...Chick–fil–A is known for its production of chicken products in the fast food industry. They have a strong Christian foundation that the founder bases the company’s underlying core values on. It has more than 1,700 restaurants in 39 states and posted sales of more than 4.6 billion dollars in 2012. Chick-fil-As’ headquarters are located in the heart of Atlanta, Georgia where the company began back in 1946 as the Dwarf Grill owned and operated by Truett Cathy. Chick-fil-A’s consecutive years of positive sales growth has set itself apart by revolutionizing delicious chicken products. Chick-fil-A’s mission statement is similar to most fast food restaurant’s missions. “Be America’s best quick service restaurant” (www.chick-fil-a.com) As a company, Chick-fil-A has become the 2nd largest quick service restaurant in the country and is one of the largest privately held restaurant chains in the world. Chick-fil-A’s mission statement alone does not reveal the companies disposition and values that has driven its loyal customer base and success. The company’s mission statement combined with its purpose statement reveals the company’s values which are instilled into every employee of Chick-fil-A. "To glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us. To have a positive influence on all who come in contact with Chick-fil-A.” (www.chick-fil-a.com) The company’s mission statement and purpose statement is what differentiates Chick-fil-A from the rest of the quick service...
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...The Journal of Neuroscience, March 24, 2010 • 30(12):4467– 4480 • 4467 Development/Plasticity/Repair Demonstration of a Neural Circuit Critical for Imprinting Behavior in Chicks Tomoharu Nakamori,1,3 Katsushige Sato,2,4 Yasuro Atoji,5 Tomoyuki Kanamatsu,6 Kohichi Tanaka,1 and Hiroko Ohki-Hamazaki1,3,7 1 Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, School of Biomedical Science and Medical Research Institute and 2Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8519, Japan, 3Division of Biology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Kitasato University, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 228-8555, Japan, 4Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences, Faculty of Human Health, Komazawa Women’s University, Inagi-shi, Tokyo 206-8511, Japan, 5Laboratory of Veterinary Anatomy, Faculty of Applied Biological Sciences, Gifu University, Gifu 501-1193, Japan, 6Department of Environmental Engineering for Symbiosis, Faculty of Engineering, Soka University, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-8577, Japan, and 7Recognition and Formation, Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan Imprinting behavior in birds is elicited by visual and/or auditory cues. It has been demonstrated previously that visual cues are recognized and processed in the visual Wulst (VW), and imprinting memory is stored in the intermediate medial mesopallium (IMM) of...
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...K & N’s Foods Private Limited | March 12 2012 | Strategic Business Plan | Zubash Jawed080612BBA-8A | PREFACE INTRODUCTION STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PROCESS Strategic management of an organization entails three ongoing processes: Analysis, Decision and Actions. In Analysis, the strategic goals (vision, mission and goals) along with internal and external environmental of the organization are analyzed. In decisions, the managers must take two important decisions regarding which industries to compete in and how to compete in the selected industry? And finally some actions should be taken because decisions are of little use unless they are acted on. At the heart of strategic management is a very important question: “How and why do some organizations outperform others?” So the managers have a challenge to decide on strategies that provide advantages that can be sustained over time. Mr. Robert Lamb defines strategic management as: an ongoing process that evaluates and controls the business and the industries in which the company is involved; assesses its competitors and sets goals and strategies to meet all existing and potential competitors; and then reassesses each strategy annually or quarterly [i.e. regularly] to determine how it has been implemented and whether it has succeeded or needs replacement by a new strategy to meet changed circumstances, new technology, new competitors, a new economic environment., or a new social, financial, or political environment. IMPORTANCE OF...
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...Ads by Torntv V9.0Ad Options ------------------------------------------------- Albatross | | | | | | Albatrosses are large seabirds in the biological family Diomedeidae of the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). Albatrosses are among the largest of flying birds, and the great albatrosses (genus Diomedea) have the largest wingspans of any extant (living) birds. They are closely related to the procellariids, storm-petrels, and diving-petrels, all of which also are part of the Procellariiformes. Some systematists recognize another order, Ciconiiformes, instead of Procellariiformes (see Taxonomy and evolution) Albatrosses range widely in the Southern Ocean (South Pole Ocean or Antarctic Ocean) and the North Pacific Ocean. They are generally absent from the North Atlantic Ocean, althoughfossil remains show they once occurred there too and occasional vagrants are encountered. Albatrosses are colonial, nesting for the most part on remote oceanic islands, often with several species nesting together. Pair bonds between males and females form over several years, with the use of ritualized dances, and will last for the life of the pair. A breeding season can take over a year from laying to fledging, with a single egg laid in each breeding attempt. Albatrosses are highly efficient in the air, using dynamic soaring and slope soaring to cover great distances with little exertion. They feed on squid, fish, and krill by either scavenging, surface seizing, or diving...
