...FASHION TRENDS 7 BRAND SCAN 8 TARGET MARKET ANALYSIS 8 DEMOGRAPHICS 8 PSYCHOGRAPHICS 8 CONSUMER CONSTELLATION 8 USAGE BEHAVIORS 8 GUESS? INC. SWOT ANALYSIS 9 COMPETITION 10 FORECASTING PLAN 10 BUSINESS GROWTH STRATEGIES 11 LEVERAGING THE BRAND 11 INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION 11 CONTINUE TO IMPROVE THE LICENSEE PORTFOLIO 11 E-COMMERCE………………… …………………………………………….12 CONCLUSION 12 BIBLIOGRAPHY 13 INTRODUCTION Jeans wear manufacturer GUESS? Inc. exploded onto the fashion scene in 1982. The brand had the simplest vision to turn the dated denim jean into a sexy, glamorous fashion statement. The company’s three zip “Marilyn” jeans were an instant hit and defined the brand’s attitude-strong, sensuous and chic. GUESS? Is a 600 million dollar multinational retailer that sells clothing, jeans, eyewear, and watches, designed to improve the ordinary lifestyle of people with flair of individualism. Maurice, Paul and Armand, the Marciano brothers, are the people that stand behind GUESS?’s success. They have guided every step of growth and development of the company. They grew up in southern France where they adopted a passionate appreciation of French style and design. The Marciano brothers were also inspired by an appreciation of the American West. GUESS? Inc. is a combination of their European attractions and their love of classic American customs. Maurice Marciano...
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...Name:_______________________ Svehla E3 period:____________________ Date:_______________________ Choose one of the following claims, or choose your own and fill out the graphic organizer below. 1. The setting of where Malcolm X is affects his tone and views on racism 2. Malcolm X’s use of literary devices emphasizes his attitude towards racism 3. Malcolm X’s use of loaded words, and vivid verbs creates a sense of oppression 4. Malcolm X’s reflective tone creates a sense of change and possibility 5. The drastically different tone in the excerpts from Malcolm X’s autobiography illustrates his point that all experiences make up who he is. 6. Malcolm X’s experiences affect the progression of his writing and feelings towards society 7. Malcolm X’s change is in his life is reflected in the change of his writing Claim: (The pledge of Allegiance creates a sense of unity and strength through its use of strong words.) Claim: (The pledge of Allegiance creates a sense of unity and strength through its use of strong words.) Point 1 (the use of specific loaded words is used to make us feel together) Point 1 (the use of specific loaded words is used to make us feel together) Evidence: (the word “allegiance” connotes we are all in this together) Together) Evidence: (the word “allegiance” connotes we are all in this together) Together) HOW does Malcolm X do this? Point 1 (the use of our rights makes us...
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...University of Phoenix Material Individual Speech Evaluation Form Speaker ____________________________________________________ Topic ______________________________________________________ 5-Excellent 4-Good 3-Average 2-Fair 1-Poor | | | | | |Introduction | |Delivery: Voice and body language | | |Gained attention and interest |5 4 3 2 1 |Began speech without rushing |5 4 3 2 1 | |Introduced topic clearly |5 4 3 2 1 |Maintained strong eye contact |5 4 3 2 1 | |Established credibility |5 4 3 2 1 |Avoided distracting mannerisms |5 4 3 2 1 | |Previewed body of speech |5 4 3 2 1 |Articulated words clearly |5 4 3 2 1 | | | |Used pauses effectively |5 4 3 2 1 | |Body | |Used vocal variety to add effect |5 ...
