Olympic torch The Olympic flame is a symbol of the Olympic Games. Commemorating the theft of fire from the Greek god Zeus by Prometheus‚ where a fire was kept burning throughout the celebration of the ancient Olympics. The fire was reintroduced at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. In contrast to the Olympic flame proper‚ the torch realy of modern times‚ which transports the flame from Greece to the various designated sites of the games‚ had no ancient precedent and was introduced by
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Background • Carrefour entered the Chinese market in 1995 ‚ by establishing the first store in Beijing . By the end of 2013 ‚ Carrefour operates 236 hypermarkets in 73 cities in China‚ with 60‚000 employees. • Carrefour make its commitment to the corporatecitizenship in China and very focused on its corporate social responsibility. Carrefour had set up the " Farm" ‚ "Food Safety Training "‚ “Food Safety Testing Room"‚ to provide safe and secure goods for its customers and satisfy different needs
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Library Briefing Library of the European Parliament 23/09/2013 Corporate tax avoidance by multinational firms In this briefing: The scale of Member States’ (MS) losses through the increasingly aggressive use of tax-avoidance schemes by multinational companies (MNCs) is difficult to estimate‚ but is considered serious. Press reports have highlighted the low tax paid by well-known‚ very successful companies. The tax reduction methods used by MNCs have been well known for decades. They include transfer
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CARREFOUR CHINA‚ BUILDING A GREENER STORE Edizcan İkizoğlu Ertuğrul Ozan Özbahar Sırma Karakaya IE457|Case 2 Report Bilkent University November‚ 2013 I.SUMMARY In 1995‚ Carrefour entered China‚ with its first store opening in Beijing. By June 2006 the company was operating 73 hypermarkets in 29 Chinese cities and it was the number one foreign retailer in China having the fastest growing rate among its competitors [1]. The company planned to open 100 new stores in 2006-07 because the
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Topic: For a multinational company of your choice describe and evaluate its activities in foreign countries with reference to what you have so far learnt. First of all‚ a multinational company is an enterprise operating in several countries but managed from one country. Generally‚ any company or group that derives a quarter of its revenue from operations outside of its home country is considered as a multinational corporation. For this essay I have chosen to discuss about the multinational company:
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- a time bomb waiting to go off. If your leadership team has not pro-actively created a corporate culture to support the company’s purpose‚ then chances are that the culture is a hidden liability. Every business has its own character which is unique and called corporate identity. It has one major part‚ corporate culture‚ often described as the “personality of an organization”. In that case multinational firms play a major role in this‚ as knowing how to communicate through their point of view is
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Ljubljana – Faculty of Economics Graduate Programme Course: Globalization and Multinational Firms Mentor: Črt Kostevc Ph.D. Academic year: 2012/2013 Globalization and Multinational Firms Seminar paper MNCs and the role of the state Author: Aljaž Bešter Cerar – 19489662 Ljubljana‚ 10.6. 2013 Summary The seminar paper is logically divided into two related parts. The first part of the paper looks at a multinational corporation (MNC) as a principally passive object‚ more often than not simply
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Financial Management Managing Multinational Operations Individual Project 4 October 30‚ 2011 Abstract According to data collected by Doing Business‚ starting a business there requires 14 procedures‚ takes 38 days‚ costs 3.5% of income per capita and requires paid-in minimum capital of 100.4% of income per capita China’s new corporate income tax law unified the tax regimes for domestic and foreign enterprises and clarified the calculation of taxable income for corporate income tax purposes
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The 2008 Olympics’ Impact on China From new construction projects to attracting the spotlight‚ the Olympics will have a lasting effect on China by Lee M. Sands For the PRC leadership and most Chinese‚ the July 13‚ 2001 International Olympic Committee (IOC) announcement that Beijing would host the 2008 Olympic Games marked China’s emergence as a major global player. Just as the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and the 1988 Seoul Olympics propelled Japan and South Korea onto the global stage‚ the 2008 Beijing
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MANAGING SERVICE QUALITY (Application in Carrefour Retail Store) Individual Assignment of Operation Management by : Yessy Saputra MMR 39 – 151091013 PRASETIYA MULYA BUSINESS SCHOOL MAGISTER MANAGEMENT REGULAR PROGRAM JAKARTA 2010 Dalam industri jasa‚ salah satu faktor penting yang perlu diperhatikan oleh perusahaan adalah kualitas jasa. Karena jasa merupakan sesuatu yang tidak berwujud‚ maka evaluasi akan jasa menjadi suatu hal yang sulit dilakukan. Namun‚ kita tidak boleh mengabaikan hal ini
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