as the second largest in terms of world retailers. It is located at Stockholm in Sweden. Its main competitor in this industry is Zara, Top Shop and Gap among others. It is one of the firms that are categorized as the first component of “fast fashion”. H&M holds the primary objective of producing fast in a way that is cost efficient. This favors a vertical integration model of design. This is by producing, delivery and making sales in time. The reason that makes it apply this model is for it to enjoy the large market share in the ...

When an organization is trying to build communication strategies and reaching out to its customers and potential customer, the important thing to consider is the best venues and vehicles with which to reach them. Traditional media like radio, television, newspapers, magazines and billboards are used to advertise.
Companies use sales promotions to stimulate sales. This ensures that the end users purchase more products. Trade promotion is also used to encourage immediate activities. This can be done through discounts or offers.
Personal selling is another venue commonly used. It is direct communication between buyer and seller with the ...

Response paper - “The Super Bowl: More Than a Single Advertising Event ”

The role of advertising at E*trade
Advertising is an extremely important element in case of E*trade. It has helped make Super Bowl a very popular game and this has been possible due to innovative and repetitive advertising with a high remembrance value. Advertising is impeccable to marketing as it plays pivotal role in the field of marketing. Marketing is about informing, attracting and persuading customer to buy certain goods and services (Kotler and Keller, 2006). The best way to educate and influence sales is to advertise the required product and attract consumers (Swayne, et.al., 2005). Advertising can be ...

Identify the industrial relations problems in this company?

The major industrial relations problem facing the insurance company was that they wanted to start a union to voice their grievances: their request was denied. They decided to go this route because against the following background. When they started to expand their business, they expected their staff to work hard. To work beyond regular working hours was till the work was done was considered to be normal. Any staff member reluctant to do so was given warning that such behaviour was not welcomed. On the other hand, those doing good job were rewarded. As they expanded further, they appointed branch ...

International (Free) Trade

International (Free) Trade
Free trade or international free trade is one of the most effective ways of making economies stronger. It is in a view that when the governments lift the barriers from the trade, the circulation of funds in the market increases and gives benefit to the citizens. Free trade creates jobs in many different ways and its impact on the domestic job creation policies. For example, a few decades back there were no labor force in the Middle East countries such as UAE and Saudi Arabia. The free trade policy from the governments of these countries creates a lot ...

Question 1

Given the chance to change the 401k pension plans, I would do the following three things.
- Delink the contribution from employers i.e. commoditize it. This means opening the plan to anyone willing whether one is under formal employment or not.
- Define the contributions such that one cannot withdraw the money for any other purpose other than after retirement.
- Open up the amount one can save any given moment

How would theses suggestions work to improve the current state of 401k?

The first one separates employers from the 401k contribution by ensuring that it is open to more people. Such would ensure that more people would ...

Introduction

The case study will focus on Pankaj et al (2004) and David, B. Y & Renee, K (2013), articles published in Harvard Business School, journal, to review and discuss Wal-Mart’s operations capabilities and way forward.
Wal-Mart as an organization is a story of astonishing success in terms of revenues and the way it has touched lives through its products and services made Forbes declare the company in March 2003, as the largest and most admired American company.

Wal-Mart’s strategy in the discount retailing industry

The strategy of Wal-Mart is affixed on differentiated pricing, cost leadership, strong distribution, inventory management and most importantly in tandem with the technology-based ...

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- Should Rogers extend its business outside its jurisdiction of British Columbia?
Growth is always welcome. Rogers Chocolate has a good market penetration, and that in itself accounts for an expansion of business. With its varied range of products, as well as the number of tough competitors, it is essential for Rogers to expand its business more, and capture other zones as well. Rogers is Columbia’s second largest company, founded in 1855, and thus remains significant even historically. It has markets like retail, wholesale, as well as online markets. So, with better marketing, Rogers can expand ...

