...growth is for Nike. Consider that Nike just opened its first running store and basketball store last year in China. Comparable growth in its own store is in the double digits. Nike is seeing what's working in its own store and will use that information to grow with its retail partners. Nike also benefits from the Chinese consumer's love of basketball. Nike has contracts with the biggest names in basketball to market to this growing audience. Innovation The focus at Nike is on innovation and developing new products. Nike will have the opportunity to showcase that innovation with the Winter Olympics, the Super Bowl, and the World Cup. Nike expects revenue in the next quarter to grow in the mid to high-single digit rate. For the full year, the company expects revenue to be in the upper end of the high-single digit rate as demand increases due to the World Cup in Brazil. Nike expects earnings to grow faster than revenue and be in the low double-digit rate. The competition Nike's biggest...
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...first pills are for free, after that it's 150$ per pill) * Pill(s) which keeps you invisible on the journey. (Keeps you from affecting the future) This offer includes: * Travelling to any sport-event. * A guide who helps you on your jurney. (The 3 first pills are for free, after that it's 150$ per pill) * Pill(s) which keeps you invisible on the journey. (Keeps you from affecting the future) SportyTravel is a new and popular amusement founded by four young intelligent Danish students. Our headquarter finds place in Chistiansfeld, Denmark. But, do not worry, we have travelling spots at many countries in the world. SportyTravel is a new and popular amusement founded by four young intelligent Danish students. Our headquarter finds place in Chistiansfeld, Denmark. But, do not worry, we have travelling spots at many countries in the world. Prices from ONLY 500£!!! Prices from ONLY 500£!!! Can't afford it? Don't be sad, take our special made loan on 500$ and pay them off in 6, 12, 24 or 84 months!* *When taking the loan you have to pay back the money with a monthly fee. The rent is, and will always be, 7,1% Can't...
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...Generation Views Around the world what sport do you think has become the most popular over the years? If you guessed racket ball then you’re probably wrong. It’s Called” The Beautiful Game “, and yes its soccer. They call it the beautiful game because of how one is able to manipulate the ball and make it do whatever they want it to. My dad taught me this meaning one day when we he was training me around the age of 8, and told me that if I kept working hard and stayed committed I would soon understand what he meant. From his generation to mine, soccer has increasingly become a much harder sport and because of that its popularity has increased heavily over the years. Why? Because the level of intensity soccer is played in today’s game, the merchandise big brands are producing, and the one and only World Cup. If you were to attend a professional soccer game without ever playing I’m sure it would change your perspective on the sport for certain. It’s not as easy as it looks on TV, believe me. Modern day soccer is so intense it’s almost insane. If you don’t know what I’m talking about go out and look for some team you could randomly join and play a whole game. Bet most of you wouldn’t last. It’s not just some sport you can just join in now to pass time. It’s either give it your all or go and play another sport because soccer is that serious now. Everyone at the high level is fast, strong, smart, and determined to take the ball from you. It’s nonstop running for...
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...the national team there as well and the team of Ajax. Finally the Values, Jupiler stands for a belgian beer who has a 45% market share in Belgium. And they stand for the beer of men, like i already mentioned they say that there is no need for further information because men know why. Now i’ll try to give u a short view about the the mission, vision & values of the Red Devils themselves. As their mission is to play the best possible football and to win as many matches as possible. They try to give to best for their fans every single time, so when somebody buys a ticket they will try to give him the most possible leisure in return. And for their vision, the Red Devils try to win every single match to go eventually to bigger games, like World cups, and try PUBLIC RELATIONS !1 to go higher and higher in the FIFA standing by giving the best out of them. and finally for their values, the Red Devils stand for a Belgian team where every single player has his own set of skills and tries to play and hopefully win every match...
