Where Creativity Is a Bread and Butter Issue BREADTALK GROUP Breadtalk first made waves when they entered the bakeries market all over Singapore in the year 2000‚ bring in a totally new concept of bakeries business into Singapore. 1. From a classic rags to riches tale Born in 1957‚ MR. George Quek was a son of a humble vegetable farmer who later became a seaman and a housewife mother. Together with his 3 brothers‚ they stayed in a rented wooden attap hut in Hougang. As a boy Mr. George
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The overview of Applying and understanding Cultural differences doing business in China [pic] Supervisors: Mario Zwepink & Inge Gijsbers Student name : Shi surui Saxion University at Deventer Tourism and Leisure and Management Student number 2430482 20 May 2010 Table of content Abstract……………………………………………………………………………….3 Introduction…………………………………………………………………………..3 Chinese and Western culture………………………………………………………..4 Using Geert Hosftede‚ theory analyze………………………………………………5
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have come to realize that staffs from various ethnic and cultural back-grounds‚ as well as those of different gender bring a great deal of value perspective. With more and more patients being of different cultural backgrounds‚ and ethnicities‚ it is due to this reason why hav-ing a clear understanding of cultural ‚ ethnic and gender differences among hospital professionals is given the backup it deserves. (Dennis & Small‚ 2003). Managers in particular within the hospital setting must make certain
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Analyse Skills‚ Knowledge and Aptitudes Needed for Effective Management within the Cultural Sector Introduction The cultural sector is one of the most important industry in the world today. It has become a part of economy growth in many countries‚ having involvement from various creativity areas such as arts‚ advertising‚ media‚ design‚ and etc. Horkheimer and Adorno (2002) originally used the term cultural industries to refer to industrially produced commercial entertainment: broadcasting
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Why good managers are important? A manager is a person who are responsible for administering and controlling part of or whole company or identical organization. It is not an easy job to manage a company. There are a lot of complexity associated with administering a company in a healthy manner. Some people might think that the six most viral qualities are to be flexibility‚ problem solving skills‚ imagination‚ be strong interpersonal skills‚ high level of energy‚ as well as obviously the eagerness
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Gwen Lucas Instructor Lewis Lynn Understanding Cultural Differences The United States are made of a large population of millions of people of every race and gender‚ which understanding diversity and cultural differences important. Working out abroad‚ there is a need of understanding culture heritage and shared humanity make a difference in professional success and failure meeting organizational goal (Kaplan‚ 2010). People work in all types of different cultural background. If you communicate successfully
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Strategies and Initiatives The hallmark of BreadTalk is our spirit of innovation and this applies not just to our offerings but also our business approach. During the year‚ we introduced a new bakery model called BreadTalk Transit‚ positioned as a quick stop for customers on the go. By keeping some of the backend processes at the central kitchen‚ BreadTalk Transit outlets require only an average of 400 sq ft or about half the space of the usual BreadTalk outlet model. At the same time‚ its open baking
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------------------------------------------------- BreadTalk plans to double number of mainland outlets Wednesday‚ 26 September‚ 2012‚ 3:33am BreadTalk’s products are catching on throughout Asia. Singapore-listed bakery chain BreadTalk plans to double the number of mainland outlets in the next two years. Founder and chairman George Quek said the company would have 550 outlets across the mainland by 2014‚ compared with about 300 now. He admitted that a shortage of local talent and dearth of
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Responsibility is also considered as a strategy to sustain positive company reputation and brand images. BreadTalk who owns businesses in China had practiced in Corporate Social Responsibility programme during one of the world’s most upsetting disasters – the Sichuan earthquake on 12th May 2008. To show their solidarity with the people of Sichuan and to play a part in relief efforts‚ BreadTalk created “Peace Panda”‚ Panda shaped bun with four different expressions symbolizing the terror of the 7.8
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organisational behaviour of ‘Breadtalk’? Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is where corporations or organisations are obliged to inter-relate their businesses with behaving in ethical and moral ways. It is where such corporations have notions towards having responsibility to the society that upholds them. Examples of ethical and moral ways varies from giving back to needy groups in terms of monetary funding and healthcare‚ to integrating CSR strategies directly into the business tactic of an organisation
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