Amazon.com or simply Amazon is an online based retail store that sells a variety of products from books, DVDs to Kitchen appliances and a host of other products. Up until recently though, Amazon had only been established as an online retail store for ordering books. However, the company’s business has since diversified to include various products that can be accessed or viewed on the site and their purchases made. This paper analyses three aspects of Amazon’s operations over the years, first, it delves into its corporate strategy, secondly, it evaluates its business strategy and finally it also addresses the ...

The strategic negotiations framework proposed by Walton et al (1994) gives a vigorous theoretical framework that can be used to explain the formation of labor relations in modern firms and how management approaches labor negotiations at the workplace. Strategies related to labor negotiations result from an amalgamation of labor-management interactions at the individual and institutional level (Boxall & Purcell, 2011). The institutional component essentially revolves around collect bargaining and its legitimacy in sustaining the shared understanding or the social contract between the two negotiating parties. The current regulatory environment equips employers with more freedom and discretion on how to deal with ...

NAFTA is an acronym for the American Free Trade Agreement, which came into being on January 1, 1994 United States; Canada and Mexico entered into an agreement. The coming up of these three counties created the world's largest free trade area. This group at present links 450 million people and producing $17 trillion goods and services. Since its inception, NAFTA has led to improved free trade which has resulted in an increase in wealth and competitiveness and thus delivering real benefits to the families, workers, farmers and many more categories of individuals within the society.
The creation of ...

Part A

The increased demand for employees is as a result of an increased demand of the organizations product or services. The future human resource needs for Blue Gum are growing with the projected future increase in the number of company’s retail shops. In order to get the exact deficit on the human resource needs, the HR of the Blue Gum needs to carry out a job analysis. The human resource manager needs to first of all determine if there are qualified candidates amongst the present staff members who can fill in the open positions before inviting external candidates. Regardless, the new ...

Results of the analysis of the Cooper Processing Company case (Bowersox et al., 2013).
In order to get the data to calculate the ROA, we need to get all the necessary data. The detailed cost for the retail and foodservice channels.
For the employees cost, the retail have 40 employees and the food service 10. Considering 5.000.000,00 USD the values are:
Employee_Retail: 4.000.000,00 USD Employee_Foodservice: 1.000.000,00 USD

The calculation of the sales promotion cost, we consider that 100% of all the cost are considered in the retail channel:

Promotion_Retail: 8.000.000,00 USD Promotion_Foodservice: 0,00 USD
The cost of the order processing for each channel is proportional to the number of orders of ...

- How is Wal-Mart’s Website different from Amazon and Office Depot?
The major difference in the website of Walmart and that of the Amazon and Office Depot is in its web design. In the realization of this fact, Walmart acquired a web design company and tasked it with the responsibility of rebuilding the entire website of the company in order to make it more seamless. Additionally, the products that are featured on Walmart’s website are basic products that are needed in everyday life of its consumers, unlike the other two competitors. Walmart’s website is also different ...

Using this model in China will be irrelevant as they have a different operating approach of thinking compared to that of China, which focuses more on consumption. A key segment of the wholesale model is membership. However, China being a communist nation it advocates for the distribution of property. This implies that the debtor can save on money and the cardholder is able to obtain cumulative credits from the store. Thus, both parties benefit from the transaction. Thus, none of the parties is eager to become a member of the wholesale store, but prefer to borrow a member from the other.
Additionally, ...

In the effort to revolutionize the retail sector, DigiPoS faced a number computing problems when upgrading the system. According to Debra (2008), DigiPoS was led by the desire to meet customers’ need and maximize on their investments while maintaining its competitive advantage being a leading provider of strong POS software and other technologies. This could be achieved by ensuring that the system was upgraded to make sure that the organization was able to reach their customers in time with the right quality. In the opinion of Shinder (2008), this led to a number of problems; DigiPoS being a large organization, used a large sum of ...

