...director of sales and marketing, Richard Hawly, at Palladium Door, Inc had to achieve a sales goal of $12.5 million for 2004. That was an increase in 36% over the sales for the year 2003. The residential garage door awareness was very low according to the survey done by Palladium. Therefore, Palladium cannot build up a marketing strategy that would be based on brand recognition due to the insufficient awareness about its products in the market. Instead, it should first focus on offering a product that is cheap in price, reliable and has some amount of aesthetic appeal. As brand recognition didn’t play an important part in Palladium’s case, it needed to focus on its distribution strategy. Various distribution strategies were suggested by the executives at Palladium. However, only one distribution strategy might not be successful in achieving the desired sales results. We need to consider a mix of different distributor marketing strategies. I would suggest that Palladium should be focusing on its present distribution strategy. However, at the same time it should even focus its energy on strengthening its ties with the current distribution network. This can be done by calling up and following up with the distributors at least once every week, instead of the current strategy of following up just twice a month. This would even help in developing enthusiasm among the distributors and they would even sell more of Palladium products in the hope of achieving a better and efficient...
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...The synthesis of a novel palladium-phosphine catalyst and its Sonogashira cross-coupling activity. ________________________________________ Chemical catalysis was investigated through the synthesis of a palladium catalyst (Figure 1) containing the novel phosphine ligand 1-naphthyl(diphenyl)phosphine. A Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction catalyzed by the new palladium catalyst was carried out and compared to the results observed using a common catalyst, Palladium dichlorobis(triphenylphosphine). The results of relevant catalytic methods were characterized by analytical tools and a prospective mechanism of the observed cross-coupling suggested. Figure 1: [PdCl2(PPh2Ar)2] (Ar = 1-naphthyl) ________________________________________ Catalysis is an increasingly integral part of synthetic organic chemistry due to its ability to facilitate such large improvements in reaction rate and selectivity control. The careful design of organometallic palladium compounds with incorporation of ligands of varying reactivity, lability and steric bulk allows the production of increasingly effective catalysts. Phosphines such as triphenylphosphine are categorically important ligands in inorganic chemistry mainly due to applications in asymmetric synthesis, however another important utility is noticeable in palladium-catalysed coupling reactions. In 1975 a method appeared for preparing symmetrically substituted alkynes, afterwards named the Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction1. This method...
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...BTEC Nationals Edexcel level 3 BTEC National Certificate/Diploma Applied Science (Laboratory and Industrial Science) Applied Science (Medical Science) Integrated Vocational Assignment CASE STUDY 2- Johnson Matthey (Catalysts and Chemicals) Unit 3: Workplace practices This case study has been prepared by Mr. M. Hooper & Ms P. Hooper with the co-operation of Johnson Matthey (Catalysts and Chemicals) for the use of learners completing the IVA for the NQF Level 3 BTEC Nationals in Applied Science. Prepared by M. Hooper & P. Hooper. March 2005 The following materials have been authorised for use by students in this context, by Johnson Matthey. Some data is not current, and some is adapted to give a working document to allow completion of the assignment, To complete the assignment students must have access to detailed information about a company. This is often difficult to obtain, and the following information will provide exemplar material for the completion of the IVA. The information is based on the British Company – Johnson Matthey, one of the leading speciality chemicals companies in the world specialising in Catalysts, Precious Metals and Speciality chemicals. Johnson Matthey is a large multi-national company. There is a lot of information available on the various web-sites. The website reflect the...
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...investments have assumed great importance. Investing where money will be safe is the new mantra. Obviously, commodities have become the new investment option knowing the great Indian fascination for the metal; gold and silver have been invested in widely. But today, the prices of gold have also skyrocketed. Silver is not as much preferred as gold. So, an alternative to gold has to be searched. Is platinum a viable alternative? Today, platinum is known as rich man’s gold. Will it appeal to the common man? Platinum is inherently, costlier than gold. Compared to gold, platinum responds very differently to economic stimuli. Past history reveals that the price of platinum runs in a similar curve as gold, palladium and silver and platinum has always led the bullish sentiment in the markets with palladium. The only downside is the volatility. Historically, platinum has been more volatile than gold or silver. In a strong bull run, platinum/gold spread widens considerably, sometimes reaching figures of about more than $150-$200 occasionally in the last twenty years. It is a fact that in time of extended economic boom, platinum tends to outperform gold and silver but during period of recession, platinum is not such a strong performer. It has been observed that investment in gold increases, maybe due to the psychological attachment of the investors to the yellow metal. Platinum has a lesser history in the financial markets as compared to gold or silver. Gold and silver have been invested in since...
