Essays on Local Companies

The Impact of Quality Management Orientation on Maintenance Performance: A Critique

Introduction The orientation or the set of values and norms of a business with regards to its customers, processes, and quality is a relevant factor that heavily influences the ability of a business to prevail in a competitive scenario. Likewise, this paper will discuss and critique a study that look at the relationship between maintenance performance and the quality management orientation.

Analysis

The objective of the study by Maletic, D., Maletic, M., and Gomiscek (2014) was to examine the relationship between the maintenance performance and the quality management orientation and strengthen the literature regarding this matter. Through this examination, a ...

Introduction

There has been an influx of cheap imports in the United States as well as in the West. In the article by Fischer, "Why Buying Cheap Imported Products Is More Expensive For Individuals And Not Just Society", the author strongly advocates for local products putting forward the disadvantages that come about from importing cheap products into the country. Fisher begins by talking about the high rate of unemployment caused by the influx of cheap imports. Ferrier in her article, "This Is What Happens When You Order Ridiculously Cheap Clothing From Singapore - Suburban Turmoil" demonstrates the loss she encounters ...

Many energy companies begin from a humble background of marketing their products without any plan for further development. However, to reach a certain point in growth, they must embrace branding proactively. Overlooking this important step towards marketing would result in stagnation in growth. Ovo Energy is an energy supplying company through buying and selling electricity and gas to domestic properties (Bessant and Tidd 429). Creating the right image of the Ovo Energy through branding will be so fundamental in generating a market in Cairo. Branding must, therefore, satisfy the following characteristics: innovative, customer loyalty, quality products, and good design ...

Several factors affect consumer behavior in different international markets. The market used for selling the products in the Chinese market is heavily influenced by factors such as demographics and psychographics. Demographics include factors such as age, income, occupation, education, gender, and geographical locations of the buyers. The ability of the consumers to buy the product will be affected by their levels of education, which influence their rates of understanding of the product on sale (Pagoso, Rosemary, and George, 209). Similarly, age also affects the levels of understanding and the rate at which consumers prefer using a given product. Some ...

Analysis of Multinational Companies

Analysis of Multinational Enterprise The spread of the globalization across the world facilitates the process of the foundation of new firms and business units in different regions. With that, some companies prefer to have the supply chains approximately in every country regardless the fact that the headquarter of the company is locate din one jurisdiction. Among diversified nature of the business units, today are quite popular the multinational companies due to their competitive advantages in the market. The experts in the business environment define the multinational company as the enterprises that has the production facilities and other relevant assets ...

Executive Summary

The purpose of this report is to analyse the dairy industry in China and provide recommendations on the creation of a joint venture between a foreign company and a local company in China. A market overview is done to establish the current market situation. The current market situation is analysed when overviewing the market. The writer looks at the production and consumption rate in the country. A literature review is used to analyse the production and consumption of dairy products in the country. Information from website and other secondary sources especially statistics from the dairy associations in country is ...

Introduction

Businesses in various sectors face lots of challenges in the environment that derive influences from different aspects in the markets. Most of those problems emanate from the operations of the organization itself while others are from the external facets of the markets. The retail industry stands as one of the most sensitive sectors of the economy due to the diversity of the products and services that they offer. For example, a single retailer can sell the goods of different manufacturers that present varying conditions in the market. Consider the fact that the regulations of oil products differ from those ...

Abstract

In the contemporary business society, different nations try to adopt the idea of outsourcing as an instrument of improving the growth of their economy. Outsourcing is attained through different ways that a country would consider beneficial to the growth of its economy. Such ways may include importing cheaply skilled labor from foreign countries, investing some part of a company’s income to foreign countries, shipping manufactured goods to a foreign country to be sold there and many other ways which are mainly adopted to improve the country’s economic growth. Outsourcing may, however, exhibit divergent impacts to the county’s ...

International business

Introduction

International business involves global businesses setting out to find new markets in other countries other than their own as a way to have competitive advantage over other businesses and gain more revenue and prosperity. Most companies have set out for this mission in an overall goal of globalization but some business gain more advantage than others (Boyd 2005, p.123). There are some reasons that lead companies to break boarders and establish their businesses in other countries. Some of these reasons include the need for expansion, reduce costs of production where in some countries business environments are conducive such ...

International Business; Global Marketing

The Wal-Mart history and operational experience is the perfect explanation for the disadvantages and the advantages of the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in China (Roberts, 2013) and the investment climate scenario. The Wal-Mart is the biggest retail chain worldwide, and it has sales of approximately 374.5 million dollars and in China, the sales offered by Wal-Mart are diversified with the wide range of products it offers. The Wal-Mart in China is known as Sam’s club with over seventy branches in the country. Wal-Mart has diversified and expanded over the years since it has been favored by the regulatory ...

Car rental is the act of hiring a vehicle for use after a defined period of time and then returning it at the expiry of that period for an identified sum of money. The Car rental business in general has been lucrative of late with increased demands from clients who majorly consist of travelers and locals with either no car or have cars with problems. As an industry, the car rental business is a buzz of activities which could easily be said to have been characterized by the following factors which also do characterize other industries according to the Porter’s five ...