Starbuck is one of the most ideal and established coffee producers. Differentiated factors and capabilities purport the characteristic of being established. The major objectives of the entity are to have a dominant, proficient and well established system that can adopt and support itself during recession and boom periods of the economy. Some of the resources or capabilities that are accrued to the entity that are essential to the growth of the company include retail sales making. In addition, the employees are professionally trained. The company has an established merchandising and real estate approach to its running strategy of the business. ...

Introduction

This paper contains two parts. Part of this paper offers a brief explanation regarding the role of the directors in a company. This part specifically discusses the reason behind the existence of the directors of a company’s duty to prevent insolvent trading. It also discusses the circumstances and the results after the court lifting the veil of incorporation for the wrong of insolvent trading upon a director of a company.

Discussion

Directors of companies are under a duty under the Corporation Act provisions and the common law to prevent companies from incurring debts while they are insolvent. At common law, the director’s duty to ...

Part I: Case Study Analysis of Clambake Company

Organizational growth determines the complexity of internal processes. Clambake Company has grown tremendously and with the current headcount of thirty individuals, the company requires robust and coherent control system. It is difficult to evaluate the performance and the impact of the current information systems on organizational activities due to the data limitations. It is evidenced, however, that the projected growth and current setting of the company will benefit from the implementation of a user-friendly and integrated Management Information System (MIS). Given the fact that the company will grow through acquisition and will increase its headcount from current thirty to fifty-four ...

The bank: If interest rates increase naturally the EMI per month increases which for a short time

Increases its revenue but in the long run it finds difficult to generate new leads by acquiring new customer Base. On the other hand if interest rates decrease, it motivates the borrower and increases new base For the bank.The Investor: With interest rates increasing the Monthly Installments increases which becomes an Additional burden on the investors. On the other hand if it decreases it becomes a bit easier to repay Back the loan.Industrial Group: If interest rates decreases, businesses can expand and economy becomes much Agile and healthy. Decreased interest rates motivates the traders to acquire more business loans from ...

Bharat Petroleum and Corporation Limited, a fortune 500 Indian company, was primarily a refining and marketing company. On April 2010, the company’s chairman, Mr. Ashok Sinha, contemplated the company’s corporate strategy for the next five years. Its previous corporate strategy, which primarily consisted of diversifying into exploration and production (E&P), was a huge success. He had the following questions in mind for the proposed strategy: Let us look at those questions and analyse plus evaluate them with reference to the case and facts-figures.

Sustain the pace in E&P or wait for more results?

The success ratios in E&P were such that 100 contracts resulted in one producing well. But in ...

For the past few years the Woodmen Valley Chapel has been involved with the Gift of Love Celebration that seeks to extend love to most families in the community. This event was created with the main aim of allowing others to donate to the needy within the society. Since its inception the program has had a very positive impact on people’s lives especially children of younger ages that have been receiving gifts from well-wishers through this program. The event seeks to serve needy families by making it possible for people to donate gifts to these families during this period ...

The game play in the simulation that I took part in involved me taking the position of the retailer in the supply and demand chain. The activities of a retailer involved the placing order for the goods from the wholesalers after receiving orders from the customers. The system simulation put in place is programmed to improvise the way every entity in the demand supply chain works towards making goods available to the end user. This starts form the customer to the retailer, then to the wholesaler, the distributor, and then finally the factory where the goods are manufactured. As retailer, ...

A recent United States Court of International Trade case is Marvin Furniture (Shanghai) Co. v. United States. In the case, the plaintiff was the Marvin Furniture, while the defendant was the United States. The case involved efforts by the plaintiff to withdraw the decision made during the Marvin Furniture (Shanghai) Co. v. United States, 36 CIT, 867 F. Supp. 2d 1302, whereby the court found Marvin to be responsible importer of goods that had entered US but were not reported, hence resulting to rescission. The bases of defendant was that the plaintiff had failed to disclose it first exports ...