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...INTRODUCTION Hosting World Cup is an opportunity that no country contemplates of when thinking of global narratives. This event has traditionally been considered a privilege of developed countries, but this has changed in the recent past as evident by the fact that developing countries have been given the right host this international competition. For instance, South Africa hosted the 2010 World Cup and Brazil the 2014 World Cup. Notably, there has been intense competition between nations to host World Cup. Many countries have vowed to invest billions of dollars in order to increase their chances of being elected to host such mega event. Why should countries compete to host this event? There could be numerous reasons why a number of countries are keen on hosting World Cup, but the most compelling is the promise of an economic and social windfall. Soccer is one of the sports which people tend to identify themselves with. It has gained popularity owing to its impacts on the players, followers, states and other stakeholders. Currently, the game is estimated to have the highest number of followers than any other sport. Due to its vast effects, Soccer World Cups have gained popularity in the past two decades. For the previously held World Cups, great focus has been on social and economic effects. There numerous articles that have been written about the positive and negative effects of World Cups especially to the host countries. Before the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, it...
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...Lloyd Williams Geoffrey Agnor 7/12/14 Humanities The Cup Khyentse Norbu’s “The Cup” (Comedy, 1999) the World Cup is being held in France while two young refugees arrive at a monastery in India. While the setting and feel of the monastery would usually be serene and peaceful, it is disrupted by the excitement and hype about the world cup. The main anticipator of the World Cup is a young and mischievous student named Orgyen. Orgyen nows that the World Cup is very important to him, as do many other young boys in the monastery, and he will do anything it takes to be able to watch as much of the games as he can. As this occurs, the head of the monastery contemplates on the changes of the world and how this greatly is affecting the young boys in the monastery. Although technology and tradition and this undying difference, they can ultimately come together and create something great for both the students and the Abbot. The students, particularly Orgyen, idolize soccer and the World Cup. The fascination and wonders of other cultures bring them into a deeper love for the sport and the thrill that comes with the World Cup. These students are willing to do almost anything to be able to experience the World Cup, especially Orgyen. He goes over the line, bringing other students along, and sneaks out to watch one of the games at a place they paid money for. However, the Geko and Abbot are not at all concerned with this idea of soccer and other cultures. They only wish that the young...
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...The 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa Name: Institution: Professor: Course: No. of Words= 2646 words. The 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa Introduction When South Africa won the lobby for hosting the 2010 FIFA world cup, news went viral about it and almost reached everyone in the world. It was a great moment of joy and celebrations especially in the African countries. This jubilant joy and pomp celebrations might have been because of the continent’s attempts in bidding to host this mega sport event without success. Many people around the world had their eyes fixed on South Africa, some questioning the ability of the country to host such a famous activity in the world’s calendar. Some people saw fun; others saw failure and the rest predicted the worst scenario of terrorist attack. These reactions on this event were based on South Africa’s economic ability to prepare adequately for the occasion. Similarly, terror attacks and other security challenges were highly suspected considering the weaknesses in the South Africa’s security system. On the contrary, some companies affiliated to FIFA like Coca cola, Adidas and the KIA Motors, among others, saw a business opportunity there. They sponsored the event, alongside FIFA and the South African government, by providing services the football funs who gathered there, local and international, needed (Collins 2009). This business report, therefore, exhumes the motives behind the sponsorship, expectations, challenges faced during the...
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...Solomon Bell Instructor Gin English 100A November 12, 2012 The World of Soccer The Sport of soccer is one of the most popular and controversial sports in the world today. Soccer first came to be an actually sport in 1863 when the English Football Association was founded. Although it is a sport loved by the world, the use of goal-line technology has been the topic of much debate in the world of soccer. In the last several years calls made by refs regarding would-be goals have been under heavy scrutiny. Many calls have been inaccurate and wrong which has caused the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) to act on the accuracy of the calls being made. Technology referred to as “Goal-line Technology is being considered to be used in games to provide all lovers of the sort with a better game, and a more accurate game called by the referee’s. The goal-line technology is a camera system which takes picture of the ball as it crosses the goal line. Some still, are against inputting the technology into soccer matches for fear of unreliability and undermining the authority of the referees. Older fans fear that it will deteriorate the core and passion of the game. The 2010 world cup winner won US $30 million alone which is why the decision on the camera system is imperative with soccer being one of the most popular sports ever Work Cited 1. "Goal-line technology moves closer after FIFA authorizes two systems." BBC Sport. N.p., 23 2012. Web. 12...
