...First Research Best Practices First Research is the leading provider of industry intelligence tools that help sales and marketing teams perform faster and smarter, opening doors and closing more deals. Without adding hours to your work-day, you can infuse sales calls, business meetings, presentations, and outreach The number one complaint about sales representatives that we hear from executives is, “they don’t know my business.” efforts with up-to-date industry information that demonstrates a thorough understanding of your prospects’ challenges and opportunities. We do the heavy lifting for you by analyzing hundreds of sources to create insightful and easy-to-digest industry information that can be consumed very quickly. You are better able to understand a potential or existing client’s business issues, without the time-consuming and expensive research process. The following is a sample of a First Research Industry Report with additional notes explaining the report’s contents and how you can use this valuable information. Report size varies by industry. FIRST RESEARCH - HOOVER’S INC., A D&B COMPANY www.firstresearch.com © 2013 Hoover’s, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 1 INDUSTRY PROFILE Snack Foods Manufacturing 12.3.2012 NAICS CODES: 31191 SIC CODES: 2068, 2096 The Industry Overview is an excellent way to ensure you make the right first impression, with minimal time invested. USE IT TO: . Quickly grasp how an industry operates. Adapt your sales process...
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...First Research Best Practices First Research is the leading provider of industry intelligence tools that help sales and marketing teams perform faster and smarter, opening doors and closing more deals. Without adding hours to your work-day, you can infuse sales calls, business meetings, presentations, and outreach The number one complaint about sales representatives that we hear from executives is, “they don’t know my business.” efforts with up-to-date industry information that demonstrates a thorough understanding of your prospects’ challenges and opportunities. We do the heavy lifting for you by analyzing hundreds of sources to create insightful and easy-to-digest industry information that can be consumed very quickly. You are better able to understand a potential or existing client’s business issues, without the time-consuming and expensive research process. The following is a sample of a First Research Industry Report with additional notes explaining the report’s contents and how you can use this valuable information. Report size varies by industry. FIRST RESEARCH - HOOVER’S INC., A D&B COMPANY www.firstresearch.com © 2013 Hoover’s, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 1 INDUSTRY PROFILE Snack Foods Manufacturing 12.3.2012 NAICS CODES: 31191 SIC CODES: 2068, 2096 The Industry Overview is an excellent way to ensure you make the right first impression, with minimal time invested. USE IT TO: . Quickly grasp how an industry operates. Adapt your sales process...
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...relationships with minority and women owned businesses by giving them equal access to procurement opportunities. Coca-Cola plays a major player in its industry, not only in the U.S, but also all over the globe. Coke is single handedly the most popular soft drink anywhere, beating out its competition, Pepsi Co. Overseas, Coke has established its empire from South America to Africa to all of Asia and Europe. Coke is the world's top soft-drink company. The Coca-Cola Company owns four of the top five soft-drink brands (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Fanta, and Sprite). Among its other brands are Barq's, Fruitopia, Minute Maid, PowerAde, and Dasani water. In the US it sells Danone's Group spring water brands (Dannon and Sparkletts). Coca-Cola sells Crush, Dr. Pepper, and Schweppes outside Australia, Europe, and North America. Coke’s position is so powerful in the market that it is the second most recognized word anywhere in...
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...SUKHDEV COLLEGE OF BUSINESS STUDIES | Indian and Chinese Derivative Markets | A Comparative Analysis | Submitted to: Dr. Kumar BijoyBy: Anney Banderwal - 75112Larika Azad- 75130Ayushi Sharma- 751142/18/2014 | Contents Acknowledgement 3 Introduction 4 History and Evolution 4 Medieval Europe 5 A Major Step Forward 6 The New World 7 The Computer Age 8 India 8 China 10 Comparative Study 12 Exchanges and Instruments 12 Regulatory Aspects 14 India 14 China Regulatory Framework 19 Conclusion 26 Bibliography 27 Acknowledgement We would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have helped us in completing this project report. First of all we would like to thank our teacher Dr. Kumar Bijoy for guiding us throughout this project. Then we would like to thank our parents for their immense support. In the end we would like to thank GOD almighty for giving us strength to complete this project. Introduction A derivative is a financial contract which derives its value from the performance of another entity such as an asset, index, or interest rate, called the "underlying". Derivatives are one of the three main categories of financial instruments, the other two being equities (i.e. stocks) and debt (i.e. bonds and mortgages). Derivatives include a variety of financial contracts, including futures, forwards, swaps, options, and variations of these such as caps, floors, collars, and credit default swaps. Most derivatives are traded over-the-counter (off-exchange)...