International Marketing Strategies

International Marketing Strategies

Coca Cola Company has launched its products in different countries. Today, cocl cola has well known products and brands all over the world. Coca-Cola Company’s success journey is not smooth enough, the roads to success is not easy or piece of cake for this company. With every passing year, this company through its international marketing strategies continued to gain growth and momentum. This company is the most rapidly expanding beverage industry and it is also considered as world’s best beverage company. From its commencement, this company sustains itself to operate in more than 200 ...

Introduction

Founded in 2003, Etihad Airways is the second largest airline of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), next to Emirates airlines. Operating over 1,000 flights weekly to 96 destinations all across the world, Etihad is a cargo/passenger airline, generating revenues of $4.8 billion and a net profit of $42 million (Etihad Airways, 2011). The current mission of the company is to become the world's best airline company by giving passengers a unique experience of hospitality that exudes the generosity and warmth of the Arabian culture. It understands its responsibility as a corporate citizen in the community and the environment, and therefore, seeks to ...

Increasing the Popularity of Major League Baseball among Children and Teens in Wichita, Kansas

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Summary

Wichita, Kansas has a minor league baseball team, the Wichita Wingnuts which plays in the AA League. The Commissioner of Major League Baseball would like to increase popularity of the game among children and young adults through a marketing program. The nearest MLB team is the Kansas Royals based in Kansas City. In addition, Oklahoma City in Oklahoma is looking to host a Major League Baseball team as well, and currently has a minor league baseball team, the Redhawks, which is the AAA affiliate of the LA Dodgers. Given the proximity and presence of all these baseball teams, the need ...

for a Developing Economy for a Developing Economy

Introduction

An effective leadership strategy is determinant of an organization’s success. It defines the number and the type of leaders that an organization needs, as well as where these leaders are needed and what behaviors they should have in order to ensure the achievement of an organization’s goals and objectives (Pasmore, 2013). In this regard, an organization’s leadership strategy is based on a thorough analysis of the present situation and an informed view of the future. As a result, the developed strategy provides recommendations for closing the gap between the present ...

International Management

Introduction Middle East is a very vast region and consists of several Arabian countries that provide an attractive opportunity for international businesses. The region has fast growing population of over 300 million people, comprising of various cultures, nations, religions and people. The Middle Eastern countries have managed to gain maximum attention from the world’s top multinational companies and business groups for foreign direct investment. They have incorporated abundant natural resources, backed by governmental support to privatize and expand country industries that provided the basis for international trade. The region has become an economic hub due to globalization efforts ...

International marketing plan

Molson Coors Company needs the expansions of its commodity market. The best way to do it is the entry on the foreign market, because the increase of the amount of selling on the existed market is not rational and effective. The Thai market is interesting and suitable for the Molson’s expansion. In this section we will examine the ways of Molson’s entry on this market and the strategy of that entry. The product which we want to sell on the market is the beer. The type of the beer can be chosen from the production line ...

Introduction

China has about 1.3 billion people and it is one of the most populated countries in the world. Due to this high population, china has had many economic difficulties especially on its mainland. The situation in china has created noble opportunities for Chinese and other international company specializing and media and entertainment. The government of china has been looking for ways to restore the economic health of the country and in the year 2012, the government launched a five year plan which was intended to stimulate economic growth through increasing consumption (Beaton 2). This posed new opportunities as well as ...

Question 1. Walmart

Over the years Wal-Mart has maintained its stand as the world’s largest private entity. This has been prevalent through the way it has lowered costs for all their customers across the world and yet still manages to make immense profits (Vutugwa, 2013). Wal-Mart has been dubbed by many as a life saver but many players in the field have criticized it due to the way it hinders their growth. Well despite all these arguments, Wal-Mart recently made plans to expand in Africa in an aim to boost their global influence. This was evidenced through the purchase of South African ...

Introduction

Several nations have moved towards ensuring that the locals and immigrants consume their locally produced goods and services. However, there are challenges in the production of goods and services that always drives nations into outsourcing specific commodities that they cannot produce locally. This could be because these nations lack the raw materials for producing these goods and services such as technology, personnel or other factors, which are unique to every nation. However, some nations export their technologies to other countries without much ado, but they put many bureaucratic procedures aimed at discouraging foreign investors from venturing into the local ...

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Abstract

Globalization has become a common term today when discussing international trade and economics. The topic has been widely discussed by economic specialists, scholars and other interested parties around the world. The economic aspect of globalization has attracted the attention of many debaters, with some supporting it and others strongly opposing it. Those supporting globalization cite the improved economic conditions caused by increased globalization as indicated by per capita income, social welfare and GDP. Those who oppose globalization cite specific issues such as the bad working conditions of employees of multinationals in foreign countries and ...