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...1 National Goods and Services Tax Bill, 2014 introduced in Lok Sabha It is also called Constitution (122nd Amendment) Bill It seeks to introduce Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime Inserts article Articles 246A, 269A and 279A in the Constitution Provides for Union Finance Minister headed GST Council Sets in a uniform and integrated indirect tax regime in India 14th Finance Commission submitted its report to President It covers the period between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2020 The Commission headed by former RBI Governor Y V Reddy Provides for devolution of tax receipts from the Centre to the States Article 280 of Constitution provides for appointment of Finance Commission First and 13th Finance Commission was headed by K C Neogy & Dr Vijay Kelkar resp. Union government decriminalized Attempt to Suicide For this purpose Section 309 of Indian Penal Code removed 20th Law Commission headed by Justice A P Shah recommended in its 210 Report 210th Report on Humanization and Decriminalization of Attempt to Suicide France was the first country to decriminalize this offence Lok Sabha passed the Repealing and Amending (Second) Bill, 2014 Introduced as a periodic measure for updating the list of laws in force Seeks to repeal 90 laws and pass amendment to two laws Proposes to amend the two laws to rectify typographical errors The laws are Railways...
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...LG Electronics India India challenges The challenges faced by LG when it entered the market in 1995 were: • Low brand awareness about LG in India. • One of the last MNCs to enter India. (Samsung, Sony & Panasonic entered in 1995 & LG in 1997.) • High import duty. • Competition from local players and other multinational companies in the consumer electronics segment • Price sensitiveness of Indian consumers. • LGEI has overcome these challenges to emerge as way, by sponsoring the 1999 World Cup, and followed it up in 2003 as well. • LG brought in four captains of the Indian cricket team to endorse its products. LG invested more than USS 8 million on advertising and marketing in this sport. • LG has differentiated its products using technology and health benefits. The CTV range has ‘Golden Eye’ technology, air-conditioners have the ‘Health Air System’ and microwave ovens have the ‘Health Wave System’. Local and efficient manufacturing to reduce cost To overcome high import duties, LG manufactures PC monitors and refrigerators in India at its manufacturing facility at Noida, Delhi. LGEIL had already commissioned contract manufacturing at Mohali, Kolkata and Bhopal for CTVs. This has helped LGEI to reduce costs. LGEIL is implementing a “digital manufacturing system” (DMS) as a cost-cutting innovation. This system is a follow-up to the Six Sigma exercise LGEIL had initiated earlier. Product localization Product localisation is a key strategy used...
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...constituted during the UPA regime of Manmohan Singh and were formed to take decisions on issues like corruption, inter-State water disputes, administrative reforms and gas and telecom pricing. EGoMs had the power to take decisions on the line of the Union Cabinet. The recommendations of the GoMs were placed before the Cabinet for a final call) 2) The Chief Executive of Lok Sabha Television (LSTV) Rajiv Mishra was sacked from his post by Meira Kumar, the Speaker of the 15th Lok Sabha, on 30 May 2014. This sacking was done by 3) India lost in its first tie of the 13th FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup that started from 31 May 2014. India lost to Belgium by 2-3 to start its campaign on a losing note. This World Cup is being held at – The Hague, Netherlands (The 13th FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup is being held from 31 May to 15 June 2014 at Kyocera Hockey Stadium at the Hague. 12 teams participating in the Hockey World Cup are – Argentina, Australia, Belgium, England, Germany, India, Malaysia, Netherlands (the hosts), New Zealand, South Africa, South Korea and Spain) 4) Who emerged as the winner in the Presidential Elections in the southern African country Malawi that were held on 20 May...