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...Guess Your Card Steven Colson Prof. Latriece Tanksley MAT-104 August 6, 2013 The name of this guessing game is Guess Your Card. The purpose of this project is to employ various logical methods to figure out which cards each player possesses. The game is completed and won by the first player to correctly state what card he or she has. In this particular game setup there are 4 players, Andy, Belle, Carol and Myself. Each player picks 3 cards without looking at them, cards ranging from 1 thru 9. Andy has the cards 1, 5, and 7. Belle has the cards 5, 4, and 7. Carol has the cards 2, 4, and 6. As of right know I do not know what numbers I have in my possession. Andy draws the question card, “Do you see two (2) or more players whose cards sum to the same value?” He answers, “Yes.” Next Belle draws the question card, “Of the five (5) odd numbers, how many different odd numbers do you see?” She answers, “All of them.” Andy suddenly speaks up. "I know what I have," he says. "I have a 1, a 5, and a 7." To figure out what numbers I have in my possession, I will use the process of elimination. I know the numbers of the other players, and information given by the other players I can solve the answer of what are my card numbers. To first solve this problem, I remember that Andy said that he saw two (2) or more players whose cards sum to the same value. So knowing this I know that 2 of the players’ numbers will add up to the same sum. So I add both Belle and Carol card numbers individually...
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...Guess Jeans Ecommerce Guess?, Inc. designs, markets, and distributes clothing apparel and accessories for men and women. It was created by three brothers, known as the Marciano brothers who grew up in Southern France. Maurice Marciano oversees the company’s design direction, Paul Marciano is the Co-Chairman and Co-chief officer, and Armand Marciano is the Senior Executive Vice President . They were inspired by the American western tradition to begin the clothing designs of Guess ?. After Bloomingdale’s agreed to purchase two dozen of their jeans as a favor they were sold out with in hours. That’s when, in 1981, the official Guess ? label was born, and would become one of the most recognized brand names. Guess ? uses historical trends within the market to develop a sales plan for designs and as a guide to the number of sales per garmet. With the sales plan in mind they seek out the best quality product at the best possible price. Once the materials are gathered the cost of the item is determined. Including manufacturing labor, fabric, trims, and various other details included in the production of the clothing a rough cost is agreed upon. After the cost is found Guess ? then determines on a style merchandising cost, which is based on raising or lowering prices to maximize sales and profits. As of today Guess ? has product licenses all over the world. Also it has distributors in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. Guess ? can be found in many...
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...Hollister and Guess A. Location Factors Both of Hollister and Guess are located in Downtown Seattle. It is a community shopping center. B. Exterior Atmospherics It is not hard to find the parking there, but the parking is very expensive, about $10/hours. C. Interior Atmospherics An equally interesting fact about the two retailers is related to the store environment they offer. In general is a combination of many elements: music, temperature, odor, lighting, layout, decoration, even the sales associates they hire, and others, many of these elements influence shoppers’ behavior playing with their emotions, perceptions and physiological states. - Hollister is strongly targeting to teen-young adults (18-22 years old), who are trendy, good looking and with a lot of sex appealing. As soon as you enter the store a combination of stimulus attacks you, from the extremely loud music, the smell of their signature perfume all over the cloth, poor lighting, good looking sales associates and huge pictures of models all over the store, what are they trying to sell? Excitement, sex, fun, social spaces using lounge furniture, it’s all about being young, pretty and popular. For sure is not the most relaxing ambiance for parents, who most likely wait outside the store until the kids choose whatever they want to buy. But at the end of the day, it’s not about the parents; it’s about the teenagers having a place to be that person they are trying to be. - On the other hand, most of the customers...
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...The song "American Woman" was written and recorded by the Canadian rock group The Guess Who, originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The song was written in January, 1970, at a time when many countries, led by the United States, were fighting a war in Vietnam. The communists of North Vietnam had invaded South Vietnam and neighboring countries, promoting communism. Many Americans were opposed to the war. The story behind how American Woman was written is unusual. The band was performing at a club called the Broom & Stone which was actually a curling rink. According to Burton Cummings, the lead singer and song writer, the show was stopped because Randy Bachman broke a string on his guitar. As he was retuning his instrument, he played the notes which eventually became the opening riff to the song. The other members began playing and Cummings started ad-libbing words to go with the music. He said in an interview in 2013, “I run inside and run up onto the stage and just grab a microphone and started singing whatever came into my head; it was all stream of consciousness at the moment stuff … all that stuff about war machines and ghetto scenes, colored lights can hypnotize …it was all just spur-of-the-moment.” examiner.com/article The audience went wild. Burton noticed that a member of the audience was recording the show and told the band manager to get the tape. Later, they listened to the tape and wrote down the music and lyrics, which was then recorded with only a...
