Acknowledgement Abstract This paper‚ we study the significance of the four-factor asset pricing model (market factor‚ size factor‚ book-to-market factor and momentum factor) in explaining the cross-sectional variation in average stock returns in the United Kingdom. Our findings show that the four-factor model does work well and significant to explain the
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Packaging Packaging is the technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution‚ storage‚ sale‚ and use. Packaging contains‚ protects‚ preserves‚ transports‚ informs‚ and sells.[1] In many countries it is fully integrated into government‚ business‚ institutional‚ industrial‚ and personal use. a) Packaging fresh fruits and vegetables is one of the more important steps in the long and complicated journey from grower to consumer. Bags‚ crates‚ baskets‚ cartons are convenient containers for
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Ticket Pricing Strategy for the new Wembley Stadium 1 Introduction OBJECTIVE To maximise profits from ticket sales at Wembley Stadium KEY ASSUMPTIONS 1. Wembley has a monopoly on certain types of match 2. Wembley is run by profit maximising managers selling tickets to utility maximising buyers STRATEGY Set prices for seats as close to the willingness to pay as possible using price discrimination KEY CHOICES What type of seating to sell and at what price? 2 Scope This strategy is limited
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Case study: Harvey World Travel Introduction: Harvey World Travel (HWT) is an international retail travel group that has a strong presence in Southern Africa‚ specifically Gauteng‚ South Africa. The group focuses primarily on leisure travel. Looking at the Pricing Objectives for Harvey World Travel Profit-oriented objectives generally has to do with pricing product to achieve a specified percent return on sales and investments. With regards to Harvey one of their pricing objectives is to maximise
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Assignment: Ethical considerations in respect of advertising‚ sales promotion‚ pricing‚ product packaging and obsolescence. 2011 Introduction Ethics is concerned with what is right and what is wrong. Ethics relate to moral evaluations of decisions and actions as right or wrong on the basis of commonly accepted principles of behaviour (Dibb et. al.‚ 1997)‚ in other words‚ ethics are the moral principles and values that govern the actions
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Packaging Persuasion When purchasing products today‚ Americans tend to focus more on the packaging rather than the actual product inside‚ making this century all about looks. From different brands of breakfast cereal to the cosmetics or beauty products we use‚ packaging holds great value and meaning. Packages are full of persuasion and appeal. What is eye catching and attention grabbing is what wins the buyer; the package is what makes the product. Most Americans depend solely on the packages’
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Food Packaging Food packaging draws on disciplines like chemistry‚ microbiology‚ food science and engineering. About 25% of the ex-factory cost is for packaging and thus provides the challenge for food packaging technologists to design and develop functional packages at low cost. Today packaging is pervasive and essential. It surrounds‚ enhances and protects the goods from processing and manufacturing through handing and storage to final consumption without packing‚ materials would be messy
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Introduction In 1973‚ Fischer Black and Myron Scholes first published the Black-Scholes Model in the paper‚ “The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities”‚ published in the Journal of Political Economy. From this model‚ the Black-Scholes option pricing Model (BSM) was deduced as a means to price European options. The simplicity of the use of the BSM allowed traders to effectively price and trade options and derivatives in markets all over the world. It is still widely used today‚ although with
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The market supply and demand curve above shows the milk price support problem. In order to solve the milk surpluses in the market‚ the government should take the steps to increase the market demand to the milk products by exploring overseas markets. For instance‚ the government should export the milk surpluses abroad. This would cut the cost of storage for milk products and encourages the local dairy farmers continue in dairy business. b. The small dairy farmers would prefer the proposal 4
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SME Cloud or Not? Abstract - Advanced Packaging Technology (M) Sdn Bhd is a “small-medium” enterprise‚ or SME whose business is in packaging consumer products with an annual turnover of US$ 7.5 million. Like many small businesses in the industry‚ APT started out 30 years ago. Its IT system primarily consists of computers and a broadband connection with little or no integration across functions and departments. This has long supported the business that has until recently relied on near obsolete
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