...6/24/2015 Future Group Essays Vikash1189 Future Group by vikash1189 | studymode.com About Future Group Future Group, led by its founder and Group CEO, Mr. Kishore Biyani, is one of India¶s leading business houses with multiple businesses spanning across the consumption space. While retailforms the core business activity of Future Group, group subsidiaries are present in consumer finance, capital, insurance, leisure and entertainment, brand development, retail real estatedevelopment, retail media and logistics.Led by its flagship enterprise, Pantaloon Retail, the group operates over 16 million square feet of retail space in 73 cities and towns and 65 rural locations across India. Headquartered in Mumbai(Bombay), Pantaloon Retail employs around 30,000 people and is listed on the Indian stock exchanges. The company follows a multiformat retail strategy that captures almost the entireconsumption basket of Indian customers. In the lifestyle segment, the group operates Pantaloons,a fashion retail chain and Central, a chain of seamless malls. In the value segment, its marquee brand, Big Bazaar is a hypermarket format that combines the look, touch and feel of Indian bazaars with the choice and convenience of modern retail.In 2008, Big Bazaar opened its 100th store, marking the fastest ever organic expansion of ahypermarket. The first set of Big Bazaar stores opened in 2001 in Kolkata, Hyderabad andBangalore.The group¶s speciality retail formats include supermarket chain ± Food Bazaar...
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...Descriptive Essay—Student Example #1 Young Lions, Young Ladies Adolescents like to have a place they can call their own. In the fifties, teenagers hung out at the malt shop, sipping cherry cokes and rockin' with Elvis. Today, in a small town in Tennessee, they're jam skating to Montell Jordan. I was amazed to find a microcosm of life blooming on a 70 x 160-foot cement slab known as a roller skating rink. As I entered the building which housed the rink, the warm, nostalgic scent of popcorn hit that part of my brain where dusty, cobwebbed memories live, memories of my own adolescence. I made my way past a group of exuberant teenagers at the snack bar until I reached the skating rink. Skinny, hard benches, made for small butts, lined one wall. I took a seat and scanned the rink. My eyes paused to read a sign; white, block letters on a black background warned, "Skate at Your Own Risk." Two young men swaggered past me: confident, heads held high, eyes focused on their destination. I leaned over, looking down the long row of benches, curious to find out where they were going. Their confidence lagged a bit as they approached a large group of their peers, including several young ladies. All of them exhibited signs of discomfort as the girls crossed their arms over their nubile bodies and the boys tried hard not to stare. Abruptly, a silent signal sent the entire assembly to the benches. Pairs of dexterous hands laced up skates as quickly as possible, while other hands aided in...
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...Introduction This essay seeks to analyse the use of mise-en-scene in one of the early scenes in the film American Beauty, directed by Sam Mendes. Mise-en-scene, a French term translated as "putting into the scene", refers to properties of a cinematic image that exists independently of camera position, camera movement, and editing. The story centres on Lester, played by Kevin Spacey, a father who is experiencing a mid-life crisis. Despite employing a traditional Hollywood plot structure that focuses on a problem and a protagonist’s quest in resolving the issue, the film is special. The problem in the film is special as it is Lester’s entire state of life – his unhappiness and dissatisfaction of the way things are in his life. The film’s theme centres on the definition of happiness, more specifically in the context of the American Dream. The characters of the American Beauty seem to have confused material well-being with happiness. The plot is pushed by the main protagonist, Lester, in trying to find meaning and happiness in his life that was before dictated by the American expectation. We will be looking at the second scene of the film, which begins when Lester enters Brad’s office to discuss his performance at work. Brad is the company efficiency expert who was recently hired. The scene will be discussed separately based on two different locations. The essay will examine the use of settings, costume and make up, staging, lighting and lastly the use of space and time for each...
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...several sectors under the term hospitality industry which are as the following: 1. Hotels 2. Restaurants 3. Contract services 4. Pubs, Bars, casinos and nightclubs 5. Event A hotel is a place that has rooms in which people can stay when they are traveling where they can get food, shelter and other services. Hotels are divided into several categories such as boutique hotel, business hotel and motels. It is also classified into different star-rating, usually from one to five stars when one star hotel is much worse than a 5 star hotel. For example, Hilton hotel is a five-star hotel, and Euston Square Hotel is a three-star hotel (https://www.expedia.co.uk/3Star-London-Hotels.s30-0-d178279.Travel-Guide-Filter-Hotels) . These hotels are classified according to the different level of quality of service and products that each brand offers. However star-rating is different in every country. (http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/hotel.html#ixzz46jZ6gtGl) Restaurants A restaurant is a place where people pay and sit to eat food that are cook and served. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/restaurant Restaurants are also classified into several groups as the following: 1. Fast food 2. Fast casual 3. Fine dining 4. Casual dining Fast-food restaurant is a restaurant that provides the fastest service and food. The prices are also the lowest. The decoration of fast food restaurants is simple. Famous fast-food restaurants are such as Mac Donald...