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...The Sustainability Business Case for General Motors April 22, 2014 Master’s Project for the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment Team Rose Buss Heather Croteau Steven Davidson Carole Kerrey Janet Van De Winkle Faculty Advisor Professor Thomas Gladwin Abstract The purpose of this report is to evaluate and articulate the business case for sustainability for General Motors Company (GM). After assessing the company’s exposure to risk and opportunities, the team recommends that GM should implement an internal price on carbon and a sustainable supply chain strategy. These recommendations will provide GM with tangible and substantial financial benefit in addition to improved risk mitigation and brand value. Additionally, the team found that these recommendations are viable within GM’s corporate structure and can generate systemic benefits throughout the company. Thank you to our client, David Tulauskas, and our advisor, Professor Thomas Gladwin. Executive Summary 4 Introduction 6 Client GM Corporate Overview 7 Sustainability & General Motors Sustinability & the Auto Industry Green Ranking Systems 14 Competitor Trends 17 About the Project Proposal & Opportunities Scoping 26 22 Contents 11 Research GM Interviews 28 Conferences 31 Corporate Trends & Innovations Regulations & Legislative Activity Recommendations Recommendation Development Carbon Monetization 39 Sustainable Supply Chain Strategy 32 35 36 42 Supporting Statements Support...
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...27MAR201319523653 ORCHIDS PAPER PRODUCTS COMPANY 2013 ANNUAL REPORT To Stockholders Dear Stockholders, In 2013, Orchids Paper Products Company experienced record converted product net sales and total net sales levels for the second consecutive year. We continued to broaden our product offerings and experienced additional penetration into the mid/premium tier product markets. Net sales of converted products exceeded $100 million for the first time in the Company’s history. During 2013, we focused on continuing to increase sales of converted product to fully consume our parent roll capacity. Our efforts centered on new product development in both paper making and converting and combining those efforts with an effective sales and marketing plan. As a result, we continued to expand our converted product offerings into the mid/premium tier market, creating new sales opportunities which resulted in shipments of 8.2 million cases, or approximately 53,000 tons, an increase of 16.2% over case shipments in 2012. More specifically, during 2013, our net sales increased 15.4% to $116.4 million compared to $100.8 million in 2012. This included a 21.1% increase in converted product sales. Our sales of mid-tier and premium tier products comprised 37.9% of our unit net sales in 2013, compared to 15.0% in 2012 and 6.8% in 2011. We also focused considerable efforts on controlling production costs while improving quality attributes to supplement the high quality production capabilities of...
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...ECONOMICS _____________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK 1: HOW ECONOMISTS THINK * What are preferences? Preferences refer to all of the objectives an individual wants to achieve that might motivate a choice among a set of alternatives. * What does it mean for an individual’s preferences to be rational? Please explain the concepts of costs and benefits and the reasoning process used by a rational individual. A rational individual will try to make the best possible use of his/her scarce resources, usually choosing an activity that has the highest utility. Rational preferences possess 2 properties, which are completeness and transitivity. Completeness means that choices can be ranked in an order of preference. For instance, an individual will have a preference when faced with two choices. Transitivity means actions can be compared with other actions. As an example, if action a is preferred to b, and action b is preferred to c, then a is preferred to c. A benefit is the maximum unit of currency amount you would be willing to pay to do x, while the cost is the value of all the resources you must give up in order to do x. The cost-benefit approach to decisions states that an individual should do an activity x if the benefit exceeds the cost. Relating to cost, in the process of coming up with a decision, a rational individual will take into account opportunity costs and ignore sunk costs. * New theories argue that...