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...company should implement marketing activities to easily reach the target market. 2. Finance The financial projection prepared by R. Akobo, the company’s agricultural manager , and checked by M. Suleman, the company’s financial manager was given to the president. The treasurer of the company also noted that estimated return is well over 30 percent hurdle-rate used for domestic investment. 3. Production Though Hygeia is not producing chickens or eggs commercially, the company has experts familiar with the technology and it also has a subsidiary focusing on development of new genetic strains in chicken (faster growth, larger prod. of white meat, more eggs, disease resistance, or other desired characteristics). The company also has an expertise with the entire technology of operations in drugs for disease control and feed supplements for chicks. 4. Human Resource The major bottleneck in this...
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...farmers throughout the year. Poultry manure has high fertilizer value and can be used for increasing yield of all crops. i) The advantages of broiler farming are ii) Initial investment is a little lower than layer farming iii) Rearing period is 6-7 weeks only iv) More number of flocks can be taken in the same shed v) Broilers have high feed conversion efficiency i.e. least amount of feed is required for unit body weight gain in comparison to other livestock. vi) Faster return from the investment vii) Demand for poultry meat is more compared to sheep/Goat meat 2. Scope for broiler farming and its national importance India has made considerable progress in broiler production in the last two decades. High quality chicks, equipments, vaccines and medicines are available. Technically and professionally competent guidance is available to the farmers. The management practices have improved and disease and mortality incidences are much reduced. Many institutions are providing training to entrepreneurs. The broiler population has increased from 4 million in 1971 to 700 million in 1998. An average annual growth rate of 20% was estimated during the eighth five year plan (1992-1997). Increasing assistance from the Central/ State governments and poultry corporations is being given to create infrastructure facilities so that new entrepreneurs take up this business. Broiler farming has been given...
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...CAMPAIGN PLAN Principles and Techniques of Advertising Y.S. COMMERCIAL HALO-HALO Planner: Harlene Anonuevo Researcher: Dyanara Franco and Ryan Aggasid Writer: Abby-Gail Sayat and Bridgette Guban Artist: Janille Isleta and Ed Jober Miciano BSBA MM 2-2S October 15, 2015 Professor: Aris Solis I. Introduction/Situational Analysis Company Profile: ‘IT’S ALL ABOUT THE TASTE’ For more than 20 years, YS COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISES has been a wholesale distributor of high quality domestic processed food products. The company manufactures and distributes premium quality bottled fruit products such as Nata de Coco, Ube Jam, Jackfruit et al principally under the YS brand. The company also has under its line household products under the SUNSHINE brand. The company sells its products to grocery chains and independent supermarkets and the other food service industries. Over that period of time, our business has become highly regarded because of our commitment to quality. In 1996, an investment group comes in and takes control of the company with new ideas and better financial resources to take care of its expansion scheme. Under the new management team, the company has enhanced its position in the competitive market with its new strategy, better image and excellent quality control over its product lines and hopefully towards new product innovations. Presently, we are gearing towards export markets. It is a new venture for the company, however it...
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...------------------------------------------------- Broiler From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about a type of chicken. For other uses, see Broiler (disambiguation). Broiler | | Distribution | World-wide | Use | meat | Traits | Skin color | Yellow | Classification | Notes | Hybrid varieties, not a breed | Chicken Gallus gallus domesticus | Broiler chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus), or broilers, are a gallinaceous domesticated fowl, bred and raised specifically for meatproduction.[1] They are a hybrid of the egg-laying chicken, both being a subspecies of the red junglefowl (Gallus gallus). Typical broilers have white feathers and yellowish skin. Most commercial broilers reach slaughter-weight at between five to seven weeks of age, although slower growing breeds reach slaughter-weight at approximately 14 weeks of age. Because the meat broilers are this young at slaughter, their behaviour and physiology are that of an immature bird. Due to artificial selection for rapid early growth and the husbandry used to sustain this, broilers are susceptible to several welfare concerns, particularly skeletal malformation and dysfunction, skin and eye lesions, and congestive heart conditions. The breeding stock (broiler-breeders) grow to maturity and beyond but also have welfare issues related to frustration of a high feeding motivation and beak trimming. Broilers are usually grown as mixed-sex flocks in large sheds under intensive conditions, but...
