...According to Thill and Bovee (1998)ninth edition,’’ Communication is a process of transferring information between senders and receivers using one or more written, oral or visual or electronic channels’’. Also according to Krizan, Merrier and Jones (2005),’’ Business communication is the process of establishing a common understanding between or amongst people in an organisation’’. Michael fielding (1997) says,’’ an organisation is made up of groups people who work together to reach specific goals’’. Communication can be formal or informal. Formal communication is defined by the relationships between various jobs. Informal communication also known as grapevine encompasses all communication that takes place outside the formal channel. Communication can be external communication. This is whereby the firm reaches out to external stakeholders such as customers, suppliers, investors and the government. It enables the organisation to be able to overweigh competition. A good example is Telecel Zimbabwe which reaches out to its customers by planting brand representatives in different sections of every city. They give out information about their brand through promotional campaigns, giving out fliers and enquiring from their customers what they think is necessary to improve the services offered to them. They also have radio broadcasts on Star fm where people communicate what they know about services offered to them. This gives Telecel a competitive advantage, thus attracting more...
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...Term Paper on Bata Shoe Companys Operations in Bangladesh INTRODUCTION: Bata Shoe Company is one of the largest companies not only in Bangladesh but also in many other countries. Bata Shoes is a large, family owned shoe company based in Bermuda but currently headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, and operates 4 business units worldwide – Bata Europe, Bata Emerging Markets, Bata Branded Business and Bata North America. It has a retail presence in over 50 countries and production facilities in 26 countries. In its history the company has sold more than 14 billion pairs of shoes. In 1985 Bata Shoe listed in Dhaka Stock Exchange. At this moment, its shares are traded in our two stock exchanges (DSE& CSE). Objective of the study: Objectives of the study are given below – • To know about Bata’s products. • To get idea about their current business condition. • To analyze its market position with it’s’ competitors. • To take an over view of their market strategies. Methodology of the study: This is a descriptive analysis. Most of the data is secondary data. I have collected the data from different websites and by taking viva of some Bata officials. Limitations of the study: To prepare this term paper we faced a lot of problems which include time & cost. Moreover, we faced a lot of difficulties to find out the actual data from websites. The officials also were not cooperative to give data about their company for their company’s regulation. An over view...
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...Malls [ ] ii. Departmental stores [ ] iii. Retailers [ ] iv. Cant say [ ] 6. Are you pricing conscious? i. Yes [ ] ii. No [ ] 7. What price range does BATA offer you? i. Low [ ] ii. Medium [ ] iii. High [ ] 8. Have you heard about BATA? i. Yes [ ] ii. No [ ] 9. From where did you come to know? i. Friends [ ] ii. Family [ ] iii. Ads [ ] 10. Have you used BATA? i. Yes [ ] ii. No [ ] 11. What did you liked in BATA? i. Quality [ ] ii. Price [ ] iii. Brand name [ ] iv. Range of products [ ] v. Easy availability [ ] 12. Are you satisfied with brand BATA? i. Yes [ ] ii. No [ ] 13. Are the prices of BATA shoes capable to attract customers? i. Yes [ ] ii. No [ ] iii. Can’t say [ ] 14. What are the options you get in BATA? i. Formals [ ] ii. Casuals [ ] iii. Sportswear [ ] 15. Is all the product range available in one single showroom? i. Yes [ ] ii. No [ ] iii. Can’t say [ ] 16. Do you find value for money in BATA? i. Yes [ ] ii. No [ ] iii. Cant say [ ] 17. Which other brands are you aware of? 18. Do the products of other co. provide that much good quality of products compared to BATA? i. Yes [ ] ii. No [ ] iii. Cant say [ ] 19. What kind of range you find in BATA in past? i. Many [ ] ii. Few [ ] 20. What...