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...and our planet. As a global food and beverage company with brands that stand for quality and are respected household names—Quaker Oats, Tropicana, Gatorade, Lay’s and Pepsi-Cola, to name a few—we will continue to build a portfolio of enjoyable and wholesome foods and beverages, find innovative ways to reduce the use of energy, water and packaging, and provide a great workplace for our associates. Additionally, we will respect, support and invest in the local communities where we operate, by hiring local people, creating products designed for local tastes and partnering with local farmers, governments and community groups. Because a healthier future for all people and our planet means a more successful future for PepsiCo. This is our promise. PerFormance To all our investors… It’s a promise to strive to deliver superior, sustainable financial performance.* Our GOals and COmmitments toP line: • Grow international revenues at two times real global GdP growth rate. • Grow savory snack and liquid refreshment beverage market share in the top 20 markets. • Sustain or improve brand equity scores for Pepsico’s 19 billion-dollar brands in top 10 markets. • rank among the top two suppliers in customer (retail partner) surveys where third-party measures exist. bottom line: • continue to expand division operating margins. • increase cash flow in proportion to net income growth over three-year windows. • deliver total shareholder returns in the top quartile of our industry group....
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...Campbell Soup Company 1 Campbell Place Camden, NJ 08103-1701 March 23, 2011 Dear Colleagues: Mr. Edmund Carpenter; Mr. Paul Charron; Mr. Douglas Conant; Mr. Bennett Dorrance; Mr. Harvey Golub; Mr. Lawrence Karlson; Mr. Randell Larrimore; Ms. Mary Alice Malone; Ms. Sara Mathew; Ms. Denise Morrison; Mr. William Perez; Mr. Charles Perrin; Mr. A Barry Rand; Mr. Nick Schreiber; Mr. Archibold van Beuren; Mr. Les Vinney and Ms. Charlotte Weber, On behalf of The Distasio Consulting Company, we are deeply honored and privileged to conduct an in depth analysis of the business climate for the Campbell Soup Company. In this report, you will find a complete SWOT analysis, including the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the company, an examination of the company’s stock ownership and a financial analysis through the last five years within the industry. The report includes a variety of inquiries that will prove to be imperative to survive in the corporate world. The analysis includes several studies including the environment in which Campbell’s operates in, the performance of the company based on its financial ratios, the performance of the company on the basis of the trend analysis of the financial ratios and Campbell’s Soup benchmarked against other competitors in the industry. Once again, our firm is greatly appreciative of this opportunity to work with your world-renown corporation. Campbell’s has been an industry leader for many decades and will continue...
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...MANAGING INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS WORKBOOK A DYNAMIC PROCESS Third Edition John L. Maginn, CFA Donald L. Tuttle, CFA Dennis W. McLeavey, CFA Jerald E. Pinto, CFA John Wiley & Sons, Inc. MANAGING INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS WORKBOOK A DYNAMIC PROCESS The CFA Institute is the premier association for investment professionals around the world, with over 85,000 members in 129 countries. Since 1963 the organization has developed and administered the renowned Chartered Financial Analyst Program. With a rich history of leading the investment profession, CFA Institute has set the highest standards in ethics, education, and professional excellence within the global investment community, and is the foremost authority on investment profession conduct and practice. Each book in the CFA Institute Investment Series is geared toward industry practitioners along with graduate-level finance students and covers the most important topics in the industry. The authors of these cutting-edge books are themselves industry professionals and academics and bring their wealth of knowledge and expertise to this series. MANAGING INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS WORKBOOK A DYNAMIC PROCESS Third Edition John L. Maginn, CFA Donald L. Tuttle, CFA Dennis W. McLeavey, CFA Jerald E. Pinto, CFA John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Copyright c 2007 by CFA Institute. All rights reserved. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. Published simultaneously in Canada. No part of this publication may be reproduced...
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...! ! ! Group Project: Ethics of the Mining Industry Group 4 Business Ethics 04-71-300-02 Professor Singh Date submitted: March 19th, 2014 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !1 Executive Summary This report assesses the global mining industry from a business perspective. Firstly, it begins with the history of mining across the globe and the structure of the mining industry. It then analyzes the impacts of the mining industry globally. Lastly, it addresses the issues surrounding our land—the Canadian mining industry. The research shows that the history of mining goes as far as the Neolithic era. The mining value chain presented demonstrates the formation of a mining company to the extraction of the natural resources. Further investigation shows that the mining structure is an oligopoly. Methods of analysis include an environmental analysis using PEST and a stakeholder map, which focus on the performance of a world-renowned mining company TransAlta. The finding is that management’s role is to have efficiency and productivity while maintaining ethical practices. Ethical theories are then used to look at the social, environmental and economical impacts of the Canadian industry. It is concluded that each ethical theory presents a favorable solution to each impact. Social corporate responsibility is evaluated in the last ten years in Canada and around the globe. It is found that the industry has become one of the most safety-conscious industries within Canada. The companies still...
