Case Study Tesco Horsemeat Scandal This case study analyses the horsemeat scandal‚ which involved several companies‚ included Tesco. Tesco is the UK ’s largest retailer and one of the world ’s leading international retailers. Tesco has more than 6‚000 stores worldwide‚ employing almost 520‚000 people (Tesco PLC‚ 2013a). Tesco operates in 12 different countries across Asia and Europe. Food and beverage retail is the main Tesco’s business but electronic device and clothing retail as Tesco bank and
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Case Study #1 Metallgesellschaft AG Metallgesellschaft Refining and Marketing (MGRM)‚ was a subsidiary of Metallgesellschaft AG in Germany. In the early 90’s‚ MGRM chose to being selling long term (5 and 10 year) fixed price contracts for gasoline‚ heating oil‚ and diesel fuel. These contracts were successfully marketed with MGRM contracted for 160 million barrels of oil as of Nov 1993. Due to the fact that the MGRM entered into long term commitments for fuel delivery with fixed pricing‚ this
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Business Case study Analysis Adidas-Salomon AG Management 670 Professor Jon Gettman Edsel Washington Table of Contents Executive Summary [Titled Overview of Analysis]…………………………………………………………………………………………. Background………………………………………………………………………………............. Identification of Strategy of Adidas……………………………………………………………………………………………. Analysis of Adidas Performance...…..………………………………………………………………....
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SCANDALS IN 2000S Named scandals Named scandals in India Scandal Year reported Scope Location Key players Summary 2012 Indian coal mining controversy 2012 185‚591.34 crore (US$33.78 billion) nation Comptroller and Auditor General of India‚ the coal ministry‚ many electricity boards and private companies coal blocks allotted‚ not auctioned‚ leading to estimated losses as per the Comptroller and Auditor General of India [1][2][3] Karnataka Wakf Board Land Scam 2012 200‚000 crore
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TESA AG Catalogue * Introduction * The three options -Criteria of three options -Advantages and disadvantages of the three options * Final decision and conclusion Introduction TESA AG is a independent subsidiary of the Beiersdorf AG‚ which has ten production sites worldwide. The company provides over 6000 different kinds of adhesive tapes (of which 300 are consumer products) to its various customers from industrial and handcraft firms. TESA’s wide variety of products
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Case Study: Enron Corporation Accounting Scandal 1. What is Enron Scandal? Formed in 1985 from a merger of Houston Natural Gas and Internorth‚ Enron Corp. was the first nationwide natural gas pipeline network. Over time‚ the firm’s business focus shifted from the regulated transportation of natural gas to unregulated energy trading markets. The guiding principle seems to have been that there was more money to be made in buying and selling financial contracts linked to the value of energy
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4 Plasmon Resonances for PS@Au-Cu-Ag Composite Nanoshells 4.1 Introduction As shown in recent studies‚ various methods have been developed to expand the application area of noble metal nanoparticles and to control the morphology and the behavior. Composite microspheres with noble metal nanoshells have great advantages in catalysis‚ optics‚ conductivity‚ chemical sensors‚ and so on [1–5]. Moreover‚ these hybrid materials can prevent noble metal nanoparticles from agglomerating without the use of
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Chapter 7 . Financial Responsibility Centers In August 2002‚ a pricing dispute arose between the managers of some of the divisions of Zumwald AG. Mr. Rolf Fettinger‚ the company ’s managing director‚ had to decide whether to intervene in the dispute. THE COMPANY Zumwald AG‚ headquartered in Cologne‚ Germany‚ produced and sold a range of medical diagnostic imaging systems and biomedical test was equipment and instrumentation- The organized into six operating divisions. Total annual revenues
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Slide1 : Siemens AG‚ a $73 billion electronics and electrical-engineering conglomerate. Siemens is well known for the technical brilliance of its engineers‚ but much of their knowledge was locked and unavailable to other employees. Facing the pressure to maximize the benefits of corporate membership of each business unit‚ Siemens AG needed to learn to leverage the knowledge and expertise of its 460‚000 employees worldwide. Slide 2: The roots of knowledge management at Siemens go back to 1996
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Siemens AG is a German based company founded in 1847‚ employs over 416‚000 people in 190 countries‚ and has over 60.1 billion Euros in sales worldwide. Siemens became the electronics‚ telecommunications‚ and electrical engineering powerhouse that it is today by consistently innovating and discovering new technologies. After starting out as a small precision-engineering workshop making wire insulation and warning bells for railroads‚ the company discovered the dynamoelectric principle‚ built the first
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