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... [pic] 2.1 Background/History of Bata Shoe Co. Bd. Ltd.: [pic] The business that became the Bata Shoe Organization was established on August 24, 1894 in Zlin, Czechoslovakia by Tomas Bata, and included his brother Antonin and sister Anna. Although this business was new, the Bata name had been part of a tradition of shoemaking for eight generations, spanning three hundred years. It was one of the first modern-day shoe 'manufacturers', a team of stitchers and shoemakers creating footwear not just for the local town, but also for distant retail merchants. This departure from the centuries-old tradition of the one-man cobbler's workshop was a brand new concept, creating an entirely new industry. The Bata enterprise revolutionized the treatment of employees and labor conditions. Tomas consistently maintained a human focus, creating opportunities for development and advancement, and added compensation for employees based on achievement. As the enterprise prospered, so did the communities where it operated. Tomas believed that a focus on people and public service was critical for business success. The enterprise built housing, schools and a hospital near the shoemaking plant in Zlin. It provided food and inexpensive rent during very difficult times. Bata companies later provided rail services, construction, insurance, publishing and a tannery in Zlin. "The Bata System" devised by the Zlin team, and later applied in other Bata Shoe Organization companies, organized operations...
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...satisfaction analysis evaluates customers’ attitude and perception towards product of a company. Bata Shoe Company, the largest footwear manufacturer and marketer in Bangladesh conducts an assessment of customers’ satisfaction in a regular interval. The purpose of this study is to measure the satisfaction level of the customers of the company. Due to the entrance of new competitors, this assessment program has become an important tool to know the market condition, customers’ attitude towards competitors’ products, customer shopping behavior and experience at Bata store. This assessment program uses a standard questionnaire internationally. Here a same small study conducted by the same questionnaire with the prior permission of Bata shoe company Bangladesh. The study was conducted among the footwear user of this country. The sample of the study was 30 in number. Though the sample size is very small but it provided overall scenario of customers shopping experience and overall shopping behavior. Here the study tried to find out customers shopping experience at Bata store and other shopping stores in Bangladesh. There are some emerging shoe stores in Bangladesh which have already gained customers loyalty in footwear products. The study compared the Bata shoe company with other emerging shoe brands such as Apex, Bay Emporium, Jennys, Pegasas, and many unorganized shoe stores like at Elephant road. Bata Shoe Company compared with these other shoe stores on some factors. These factors are store's...
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...18 3.2. Main destinations 20 3.3. Imports 21 3.4. Value addition in Africa 21 4. Studies where value chain analysis has been used 22 4.1. Revenue distribution through the seafood value chain 23 4.2. Lake Victoria Nile perch fishery, Tanzania 25 4.3. Pelagic fishery in Morocco 32 4.4. Value addition opportunities in the Namibian seafood industry 38 4.5. Ugandan Nile perch quality management and certification 41 4.6. The Kenya capture fisheries value chain 45 4.7. Nigerian domestic catfish production 50 4.8. Gender analysis of aquaculture value chain in Nigeria and Vietnam 54 4.9. Private sector applications of value chain analysis 60 5. On-going value chain analysis studies 68 5.1. Value chain analysis of international fish trade and food security 68 5.2. Ghana: Value Chain and Cost Earnings Analysis 69 6. Example from Asia: Analysis of the fishery sector in Sri Lanka 70 6.1. Value chain summary 71 6.2. Production 71 6.3. Ownership and collective action 72 6.4. Fisheries value chain structure and dynamics 74 6.5. Value chain participants 76 6.6. Supporting markets 77 6.7. Inter-firm linkages 78 6.8. Value chain governance and power relations 79 7. Conclusions 81 References 82 Executive summary Executive summary The Trade Working Group of the Partnership for African Fisheries (a NEPAD programme) is...