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...Simple Hydrophilic Palladium(II) Complex as a Highly Efficient Catalyst for Room Temperature Aerobic Suzuki Coupling Reactions in Aqueous Media Mengping Guo 1,2,*, Shiwen Liu 1,2, Xiuling Zhou 1, Meiyun Lv 1, Sanbao Chen 1 and Daoan Xiao 1 1 2 Institue of Coordination Catalysis, College of Chemistry and Bio-Engineering, Yichun University, Yichun 336000, China; E-Mails: liushiwen320721@163.com (S.L.); 13879593114@163.com (X.Z.); lvmeiyun2005@163.com (M.L.); 333csb@163.com (S.C.); xiaodaoan2006@163.com (D.X.) Engineering Center of Jiangxi University for Lithium Energy, Yichun University, Yichun 336000, China * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: guomengping65@163.com; Tel./Fax: +86-0795-320-0535. Received: 8 April 2014; in revised form: 19 May 2014 / Accepted: 19 May 2014 / Published: 21 May 2014 Abstract: A study on room temperature Suzuki cross-coupling in an aqueous medium was carried out using a simple hydrophilic palladium (II) complex, trans-PdCl2(NH2CH2COOH)2 as catalyst in the presence of K2CO3 in air. This approach with a comparatively inexpensive and hydrophilic catalyst, mild reaction condition and aqueous media exhibits excellent catalytic activity towards the Suzuki coupling of aryl bromides and arylboronic acids, and good yields were obtained in the Suzuki coupling of activated aryl chlorides. Keywords: hydrophilic catalyst; aqueous media; green chemistry; Suzuki reaction 1. Introduction During the last two decades, the palladium-catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura...
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...Using PEST analysis to support decision making ENVIRONMENT Introduction Johnson Matthey is a leading global speciality chemicals company. Science and technology are embedded in everything that it does. It has operations in over 30 countries and employs around 11,000 people. It was founded in 1817 to refine and develop products using precious metals – something it still does today. As well as creating precious metal containing products, it also recycles precious metals and manufactures many other high technology products and chemicals. So, how does Johnson Matthey affect you? If you have ever travelled in a car it is likely to have been fitted with a catalytic converter to reduce vehicle emissions. Johnson Matthey produces catalytic converters for around a third of all cars manufactured in the world. This product has huge environmental and health benefits for everyone through reducing pollution. Johnson Matthey operates in an industry driven by advancements in technology. To remain competitive the company needs a highly skilled workforce to establish new and more efficient ways of meeting the challenges faced by the industry. To be at the forefront of technological innovations the company requires people with skills in STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) as well as skills in other areas. Johnson Matthey offers many highly rewarding career opportunities for people that share the company’s commitment to sustainability and the creation of a positive impact...
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...Sheet1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 COSTA EYEWEAR DISCOUNT PRICING ORDER FORM AS OF MARCH 1, 2013 BILL TO NAME: AGENCY: STREET ADDRESS: CITY, STATE, ZIP: MOBILE TEL: PERSONAL EMAIL: SHIP TO NAME: AGENCY: STREET ADDRESS: CITY, STATE, ZIP: WORK TEL: AGENCY EMAIL: ITEM DESCRIPTION LENS COLOR ANSIL FRAME COLOR RETAIL DISCOUNT PRICE QTY EXT PRICE AN 10 OCP AN 10 OGP AN 11 OGP AN 11 OBMP AN 18 OGP AN 18 OBMP AN 18 OSCP Ansil (AN 10) Tortoise Frame Ansil Copper 580P Ansil Gray 580P Ansil (AN 11) Black Frame Ansil Gray 580P Ansil Blue Mirror 580P Ansil (AN 18) Silver Frame Ansil Gray 580P Ansil Blue Mirror 580P Ansil Silver Mirror 580P Ballast (BA 10) Tortoise Frame Ballast Amber 580P Ballast Silver Mirror 580P Ballast (BA 11) Black Frame Ballast Gray 580P Ballast Blue Mirror 580P Ballast (BA 53) Conch Shell Frame Ballast Copper 580P Ballast Gray 580P Blackfin (BL 10) Tortoise Frame Blackfin Dark Amber Glass Blackfin Dark Gray Glass Blackfin Blue Mirror...