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...The staff at the white house has to be talented because with the staff in the kitchen it is important not to mess anything up or else the president would get mad or worse fire them because they have lots of professional meetings. 3,366 people work for the white house. Some people work for the government and then they have people for the kitchen and they have people who work with the president like Mike Pence. In the kitchen five talented chefs are serving up some tasty treats 24/7. The 50 maids in the white house clean rooms like no tomorrow. The white house has government services like secret service where there are many members that follow the president everywhere and make sure that he/she is safe at all...
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...Explore the strategic direction of the Food and Beverage Department within the construct of the overall strategy for the Radicor Hotel, Darling Harbour. Hao-wei Liu(Jessica) In every hotel, food and beverage department sometimes seems to be a subsidiary section in a hotel organization, yet its revenue is all in all and substantial. Radicor Hotel has its food and beverage revenue from seven areas, the promenade, the Abbey, lobby lounge, connections bar, the Deli, room service and mini bar. In Radicor Hotel Darling Harbour, the food and beverage revenue is moving in on the room revenue, in 2011 May, the former already overtook the later. Hotel Radicor key data shows that in the seven areas, restaurant Abbey happened to be the one that keep decreasing from 2009 to 2011. Compared the total revenue from 2009 and 2010, it dropped 30%, it was an unacceptable number for a manager, the following year, 2011, was not good enough, either. On the contrary, the other restaurant in the hotel, Deli, was doing excellent, its total revenue was continually increasing, from 2009 to 2010, it raised 24%, and did not stop rising. While other food and beverage fields’ performances were comparatively stable. Respect Every Negative Review To meet customers expectation is never an easy task to do, as Levitt noticed that with services, “You don’t know what you aren’t going to get until you don’t get it.” (Levitt, 1980) Hence good reputation always take years to build, however, it could fall into...
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...for completing this assignment: In this assignment, you will evaluate the Chestnut Ridge Country Club case study (Click Here) by using your critical thinking skills. To successfully complete this assignment, write a 2-3 page critical essay covering the following topics: 1. Formulate a research problem. 2. Compare three basic types of research design (exploratory, descriptive and casual) 3. Evaluate the use of research design for each method 4. Determine appropriate research design method to use in marketing research process Case Scenario Chestnut Ridge Country Club The Chestnut Ridge Country Club has long maintained a distinguished reputation as one of the outstanding country clubs in the Elma, Tennessee, area. The club’s golf facilities are said by some to be the finest in the state, and its dining and banquet facilities are highly regarded as well. This reputation is due in part to the commitment by the board of directors of Chestnut Ridge to offer the finest facilities of any club in the area. For example, several negative comments by club mem- bers regarding the dining facilities prompted the board to survey members to get their feelings and perceptions of the dining...
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...“the true Muses are cooks” (19). Muses are a source of art and inspiration, and in Greek mythology the nine muses, the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, presided over the Arts. I have had many experiences and encounters with food. I found that they all had one thing in common: food is an art to taste and an art to make. Being a waitress for three years I have grown passionate about food and the restaurant industry. I have had the privilege of being able to work in two different fine dining establishments. Both have in common the appreciation for the beauty of food. The cook’s passion for their work was an art in itself. The first restaurant I worked at, Lakeview Restaurant, has glass windows on all sides, and sits the very top of a hill. When looking out you see a view of the entire city and lake. One of the most breath taking views I have yet seen. The dining room is small and intimate, white table clothes on every table, and vases of fresh flowers. To me the only thing more beautiful than the room and the view is the food. The most satisfying feeling being a server is when you set a plate of food in front of someone and they are awed. I can’t tell you how many times I have been yelled at to deliver the food to a table on a busy night so the customer would see the beauty of the steam rising from the plate. My favorite dish is a fish special. Grilled Swahi, covered in a mango strawberry salsa. Something about this combination is perfectly satisfying. Restaurant Charcuterie...
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...Morton. The eatery originated as classic big city eatery and blossomed in a cult following with fans and patrons visiting from around the world. Now in the 21st century the Café has transformed into a really overall marvel. (Tigrett, 1998) Right when Hard Rock Café was introduced in 1971 it was just a direct diner that was focused on providing its patrons with a great dining experience coupled with the culture of Rock and Roll. After at some point or another hard shake proprietors comprehend that it wasn't adequate for be assorted and to be the pioneers on the support and incitement showcase so they realized another technique considering an inclusive experience: reinforced on preoccupation, sustenance and music. The founders decided to execute the thought of a restaurant as a diversion place where patrons could enjoy their food and could have an extraordinary visual and sound spot. 2. As Hard Rock Café has changed its strategy, how has its responses to some of the 10 decisions of OM changed? The Hard Rock has made its image selective and exceedingly looked for after. They offer dinners, they offer cabin rooms.. To attain that goal, they have assembled amid the time a forty million dollar quality social occasion of things which are a bit of the Rock history. They in like manner have used unequivocally a response system as a piece of its global improvement. Not every aspect of company segments are the same, and to the degree there're are Hard Rocks in so better places all over...
