Essays on Petro

Report of Hudson’s Bay Company

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Introduction

Founded in 1670 in Canada, Hudson Bay Company (HBC) is the oldest firm in North America, operating in the retail segment across Canada, United States, Germany or Belgium (HBC official website, n.d.). With a long tradition in the fur market, the company adapted to socio-dynamic changes that marked clients’ loss of interest in fur, and adjusted to more modern requests, entering the general retailing business, currently operating in luxury fashion, after acquiring brands such as SAKS Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor, but also owning department store (GAMERIA Kaufhof, Galeria INNO, Sportarena), off-price stores (Designer Depot) or furniture, appliances ...

With the science, information and technological boom in the past few decades, the internet has become the ubiquitous resource when it comes to acquiring information and knowledge. However increased use of search engines and other websites to acquire information has also given rise to questions about its effect on intelligence and behavior, especially in the case of children and adolescents. Children and adolescents are more likely to be affected as they are in their formative years and are highly susceptible. Access to information that is just a click away and this can lead to a mistaken belief and illusion ...

H&M Does it surprise you that the second largest clothing retailer is only selling in stores in 54 countries plus an additional 10 countries online? Why do you think it is not covering more of the world's countries?

during its life cycle, as H&M has been introducing new products like home line (2006) and is now planning to introduce sportswear, which may quickly make H&M a leader in the field thanks to advantages that H&M can boast of in the sportswear category. Moreover, Zara is quite slow in introducing their sportswear category, which gives to H&M the possibility to ...

Zara

Introduction and Background The case of Zara, a famous fashion clothing manufacturer, has been considered with the focus on inventory management and lean operations. The major aim of lean manufacturing (Just-In-Time) is to reduce the cost through having control over inventory and reducing waste. Zara is a fast fashion retailer and fashion changes rapidly. Therefore, it is difficult to estimate the demand for products. Hence, Zara procures the material in bulk and cut the clothes into pieces. However, when fashion changes and demand for any specific design rise, the retailer prepares the dresses on demand (Just-In-Time). In this way, ...

Communication

Activewear market continues its growth of the ‘athleisure’ trend. More and more customers are ready to adopt a healthy lifestyle. It is not strange to see a person wearing gym clothes beyond the gym today (Petro G., 2015). That is why all sportswear companies are eager to change their marketing strategies in order to meet the expectations of their customers. Lululemon was one of the first companies to see the opportunity to sell activewear. But they were not the only one. The main competitors of lululemon are Nike inc., Gap, Under Armour, and Victoria’s Secrets who entered the ...

Vodou has one deity in their religion, who is known as Bondye. (Olmos, 105) There are three different sides to Bondye, one of which is lwa – this side consists of a wide number of spirits who have their own different personalities, alignments (good or bad) strengths and weaknesses, and their own powers. The spirits usually come from ancestors or other practitioners who are long since dead and gone. - the lwa “provide the link between human and the divine.” (Olmos, 105) Rado and Petro lwa are the good and bad sides of Vodou, respectively; Rado represent peaceful, happy spirits, and ...