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...in host countries. I believe Avon is very successful in its international human resources management in global market. First of all, Avon’s first female CEO took charge of company and implemented efficient policies to make the company get out of debt problem and sluggish sales problem. Secondly, Avon also focus on international market. They hire millions local door-to-door representatives who know well about local culture. Meanwhile, to improve the quality of their workforce, Avon runs leadership program and on-the-job training seminar on a regular basis. Thirdly, Avon set up Avon foundation to help charitable program and women issues around the world. Fourthly, Avon also builds up its good reputation by workforce diversity and minority recruitment. 2. Describe how Avon’s business model has changed in light of demographic and social changes in the United States and abroad. What role has IHRM played in the company’s global expansion? In global market, Avon hires and trains the new local workforce in its door-to-door selling model (Avon’s salespeople and company representatives become more critical in their door-to-door selling in diverse markets). Avon’s distribution strategies also adapt to the local needs because of working women or other cultural and logistical considerations and include mail, phone, fax, retail outlets, and web site. Role of IHRM in global expansion: 1) Training in both virtual and time-based seminar. 2) Adapting and adjusting the operation to local industrial...
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...MGT 434 Week 1 DQ 2 To Buy This material Click below link http://www.uoptutors.com/MGT-434/MGT-434-Week–DQ-2 You are the office manager of a small sales company. There are formally three employees with the company: the owner, the receptionist and you. The company hires part time sales reps who sign a contract stating that they are independent contractors. They are supposed to go door to door and make prepared sales pitches for people to purchase the product. There are required to obtain signatures to contracts and to drop of the contracts with initial deposits at the company’s office each Monday. Twice a month they meet at the local Starbucks to discuss sales, new product lines and other issues with the owner and the other sales reps. You get a letter and a telephone call from your State Department of Labor, wanting to examine the employee and sales rep files on the various individuals The owner has gone away to whale watch off the New England Coast and has told you not to call him, even in an emergency. You try to call him but you cannot reach him. How do you handle the issue of the audit and what do you say about the sales reps? On the same day as the audit is occurring, one of the sales reps calls you on his cell phone to report that he cannot make the weekly sales meeting and to give you his sales figures. As he is doing such, he hits a person crossing the street. Several weeks alter, he tells you that he has the lowest amount of car insurance and wants to know whether...
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...Earth, because as she used to say” her treasures lie on the other side.” Every one of us seated here today has had fond memories of my grandmother. Some of my earliest were when I used to beg her to scratch my back when I was a little boy. You see grandmothers have that soothing touch that seems to make everything better. I can’t count the many times when I fell asleep in her lap while listening to the preacher in the Andrews Church of God, third row from the back on the right side… there weren’t too many Sunday that you couldn’t find her there when I was younger. Also, I keep thinking about the many times when I was younger and I walked her across the field from my parents house to her back door to make sure she got in the house okay, and most importantly that she locked the doors behind herself. It wasn’t because I had too, it was because I wanted to and because I loved her just as everyone else gathered here today did and will continue to do. You see she never uttered an ugly or rude word to anyone that I know of. Instead if you were wrong, Granny could whip you with words, either her own, or quoted from the Bible. I think we all have talked to Granny on those late nights when she would make a cup of coffee and a biscuit, and listen...
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...Pencil line : I don't to be involve. d. Break in lines: aggressive impulses. e. Transparency: marked repression. f. No wall line: a maniac, no control over impulses, murderer. g. Horizontal dimension of wall emphasized: unable to bring dominance to any orientation, latent homosexuality. h. Vertical dimension of wall: more latent. i. Double perspective: intellectual deficit. 3. SIZE a.Scant detailing: desired lack of involvement with reality. b. Tiny and well drawn: failing of great inadequacy. c. Large: strong feelings of conflict with environment. 4. FENCE: guardedness; protect self from people. 5. DOOR: a. No door: difficult accessibility. b. Door high beyond base line: person is inaccessible; higher the door is beyond thee baseline. The greater the degree of unwillingness to get in contact. emphasize door: admit you`re only on your terms. d. Door knob: morality and dependency will not permit contact. 6. WINDOWS: a. Overly large windows: great demandness. b. On panes blank: oppositional tendencies; windows are high in strokes, apathy, empty feelings within. c. Bar in window: keep away. d. Decorations on windows: too defensive. e. Emphasis on windows: possible oral preoccupation. CHIMNEY a. Smoke: inner tension. b. Right: pressure from the past. c. Left: pressure from current situation. d. Overlarge: exhibitionism. e. None: coolness in home, missing father. f. Transparent: attempt masculinity. h. Large chimney: latent aggressiveness. WALKAWAY ...