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...the Cold War was at its height and the United Kingdom had just clawed its way out of recession. Perhaps those factors explain why, this week in 1982, when 119 government delegations chose to sign the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the UK was not among them. According to Donald Rumsfeld, Britain’s then-prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, declared UNCLOS to be “nothing less than the international nationalization of roughly two-thirds of the Earth’s surface.” Fifteen years later, when the UK finally acceded to UNCLOS under a Labour government, the convention was applying, for the first time in history, an internationally agreed legal framework to the majority of coastal waters around the world. Countries’ rights to fish, minerals, and other resources were enshrined in law, with recourse to international adjudication should disputes arise. The right of free passage on the high seas was assured. Britain and other countries must now learn from, rather than repeat, the Thatcher government’s mistake. A new debate is emerging about how we govern and exercise stewardship over the high seas – the 45% of the Earth’s surface that lies beyond national jurisdictions. We know that a resource crunch of unprecedented scale is coming. Non-oil commodity prices have risen precipitously in the last decade. The high seas can provide food, minerals, and novel resources for technology and medicine. But the weaknesses of the current governance regime, epitomized by rampant...
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...Dustin King Professor Dark English 2301 April 2, 2012 Culture The culture values are very different in the poems that Han-Shan wrote and the story of Jonah that came out of the bible. They both believe that there is a higher being that will judge us but they both go about there life in many different ways. Fore the story from the bible they understand that we are going to sin and that we must do what God says. In the Buddhist poems it is more a sense of never do wrong and all that you do that is going to measure up to all of your faults . The cultural values that are visible in Han-Shan’s poems was that he was a firm believer in Buddhism but he was a follower of the southern branch of the Ch’an or Zen sect, which placed great emphasis upon individual effort and was less wary of emotionalism than earlier Buddhism had been. Watson states, “… as a result Han-Shan’s poetry has little of the tone of dry bland understatement that we see in other poets of Buddhism background. (Watson) Han-Shan’s poems are mostly about a place he supposedly lived which was called Cold Mountain. Buddhist’s try to be one with everything around them and to not fault anything. He speaks of nature and speaks fully in metaphor. “The valleys are long and strewn with stones.’ Han- Shan goes on to say “Who can break from the snares of the world and sit with me among the white clouds.” (Han-Shan) Han-Shan is translated as Cold Mountain, which is also his key point in his poems. Zen Buddhism is...
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...California $4.95 Crab Stick, Avocado, and Cucumber. California Salad $5.45 Crab Salad, Avocado, and Cucumber. Crunchy $7.95 Crab Stick, Cream Cheese, Avocado, Cucumber, Jalapeno, Crunch Batter, and Fried Onion. Crunchy California $5.95 Crab Stick, Avocado, Cucumber, and Fried Onion. Dragon $8.95 Crab Stick, Cucumber, Avocado, Topped with Shrimp or Eel. Jersey Roll $8.95 Tempura Shrimp, Crab Stick, Avocado, Cucumber, Crunch Batter, and Fried onion. New York $7.95 Crab Salad, Kani Crab, Cucumber, Avocado, and Fried onion. Philly $5.95 Crab Stick, Cream Cheese, and Avocado. Samurai Roll $8.95 Tempura Shrimp, Crab Stick, Crab Salad, Carrot, Avocado, and Spicy Mayo Sauce. Shaggy Dog$8.95 Tempura Shrimp, Crab Salad, Crab Stick, Crunch Batter, and Fried Onion. Smoked Salmon $6.95 Smoked Salmon, Cream Cheese, and Avocado. Spicy California $5.45 Crab Stick, Avocado, Cucumber, Spicy Mayo Sauce, Sriracha Sauce, and Shichimi. Spicy Shrimp $6.95 Spicy Shrimp Salad, Avocado, Cucumber, and Shichimi. Spring Roll $5.45 Rice Paper, Shrimp, Lettuce, Cucumber, Carrot, Cilantro, and Glass Noodle. Temptation $8.45 Tempura Crab, Cream Cheese, Cucumber, Jalapeno, Crunch Batter, and Fried Onion. Tempura $6.95 Tempura Shrimp, Crab Salad, Avocado, Lettuce, and Fried Onion. Vegas Roll $8.95 Spicy Shrimp, Crab Stick, Avocado, Wasabi Cream Sauce, and Fried Onion. Vegetable $4.95 Carrot, Cucumber, and Avocado. Volcano $8.45 Smoked Salmon, Shrimp, Cream Cheese, Spicy Crab...
