Italy Case Studies Samples For Students

Mergers and acquisitions

Introduction
Mergers and acquisitions are elements of diverse, but related companies to form one large industry from which they operate. This contributes to rapid growth and economic stability of the companies that would have been complex to attain as individuals.

The companies

The two companies involved are the Unipol that is an Italian insurer and the Fondiaria-SAI FOSA.MI. It is an insurance industry located in Italy. The entity is a non-life insurance involving the compensation of motors. The environment of the industries is based on the rescue for the downfall and deteriorating Fondaria Company that is a car insurance company. Against their ...

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 ...

History, Circumstances, Ethical Issues

“The Italian Tax Mores” case, prepared by Arthur R. Kelly highlights an ethical issue specific to the modern corporate world. The case is based on a real life occurrence, which indicates that the moral absolutes are surpassed by the legal morality, which results in a moral contradiction. Therefore, an American leading bank that opened a subsidiary in Italy was faced with a moral issue when it was forced to apply the “Italian style” for declaring its tax return, which implied lying about the actual tax return by downsizing it with 30 – 70% of its real value (Kelly 54). Although ...

Executive Summary

Nestle S.A. is a Swiss multinational company dealing with health-related consumer and nutritional goods. In the food processing industry, the company is presently the largest in the whole world in terms of revenues and employs approximately 328,000 workers (Hill and Jones, 2012, p. 13)). This paper will focus on its subsidiary, Nestle Italy, a Milan based company that has failed to register impressive results in terms of market penetration despite the company spending millions of dollars in advertising campaigns. At one point, the subsidiary even lowered the price by 14 % to experiment if it would capture loyal customers. ...

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STRATEGY

International Business Strategy
- The recent research in the coffee industry indicates growing trends in the consumption of the premium coffee in the developed and developing countries. This aspect is highly valuable for Espressamente’s (an Illy brand) strategic decision of increasing its international presence, because Illy is recognized as the best coffee in Italy, destined for the premium consumers (Alon and Lohwasser, 2012). Another reason that sustains Espressamente’s intention of pursuing an international expansion resides in the fact that despite the high competition existent in the coffee industry, the developed and developing countries possess a high potential ...

The European sovereign debt crisis dominated international financial markets during 2010-2012. Economies fell into recession and financial market volatility was high. Critically analyze how the government debt problems initially faced by a few relatively

Introduction

The European financial crisis has extended beyond borders and is now affecting other countries in various condiments. China and United States of America are the most affected nations because they depend a lot on European countries for exports. The world is facing a critical problem brought about by the financial crisis, and financial experts are yet to determine the solution to this problem. The global economic meltdown of ...

Introduction

The European financial crisis has extended beyond borders and is now affecting other countries in various condiments. The world is facing a critical problem brought about by the financial crisis, and financial experts are yet to determine the solution to this problem. The global economic meltdown of 2008 found the European Union struggling with the unshakable financial crisis that has been slowing the growth of European currency, the Euro. As the crisis enters its third year, the European and the whole world is worried whether it would end up affecting the world economy leading to world financial crisis (European Commission ...

Introduction

This report will analyze the scope, prospects and challenges of Venice as a tourist destination in the 21st century and beyond. Venice, a city in Italy has been chosen for this report mainly because of its great historic and cultural importance in the eyes of tourists due to its symbolic museums, churches, architecture, recreational spots, scenic beauty, historic buildings, canals, bridges, etc. Moreover, this city has also been chosen for this report due to availability of various research journals and reports on Venice. The tourism mix of the city will give an insight into the seven P’s that dominate the ...

Business

Company Background and Strategies
During the early 1900’s, pizza was introduced in the United States because of the huge number of Italian immigrants who brought the food to the country. Since then, the pizza grew even more after World War II and it has become part of the American lifestyle. Between 1945 and 1960, different pizza stores began to open all over the country like Pizza Hut and Little Caesar. Domino’s Pizza which started as a start-up plan in Indiana in 1960 is now considered to be the second largest pizza chain in the United States, after ...

Introduction

After assumptions of the trappings of the eastern despotism i.e. during dominate, the office of the emperor of Rome faced several turbulent occasions. The barbarian kings started manipulating the western kings about the succession of the emperor while in the Byzantine emperor found it very hard with the autocratic trappings that were taking place in the East and which had consolidated support.
The post republican period that existed after the civilization was dominated by the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire was characterized by vast territorial holdings both in Europe and the Mediterranean with an autocratic form of governance. ...

The revival of the Clayton Spa in Italy revolves around decisions to do with initial costs as well as welfare considerations for the long-serving employees. Additionally, the managers appear to be keen on long term profitability and not short-term considerations ("report on Clayton Industries case Peter Arnell, country manager for Italy"). Both decisions possess merits and demerits in varying measures and their success depend partly on the efficiency and partly on the due diligence of its execution. The ultimate decision by Peter Arnell will involve finding a balance between the two options he is exposed to and investing sparingly ...

INVESTMENT MARKETING

For the success of any given business, the plan that the company makes is a vital tool to see it through success. The plan should always include marketing strategy. A marketing strategy shows the investors the way in which the investment is to take on the market. For the formulation of a good strategy, therefore, a business planner must have knowledge of the market the investment is to venture in and how ready the market is to receive the products the company will be producing. In addition to the nature of the market, the planner should also have planned ahead on how ...