Jack Sparrow Brewing Company is going to be a high end brew pub that offers a wide variety of craft-brewed ales and lagers served with fresh, natural and healthy food at reasonable prices. The Jack Sparrow Pub will be located on the waterfront of Miami, Florida to synchronize with its old-fashioned nautical concept that features pirate flags draped on the beams and an antique nautical chart on the floor with X marks that symbolizes buried treasures complimented with fast and friendly service from bartenders and waiters dressed in pirate costumes.

Product Line

The Jack Sparrow Pub will be open seven days a week from ...

Globalization has allowed the freer movement of goods, services and even ideas throughout the world. It does not refer only to trade but to communication as well. New media and technology has allowed people to transcend barriers in communicating to one another. Communication and even delivery of certain services can be done in real time no matter how distant the countries of the client and the service provider are. Globalization also had an effect of liberating consumers. Quality goods from all over the world are available to consumers at lower cost. These are some of the positive impacts of ...

Introduction

The overall business landscape is being continuously changing because of the different factors and elements. This in turn makes it important for the organizations to come up with different effective and efficient strategies to respond to the changing external and internal elements or factors. The organizations can come up with different strategies and techniques to cope up with the changing internal and external environment. Effective and efficient strategic management allows the organizations to successfully operate in the highly competitive and changing industry or environment (George, 2012). In this report, an attempt has been made to suggest and justify ...

In his article Made in Canada: How Local Companies Can Compete with International Outsourcers Andrew Seale brings to the lime light the prospective loss of business faced by local manufactures due to the cheap low quality products being imported to the Canadian market. Small businesses are especially finding it very hard to compete with the large multinationals that are sourcing cheap labor from the developing countries (Seale n.p). Even local newspapers are currently outsourcing their print designs from Indian firms rendering the Canadian firms jobless. Having identified this as a problem or threat to businesses in Canada, Seale seeks ...

Strategies & Challenges

The Savola Group is a Saudi public listed company and is considered as among the largest diversified conglomerates in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asian (MENACA) region. It manages a varied portfolio of business. Savola Group’s inception can be traced back to 1979 when it started with an initial capital of SR40 million in the edible oil industry in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Currently, the Savola Group has 62% market share of Edible Oils market and 68% of the Sugar market in the Kingdom added to 113 Retail outlets in the form of supermarkets and hypermarkets. In ...

Outsourcing refers to the practice of delegating to a third party the performance of some parts of the value chain that used to be done in-house. The make-or-buy decision is usually based on the cost-benefit analysis and aims to eliminate non-value adding activities or processes that the company does not have competitive advantage in. It is possible to distinguish between onshore and offshore outsourcing. Onshore outsourcing implies that the partner companies are located in the same country, while offshore outsourcing or offshoring implies that the outsourced activities are going to be performed by foreign entities (Jacques, 2006).

Originally outsourcing was ...

Executive Summary The tobacco industry is slowly decreasing in developed countries like the United States due to increased limitations on advertising, health warnings, high taxation, anti-smoking campaigns, among other factors. Cigarette companies are losing billions in efforts aimed at reviving the tobacco industry in developed countries as tobacco control efforts from government, health organizations, and other allied organizations intensify. However, there is still an opportunity in the global market as undeveloped and middle class countries the industry is booming. Emerging markets are performing remarkably better than local markets because; most local markets are decreasing forcing companies to ...

Luxembourg is a potent brand due to its geographic and historical position. It is mainly branded through the use of customer based brand equity through the personalization of communication and customization of its products and services. It has developed a “Made in Luxembourg” label to distinguish its products and services when exported abroad. Luxembourg also has the “Luxembourg for Business” (LfB) brand which establishes a corporate identity for Luxembourg as a “brand with a pro business reputation. This paper discusses the development and further improvement of Luxembourg’s country branding through the following brand management components: Building a strong brand; Brand positioning; Choosing brand elements to ...

Leadership Development Programs as a Tool to Facilitate Successful Management Performance in Local Companies in Russia after the Introduction of a Market-Oriented Economy

Introduction

The management and leadership practices in Russia have drastically changed since the introduction of market oriented economy from the traditional communism. According to Bolden (2007), the change has been driven by market pressures, financial, and political and to the neglect of both pedagogical and philosophical perspectives on the nature of management, education and leadership within the contemporary community. Further, senior managers are being faced with a challenge of acquiring new knowledge and skills regarding the novel approach to management ( ...

Introduction

It is essential for management to consider the environmental forces that have affect business performance. The management has the role to identify the legal, political, socio-cultural, economic and technological factors that influence business in a particular market. These helps the management to make decisions on marketing strategies used in a given market, trace the economic trends to understand the economic condition in a given market, adapt the products to the market and comply with the legal requirements in that particular market. The management makes decisions that best suits the business in the context of the various environmental factors. A successful business in ...

Introduction

Globalization refers to the integration of economic activities with local and foreign companies competing in the host country. It involves the liberalization of the markets so that trade can be conducted freely. It brings in technological advancement into a country and the customer benefits greatly since the transaction costs have been reduced.

Globalization has led to the increase of multinational corporations in the world market due to the liberalization of trade policies and practices. The spread of globalization is based on the capitalist theory of free trade. With globalization there are winners and losers. The bilateral and multilateral trade agreements ...