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...Advertisement Analysis In the Dos Equis advertisement on the front page, the creator uses numerous techniques to make their drink seem to be the best of the best. This ad shows an older man in his seventies wearing luxurious clothes and smoking a cigar while being surrounded by two women who can’t seem to get their eyes off him. In front of him are two bottles of dos equis beer that are opened. The creator uses not only words but also colors and detail to mold their ad as being the best. Before even creating the ad, the creator had to still take into consideration the rhetorical triangle. In this case, the subject is a great-tasting beer, the audience are the buyers who are looking to purchase an alcohol and finally the speaker in this ad is the elderly man in the center or who the world knows him by, the most interesting man in the world. The ad appeals to ethos by using the “most interesting man in the world in it”. The man’s ethos is strong mainly due to his title that the world has given him. As being the most interesting in the world, he must keep that title even when choosing his alcohol choice. For pathos, it is not as strong as ethos, but his conviction his face truly shows it. The man’s face has a serious look in the commercial, but he is only trying to pick his beer of choice. Finally, for logos, this beer tastes good and looks satisfying. While looking at this ad you must observe and realize that this is no ordinary beer, it is a distinctive beer for costumers that...
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...Individuality is the vibrant streak of starlight in the black night. Individuality makes you the distinctive duckling in the crowd of adorable chicks. Yet is “different” truly such an atrocious thing? Tim Burton--renowned director and producer of movies such as Alice in Wonderland, Edward Scissorhands, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory--rebels against this common assumption by revolving his cinematic works around the importance of uniqueness. Inspired by Ray Harryhausen classic horror films and Roger Corman’s Vincent Price, he fused his contrasting light and dark moods to develop powerful themes behind his films, enhancing the value of individuality. To this day, his cinematic works empower many people with a new sense of pride in themselves. Tim Burton’s films use non-diegetic music, shot-reverse-shot, and close-up techniques to convey his thoughts about individuality and uniqueness. As long as Tim Burton uses close-ups, the unique traits of certain characters are repeatedly highlighted. Close-ups are when the images being shot take up at least 80% of the entire frame. Edward Scissorhands is a key example of Tim Burton’s ability to utilize close-up shots to add to the overall theme of individuality. Whenever Edward is using his scissor-hands--whether it’s to cut hair or chop lettuce--the scissors are consistently shown in a close-up. As a result, Edward’s hands are established as an significant feature that sets him apart from others. Similarly, in Charlie and the...
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...Ateneo de Davao University School of Governance and bu siness E. Jacinto St., Davao City NATIVE DELIGHT (BISAYANG MANOK-“BISNOK”) A Feasibility Study on Poultry business in Davao City In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY Submitted to: Mr. Mark Gil M. Mamac, CPA Submitted by: Dinging, Jessa Riel Llameg, Althea Nunez, Laulen Tan, Natasha Elysse Torrejos, Jessie Manuel Zosa, Kristhy May March 4, 2013 Ateneo de Davao University “Ang Saya sa MANOK na BISAYA” NATIVE DELIGHT (BISAYANG MANOK-“BISNOK”) A Feasibility Study on Poultry business in Davao City ABSTRACT This study aims to know the feasibility of Bisayang Manok as a poultry business in Davao City that may add to the supply to the excessive demand of bisayang manok in certain restaurants in the city. The chicken industry in the Philippines consists of commercial sectors and backyard sectors. Commercial sector includes hybrid chickens and broilers which occupies a larger percentage in country’s chicken supply and production. On the other hand, the backyard sector includes native chickens which has insufficient supply, yet has a high consumer demand in the market. The supply of native chickens in Davao City is not enough to meet the increasing demand of the consumers. Thus, the Native Delight wants to increase the production and supply of native chickens in the city. If the study turns to be feasible, for the meantime, the Native Delight will only...
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...Bloomingdales “The Most Famous Store in the World” Brief History: Who would have thought that the origins of this grand retailer, was the hoop skirt? The history of Bloomingdales dates back to hoop skirt being the first item that was carried by Joseph and Lyman Bloomingdale in their Ladies Notions Shop in New York City. Why the hoop skirt? At the time, in the late 1800’s many retailers focused on just one garment, this was their specialization, however the Bloomingdale brothers where different, they would eventually open an East Side Bazaar, and begin to sell a wide variety of European Fashions. This eventually would be the beginning of that what we know as Bloomingdales today. The Bloomingdale bothers pioneered themselves to make just about every mature change in the evolution of department stores. It is this same philosophy that it followed throughout the merchandising and marketing of the store today. In 1886, the East Side Bazaar moved to the current flagship location that is today (on 59th and Lexington) and become “Bloomingdales” as we know it. Lastly by the 1920’s the Bloomingdale brothers had made the department store the entire block. During the completion of this project, a glamorous art-deco edifice to cover the entire block was built, and still stands today. Today, Bloomingdales is America’s only nationwide, fill-line, upscale department store. Not only is it noted as “a store like no other,” it is considered to be the leading attraction for tourists...