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...Leonardo Castillo Enc 1101 M/W 5:00 pm 10/1/2012 Word count: 709 Descriptive Essay Rough draft It’s approximately four o’ clock in morning and I’m in the locker room changing my clothes. My colorless hands are chilly, my feet are weary and my body feels like is going to give up and collapse after working eight hours in a refrigerated warehouse. Even though my body just wants to give way, I manage to drag my feet all the way to my vehicle, and start rushing home which is the only thing I want to do after a long night of work. The best part of driving home at this hour of the day is that I have an open road almost all to myself. The streets are nearly empty, the drive nice and smooth and the best part is that there are no police so you can run through these streets like there’s no tomorrow. Also there are no rays of sunshine burning my eyes like in the day, the weather is nice and cool that I don’t even need to turn on my a/c which has been throwing nothing but burning air. As I get closer to home I could only think about going straight to comfy bed; however, it is not going to happen because this is the only free time during the day that I have time to study. As I am getting to the door my eyes feel unfocused and my eyelids are feeling heavy. Now that I made it to the white tarnished door, I am shuffling through my key chain to find the correct key. The darkness of the night makes it difficult to find the right one; thus, I lift my arm up toward the sky to see if...
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...Both Wright and Hughes write about the inequality faced by African Americans but follow two different techniques on showing this to the reader. Wright in his essay “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow” discuss several instances of racism where he was unfairly treated just because of the color of his skin. Wright uses strong and powerful words in order to get his point across, and as a result it stays in the readers’ mind longer. One such example is when he describes with interactions with Pease and Morrie. When asked about work Morris gets angry and asks if he is trying to get smart, and the conversation ends with Wright being called a ‘black bastard’. So by using these kinds of strong words that make the readers uncomfortable Wright gets his point...
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...capacity of 50 customers The Industry - Unemployment in the city 8.8% higher than any other major city in Ont. Other than Windsor - Loss of discretionary spending, but this can be an inexpensive form of recreation - Even during the recession the growth rate of 20 % annually during the last decade in the US, similar to Canada (assumption) - Board game popularity increased and sales increased 100% in the last 5 years - This business is popular in Europe and Asia Competition -Direct - Recreational experience in the Richmond Row - Fleetway- bowling alleys and billiards, positioning: new dimension in entertainment , DQ food drink (no alcohol) and targeted children, teenagers and adults - Palasad North- two locations, dining room, bar/lounge, sofa seating , fireplace, billiars and bowling alleys, bar, arcade, focus on big events with large groups, positioning: eat!- Drink!- Bowl! Resturant was more popular Competition- Indirect -Tim Hortons- very popular and successful but a fast- food ambiance -Starbucks: home-style ambiance, free Wi-Fi, premium coffees and pastries...
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...Table of Contents: Introduction….………………………………………………………………………………..p. 3 Five Forces Model in Hospitality Industry…………………………………………………..p. 4 Top three companies in Hospitality Industry (Hotels)………..…………………………….p. 5 Marriott International, Inc. Comparative Strategy, Value Chains..……………………....p. 7 Differentiation Strategy of Marriott International, Inc……………………….…………...p. 7 Cost Leadership Strategy of Marriott International, Inc…………………………………..p. 8 Value Chains of Marriott International, Inc………………………………………………p. 8 Primary Activities…………………...……………………………………………….p. 8 Supporting Activities………………………………………………………………...p. 9 Business processes………………………………………………………………….p. 10 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………….…p. 11 References……………………………………..………………………………………………p.11 “The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency”. (Bill Gates) Introduction. In the today’s world of competitive markets, information technology has a huge impact on the success of the companies. “The role of IT is constantly evolving and has changed significantly from the days when the IT organization was often referred to as “data processing.” Today, in many industries, IT enables some businesses to differentiate themselves from their competitors. Those companies...
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...creating a four-cycle wave motion above the pool of water. Although I was unable to visit the museum at night, I did see a photograph of the sculpture during the evening hours as the pool and lighting provided illumination from beneath the structure. They had my attention. As I walked into the foyer, the main lobby had a grand staircase leading to the second floor where the Meadows collection is on display. Before going upstairs, I was able to enjoy the artwork on the first floor dedicated to the exhibition halls; of specific note, the Gene and Jerry Jones Great Hall in which the above-mentioned “Lady Removing Garter” was displayed. The first floor also included an orientation room showing a video, and several conference rooms, a studio, dining facility, an auditorium and last the founder’s room furnished with congressional-style large black leather chairs and...
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...“Two Meals” The essay of Virginia Woolf, “Two Meals”, is about a woman who goes and experiences two very separate and distinct universities. The first of which is an all boys university, and the second, an all girls university. Throughout the work you notice two contrasting settings. The first is a charming dinner with exquisite food, the second, a bland and simple meal. Woolf uses different forms of syntax that help the reader more fully understand her perception and thoughts of these two places. She uses very forward diction with long and drawn out sentences in the first paragraph, but in the second paragraph the diction is more harsh with choppy sentences. Woolf also uses imagery to help describe the meals and settings that she is experiencing. The writing is also organized in way that displays two paragraphs; these two paragraphs contain two conflicting ideas and feelings. The author structured her writing like this to help the reader isolate their reading, this way they are able to pick out certain details more easily. This essay is an...
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