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...such an extent that they will no longer support a sufficient quantity of fish for sport or commercial harvest. Atlantic Bluefin tuna, the most valuable fish among the fish market is in danger of becoming extinct within the next couple of years due to over fishing. Part of the problem is that they are being caught as early as four years old, and don’t start to reproduce till around eight years of age; many are caught before they can even reproduce. This has lead to a ninety percent drop in the species from 1970. Location of the Problem Atlantic Bluefin tuna live in open water mainly around the eastern and western part of the Atlantic Ocean. The tuna spawn in the Gulf of Mexico where quota (in tones) is much lower then along the east side of the Atlantic. The largest yield of Atlantic Bluefin tuna is in the Mediterranean Sea. History Overfishing started in the 1970’s with the introduction to bigger and more effective vessels that were able to catch more fish more effectively. The Atlantic Bluefin tuna gained popularity in the 1970’s with the introduction of the international sushi market. Possible Solutions Measures are being taken right now to try to stop overfishing by making stricter quotas and setting up aquacultures. The 2009 Atlantic Bluefin Tuna quota is 22,000 tones, a twenty percent decrease from the previous year. Yet despite the quota many more Tuna will be caught. When a fish like this is so prized people are willing to break rules to satisfy their...
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...bring surprises with it. “The Fish” is a poem written by Elizabeth Bishop about her own story when she catches a huge fish while she is in a rented boat. After she catches the fish, she holds it up half out of the water. The fish looks pretty ugly, tired, and old with “shapes like full-blown roses, stained and lost through age” (lines 14-15). Algae is growing on it, and she realizes that the fish has five fishing hooks with the lines still partially attached hanging from its jaw. The speaker start to think how tough this fish must be and how much the fish probably fought through his life to survive. She begins to respect the fish. The story takes a final turn when she lets the fish go. The Theme of the poem is that great lessons can be learned from simple situations in life like a normal day fishing in the ocean. At first the speaker says “I caught a tremendous fish” (1). That is a simple description, then the speaker gives some detail about the fish and how it looks “his brown skin hung like strips like ancient wall-paper”. At this point, the fish is nothing special. After that, the speaker begins to examine the fish more closely, and she imagines the inside of the fish “dramatic reds and blacks,”(30) and a “pink swim-bladder.”(32) The fact that she is using her imagination in connection with the fish implied that the fish has a meaning behind simply being caught. The narrator learned from the persistence and dedication that the fish has. The fish has been caught five time as...
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...English Coursework The sands were pearly white. I was memorised by the sea, as sapphire blue as my dear wife’s eyes. It was peaceful. Tranquil. The sun starred it’s raze down on the razor sharp sand. The aroma of hot dogs and filled my nostrils, permeating through the air. Just like the busy streets of New York, but the calm morning breeze of amity island was all I could feel around me. Not a single cloud in the sky, the day seemed as though it was going to be a perfect day, but what is perfect? Then like a flock of birds, they started to arrive, propelling and fighting over the best spots of the beach they could find. I gaze over like an eagle stalking its prey. Piercing screams, high-pitched laughter, children splashing, squishing, and shouting with joy. Beads of sweat trickled down my face as the sun, a gold coin in sky, effervescent, piercing through my skin like the diamond encrusted sand on the soles of my feet. I felt as though I was in paradise. I begin to notice the smiling shore ripple with force, accompanied by piercing screams and shouting. I emerge from my deck chair in alertness. Suddenly, a slim figure is swallowed by the gaping mouth of the Pacific Ocean. My heart begins to beat, race and pulsate, almost like the prey running away from the predator. In relief, she emerged, like a moth cradled in its cocoon, cradled on the shoulders of a friend. I declined back into the embracing arms of my chair feeling composed. I am still on edge, it almost seemed that...