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...PAMANTASAN NG LUNGSOD NG MAYNILA (University of the City of Manila) Intramuros, Manila GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT CASE ANALYSIS: HYGEIA INTERNATIONAL In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in BUSINESS POLICY Submitted to: Prof. Valmores Submitted by: JAMES RODNEY R. ROMANA Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (University of the City of Manila) Graduate School of Management A. TITLE OF THE CASE: HYGEIA INTERNATIONAL B. POINT OR VIEW: Henry Livingston, Vice President of the Africa Middle East Region of Hygeia International C. TIME CONTEXT : 1980 D. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM What can Hygeia International do to create new revenue streams to take advantage of opportunities in Nigeria? To determine whether to venture into poultry production, retain current business position, or to use poultry production as a sales promotion tool to increase profit E. STATEMENT OF THE OBJECTIVES * Nigeria Expansion * Mass production of poultry using technology * Two to three years recovery of capital F. AREAS OF CONSIDERATION SWOT Analysis STRENGTHS | WEAKNESSES | * One of the ten leading pharmaceutical companies in the world * 15% of Hygeia’s total sales come from agricultural activities * Capability to mass produce poultry * | * Hygeia’s core competency is not in the agricultural business | OPPORTUNITIES | THREATS | ...
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...Pre-Feasibility Study BROILER FARM (7500 Birds) Small and Medium Enterprise Development Authority Government of Pakistan www.smeda.org.pk HEAD OFFICE Waheed Trade Complex, 1 Floor , 36-Commercial Zone, Phase III, Sector XX, Khayaban-e-Iqbal, DHA Lahore Tel: (042) 111-111-456, Fax: (042) 5896619, 5899756 helpdesk@smeda.org.pk st REGIONAL OFFICE PUNJAB Waheed Trade Complex, 1st Floor, 36-Commercial Zone, Phase III, Sector XX, Khayaban-e-Iqbal, DHA Lahore. Tel: (042) 111-111-456 Fax: (042) 5896619, 5899756 helpdesk@smeda.org.pk REGIONAL OFFICE SINDH 5TH Floor, Bahria Complex II, M.T. Khan Road, Karachi. Tel: (021) 111-111-456 Fax: (021) 5610572 helpdesk-khi@smeda.org.pk REGIONAL OFFICE NWFP Ground Floor State Life Building The Mall, Peshawar. Tel: (091) 9213046-47 Fax: (091) 286908 helpdesk-pew@smeda.org.pk REGIONAL OFFICE BALOCHISTAN Bungalow No. 15-A Chaman Housing Scheme Airport Road, Quetta. Tel: (081) 831623, 831702 Fax: (081) 831922 helpdesk-qta@smeda.org.pk April, 2002 Pre-Feasibility Study Broiler Farm (7500 Birds) DISCLAIMER The purpose and scope of this information memorandum is to introduce the subject matter and provide a general idea and information on the said area. All the material included in this document is based on data/information gathered from various sources and is based on certain assumptions. Although, due care and diligence has been taken to compile this document, the contained information may vary due to any change in...
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...------------------------------------------------- Metacognition by Nancy Chick, CFT Assistant Director ------------------------------------------------- Thinking about One’s Thinking Metacognition is, put simply, thinking about one’s thinking. More precisely, it refers to the processes used to plan, monitor, and assess one’s understanding and performance. Metacognition includes a critical awareness of a) one’s thinking and learning and b) oneself as a thinker and learner. Initially studied for its development in young children (Baker & Brown, 1984; Flavell, 1985), researchers soon began to look at how experts display metacognitive thinking and how, then, these thought processes can be taught to novices to improve their learning (Hatano & Inagaki, 1986). In How People Learn, the National Academy of Sciences’ synthesis of decades of research on the science of learning, one of the three key findings of this work is the effectiveness of a “‘metacognitive’ approach to instruction” (Bransford, Brown, & Cocking, 2000, p. 18). Metacognitive practices increase students’ abilities to transfer or adapt their learning to new contexts and tasks (Bransford, Brown, & Cocking, p. 12; Palincsar & Brown, 1984; Scardamalia et al., 1984; Schoenfeld, 1983, 1985, 1991). They do this by gaining a level of awareness above the subject matter: they also think about the tasks and contexts of different learning situations and themselves as learners in these different contexts...
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