The North West Corner Rule

The North West corner rule is a technique used to compute a basic and feasible solution for a transportation problem. In this technique, the basic variables are chosen from the North West corner, or as it would appear in a table, the top left corner.
The economic problem at this point is to distribute the available bushels of olives to the different retail outlet destinations in a manner that keeps the transportation cost at a minimum.
The number of retail outlets (n) = 7
The number of distribution centers (m) = 6
The number of basic variables = m + n – 1 = 6 + 7 – 1 = ...

Executive summary

Just Us! Coffee is the leader retailer and wholesaler of fair trade products in Canada. The company also deals in other fair trade products such as tea, sugar, and chocolate. Its main differentiation is to sell organic products under the fair trade umbrella. Fair Trade gives the company a sense of social responsibility and environmental responsibility in addition to dealing in premium quality products. The fair trade market is a growing market supported by its differentiation values. Just Us! Café wishes to expand its business in order to maintain its share of the current market in Canada. Meanwhile the company has ...

Questions for Discussion

- What major communication problems did The Home Depot have and manage to solve?
Geographic communication was a big issue as there were multiple languages to cover. This challenge was solved by the introduction of database servers that could transmit messages throughout the Home Depot retail branches.
- In what ways did The Home Depot leverage the power of technology to facilitate communication? How else might it do so?
It used the latest systems from IBM to provide continuous availability of SAP for retail. Home Depot could have commissioned the development of their private software which could ...

Supply chain Management

A supply chain is an incorporated process involving a number of business entities including manufacturers, suppliers, retailers and distributors come together in an attempt to obtain raw materials, turn the raw materials into the desired products and distribute the products to retailers. A supply chain is usually characterized by a forward movement of materials and a backward movement of information. For years, the processes involved in a supply chain have been researched, but the focus is now shifting to the performance, analysis and design of the entire supply chain.
At the highest level of a supply chain, there are two basic processes: The ...

A business strategy is defined as the means by which a business or an organization sets out to achieve its goals or objectives. Simply, it can be defined as a long-term business plan. Target stores have used different strategies overtime. Nancy Koehn, a Harvard Business School professor said in her review that Target Stores what the store did was to eke out its position in the retail business landscape, a strategy much different from Wal-Mart’s. Chris Merritt, a principal at Kurt Solomon Associates while commenting on branding, said that branding was one of the things Target Stores did a good job of. They used ...

The federal, provincial and municipal governments are the levels of government present in Alberta. The provincial and federal governments are elected through a representative democracy whereas; the municipal governments are elected through councilors who are led by a mayor (Jailly, Emmanuel, and John F. Martin 11). All levels of government have their own roles and responsibilities.
Among the duties of the federal government include; trade, post office and census. These roles have been assigned to the federal level of government because it has authority over the areas that affect the whole country at large. Some of these areas include; regulation ...

Question 4

MD international being an export oriented company; they are bound to face innumerable challenges in course of transacting business. From the sourcing of the products, to the actual delivery to clients, there are many business hurdles some that can be handled from within and some that need the assistance of the government or some other external influence to solve. The main market that MD Corporation engages is the Caribbean countries, which pose some unique challenges to trade owing to their economic health, political structures and many other factors.

The government assists MD and indeed any other exporting company in varying ways such as follows.

The United States has access to a lot of information concerning foreign ...

Redesign of Business Systems and Process

Introduction
The decline on retail sales growth and development for the Dairy Farm Group of Companies (DFG) trace its roots back in 1997. DFG a leading Hong Kong located food retailer that had established operations in various large cities in the Asia-Pacific region. Some of the reasons that attributed to the decline include economic crises that hit most of the Asian nations in the late 1997s, increased competition from the European and US retail chains that introduced their products to the Asian markets. The outcome of the competition impacted on DFG by the foreign stores witnessed the sales of ...

