Rural Diversification: The Lake District: Farm Diversification: In the Lake District‚ there are a number of ways in which farm diversification has taken place. For example‚ as the income that farmers receive has decreased‚ they have to creative new ways to make money. On way of doing this is when their sheep are clipped‚ although their fleece is poor quality and colour‚ they can sell it for loft insulation or carpets. Also‚ the Lake District has become a popular tourist destination and as a result
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funds offer a quick and relatively inexpensive way to diversify‚ the purpose of this article is to address the issue of risk reduction through international diversification. This article also provides support for the hypothesis that international market correlations increase after unexpected exogenous shocks. The implication is that diversification benefits may be reduced after such events. National economies have recently become more closely linked‚ not only because of growing international trade
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BOYAN JOVANOVIC New YorkUniversity The Diversification of Production produce more than one product. In this sense their production is diversified‚ or horizontally integrated. This paper addresses two questions. First‚ why have firms become more diversified over the past century? And second‚ why are diversified firms more oriented toward research and development (R&D) than nondiversified firms? I tackle these two questions under the assumption that a firm diversifies to maximize its efficiency
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Strategy Behind JLR Acquisition by TATA Motors By Shubhra Mani Behind acquisition of Jaguar Land Rover‚ Tata Motors had following strategic considerations: 1. Long term strategic commitment to automotive sector. 2. Opportunity to participate in two fast growing auto segments (premium and small cars) and to build a comprehensive product portfolio with a global footprint immediately. 3. Increased business diversity across markets and product segments. 4. Unique opportunity to move
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Market Diversification Bangladeshi RMG products are mainly destined to the US and EU. Back in 1996-97‚Bangladesh was the 7th and 5th largest apparel exporter to the USA and European Unionrespectively. The industry was successful in exploring the opportunities in markets awayfrom EU and US. In FY07‚ a successful turnaround was observed in exports to thirdcountries‚ which having a negative growth in FY06 rose three-fold in FY07‚ whichhelped to record 23.1 percent overall export growth in the RMG sector
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mass market‚ it usually faces a positioning dilemma - should it play on its ’low price’ avatar and risk losing its brand image‚ or does sticking to its snob value jeopardise its market expansion plans? Our ad tries to overcome this through a dual strategy. First‚ we have attempted to retain Apple’s classy style of communication through the minimalistic poster. The white background is reminiscent of Apple’s earlier print ads. Secondly‚ we deliberately excluded any mention of the price‚ and just
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Cost Management and Strategy used The great wonder car by Tata’s has stunned the entire world. Critics who often said that it was not possible to make a car at a price below $3000 were taken to a back sit when Ratan Tata the chairman of Tata Motors unveiled this car in New Delhi at a price of $2500. Since then it has been in lime light and has been making news in the auto sector throughout the world. Much of India ’s low-cost production edge comes from cheap labor and a large part of the low-cost
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PepsiCo ’s Diversification Strategy in 2008 PepsiCo was the world ’s largest snack and beverage company‚ with 2007 net revenues of approximately $39.5 billion. The company ’s portfolio of businesses in 2008 included Frito-Lay salty snacks‚ Quaker Chewy granola bars‚ Pepsi soft drink products‚ Tropicana orange juice‚ Lipton Brisk tea‚ Gatorade‚ Propel‚ SoBe‚ Quaker Oatmeal‚ Cap ’n Crunch‚ Aquafina‚ Rice-A-Roni‚ Aunt Jemima pancake mix‚ and many other regularly consumed products. Company History
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INTERNATIONAL DIVERSIFICATION There is a basic principle in finance and portfolio management‚ and this is‚ to obtain the greatest benefits with the resources available‚ this principle leads to a fundamental problem‚ which is to determine which assets should be invested to maximize the profitability of the capital available. Previously was limited when it comes to investing insight‚ which consisted of single and only an investment in domestic assets‚ today the borders of investment have expanded
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Introduction Diversification is a method of investing that been shown to increase portfolio return while reducing portfolio risk as measured by standard deviation. This method specifically increases the efficient frontier for investors. The challenge to an investing firm is an appetite by its customers for an ever increasing efficient frontier. One area to explore to obtain this increase is through further diversifying through international diversification. International portfolio diversification gives
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