The BB&T Corporation (Branch Banking & Trust) is one of the largest financial services holding companies in the U.S. with $184.7 billion in assets and market capitalization of $28.9 billion, as of March 31, 2014. BB&T, Based in Winston-Salem, N.C., operates 1,824 financial centers in 12 states and offers a full range of consumer and commercial banking, securities brokerage, asset management, mortgage, and insurance products and services (BBT.com, 2015). We will discuss the ethical dilemma within…
While both Nordstrom and Bloomingdales retail stores include a wide selection of clothing, shoes and accessories for men, women and children as well as home products. Nordstrom full-line stores provide customers with a wide selection of high-quality brand name as well as private label merchandise. (Business Insights) Nordstrom Rack serves customers of more modest by offering discount products. Nordstrom also has created its own exclusive label. The Nordstrom label clothing, accessories and home…
The Devil’s Hidden Den I’ve lived in Memphis for two years now I haven’t been to many places upon moving here. But while I was out on Beale Street one day. I passed a store called A. Schwab’s. Although I was curious to go in something wouldn’t allow me too. So I decided to research it instead, it appears to be harmless and family friendly with toy cars and trucks in the window, old fashion candy on display, and homemade milkshakes and of course everyone’s favorite rocking roller Mr. Elvis…
I recently met the founders of the Driven Group. The Driven Group is the holding company for Red Styxx Beverage, Driven Global Golf, and Red Styxx Apparel. Red Styxx Beverage is best known for its award-winning DESTINY line of sparkling and table wines. Superstar model, celebrity & reality-television star Nicole Murphy is a brand ambassador and partner of DESTINY. DESTINY wines are carried in some of the nation's largest retailers, including Kroger, the Safeway Group, and HEB (largest grocery…
The team would be made up of individuals from various groups throughout University Hospital, such as department management personnel. I would also include, on my EOP team, community representative such as a Boone County Health Department official, and a Boone County fire protection and police official. The team of experts would then use the NIMS as a guiding tool to combat the potential threats that I identified in the…
There are four managerial functions, planning, organizing, controlling and leading (Kinicik & Williams, 2016 p.9). Within the Target case study, Mr. Steinhafel exemplified all four of the principles. This is supported within the case study, by him taking immediate action of how Target would resolve and restore the trust with consumers. First, he decided to fully disclosure the details of the breach followed by a plan of action and organized implementation of the recourse actions for the…
Half a billion people in the world are wearing luxottica glasses. None of these include prescription glasses because they do not make prescription lens. All because of the love and growth of the glasses industry they are no longer called “glasses” it is now referred to as “eyewear”. Luxottica owns multiple eyewear businesses such as Lenscrafters, Ray Ban, Oakley, & Eyemed. The largest sunglass hub in the world is Sunglass hut which is also owned by Luxottica. The average price for one of…
EMLA and Intravenous Access This study was completed by Schreiber et al (2013) to see if the alleged vasoconstrictive effects of EMLA cream make it more difficult for healthcare workers to initiate intravenous access in children. The article begins by discussing pain from venipuncture and venous cannulation and how local anaesthetic cream such as EMLA can be used to reduce the pain; however, 16 out of 58 clinicians interviewed believed that using EMLA cream on young children made achieving…
Rent-A-Center three top competitors are Aaron’s, Wal-Mart, and Best Buy. Best Buy was founded by Richard Schulze in 1966 and called Sound of Music before the name changed to Best Buy in 1983; Best Buy generates more than $40 billion annually (Best Buy, 2015). Best Buy’s main goal is to be the best consumer electronics outlet in the world. They are a multinational retailer that sells products and services through three primary channels: about 1,700 retail stores, online, and call centers…
So in these slides I am going to be talking about Walgreens and Walmart. I am going to say about results in Walgreens and walmart. Also, I will be talking about where my parents usually shop and what they said about my bar graph and my chart and see if they changed their mind about where to shop. Lastly, I will be talking about why I chose to write about Walgreens and Walmart rather than 2 other stores. I hope you like my slides and at the end I hope you might change your mind about shopping in…