Analysis and solution

Notable online retailer Amazon was faced with a lawsuit in early 2012 after its failure to guard its sensitive customer data from malicious individuals known as hackers. The attack featured cracking of online shoe and clothing retailer Zappos as subsidiary of Amazon where computers had their account and customer information stolen such as credit card numbers. As a result of this incidence the company faced lawsuits from its customers. This suit was aforementioned in principle following the company’s inability to safeguard the clients’ sensitive information, (Fowler & Vascellaro, 45).
Several lessons were learnt from the Zappos hacking incident such as ...

The Central Issue

The central issue in this case is the dominance of the American Fur Company in the fur trade. The case outlines the rise of Astor from a paid worker to a millionaire in the fur trade and the tactics that he employed in ensuring that he downplayed the efforts of other fur trading companies.

Recommended Course of Action

Since Astor had ensured that the other fur trading companies’ efforts in the trade, the government should have passed and enacted laws that outlawed extrapolated prices of goods and equitable pay for the fur. These government efforts should have included deploying civil officers to the west to ...

Industry analysis using Porter’s Five forces

Supplier Power
Most of the suppliers of WalMart include large companies. Having established itself in various locations worldwide, WalMart has been able to reduce the supplier power. This has enabled it to obtain its products at relatively low prices. Suppliers tend to provide more discounts to WalMart in an effort to increase their sales. Furthermore, most of its suppliers are large companies with substantial reputations who have to build their reputations by providing products to WalMart because of its large customer base.

Bargaining Power of Buyers

The bargaining power of buyers is weak. This has been attributed to WalMart low prices compared ...

Law

Trading Memo
Re: Trading Agreement with Mohammed Reda and Khalid Reda
The should be a trading agreement that you should enter with Mohammed Reda and Khalid Reda, who will become your business partners in Saudi Arabia. It is advised that the agreement should be signed in Italy, where your business is located in order to protect your interest. Since you are the owner of a company called JM Italian Coffee Inc., which is a well-known company in Italy engaged in buying and selling of coffee beans and other coffee equipment all over the world, it is best that your business ...

Introduction

The world trade organization is a global business body or corporation set to control and regulates international business (Czinkota, 2011) .It is also charged with controlling transparency of the member countries by regulating media coverage and restrictions of the media by member countries. The USA and china have in the recent past engaged the tribunal on a legal battle where china is blamed for restricting international media on covering its international business. This is in accordance with the concern and complaint raised over china not complying with a WTO ruling on the same. America’s film industry has suffered terribly due to a ...

In consideration to the prior experience of the bank in credit, the expansion of the retail credit section of the bank, a plan by Dianne Ron, is an appropriate alternative. The bank will use credit to recruit more retail banking customers because there is a growing demand for credit for retail customers and businesses. Furthermore, there will be an assurance for return on capital lost from investing in the project from the increased number of customers. This is also because the project will rely on the existing credit approval of the bank for the expansion program due to its suitability. There ...

99 Cents Only Stores Weaknesses
99 Cents Only Stores is a chain of retail stores located in various States in America majorly selling name branded items at a cheap price of ninety nine cents per item. The stores started as a liquor shop in early 60s but so far, it has incorporated the sales of other consumer products at an affordable price to low income earners as well as provide these items in times during low seasons when they are not easily found in the market. The company has boasted of various success factors including their ability to expand from a family ...

- Amazon Preparing Bid for Barnes and Noble?
One believes that Barnes & Noble would be a good buy for Amazon. There are several reasons why Barnes & Noble can be a good fit for Amazon. Barnes & Noble has a massive nationwide retail footprint which Amazon does not have. At present Barnes & Nobel is the country’s largest book retailer chain with 689 retail stores and 674 college stores. It will be a good move for Amazon because its competitors, Apple, Microsoft and Google have invested in real estate to market their products. Amazon will definitely benefit from Barnes & Noble’s retail outlets because ...

