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On March 7, 2009, two days before the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Barbie doll, Mattel Launches Barbie Store in Shanghai. This is a six-storey building and 36 000m2 entirely devoted to the world of Barbie doll. Mattel seeks girls, but also adults, with 1,600 products on sale, including clothes and a 10,000 dollar wedding dress, a spa, a hair and nail salon, a restaurant, a cocktail bar ( to sip a Barbietini a Malibu Barbie or Bikinitini) with karaoke and DJ because, according to an official of the Barbie Store, "Barbie want to talk to Ken, you must have a space for it." Moreover, customers could even meet Barbie and Ken in the flesh: Mattel has been working for three years on this project. According to sources, it would have cost $ 20 million, according to others a little less than $ 33 million. Anyway, it's an impressive show of force in a city that was not chosen by chance: "Since this is a completely new concept, it had to be in place as the 'peak' in the world. This is why we chose Shanghai, the most modern city and more fashionable. " Two years later, Mattel closes Barbie Store in Shanghai. The Barbie-flagship sank in China, sales have stagnated, attendance dropped to transform the Barbie Store "ghost town". Clearly, Mattel lost his bet to anchor the Barbie brand in the Chinese environment. This failure is due to a series of cross-cultural blunders for lack of knowledge of the Chinese context, even by overconfidence in the cultural hegemony of the…

Barbie is My Favorite Doll When I was a little girl, I thought nothing in the world could delight me more than a Barbie doll. She has often stayed with me in spirit and acted like a model for me to follow, when I have grown in my childhood. Indeed, Barbie doll is like a life-like figure, who stimulated my imagination, encouraged me to move on when I felt sad, enlightened me when I was in the dark. Interesting, Barbie doll was also my faithful friend, always lending its ear to listening to my…

COMPANY PROFILE Aqua Resources, also known as Aqua America, is a wastewater and water service company that was found on January 4th, 1886. This company was created by professors at Swarthmore College who wanted to provide the citizens of Springfield Township, Pennsylvania with a great supply of water (Aqua America 2018). They also provide sewer line repair services. Aqua America services customers in Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia, New Jersey, Texas, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Indiana.…

Sam Aqua used to work as pipefitter. He saved much money from operating the oil field and running self-owned shopping malls. Then, he decided to start his business. They put firm’s name under his wife Blues’ name to run as minatory business to sell the sprinklers service. Sam and his wife saw the opportunity of the automatic sprinkler business, therefore, Blue Aqua Sprinklers. Inc., the company, started business for the automatic sprinkler design and installation services. In the beginning, it…

Cycling underwater? Why not? If there’s aqua jogging for runners, cyclists who want to have less soreness on their muscles and joints can try aqua cycling. Also known as hydrospinning or underwater cycling, aqua cycling is the new fitness regimem that is rapidly gaining popularity in the U.S., U.K., and Europe. Even Pippa Middleton herself tried the exercise. What is aqua cycling? Aqua cycling is a type of workout where stationary bikes are submerged in a pool where riders will pedal against the…

The main character’s name is “Aqua Smith”. She is a young female about 25 years old. She is a slim person, has long black hair and wear glasses. When growing up, she was the only child in her family. She currently lives in Chicago in the year 2047. The east and west coast of America is being taken over by the rising sea levels. Each year the North and South poles are slowing melting due to the rapid increase in global temperatures. As the world population is increasing, there is a demand for…

Aqua America’s Software Methodology Justina Khuu The majority of Aqua America’s software is developed using the waterfall method, whether it is in-house or through contractors. Oftentimes there is a meeting set for requirements gathering between the developers and the managers or directors of the department that is to benefit from the software development, and then minimal contact between the two groups until the product is delivered. While this results in the least amount of upfront cost by…

Business Overview The company Aqua Masseuse is engaged in the development of very specific but innovative series of massage tables. The working title of the project is self-titled. The feature of presented product consists from patent and actually developed working prototype Aqua Masseuse. The introduced device is intended to restore the physical system and to prevent muscular diseases. The main feature and key characteristic is the individual massage program and the way how it operates the…

The Aqua Augusta aqueduct system was built to provide water to Pompeii and Herculaneum, as well as to at least six other ancient cities in the bay of Naples. It is one of the most complex, large and was the costliest aqueducts systems to be built. Pompeii originally received its water supply from the Sarno river, rainwater and wells, but the aqueduct was required when the population grew and their needs increased. Pipes (were made of lead, the Romans were unknowingly poisoning themselves) ran…

fertilizer have on the water system is that the fertilizer would make the water smell and change color into brown to a deep green. On the terrestrial ecosystem it would limit the amount of nutrients in the soil for the plants to grow in a healthy way. The effects the salt have on the water is that the salt can danger the plants in fact with salt it would make the soil be less fertile and bare, with the aquatic system the salt would kill the sea creatures and the plants in the aquatic biomes.…