Introduction: Whenever we hear the word “spa” we often think of massages‚ facials‚ beauty and skin care; but‚ do you know where this word came from? Spa is named after a town in Belgium “Spa” dating back from the Roman Era‚ it is also an acronym for “Salus per Aquae” which means health through water. As we all know‚ advancement of medicine and technology were not available during the ancient times; people tend to travel to hot springs in hope of finding cure. People strongly believed the healing
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The Geographic Grid Ptolemy‚ a Roman mathematician‚ created the geographic grid. This grid is a system of invisible lines that span the globe. The grid has been used for over 2‚000 years as a reference for finding the location of a fixed position on Earth. There are certain components that make up the grid. Meridians run vertically and come together at the north and south poles. The center meridian‚ the Prime Meridian‚ divides the earth into eastern and western hemispheres. Parallels run horizontally
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in Great Britain 0160-7383/$30.00 doi:10.1016/j.annals.2004.05.001 MARKET SEGMENTATION A Neural Network Application Jonathan Z. Bloom University of Stellenbosch‚ South Africa Abstract: The objective of the research is to consider a self-organizing neural network for segmenting the international tourist market to Cape Town‚ South Africa. A backpropagation neural network is used to complement the segmentation by generating additional knowledge based on input–output relationship and sensitivity
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Barilla SpA was founded in 1875 by Pietro Barilla and has evolved into a large‚ vertically integrated corporation with flour mills; pasta and bakery factories located throughout Italy and is a global leader in producing and selling a multitude of these goods. Review of this case study shows a core problem of weekly demand fluctuations in the distribution order patterns which impacted manufacturing and other chains in the system. The fluctuations brought increasing operational inefficiency and cost
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National Geographic and CNN: A better look at the world. There is no other more diverse magazine or channel than National Geographic and CNN. For decades National Geographic has captured the world stories and its cultures bringing them to everyone who ever wondered about the world they live in. National Geographic is continuously demonstrating to the people of the world how diverse it really is. When reading or watching National Geographic‚ anyone can now open their mind and expose it
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market segmentation Market segmentation is a marketing strategy that involves dividing a broad target market into subsets of consumers who have common needs (and/or common desires) as well as common applications for the relevant goods and services. Depending on the specific characteristics of the product‚ these subsets may be divided by criteria such as age and gender‚ or other distinctions‚ such as location or income. Marketing campaigns can then be designed and implemented to target these specific
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Barilla Spa (A) Case Questions 1. Diagnose the underlying causes of the difficulties that the JITD program was created to solve. What are the benefits and drawbacks of this program? 2. What conflicts or barriers internal to Barilla doe the JITD program create? What causes these conflicts? As Giorgio Maggiali‚ how would you deal with these? 3. Why are Barilla’s customers so resistant to the JITD idea? How might Maggiali be more successful in persuading customer to at least try
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Geographic Segmentation Geographic segmentation calls for dividing the market into different geographical units such as nations‚ regions‚ states‚ counties‚ cities‚ or even neighborhoods. A company may decide to operate in one or a few geographical areas‚ or to operate in all areas but pay attention to geo-graphical differences in needs and wants. ACI Logistic Ltd (shwapno) today is localizing their products‚ advertising‚ promotion‚ and sales efforts to fit the needs of individual regions
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Geographic Luck Why is it that Europeans ended up conquering so much of the world? According to UCLA biologist Jared Diamond‚ some countries grew faster than others because of geographic luck. It sounds like a simple theory‚ but there is a lot more to it. The lucky countries‚ like Spain‚ were lucky enough to have natural resources‚ indigenous plants‚ and animals that could be domesticated. With all of this at their fingertips‚ they were able to stop hunting and gathering and start farming. Farming
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Quality of life ties into geographic luck‚ which had a lot to do with the shaping the cultures of Eurasia‚ South America‚ and Africa. Geographic luck might have been benefit or a detriment to the natives who inhabited the land. It largely depends on what geographic hand you are dealt. Factors which go into making up an area’s geographic luck are climate and how the natives dealt with the weather. Moreover‚ the indigenous people of the continents must have a stable food source so they can get their
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