An Upscale Sporting Goods Retailer Becomes A Leader In Trendy Apparel

Answer # 1:
A&F is a very old and renowned brand. It was started as a small scale business in the end of the 19th century by two business partners Abercrombie and Fitch. It indulged in producing several different products with time with the change in customer wants. It was established as a sporting goods retailer which later became a leader of the market in retailing trendy apparel with several stores in line (Rovenpor, 2007).
In the early 1900’s A&F was in the starting stage. It faced several management issues and change in the business line with time. This business was ...

The Influence of the Stalemate in the W.T.O on the E.U.: Global Europe as New Trade Policy
The Influence of the Stalemate in the W.T.O on the E.U.: Global Europe as New Trade Policy

Introduction

As an introduction, it is important to note that the European Union is one of the largest regional groups in the world. The group is an economic group which has continued to establish and execute various polices which have had a substantial effect on the trading activities in the member countries. Moreover, the group is also a political group. The recent stalemate in the world trade ...

Economic distance

It is prudent to note that the wealth or the income of the consumers is an important economic attribute which creates distance between countries. The economic distance has a great effect on the levels of trade that can exist between countries. It also determines the types of trade partners a country trades with.
For instance, research shows that rich countries like engaging in trade with the other rich countries compared to the poor cousins. However, the research also shows that the poor countries like trading with the rich countries in order to benefit from the materials available in the rich ...

Introduction

This paper provides information on geographical aspects, with focus no urban environment of Frankfurt, Germany with an intention of investigating and analyzing financial and commercial patterns based on size and function of three retail centers. The analysis will involve application Reilly’s retail theory and Christaller’s model of central places (Morris, 118). An understanding of urban environmental issues in cities such as Frankfurt provides a spring board upon which spatial planning can be tailored to meet the social, economic and recreational needs of people.

How do retail patterns vary in different urban areas of Frankfurt am Main, Germany?
...

Introduction

David is an enterprising person who should be given an opportunity to carry out his business operations with minimal interference. Just like any other entrepreneur, his rights should be fully protected and safeguarded by the law. This is the only way through which he can be motivated to continue dealing with his products. Likewise, all the other players in this industry should be protected as well. As we all understand, film is a very sensitive industry that requires a lot of support from the government. This can not only be done through offering financial support and also through enforcing just laws ...

The abolition of the slave trade in Britain between 1750 and1920

Historians agree that changes in the Atlantic world contributed to the abolition of the British slavery between 1750 and 1920. Modern historians treat slavery with the consideration of the capitalist world, which include its tassel and in classical ruins that played a critical role in European education. Hochschild was responsible for labeling these societies. In Hochschild’s theory, the slaves practiced productive labor, and slave labor was highly significant the state and the society. Slavery was present in the key industrial societies. The prevalence of slave labor made some European states create reservoirs of people that could offer them their ...

Annotated bibliography

Cailleba, P., & Casteran, H. (2009). A quantitative study on the fair trade coffee consumer. Journal of Applied Business Research, 25(6), 31-46. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/227583556?accountid=45049

This article draws attention on the manners in which ethical behaviors

of consumers contributes to fair coffee trade. This is vital because most people purchase coffee depending on the consumer perception and values. However, the article also offers the French transactions case study conducted between 2005 and 2007, whose major aim was to find out the effects of personality traits, types of promotion and the characteristics of a product on coffee purchases. Further, the article goes ahead to investigate on the relationship between coffee purchases, personal ...

Question # 1:

Strategic Groups:
Organizations operating in the same industry tend to form clusters and groups on the basis of the different strategic positions. Different organizations form a cluster or group as they have almost similar strategic position to operate in the industry. It is important to carefully analyze and select the dimensions for the x and y axes for strategic group mapping. The strategic group mapping presents an overview of the different strategic positions in the industry and allows the organization to come up with competitive advantage (Freeman, 2010).

Strategic Group Mapping for Wal-Mart:

The organizations or firms operating in the retail industry of US ...