Warner-Lambert
.... Pharmaceutical industry. Pharmaceutical preparations, comprises of firms that manufacture, devise and process medicinal component into finished pharmaceuticals for human or veterinary use. Pharmaceutical preparations comprise ethical brand name and over-the-counter drugs and generic substances. The three main divisions of W-L are Consumer Healthcare business, Confectionery business and Pharmaceutical business.
Warner-Lambert Sales:
Warner-Lambert’s sales achievements in the US, for 1997, are as follows: Pharmaceutical sales in the US increased 84% to $2,170 million. This increase was attributable to successful launc .....
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Falstaff Beer
.... In 1952 Falstaff bough another Brewery in San Jose. That same year Falstaff closed the former Otto Stiffel brewery in St. Louis. In 1954 they bought the Bergoff Brewery in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. 1956 brought two more aquisitions a brewery in Galveston and the Mitchell Brewery in El Paso. The two ends of the Greisedieck family merged together in 1957. Greisedieck Brothers merged into Falstaff. Falstaff was able to close the old forest park Brewery.
Falstaff moved into the malting business in 1961 with the purchase of a malting plant in Chicago. Falstaff provided its own malt and sold malt to other brewers. Alvin Griesedieck di .....
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Explaining A Concept: Concept Of The Invisible Hand In A Laissez-Faire Economy
.... where he published An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776), the first major work of political economy. This examined in detail the consequences of economic freedom, such as division of labor, the function of markets, and the international implications of a laissez-faire economy.
Adam Smith is most remembered today for his explanation of our market system. A majority of people saw confusion when they observed economic activity in England during the middle of the 18th century. They saw everyone doing whatever they pleased and deemed necessary. Businesses produced whatever they wanted to make. .....
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The Springtime Quest: Filing An Income Tax Return
.... report. The extensive important paper inventory consists of medical receipts, records of interest paid, and literally any other kind of record that may or may not be a factor in the tax filing. In the past, I have thrown away receipts only to find that the receipts were vital in completing the tax report. I now own a spacious four-drawer filing cabinet for important papers.
My next stop in the tax filing process is to set up camp at the dining room table. My preparatory measures include a sharpened pencil, several erasers, a calculator, and a stiff cup of coffee. I spread the mountain of paper work out before me and locate t .....
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
.... institution’s depositors as soon as possible, usually on the next business day after the closing of the institution. The depositors who have funds in excess of the insurance limits receive the insured portion of their funds. They may also receive a portion of their uninsured funds either at that time or as the assets of the failed institutions is liquidated. The major jobs of the corporation are to pay the depositors if an insured bank closes without enough money to pay the claims of its depositors. The Corporation also regularly examines insured banks that are not members of the Federal Reserve System and prescribes rules .....
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National Semiconductor: Business And Ethics
.... the uncertainty, on the part of the employees, on the duties that they were assigned. It is plausible that during the testing procedure, an employee couldnt distinguish which parts they were to test under government standards and commercial standards. In some cases they might have even been misinformed on the final consumers of the products that they tested. In fact, ignorance on the part of the employees would fully excuse them from any moral responsibility for any damage that may result from their work. Whether it is decided that an employees is fully excused, or is given some moral responsibility, would have to be look .....
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Cost Benefit Analysis And Its Uses
.... great amount as long as the result is a net gain.
CBA looks at the costs involved in the policy to determine if it is justifiable. This creates difficulties when we realize it creates a one vote per dollar scenario. This does not follow the ideas of democracy we seem to want to follow. When it becomes possible for people to buy the CBA justice cannot follow.
Unreliability: Shadow Prices and Discount Rates, 10.6. Another huge problem with CBA is the prices used in the study. It is very possible to accidentally, or intentionally, use fudged numbers, which drastically change the outcome of the CBA.
Prices may be excluded f .....
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The McDonaldization Of Society
.... interaction and individual identity. McDonald's serves as the case model of this process in the 1990's.
...McDonaldization,...is the process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as of the rest of the world. (Ritzer, 1993:1)
How Far Has It Gone?
Since 1955 McDonald's has grown to over 12,000 outlets worldwide. The central concepts employed in the fast-food industry have spread to all types of restaurants. Everything from pizza to lobster, from ice cream to bread, from alcohol to fried chicken is dominated by the Chain mentality .....
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Birmingham Steel Corporation
.... in Baltimore, Maryland, and Oakland and Fontana, California; and a steel scrap recycling and processing facility in Jackson, Mississippi. The company operates two high quality bar, rod, and wire production facilities in Cleveland, Ohio.
Through its subsidiary, Birmingham Southeast, LLC, the company specializes in producing merchant products at facilities in Cartersville, Georgia, and Jackson, Mississippi. Birmingham Steel also owns fifty percent of three joint venture companies: American Iron Reduction, LLC, which is construction a direct reduced iron facility; and Pacific Coast Recycling, LLC, and Richmond Steel Recycling, Ltd .....
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Management Action Plan – Safeway Plc
.... products and services will provide Safeway with a more powerful “pulling” ability, thus increasing sales and profits:
Clothing is an area of growth within supermarkets – due to their size, large supermarkets are able to purchase garments in large quantities, thus retailing them at a great discount compared to high street stores. Safeway have entered this area through children’s clothing, but should consider progressing to a fuller range.
Financial services seem to have developed within supermarkets – again, the size of the companies enables them to provide plans such as the “PEP” and the “ISA” with competitive interest .....
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The Ending Of The Post War Boom
.... new establishments of United Nation agencies should also being credited as the other factors, which caused the economy boom. The policies, such as, the GI bill and reconversion-sells war plants increased American expectations about what big businesses and government can do for their economy. The World Bank, International Monetary Fund, GATT, and the International Trade Organization gave big businesses more freedom and opportunities to trade internationally and helped other countries to stabilize their economy.
In 1944, within the Bretton Woods agreement, the IMF and World Bank were established. These two agenciesˇ¦ job was to r .....
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Soros And Market Fundamentalism
.... with social process; however, the involvement of the state in resolving conflicts, and in a democratic society, he sees as inevitable.
According to Soros’ opinion too, to be able to stabilize and regulate a truly global economy, the world will need a global system of political decision-making. In short, a global society is needed to support the global economy. A global society does not mean a global state. What makes Soros’ claims interesting is that the greatest opposition to this idea is coming from the United States. Nevertheless, there has never been a time when a strong lead from the United States and other like minded .....
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