of inflation in Thailand would most likely affect Blades in a positive manner. Generally, if a country’s inflation increases it drives the consumers and corporations of that country to buy more goods overseas, thus Blades’ sales should 2. Anticipated inflation favors Blades. If the inflation in Thailand increases both, the U.S. and Thailand firms would be forced to raise their prices in order to maintain the profit margin. Since Blades’ cost of goods sold in Thailand is relatively small
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Blades Inc., a U.S. roller blades manufacturer, began exporting their product to Entertainment Products Inc., a Thailand company. Shortly after exportation began, Asia developed weak economic conditions. This resulted in an excess supply of the Baht. To combat this, the Thai government decided to trade in baht reserves for dollar reserves and invest them in the foreign exchange market. The Thai government participated in direct intervention. Direct intervention is a process that the government
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their business to other countries for further development, especially when the business within the country is facing many obstacles. For Blades Inc., the strategy of importing raw materials at cheap cost from Thailand and exporting roller blades to Thailand's market is viewed as a creative and useful idea in order to improve the unfavorable business condition of Blade in its host country, America. This policy suggested by Ben Holt, the company's CFO, is expected to likely bring significant benefits to
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1) What are the advantages Blades, Inc could gain from importing and/or exporting to a foreign country such as Thailand? An advantage of importing from a foreign country is to meet demand for an imported product that consumers perceive is of superior value to comparable brands produced at home. Also, Blades can take advantage of the fact that some products can be produced more inexpensively elsewhere and therefore are cheaper when imported. Moreover, The mode of transportation for imported goods
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Introduction In the present era, job satisfaction plays vital role in the organization’s managementand in the implementation of effective human resource development strategies. In view of this, the study attempts to identify the influence that rewards have on job satisfaction. Job satisfaction increases the degree of happiness in the workplace, which leads to a positive work approach. A lack of jobsatisfaction can lead to increased absenteeism and unnecessary turnover in the workplace(Locke
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Case: 1 BLADES, Inc. Case Question 1: How could a higher level of inflation in Thailand affects Blades (assume U.S. inflation remains constant)? Answer: Higher level of inflation in Thailand can affect Blades. Due to inflation in Thailand foreign goods will become cheap. Again inflation will increase in an increase of imports and at the same time exports will go down. As a result imports of rubber and plastic components from Thailand for Blades Inc. will suffer and it will increase their production
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Blade Case Blades case: Decision to Expand Internationally 1. What are the advantages Blades could gain from importing from and/or exporting to a foreign country such as Thailand? The advantages Blades could gain from importing from and/or exporting to Thailand includes 1. Decrease their cost of goods sold, and increase Blades’ net income since rubber and plastic are cheaper when imported from a foreign country such as Thailand. 2, Allow Blades to explore the option of exporting to Thailand
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Introducción Para poder realizar una evaluación del riego país, primero debemos conocer al menos algunos antecedentes del país en estudio. Tailandia ha tenido una de las tasas de crecimiento más alta a nivel mundial por casi una década. De 1985 a 1996 ha presentado un promedio de 9% de crecimiento anual. Su moneda, el baht, alcanzó 25 por dólar justo antes de que comenzara la crisis financiera en Asia. Su economía se recuperó en 1999 debido a sus fuertes exportaciones que incluso aumentaron
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Islamic banking and finance Submitted to: Sir Abubakar Siddique Submitted by: Atia Farooq Roll no: 4918 MBA 21(A) A sharia,h perspective of minimum account balance Requirement in Islamic banking Summary: This article describe sharia’h point of view weather its allow to Islamic banking to charge fee, cut profit and reduce free services when depositor have amount less the minimum requirement of amount in saving account and in current account
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Blades, Inc. Assessment of Economic Exposure Tom Gunia Benedictine University 1. How will Blades be negatively affected by the high level of inflation in Thailand if the Thai customer renews its commitment for another 3 years? Changes in exchange rates expose an MNC to currency risk. Inflation has a direct relation to exchange rates and these changes affect a firm’s competitiveness, increases or decreases sales revenue, affects the cost of goods sold, input prices, operating profits
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