1. Nature of product/service P&G is an American multinational consumer goods company‚ founded in 1837‚ it headquartered in downtown Cincinnati‚ Ohio‚ USA. Its products include household care‚ beauty‚ grooming‚ and personal health care —and are household names around the world‚ including Pampers‚ Gillette‚ Tide‚ Ariel‚ Downy‚ Pantene‚ Head & Shoulders‚ Olay‚ Oral-B‚ Crest‚ Dawn. P&G is the world’s largest and most profitable consumer packaged goods company‚ with nearly $84 billion in sales and more
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Ulanskaya Ann AK-091 W. Somerset Maugham. “The Unconquered” Essay I have read a novel “The Unconquered” written by W. Somerset Maugham. This was the first novel of this writer‚ which made me cry. It’s very strong‚ in my opinion. Maugham’s special ambiguity is seen more clear in this novel because it is impossible to understand who was write and who was wrong; who acted more horrible‚ the blind drunk German soldier committed violation of a young girl or that girl killed the innocent child
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Journal: “A&P”- Important Quotation Analysis Sammy‚ the main character of “A&P” by John Updike‚ says “But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it is fatal not to go through with it‚” towards the end of the story when he was quitting his job at the A&P. This quote has a couple of meanings. He thinks his decisions‚ or the gesture in this scenario‚ determine his lifestyle. Another thing this quote conveys is that once you say something‚ you cannot take it back. In a twisted way‚ the
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J. M. W. Turner is one of Britain ’s most popular artists who showed exceptional artistic talent from his early age and entered the Royal Academy at fourteen. His landscape paintings made him popular regardless of a darker side to his paintings that were made big issues by critiques. He became a well-celebrated artist despite of the difficulties he came across in life. Even being born in family of a Garden barber‚ he became very famous for his works such seascape and landscape. His success seems
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Investigating the Growth of P. fluorescens Biofilms at the Air-Liquid Interface and the Variations in Biofilm Integrity Abstract Pseudomonas fluorescens produces biofilms in a variety of environments‚ and in experimental situations has been shown to develop random mutations resulting in a phonotypical change in the resulting biofilm. One particular mutation resulted in the growth of a biofilm known as the Wrinkly Spreader‚ which produced a thicker‚ stronger biofilm that had a stronger attachment
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L Brands‚ the parent company of Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body works‚ sells lingerie‚ personal care & beauty products‚ apparel‚ and accessories. It owns the brands Victoria’s Secret‚ PINK‚ Bath & Body Works‚ C.O. Bigelow‚ La Senza‚ White Barn Candle Co.‚ and Henri Bendel brands and stands as one of the largest specialty retailers in the U.S. with over 2‚600 US specialty stores. It does also operate in Canada and in 40 other countries‚ through licensing and franchise agreements. In addition‚ it
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how properly manage their time between their work life and their family life. Either not enough effort is being put into work or not enough effort is being put into family; there is no balance. In the passage from the novel The Known World by Edward P. Jones‚ there is a flawed distinction between the value of work and family which is clearly displayed through Moses’ character who is portrayed as a workaholic with no relationship with his family. As the passage first opens‚ the idea of Moses choosing
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Cultural Psychology Notes 01/22/15 1. Understanding Cross-Cultural Psychology a. Culture i. Definition: Set of attitudes‚ behaviors‚ symbols shared by a large group of people b. Cross-cultural psychology i. Definition: Critical and comparative study of cultural effects on human behavior in relation to psychology? c. How do they differ? i. Cultural psychology seeks to discover meaningful links between culture and psych of individual ii. Human behavior is meaningful only when viewed in sociological
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distributors for contacts‚ but with B&L for other items – confusion for consumers • B&L has more cash and fewer assets in inventory – better for B&L • Gives them financing (steady cash flow on promissory notes and profits) for other goods • Allows them to engage in other goods Advantages: Marketing resources immediately freed up to focus on the disposable contact lens market Lower SG&A expenses with new distribution plan Less inventory held by B&L for conventional lens‚ more in receivables
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Account Receivables Turnover Ratio Analysis 2010 The A/R turnover ratio for 2010 was 14.80‚ which was a monumental increase from 8.45 in 2009. One reason for this increase was due to a conscious effort by Proctor and Gamble to improve collection times for incoming payments. In 2009‚ they incurred too much short-term debt due to the delayed collection of payments for their products and ended up decreasing their A/R account by almost $500 million. Their sales also increased in 2010 due to the expansion
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