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...they produce unhappiness. This theory can take on the form of act utilitarianism although in this essay, I will be focusing solely on hedonistic utilitarianism as well as an objection to this theory, the experience machine objection. Robert Nozick introduced this objection. Following an explanation of both hedonistic utilitarianism and the experience machine objection I will be critically evaluating the objection. I am going to argue that the experience machine objection is valid against hedonistic utilitarianism because there are people who would not plug into the machine. There are some people who prefer to physically do things not just experience them, don’t want to be limited to a man-made reality and want to make a difference in the world. Two key contributors to the normative moral theory of utilitarianism are Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. Utilitarianism specifies what makes an action morally correct or incorrect. The theory suggests, “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness and wrong, as they tend to produce the opposite of happiness.” (Mill 454) It is a type of consequentialism as even though the act itself may be morally wrong, if it produces the best consequences it is seen as a morally right action. For example, killing one healthy human to use their organs to cure four other humans would be seen as morally wrong however, according the theory of utilitarianism it would produce the greatest amount of utility, thus being seen as moral...
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...was a very respectable organization at one time, but that time is now over. This affects international business because there are currently 209 countries within FIFA. FIFA has a far reaching impact because soccer is the most popular sport in the world. To better understand why and how FIFA became so corrupt, I’d like to lead with some background on the history of FIFA and its biggest members. FIFA stands for The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (English translation: International Federation of Association Football), and is the governing body of association football, futsal and beach soccer. FIFA is responsible for the organization of football’s major international tournaments, notably the World Cup which commenced in 1930 and the Women’s World Cup which began in 1991. FIFA was founded in 1904 to oversee international competition among the national associations of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. FIFA is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland and consists of 209 national associations. The countries range from Brunei and Tanzania to Brazil and Costa Rica. Member countries must each also be members of one of the six regional confederations into which the world is divided: Africa, Asia, Europe, North & Central America and the Caribbean, Oceania and South America. FIFA does not control the rules of soccer, but it is responsible for the organization of...
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...hundred international centuries, the first batsman to score a double century in a One Day International, the only player to complete more than 30,000 runs in international cricket.[8] and the 16th player and first Indian to aggregate 50,000 runs or more in all forms of domestic and international recognised cricket.[9] In 2002 just half way through his career, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time, behind Don Bradman, and the second greatest ODI batsman of all time, behind Viv Richards.[10] Later in his career, Tendulkar was a part of the Indian team that won the 2011 World Cup, his first win in six World Cup appearances for India.[11]He had previously been named "Player of the Tournament" at the 2003 edition of the tournament, held in South Africa. In 2013, he was the only Indian cricketer included in an all-time Test World XI named to mark the 150th anniversary of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.[12][13][14] Tendulkar received the Arjuna Award in 1994 for his outstanding sporting achievement, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 1997, India's highest sporting honour, and the Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan awards in 1999 and 2008, respectively, India's fourth and second highest civilian awards. After a few hours of his final match on 16 November 2013, the Prime Minister's Office announced the decision to award him the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award.[15][16] He is the youngest...
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...Sociological Review 2006 Vol. 54 No. Suppl. 2 pp. 71-89 This paper raises questions about the discrepancies between predicted and actual outcomes of sports mega-events, and about why hosting is so often the project of political and business elites. It also raises questions about the economic impacts of tourism, in the years after the event. The paper highlights a number of parallel developments in the pursuit of hosting major international sports events in Canada and Japan. In both countries, Olympic hosting has been the project of political and corporate elites, and in both countries large claims were made for the economic and social benefits that would follow from hosting Olympics and other mega-events (in Japan, such as the Soccer World Cup). The outcomes, however, have been that public and private investments in the 'infrastructure of play' have created expensive sporting infrastructure and other consumer spaces, but with few social benefits for the unable (or dis-inclined) to present themselves as consumers. Hosting sports mega-events was also intended to signal the emergence of once 'peripheral' cities as major players in the national and global economies, and to attract international tourism. Once again, however, the historical experience suggests that these efforts at 'place promotion' have impacts that are fleeting, at best, and as the years pass it becomes difficult to isolate the impacts of the mega-event on the fortunes and stature of a city from those of other economic...
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