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...IELTS Secret Key #1 - Time is your greatest enemy |[pic] |[pic] |[pic] | | |Written by Rad Danesh | |Monday, 23 April 2007 | |To succeed on the IELTS, you must use your time wisely. Many students do not finish at least one module. The table below shows | |the time challenge you are faced with: | |Module | |Total time | |Questions | |Time for each question | | | |Listening | |30 min ...
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...Herman Bautista 9/25/2013 Discussion Question Chapter 7 Process Flow Analysis 1. Provide the definition of a bottleneck. Why is it important to find the bottleneck? A bottleneck is a phenomenon where the performance or capacity of an entire system is limited by a single or limited number of components or resources. The term bottleneck is taken from the 'assets are water' metaphor. As water is poured out of a bottle, the rate of outflow is limited by the width of the conduit of exit, that is, bottleneck. By increasing the width of the bottleneck one can increase the rate at which the water flows out of the neck at different frequencies. Such limiting components of a system are sometimes referred to as bottleneck points. 2. Explain the difference between capacity, flow rate, and demand. Capacity: The capacity can be calculated for every station in a business process. It is always m / processing time with m being the number of resources being devoted to the station. If, for example, one worker needs 40 seconds to put together a sandwich, the capacity of this station is 1/40 per second or 1,5 sandwiches per minute. If there are two workers on the same station, the capacity increases to 2/40 per second or 3 sandwiches per minute. Flow rate: the definition needs to be augmented as the flow rate being the minimum of demand and process capacity. While the flow rate logically can never be higher than the capacity of the bottleneck, it can very well be lower,...
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...It's just the beginning of this terrible terrible story of three noise kids were walking down a cold street on Halloween night they stop at house it look warm and they were sleepy so they went in. As soon as they walked in the lights flickered and it happened the ghost took Soey. I guess I should tell you the characters first they are Soey, man-man and Joey. So man-man and Joey ran for the door but the ghost shut it with his power. then they heard three voices one said help so they assumed it was Soey another said come closer the last one said I will find you man-man wet his pants then Joey ran and let man-man behind. So then running as fast as he could man-man tried to catch up with Joey. He finally finds him in a room so they both go to sleep thinking they are safe but they weren't. the next morning Joey tries to wake up man-man but it was too late. So Joey goes to find Soey in the basement but all he found was bones. So he went up in the attic to find her but instead he was the one being found. The two people he saw were the ghost and guess who Soey. He tried to save her but she was one of the ghost slaves. she came at him with a knife so he ran for his life. But the ghost was getting bored so he killed them both. And their parents still call them till this...
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...more- if we’d met two years ago?” But you don’t answer. You look through the windshield, the wind beating in your ears, the lines of dust on the windshield over your eyes. And you thank G-d you were born in this time. Years later, lives later, you’re living in a house in the country. And every now and then you can almost hear her go by, driving 55. You look at the sky, clouds scattered but moving in a harmonious formation, towards where you’ll never know. You say west, but that’s your heart putting out its best guess. You think back to that brown dress, that smile that had happiness embedded from the start, light another cigarette and wait for the avalanche of stars. Years later, lives later, you’re living in a house in the country. And every now and then you can almost hear her go by, driving 55. You look at the sky, clouds scattered but moving in a harmonious formation, towards where you’ll never know. You say west, but that’s your heart putting out its best guess. You think back to that brown dress, that smile that had happiness embedded from the start, light another cigarette and wait for the avalanche of...
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...Hi everyone. My name is huyen. I’m a freshman at FTU. In this video, I will tell you something about one of our biggest enemies. We all hate it, we don’t want it, but it still exists, still appears beside us whether we like it or not. So, can you guess it? It’s stress. Now I know maybe some of you are laughing at me and thinking in mind that: oh, I know it clearly, I face it every day and what else do suppose me not to know? Something like that, right? Okay, but guarantee you, I just found out some other new good aspects of stress, u would like it. So just wait and see. Many people experience stress as they combine busy lives and the demands of study and or work while trying to also save time for friends and family. For some people, stress becomes almost a way of life. We all experience episodic stress – getting ready for a major exam, completing an important paper, perhaps getting ready for an important interview. However, a continuous “state” of stress should not become a way of life. We know that stress – over a prolonged period of time – can have increase certain health risks, to say nothing of the wear and tear that happens to relationships and general wellbeing. In today’s society, every day we may face some kind of stress and difficulties from work, school and family. Work-related stress has many causes, including long hours, heavy workload, job insecurity, the threat of job loss or redundancy, and conflicts with other workers or even your boss. If you...