What position should Jason Sterling take on European sovereign debt? Why? What are the advantages/disadvantages of using credit default swaps to profit from this crisis? What are the potential risks? Are there any lessons for Jason that can be gleaned from previous crises?
The aim of Jason Sterling is to assess novel information so that he has the ability to trade on prior to the trading close for the week period. This was because the growing debt crisis in the sovereignty of the Europe would be the hot topic or the primary notion that the leaders and representatives from ...

The last one decade has been marked by a great evolution of how advertisements are translated. This process is currently known as “advertising localization” and focuses on dealing with having a successful translation of adverts from one language to another without changing the objective of the particular advertisement (Malmkjær & Windle, 2012). The act of advertising is an important tool when it comes to informing the consumer on the diversity of the products present in the market (Chidiac & Saliba, n.d). Various factors have led to the evolution with some including the trade intensification and the globalization of the economies. ...

Introduction:

Michael Kenna is a renowned photographer who captures the delicate and fine features of the light, nature in black and white shots. Born in 1953 in England, he attended London College of Printing in 1976 and St Joseph's College (Lancashire) in 1972. He currently lives in Seattle and travels around in pursuit of photography perfection.
The photographs depict his strong association with nature and light generally shot at dawns or nights and the films exposed to a good 10 hours. The interesting fact that distinguishes Kenna’s work is how he captures the landscapes with such a unique approach ...

Logistics Planning Paper for Olive Oil 2

Abstract
This work consists of: 15 sheets, 7 parts, a list of references, 6 figures. In my work I suggest a company which deals with the ocean freight activity. My company will transfer olive oil from Spain to the USA. I will explain why I have chosen Spain as a country of olive oil origin. Moreover, I will pay detailed attention not only on the selected counties but also on the ports involved in the work. The activity and the strategy of the company were discussed in details. Also the appeal of the company to clients was touched upon.
This ...

The Red-Figured Kylix with Athlete is typical of the Greek terracotta pottery produced during this period. Upon viewing it closely, it appears to be in very good condition, and there is not much proof regarding its age since it is practically brand new. The terracotta material lends itself to beautiful work, especially in the way it is portrayed. The Greek and Roman cultures had exquisite pieces of art in their curriculum and one of the most famous of the artists was Euphronios whose workshop was constantly on the lookout for talented artists to produce such works. The Kylix is ...

The Red-Figured Kylix with Athlete is typical of the Greek terracotta pottery produced during this period. Upon viewing it closely, it appears to be in very good condition, and there is not much proof regarding its age since it is practically brand new. The terracotta material lends itself to beautiful work, especially in the way it is portrayed. The Greek and Roman cultures had exquisite pieces of art in their curriculum and one of the most famous of the artists was Euphronios whose workshop was constantly on the lookout for talented artists to produce such works. The Kylix is ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

Renaissance
The Renaissance was a crucial period in European history, which started roughly around the fourteenth century and lasted till the seventeenth century. It marked a process of creativity and cultural change in Europe, which first started in Italy during the 1300s and gradually spread around the entire continent in the subsequent two centuries. In the twelfth century, Italy witnessed an economic boom and as a result the people were wealthier and cities and towns grew at an accelerated rate. This phenomenon gave birth to a new breed of intellectuals who were termed as the ‘middle elite’. The educated middle class people ...

Introduction

The Greece fiscal issues were not only affecting Greece as a nation but were spreading to other countries like Spain, Portugal and Italy. The continuous fiscal crisis meant that other parties had to come in in the rescue of Greece. It is important to note that Greece crisis is attributed to the 2004 Olympics and her joining the euro zone (Darden Business Publishing, 2011). The continued financial deterioration and increased debt, Greece had to look for a way to resolve her financial problem. The Euro zone countries and the IMF agreed on the bail out on three major incentives, implementation of ...

The installation of the streetcar revolutionized 19th century urban planning in walking cities like Cleveland because they allowed the decentralization of the population. Before the streetcar, cities were laid out so that people could walk from their homes to their jobs and to shop. This made for a concentrated, dense business and residential center. When the street cars were installed it let the cities spread out so that the business could form commerce districts and people could get in and around in them from more spacious residential areas because streetcars let people ride further in ten minutes than they could ...

Boeing outsourced 70% of the contents of the 787 to various other manufacturers from different countries largely to slash production costs, which in effect it did. The development cost that was estimated at $8 Billion was therefore shared between the different companies that were charged with the responsibility of building specific Boeing 787 parts. The idea here was that tapping world class expertise at its current location was much cheaper that flying them out and hiring them as part of the already large Boeing work force. This greatly reduced the cost of production by huge margins, much to Boeing’ ...

Questions on Seen Case Study

Question one:

Discuss how the changing technological environment present threats and opportunities to the outsourcing of production from any single country of your choice.

In the present day business environment outsourcing has served as one of the most popular tools for management in almost every organization. Many companies both private and public continue to increase their business operations through outsourcing some of their services to outside vendors. There is an increasing debate among company managers regarding what to outsource and what to produce internally (Eliot, 1998). The high rate of change in technology is posing a lot of threats to ...

Summary

There is a rapid change in the telecommunications world brought about by new technologies like broadband and wireless Internet access that make possible video telephone connections and high speed data transmission. The demand for telephone call increases and various countries are taking advantage of the market opportunities. The end result is the globalization of the telecommunication industry as alliances and joint venture partnerships are formed. France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, and Sprint created Global One to bring international telecommunications services to multinational companies. This was however marked by some limitations in the initial stage including high start-up costs and language barriers. ...