1 B&Q Background B&Q PLC is the UK retail arm of Kingfisher Group PLC and is the UK’s leading DIY and garden centre retailer. It was founded as a privately held company in Southampton‚ England in 1969 and went public in 1979 before acquiring Scottish DIY chain Dodge City in 1980. B&Q was itself acquired in 1980 by F. W. Woolworth only to be sold two years later to current owners Kingfisher Group. B&Q PLC contributes 45% of Kingfisher’s total retail sales. B&Q dominates its sector‚ in competition
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Francisco Jaime May 12‚ 2012 JUS-350 Hanson‚ Timothy Domestic Disturbance and Policing Relationships where a partner will try to control the other partner’s actions are known as domestic violence or domestic abuse. The violence exhibited within these types of relationships can include physical assault (hitting‚ pushing‚ shoving‚ etc.)‚ sexual abuse (unwanted or forced sexual activity)‚ and stalking. Other behaviors such as emotional‚ psychological and financial abuse can be included in
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Paramilitary Policing and its History Rashad Cudjoe Research Paper 1 Police Paramilitary Units (PPUs) were first created in the 1960s because of problems in urban areas. These 10-40 units were supposed to be used for handling civil disturbances‚ dangerous suspects‚ and snipers. The roles of these units have changed drastically in the last 10 years. Paramilitary police teams seem to allow some officers to live out a fantasy of policing being dangerous and exciting. Many officers commented
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Graded Discussion 2.1: Medication Effects (Study Guide Case Study‚ p. 18) Greg Wilson‚ a 65-year-old man‚ is diagnosed with pneumonia. He has a history of congestive heart failure. His physician has ordered an antibiotic for the pneumonia and he takes digoxin every day. As the health care provider‚ which question would you ask first before administering his antibiotic? Why is the first dose of the antibiotic twice as much as the maintenance dose? Which variables may slow his metabolism and excretion
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Berkeley police department‚ first as sheriff and later as Berkeley’s first chief of police‚ Vollmer learned that police officers had very little literature and education on policing. One of Vollmer’s first acts established bicycle patrols
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Public Policing Versus Private Security Michael Lemke 502 October 17‚ 2011 George Gallitano Abstract Several distinct differences exist between public policing and private security. The ability to enforce the law and maintain order in society rests with public policing. The agencies that receive money to perform protective and loss-prevention duties that the police officers do not handle are private securities. Public policing and private security agencies do offer the same services and duties
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An example of an operational strategy I found was within the NIKE organization. NIKE was created in 1972‚ by co-founder Bill Bowerman & his University of Oregon runner Phil Knight. Together‚ with the people they hired‚ the company was able to grow and expand from a U.S. based footwear distributor to a global marketer of athletic footwear‚ apparel & equipment that is unrivaled in the world today (www.nikeinc.com). Operations strategy is the development of a long term plan for using the major resources
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1. Introduction IKEA is a Swedish company which was founded in 1943 with its headquarter in Denmark. IKEA succeeded on its low cost strategy which is able to offer a wide range of stylish home furniture with good design and functional at competitive pricing. It carries a range of nearly 10‚000 products and is well known across the world. IKEA is also recognized as a socially responsible and environmental friendly company. Currently‚ there are 287 IKEA stores in 26 countries. In year 2011‚
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An Examination of Leadership Styles and Teacher Motivation 2 Introduction An ongoing challenge for educational administrators is capitalizing on leadership behaviors that have the greatest influence on optimizing teacher motivation. It is recognized that among the myriad responsibilities and tasks school leaders must assume‚ motivating teachers appears crucial to the essential precept of all schools: student academic achievement. Using the Weick and Sutcliffe model “Conditions That Create Corporate
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practice 4 3.3 B&Q case 5 3. TASK TWO 8 3.1 Introduction 8 3.2 Time distance 9 3.3 Technological distance 10 3.4 Social distance 10 3.5 Cultural distance 11 4. Bibliography 13 Executive Summary In a modernized and globalized world‚ knowledge creation and synergization of knowledge in an organization is truly crucial. As data and information are readily available‚ and information communication technology (ICT) has highly advanced‚ organizations such as B&Q need to understand
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