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...Corporate Carbon Strategies Threats and opportunities arising from the new energy imperative Reference Code: BI00036-019 Publication Date: March 2011 1 About the authors Professor Merlin Stone Merlin is Head of Research at The Customer Framework. He is author or co-author of many articles and thirty books and also on the editorial advisory boards of several academic journals. He has a first class honors degree and doctorate in economics from Sussex University, UK. In parallel to his business career, he has also pursued a full academic career, holding senior posts at various universities. He is now a visiting professor at De Montfort, Oxford Brookes and Portsmouth Universities, teaches economics for the Open University and marketing for Exeter University. Jane Fae Ozimek The author is a writer and researcher in the areas of IT, Business and the Law. Jane is currently editor of the Journal of Database Marketing and has previously published works on the use of statistics in business and Marketing Resource Management. Recent research papers include publications on the misuse of security protocols by major corporations, and a re-evaluation of the Loyalty Ladder concept in marketing theory. Jane was also co-author of the recently published Carbon Trading and the Effect of the Copenhagen Agreement (published by Business Insights, 2010). 2 Disclaimer Copyright © 2011 Business Insights Ltd This report is published by Business Insights (the Publisher). This report...
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...It must decide which members of the household do which tasks and what each member gets in return: Who cooks dinner? Who does the laundry? Who gets the extra dessert at dinner? Who gets to choose what TV show to watch? In short, the household must allocate its scarce resources among its various members, taking into account each member’s abilities, efforts, and desires. Like a household, a society faces many decisions. A society must decide what jobs will be done and who will do them. It needs some people to grow food, other people to make clothing, and still others to design computer software. Once society has allocated people (as well as land, buildings, and machines) to various jobs, 3 Consider why trade among people or nations can be good for everyone Discuss why markets are a good, but not per fect, way to allocate resources Learn what determines some trends in the overall economy 1 TLFeBOOK 2 4 Ten Principles of Economics PA R T O N E INTRODUCTION scarcity the limited nature of society’s resources economics the study of how society manages its scarce resources it must also allocate the output of goods and services that they produce. It must decide who will eat caviar and who will eat potatoes. It must decide who will drive a Porsche and who will take the bus. The management of...
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...This page intentionally left blank Managerial Economics Managerial economics, meaning the application of economic methods in the managerial decision-making process, is a fundamental part of any business or management course. This textbook covers all the main aspects of managerial economics: the theory of the firm; demand theory and estimation; production and cost theory and estimation; market structure and pricing; game theory; investment analysis and government policy. It includes numerous and extensive case studies, as well as review questions and problem-solving sections at the end of each chapter. Nick Wilkinson adopts a user-friendly problem-solving approach which takes the reader in gradual steps from simple problems through increasingly difficult material to complex case studies, providing an understanding of how the relevant principles can be applied to real-life situations involving managerial decision-making. This book will be invaluable to business and economics students at both undergraduate and graduate levels who have a basic training in calculus and quantitative methods. N I C K W I L K I N S O N is Associate Professor in Economics at Richmond, The American International University in London. He has taught business and economics in various international institutions in the UK and USA, as well as working in business management in both countries. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge...
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...Chapter Two The Production Possibility Model, Trade, and Globalization Learning Objectives After you teach the material in this chapter, your students should be able to do the following: 1. Demonstrate opportunity cost with a production possibility curve. 2. State the principle of increasing marginal opportunity cost. 3. Relate the concept of comparative advantage to the production possibility cure. 4. State how, through comparative advantage and trade, countries can consume beyond their production possibilities. 5. Explain how globalization and outsourcing are part of a global process guided by the law of one price. Chapter Outline This is meant to be an outline and summary of what your students read in this chapter in the text, both in terms of concepts and examples. Headings and subheadings are tagged with the number of the learning objective (LO) to which the material in that section most closely relates and the associated PowerPoint slide numbers, so you may also use this to help you outline your lecture. Material followed by a ( is new to the 8th edition. • The Production Possibility Model, Trade, and Globalization • The three main coordination problems are reviewed, and students are reminded about the concept of opportunity cost, which will be central in this chapter to understand production possibilities. • The Production Possibilities Model (LO1) [PPT Slides 3 & 4] • Production...
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