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...Algebra with Applications 104 | Assignment 1: Logic Application- Guess Your Card | | 10/31/2013 | Guess Your Card is when each player draws three cards without looking. Each card has a number between 1 and 9 on it. The players then place their cards on their heads so that everyone but that person can see their own cards; the purpose is so that you can guess which card you have | I am playing Guess Your Card with three (3) other players. Andy has the cards 1, 5, and 7; Belle has the cards 5, 4, and 7; Carol has the cards 2, 4, and 6. Andy draws answers yes to the question card, “Do you see two (2) or more players whose cards sum to the same value?” Next Belle draws the question card, “Of the five (5) odd numbers, how many different odd numbers do you see?” She answers, “All of them.” Andy suddenly speaks up. "I know what I have," he says. "I have a 1, a 5, and a 7." Andy draws the question card, “Do you see two or more players whose cards sum to the same value?” He answers, “`yes.” The sum of Belle's cards 5+4+7 = 16 sum of Carol's cards = 2+4+6 = 12 I found that there are 2 different sums but Andy sees at least two players whose cards have the same sum, which means my cards either adds up to 12 or 16 . If the only odd cards Belle sees are 1, 5, 7 from Andy then I must have a 3 and a 9 which equals 12. My sum either is 12 or 16 and since 3 + 9 = 12, and smallest card is 1, then my cards must add up to 16. We know now that my cards must equal 16 and that I have...
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...Logic Application: Guess Your Card Jeffrey Self Professor Mune Lokesh Math 104 Algebra With Applications 19 June 2013 In my scenario I am sitting around the kitchen table with three friends and we decide to play the game Guess Your Card. My friends explain to me that in this game each of us in turn will blindly draw three cards from a partial deck of cards. This deck has had all cards above 9 removed, and for this game’s purposes aces are only equal to 1. Without looking at my cards I am to place them facing out on my forehead so the other players can clearly see the cards. Each of the other players is to do the same. The object of the game is to guess which cards you have on your own head using logic to solve the problem. Players draw question cards that reveal information about player cards, and the first to guess their cards based on the information revealed wins the game. My brother Andy has the cards 1, 5, and 7 showing on his forehead. His wife Belle has 5, 4, and 7. My girlfriend Carol has the cards 2, 4, and 6. Andy is selected to draw the first question card, and it asks if he sees two or more players who’s cards sum to the same value. Andy answers affirmatively. With this information I know that I must have cards that equal either 12 or 16. I know this because Belle’s cards sum to 16 and Carol’s cards sum to 12. Since Andy sees two of us with cars of the same value I am able to confirm that my sum must match either Belle’s or Carol’s. At this point none of us...
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...[Type the company name] | Game of Guess Your Card | Math 104 Algebra with Applications | | [Type the author name] | 12/8/2012 | [Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document. Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document.] | The Crazy Card Game with Logic Application The guess your card game I just wonder why are we playing this game are we that bored. Or maybe we are stranded in a cabin in the mountains in a snow blizzard or something of that nature. No we are playing this game because our nutty professor say’s we have too. Just joking Professor Crossley just trying to make light of the situation and add a bit of humor I’m sure you will agree so laugh and enjoy. Ok back to the guess your card game in which each player draws three cards without looking at the three cards they have chosen. Each card has a number between 1 and 9 on it. Then my opponents place their cards on their heads so that all of us but themselves can see the cards. Our objective is to guess what cards we have ourselves. The first person to do this wins the game I guess I don’t see any other great prize we will receive for performing this task enough with that on with the show. During the playing of the game, each player, in turn, draws a question at random from a stack of questions. Then each player answers the question bases on the cards that they see...
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