History of IKEA: IKEA (Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd) is a privately held‚ international home products company that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture‚ appliances and home accessories. The company is now the world ’s largest furniture retailer. IKEA was founded in 1943 by 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad in Sweden‚ named as an acronym comprising the initials of the founder ’s name (Ingvar Kamprad)‚ the farm where he grew up (Elmtaryd)‚ and his home parish The groups of companies
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On Vietnam PEST analysis of Vietnam ·Political factors: · government type: Vietnam is known as a Socialist Republic. · freedom on economy: Vietnam has not high economic freedom‚ which score is 51.0. Even though the index of Vietnam can not compare with western developed countries’‚ however since 1986 the government implement open-door to the outsider world policy‚ making Vietnam becoming to an open country and attracting
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Coursework Supply Management IKEA Supply Chain Analysis Name | Sun Yifei | | Wu Yanli | | Zhang Yuting | Word CountSubmission date | Zhao Yandong4114April 18th‚ 2012 | Introduction IKEA is short for Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd‚ as the Swedish furniture corporation‚ which with more than 200 stores in over 30 countries (Chen et al.‚ 2011). In 2011‚ IKEA had 23.5 billion euros in sales with 2.7 billion euros net income and 127‚000employees worldwide (IKEA sustainability report‚ 2011)
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responsibility to defend the United States during the American war in Vietnam‚ I would tell the young African-American not to get involved in this war and say no to it course it is a huge violation to the human right of both countries and a totally waste of nation resource. I have three points to support my point of view. First‚ the Vietnam War is violated the human rights of Americans and damage the state interest. The Vietnam War started in 1955 and ended in 1975. America suffered in this war
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In order to be successful with business practices in Vietnam‚ you must be aware of the ethics in that particular country. "Transparency International‚ a global counter-corruption watchdog‚ ranks Vietnam as the second most corrupt country in South-East Asia‚ based on a survey of international businessmen" (economist.com). The corruption is very much widespread and must be taken into account when doing business in the country. Aside from being a very corrupt nation‚ the workforce struggles with
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1. Introduction about Burger King Vietnam Burger King‚ founded in 1954 by James McLamore and David Edgerton‚ is one of the largest fast food chains company in the world. Its menu has not only basic hamburger but also many none – hamburger sandwiches including chicken‚ fish. At the end of the year 2012‚ Burger King has 12‚997 restaurants over 86 countries. Most of them were owned by its franchisees. Burger King Vietnam is also a franchise business model. Two stores of Burger King were opened
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Positive Side of the Vietnam War The Positive Side of the Vietnam War War is a tough gritty world that describes the destruction of people and countries in the name of nationalism; it is difficult to justify war and give a positive outcome when shown the disaster it causes. The Vietnam War was an extremely difficult war and is widely seen as a catastrophe by the world‚ even with that being the case there is still some positives that have been extracted from the situation. The Vietnam War is a heavily
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Ikea Global Sourcing Challenge: Indian Rugs and Child Labor IKEA and Marianne Barner are facing a very challenging issue. Because they were blind sided by the child labor issues with their supplier‚ they had to scramble to respond to the issues in a quick and appropriate manner. IKEA sent a legal team to Geneva to seek input and advice from the International Labor Organization on how to deal with the problem and to find out more about the child labor issues. They also hired a third party agent
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Ryan McConkey Glenn May May 29‚ 2013 Hist. 388: Vietnam and the U.S. The View from the Ground Vietnam was a hostile place especially for the Vietnamese. Going into a war with one of the most powerful countries in the world and not knowing if they would be able to get out of the war alive. Scared and not knowing if they would be able to gain their freedom that they have been fighting for since they were occupied by China in 1100 B.C. This war was to fight for that freedom and the only
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IKEA’s GLOBAL SOURCING CHALLENGE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The IKEA Group‚ one of the world’s top furniture retailers‚ has emerged as the fastest-growing furniture retailer in the US. Its unique business strategy has given it its strengths for its success today. However‚ like all strategies‚ IKEA’s strategy has its own flaws that can pose as weaknesses. IKEA also has a lot of opportunities in the marketplace such as expansions of their company and threats such as competitors in the same industry
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