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Executive summary The report below provides an insight into the supermarket company, Sheng Siong Supermarket, a supermarket chain born and bred in Singapore with an analysis and evaluation emphasizing on its external environment. The report will also look into the analysis of its competitors and steps taken to attain an advantage over its competitions. A brief overview of the organisation will be identified, following its environment analysis using the PEST Analysis to state its key…

INTRODUCTION The natural resource curse, a phrase introduced by Auty (1993, 2001), is used to describe the negative relation of a country’s natural resources and its economic success. Natural resources are logically assumed to have a positive effect on a country’s economy. However, there is very little truth in this assumption as is argued in this essay. Many countries of the world are endowed with natural resources such as oil, natural gas, coal and other mineral deposits. These include…

Resistance and Contemporariness in Kaine Agary’s Yellow Yellow Introduction African literature has come of age through several sections, from the scripts of prehistoric Egypt through the oral form of transmission, which celebrated human and supernatural achievement rendered in songs by court bards, griots, troubadours, public dances, and masks. Walter.J Ong points out that ‘such as the traditional oral stories, proverbs, prayers, formulaic expressions…alternatively, other oral productions of,…

0 (a) The arrears rate for all (BTL) mortgages shows the total (BTL) number of mortgages over three months in arrears as a proportion of the total (BTL) number of outstanding mortgages. Data are semi-annual up to end-2007 and quarterly since then. Non seasonally adjusted. (b) The possessions rate for all (BTL, owner-occupied) mortgages shows the total (BTL, owner-occupied) number of properties taken into possession over the preceding twelve-month period as a proportion of the total (BTL,…

Venture firms “syndicate” a large investment. That is, they will attempt to interest other firms in taking a piece of the investment. This permits the firm to invest in a larger number of companies, and thus spread its risk. This is particularly important on subsequent “rounds” or stages of financing. Other venture firms will want to see that the original firm(s) will continue their investment in the company. If existing, more knowledgeable investors aren’t interested in the company, why…

I. Introduction a. Background on Resilient Neighborhoods • Description of overall Resilient Neighborhoods initiative • Relation to the City’s overall response to Sandy and resiliency planning • Relation to other DCP work, such as Citywide Text Amendment • Relation to other state and federal initiatives • Why this study area was chosen Following Superstorm Sandy in October 2012, New York City developed a detailed action plan for recovery from the storm and the long-term resiliency of the…

The pricier studios are usually found in the larger areas associated with the music industry, like New York, Los Angeles, Nashville, or Atlanta. Smaller areas, such as Montgomery, Birmingham, and Mobile tend to stay under $100 per hour, but usually cost more than $50 per hour, depending on the quality of the studio. Around Montgomery, the least expensive professional studio that advertises regularly offers digital recording services for as little as $50 per hour. The Cage will offer studio time…

Introduction Through the redevelopment police training and procedures, and the development program which provides an acute link for the newly certified police academy officers, who will find themselves in a rapidly thrust from the relatively sterile enjoinment of the police structure and the implementation into the harsh realities of the street. While many police academy only provides the new police recruits with the essential state preparation regarding the proficiencies needed to perform the…

Satisfied guests come back and do word-of-mouth advertising. This leads to a higher average infrastructure utilisation and at the same time leads to reduced advertising costs. Wehrli et al. (2011) stated that Lucerne gets over a million overnight tourists every year not counting the number of tourists who just stop by the city during the day. This staggering number can only take place if the visitors kept coming back to the city as the numbers do not at all imply that these million visitors…

final buyers. Example: most of the things we buy – everything from toothpaste, to cameras, to car. Conventional distribution channel: A channel consisting of one or more independent producers, wholesalers, and retailers, each a separate business seeking to maximize its own profits, even at the expense of profits for the systems as a whole. PRODUCER > WHOLESALER > RETAILER > CONSUMER Vertical marketing system (VMS): A distribution channel structure in which producers,…