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How To Start A Billiard Club Business
Number of Words: 3486 / Number of Pages: 13
... would take away just about all the business from the competition. People want a clean and comfortable atmosphere where they can relax and enjoy a game of pool after work or school.
History and Background
The sport of pool has been played for many years. The age of the player varies from a very young age group to the retired. It is a sport for all ages. Many people call the sport addicting, because when you play all you want to do is keep playing to become a better player. Many of the better pool players spend hours upon hours practicing. There will always be a need for a billiard club. S ...
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Intel
Number of Words: 1667 / Number of Pages: 7
... in the fourth quarter of 1995,
by costs associated with unusually high reserves related to inventories of
certain purchased components. Gross margin for the fourth quarter of 1994
included the impact of a $475 million charge, primarily to cost of sales, to
cover replacement costs, replacement material and an inventory record related to
a divide problem in the floating point unit of the Pentium microprocessor. As a
result of the above factors, the gross margin percentage was 52% in 1995 and
1994, compared to 63% in 1993.
Quarterly unit shipments of the Pentium microprocessor family passed those of
t ...
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Total Quality Management
Number of Words: 1253 / Number of Pages: 5
... Everyone in the company can affect quality but
must first realise this factor and have the techniques and tools which are
appropriate for improving quality. Thus TQM includes the marketing and
dissemination of quality and methods not only within the organisation and
customers but also to suppliers and other partners.
The general view to achieve success in TQM could be summarised as below:
Quality as strength
Quality in all processes
The importance of management
The involvement, commitment and responsibility of everybody
Continuous improvement
Zero defects
Focus on preven ...
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Marketing Of Honda Motorcycles In The USA
Number of Words: 1670 / Number of Pages: 7
... of their own
domestic markets. The high production for domestic demand led to Honda
experiencing economies of scale as the cost of producing motorbikes
declined with the level of output. This provided Honda to achieve a highly
competitive cost position which they used to penetrate into the US market.
" The basic philosophy of the Japanese manufacture is that high volumes
per model provide the potential for high productivity as a result of
using capital intensive and highly automated techniques. Their marketing
strategies are therefore directed towards developing these high model
volumes, hence the ...
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"Trapping Should Be Illegal-Then And Now"
Number of Words: 833 / Number of Pages: 4
... the first steps toward a permanent colony in the new world were
made, the next steps came in leaps and bounds. The French government was
sending everyone they could to settle in New France. Courieurs de Bois,
began coming to the colony to trap furs and sell them back in France.
France granted land to poor people that were willing to risk the great
voyage. The colony flourished, and grew.
It was the fur trade that was mostly responsible for this colony.
However, some think that by this point the colony was large enough to
illegalize fur trapping and still remain a profitable colony for France. ...
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The Shoe Industry
Number of Words: 879 / Number of Pages: 4
... major companies in the shoe industry. The dominant industry
is Nike inc.. Then going down the line is Reebok, Fila, and Adidas. Nike being
the superpower has been in front of all the other industries for many years.
Right now Reebok is the closest company to Nike and is $2,459 behind in value
in MIL. Nike's earnings in the last quarter leaped 24% which has pleased Wall
Street investors. With such earnings Nike announced a 2-to-1 stock split, its
second in many years. Nike and Reebok are far ahead than the other companies
because there factories are already in the far east, and other companie ...
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The Origins Of The Great Depression
Number of Words: 611 / Number of Pages: 3
... that consolidated would receive
larger profits from the consumer and share it in the worker's wages, who
would in turn invest in the general wealth by investing in the stock market
and also buying the manufacturer's goods. Even though it was true that the
businesses were gaining on profits, the worker's wages were not being
raised, and so they could not contribute to the buying of goods. Yet
surprisingly, the stock market soared without any regulation.
In the 20's banks began to quickly sprout up here and there around
the country to provide the Americans with the loans that they needed to, ...
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Interview To Dow Jones
Number of Words: 943 / Number of Pages: 4
... conglomerate, nor an entertainment
company. We stick to our business of business, providing information essential
to an ever expanding and increasingly interconnected worldwide business
community.
Q. What is the strategy behind your television operations?
A. Dow Jones aims to provide business news in any form customers want it.
When we looked at our operations a few years ago, television was the missing
means of delivery for our business news. We began by pioneering with Asia's
first business channel, Asia Business News, in late 1993 and followed with
Europe's first business channel ...
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Federal Express
Number of Words: 2404 / Number of Pages: 9
... are “all-cargo” companies like Federal Express which only carry cargo, have fleets of planes, usually fly at night, have ground transportation, and personnel for door-to-door pick-up and delivery. The “all cargo” companies control 90% of the domestic cargo companies.
Competition in the “all cargo” segment of the industry includes: UPS, DHL, Airborne Express and U.S. Postal Service. The entire industry delivers roughly 5.6 million packages each day. FedEx currently has a 45 – 50 % market share and thus delivers 2.8 million packages each day.
Customers tend to be loyal to a reliable company. ...
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Deregulation Of The Airline Industry
Number of Words: 1619 / Number of Pages: 6
... nationals.
Deregulation of the airline industry brought about in 1978 introduced a
situation in which the national and regional carriers were suddenly able to
compete in an environment that resembled a free market. Rate schedules were
lifted, price fixing was eliminated and route management was removed. The main
factors that affected whether an airline could serve a particular city was
whether or not that city had enough gates for the new carrier, and whether the
carrier was able to afford to purchase them. Companies such as Southwest
recognized potential for low fares, and began building a niche f ...
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