Annual Report Key Figures 2012 Group sales Core operating profit Core earnings per share Operating free cash flow R & D investment Dividend 2 45‚499 17‚160 13.62 15‚389 8‚475 7.35 millions of CHF millions of CHF CHF millions of CHF millions of CHF CHF +4% +11% +10% +10% +2% +8% (CER) 1 (CER) (CER) (CER) (CER) (CER) Total Shareholder Return 2012 The value of CHF 100 3 invested 1/1/2012‚ for the period ending 31/12/2012 125 120 121 118 117 115 110 105 100 95
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Abdulaziz Aldossary Kathy L. Rowley English 201-16 October 3‚ 2012 “Why Games are Good for You” The article “Why Games are Good for You” by Steven Johnson presents reasons why electronic video games are not harmful. While other people have written and talked about the harms that video games bring to young people. ‚ Steven Johnson argues just the opposite. He says that video games have many benefits including making us smarter. Steven Johnson begins his article by describing what the critics
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E. Cheese’s “Where A Kid Can Be A Kid” Yvonne Bell-White The Catholic University of America This paper was prepared for Financial Decision Making‚ MBU 652‚ Summer 2011‚ taught by Professor Howard S. Steed‚ PhD Abstract In this analysis paper I choose to learn about Chuck E. Cheeses. I demonstrate my understanding of the categories of Financial Statement Analysis‚ which includes – profitability‚ liquidity‚ activity and debt (leverage). Our class was assigned a company for financial
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The Swiss Banking Industry The Swiss banking industry has been around for more than 250 years‚ making it the cornerstone of the financial sphere. It has however been rapidly changing in the recent years‚ influenced by the latest financial crisis‚ and numerous tax evasion scandals. It has had to change its economic and regulatory conditions as the country’s authorities‚ as well as foreign authorities are demanding for a change in practices. This‚ in turn‚ has put the industry in the spotlight possibly
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S.A. Bodeen’s Shipwreck Island and Johann David Wyss’ Swiss Family Robinson are different books‚ but they do have very certain similarities. One book is about a family that values their relationships‚ especially with God. These values become even more important as they are stuck on a desert island. However‚ the other book talks about a family that doesn’t have any bond until they have no choice but to get along to survive on what seems to be a deserted island. The similarities of these books are
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The Idea of Mill ’s ethical theory is his Greatest Happiness Principle in that “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness and they are wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. Happiness is the intended pleasure and the absence of pain. Unhappiness is the pain and the lack of pleasure. Pleasure and freedom from pain are the only desirable things.” Mill ’s view of happiness is hedonistic‚ which suggests that the only good thing in a person is pleasure and the
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Product Identification and Marketing Objectives Key Issues The company is Swiss Chalet‚ a chain of Canadian family restaurants. Key issues facing Swiss Chalet and family restaurants: I. Swiss Chalet has changed its slogan several times in the past decade; from 1980s- “Swiss Chalet‚ Okay!“ and five more times between then and 2008‚ in which they are current using the slogan “Always so good for so little.” In order for people to find a brand memorable‚ the slogan representing the company
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Brief History K-Swiss‚ Inc. is a shoe company founded in 1966 by two brothers from Switzerland‚ Art and Ernie Brunner‚ who moved to Southern California in 1960. The two brothers were former top skiers‚ and took a heavy interest in tennis when they moved to the United States. Finding the current canvas style tennis shoe to be disappointing‚ they decided to construct and sell their own high performance tennis shoe. This shoe featured all-leather material‚ a shock-absorbing insole‚ a one-piece
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The Story of a Cheese Sandwich. A cheese sandwich is made up of – well‚ bread and cheese. The bread’s made of carbohydrates and fibre and the cheese of fat‚ protein and calcium. First the sandwich is chewed with our teeth; the incisor teeth and canine teeth bite it into chunks. The premolar and molar’s grind the chunks of food into much smaller pieces. Saliva’s produced that helps the food become a paste. Here‚ the amylase enzymes turn the starch molecules (from the bread) into maltose – which
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A Role for Equity Theory in the Turnover Process: An Empirical Test1 RODGERw.GRlFFETH2 AND STEFAN GAERTNER Department of Management Georgia State Universiw The purpose o f the present study was to examine the role o f equity theory in the context of the contemporary turnover process. A model was developed and tested with 192 hospital employees using structural equation modeling (SEM)‚ which placed satisfaction and intention to quit as mediators of employee turnover. The results strongly support
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