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...Introduction 2. Literature Review: Aquaculture in Algoa Bay 3.1. Fish farming 3.2. Algoa Bay 3.3. Economic Methodology: Cost/Benfit analysis 3. Case Study: Algoa Bay fin fish farming project 4. Analysis and Policy Implications 5. Conclusion 1. Introduction The global level of fish stocks are on an overall decline due to overfishing. Areas within South Africa such as the Eastern Cape Province are considered to be the second greatest producing province of aquaculture commodities. Because of the rich aquaculture within the Eastern Cape, the Departments of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, through various criteria based on a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), have selected Algoa Bay within the Eastern Cape to introduce fin fish farming. The various fin fish that are intended to be farmed in this area are linked fishery exports that contribute approximately R411 million per annum in the Eastern Cape. Thus study intends to investigate the development proposal aimed at increasing the growth of the aquaculture industry within South Africa as well as conducting an investigation into the economic and environmental issues associated with the introduction of aquaculture within areas such as Algoa Bay. The objectives with the introduction of fish farms are to increase job creation within the area and more importantly to manage the dwindling stocks of wild fin fish. A cost and benefit analysis will be applied to the Algoa Bay case study...
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...themes and several purposes; it is also a short book in the bible that only has four chapters. The recipients of this book would be primarily to Israel, but it as well could be to any individual because we can all relate to the book of Jonah. I am certain that there are individuals that have several of the characteristics of Jonah, being that we all can be disobedient, bitter, resentful, and prideful at times. According to author Hyun Chul Paul Kim, that wrote Jonah Read Intertextually believes that out of all the other twelve Minor Prophets, Jonah has been the one who has been neglected, because people in general refer to him as the prophet that was swallowed by a big fish, because he was stubborn. The Book of Jonah Outline 1. Jonah flees from the Lord. ( 1:1-17) 2. Jonah is delivered from the fish. (2:1-2:10) 3. Jonah obeys God and goes to Nineveh. (3:1-3:10) 4. Jonah is angry at God’s mercy for the people of Nineveh. (4:1-4:11) Jonah flees from God to go Tarshish. God told Jonah to go to Nineveh a great city and cry against it; for their wickedness has come up before me (Jonah Ch. 1:2, KJV).Nineveh was the ancient capital of Assyria (Illustrated Dictionary of the Bible, 1986 pg. 760). At the...
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...compassionate feelings towards kangaroo so every day at exactly one a.m. She would hide a fish somewhere in the house and kangaroo would search her little heart out for it when she would wake that morning. As years passed by little sue grew into big sue and got very caught up in her studies and extra achidemical courses that she forgot to go fishing for more fish and didn't hide a fish for kangaroo. That morning kangaroo spent the whole entire day searching for her fish but just couldn't possible find it. So she decided to take a Nap and wait for her loving sue to come home from school. When sue came home kangaroo jumped on the table hovering over her studies and was begging her with her magical kitty cat ears to tell her where she could have possibly hid the fish, but sue would not budge and pushes little kangaroo off of the table. Kangaroo figured that she was just really stressed out from school ad would wait till tomorrow morning and be overwhelmed with two fishes as an apology from sue. As time ticked by and daylight turned to night sue never got up to hid the fish, when kangaroo excitedly woke up she immediately started her Search. When she came up empty again she filled with dread and hollowness. She came to think that sue didn't love or appreciate her anymore and decided to do them both a favor and leave. Later that day sue came stumbling through the door with a huge bucket of fish! She screamed and hollered for kangaroo but there was no sign of her, she searched and searched...
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