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...Travis Martin Martin 1 Ms. Virginia Rachel English Comp. 101 09/15/2015 The Hero in the Night What goes bump in the night? A question kids will forever eerily ask themselves as they lay down at night. The dark corner of the room, what's underneath of the bed or who or even what is lurking behind the closet door. There's just something unsettling about what we cant see. The minute the lights dim my mind begins to wonder about what could possibly be gleaming at me from its hiding spot, waiting for its chance to pounce on me like a defenseless animal on the plains of Africa. Overcoming your fears isn't always easy, but facing them head on is the only way to feel comfortable in a situation that once made you uncomfortable. This night was like every other. As the night draws to an end, mom and dad yell its time for bed. After years of sleeping with a night light, I start to feel brave. I mean what can honestly be so frightening, and also be afraid to shows its self in the dim glare of my little night light. After finishing my nightly routine, brushing the teeth and saying my prayers, I reach over and turn out my night light that I found so much comfort in. Laying in bed thinking of everything that I need to accomplish for the next day and practicing lines for the few girls that caught my attention I start to doze off. Tossing and turning throughout the night...
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...has a social responsibility which can be defined as an organizations obligation to maximize its positive impact on stakeholders and minimize its negative impact. (Ferrell, 2009). Company Q’s attitude and actions towards the given circumstances and scenarios do not meet the definition of being socially responsible and are quite disappointing. When Company Q closed the doors of the two stores that were located in high crime rate areas what did they actually contribute to the community? Did they not research their target areas or were these situations where the dynamics of the neighborhood changed? What Company Q did do was help drive a spiraling neighborhood deeper into poverty, by closing their doors they have left a neighborhood with no local grocery store. The neighborhood has yet another vacant building that may or may not be used properly but may become something that will continue to help bring the neighborhood down. Company Q has now put working people out of a job who depended on that paycheck every week or other week who were trying to better their situations. Company Q states that these doors were closed due to profit loss it seems as though this is just an excuse to use as a tax write off or to just cut their losses. There are other ways that Company Q could have tried to keep the store open talk with community leaders, talk with the customers. Did they just not offer the products that their community desired? There has to be a reason that these two stores were...
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...Observation Environment At the head start program Easter seals, I had the opportunity to observe a partial-day interaction with the 2 year old classroom. The room was decorated with numbers, letters and animal pictures. For safety measures they had appropriate age toys, the door handles where not reachable for the children to open the doors, children were always supervised they were two teachers in the room. This teacher encouraged each child to be the active partner in their learning process, and created a curriculum based on: each child’s individual needs, and interests with a balance of child-initiated and teacher-directed activities. “Circle Time” was the first activity I was able to observe. The teacher asked all of the children to clean up the toys with which they were playing. As she navigated the room, verbally assisting some students, I noticed some students had already gone to the carpet area and sat in “Circle“. There was however, one child who was having a hard time following directions, and would not clean up the Lego’s, he wanted to keep playing. After giving this child 3 warnings to clean up his toys, the instructor proceeded to sit on the floor adjacent to him. She then told him that he could keep his “creation”, on the shelf, and return to it when Circle Time was over but, that he needed to clean the rest of the Lego’s up and come to Circle with the rest of the class. Agreeing to this compromise, he put his creation away and the remaining Lego’s back into the...
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...My cousin who is Hmong decent was marrying into a Thai family. The morning of June 8th arrived. Everyone was up by 3:30 a.m. to get ready for the Buddhist blessing. The Buddhist blessing had to be done no later than 8:00 a.m. My aunt and uncle’s house was busy from the moment everyone got up. Families arrived to help finish prepping food and decorations for the party. You can hear everyone chattering, yelling, people walking up and down the stairs and in and out the doors. You could also hear knives hitting against the thick cutting board that’s being used to chop up meats. My cousin Mylee had nine bridesmaid because the number nine is considered lucky in the Thai culture. Every helped one another get ready and put on their traditional Thai outfits. As 6:30am rolled around, the Buddhist blessing was ready to begin. Nine Buddhist monks in their orange robes, made their way inside my cousin’s house. In the basement was where the monks sat. The carpet of the basement floor was covered with reddish brown linen. As the bride and groom made their way to the monks, they first lit up some incense, candles and gave the monks fruits and money that is sealed in an envelope because the monks could not handle money. They both then kneeled in front of the monks to begin the blessing ceremony. After the blessing from the monks, the bride and groom receives three white dots marked on their foreheads. They also got sprinkled with the water that has been blessed from the monks. The water is...
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