Cartier's global operations
Market study - 7 pages - Business strategy
The famed watch and jewelry House of Cartier, one of the classiest brands in the industry, can trace its origins back to 1847, when Louis-Francois Cartier opened a small jewelry store in Paris. Over the years, the brand has evolved to become the official jeweler of the Royal courts of England,...
Cartier in the US and beyond
Market study - 10 pages - Business strategy
One of the most revered names in jewelry, Cartier Monde (French for "World") is also the world's largest luxury jeweler, operating nearly 200 retail stores in over 125 countries. The centerpiece of Vendome Luxury Group PLC--the London-based luxury goods subsidiary of Compagnie Financiere de...
Cartier in the UK and across the globe
Market study - 10 pages - Business strategy
One of the most revered names in jewelry, Cartier Monde (French for "World") is also the world's largest luxury jeweler, operating nearly 200 retail stores in over 125 countries. The famed watch and jewelry House of Cartier, one of the most recognized brands in the industry, was founded in...
Estee Lauder Companies, Inc. -Creating Fashion for the world
Market study - 7 pages - Business strategy
"The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. (Estee Lauder) is one of the leading manufacturers and marketers of fragrance, skin care, makeup and hair care products in the world. The group employs more than 31000 professionals in the fields of R&D, marketing, finance, retailing, etc. The group is headed by...
Business Report- How to enter the Asian market with the Dyson Airblade(TM)
Market study - 12 pages - Services marketing
Dyson Ltd. is already exporting its products successfully to 49 countries with an increased turnover of 23% within the last year (The Telegraph, 2010). As a marketing consultancy we would like to present to you possibilities to stretch out to new interesting markets to keep on with this story of...
Greek crisis concerning social justice
Essay - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Greece has been in a serious economic downfall since early 2010. Riots and protests began on May 5, 2010 and continue to today. This protest in early May was one of the largest protests in Greece's history where three people were killed. This led to more anxiety and unease about the economy and...
Case study: France telecom
Essay - 12 pages - Finance
The French government created France Telecom in 1988. The company was privatized in 1997, and in the following year lost the state monopoly as the telecommunications industry opened up to competition. Given the context, the company then began to expand through a number of partnerships and...
L'Allegorie du patrimoine or The invention of the Historic Monument (&translated by Lauren M. O'Connell) by Françoise Choay
Book review - 10 pages - Literature
L'Allegorie du patrimoine or The invention of the Historic Monument (&translated by Lauren M. O'Connell) was written by Françoise Choay. She was born in 1925 in Paris, has been a historian of the theories and of the urban and architectural forms. She is an emeriti professor at the university of...
Venture in international markets - Picard in Brazil
Case study - 40 pages - Business strategy
Picard is a French frozen food retailer focusing in its own brand product lines. Currently, Picard has over 800 stores in metropolitan France and has a market share of approximately 20% in the frozen food market. The retailer´s overall strategy is characterized as a premium proposition with a...
Late nineteenth century imperialism can best be understood in terms of concerns over national weakness rather than as an assertion of national strength. Discuss.
Case study - 5 pages - Political science
The last quarter of the nineteenth century saw European Great Powers, including Great Britain, France and Germany, engaged in an active colonial policy, or what historians may term New Imperialism. This era was marked by the formalisation of colonies and empire through treaties, as well as an...
Spain economy: An empirical analysis
Case study - 5 pages - Economy general
Spain is one of the largest economies in Europe with a GDP over 1.3 trillion USD. They experienced an economic boom in the early 2000's as most industrialized nations did. However, with an increasing trade deficit, looming of the housing bubble about to burst and the worldwide financial crisis in...
IKEA: Strategic Marketing in India
Case study - 10 pages - Business strategy
IKEA is Swedish-Dutch company specialized in the design and retail of furniture and decorative objects kits. The company is one of the largest companies through the world with 338 stores in 41 countries. In 2011, Ikea registered a total turnover of 25.2 billion euros and revenues of 3 billion...
Case Study of Jan Van Eyck - Art History
Case study - 7 pages - Literature
So many paintings have existed in the past centuries. Most of these paintings and especially in Europe were so much based on religion. This is because religion was the main part of the system of governance, the way people related to one another and how the society is during this day (ArtBible)....
Xu Beihong: pioneer of Chinese Realistic Painting?
Essay - 9 pages - Arts and art history
Xu Beihong (1895-1953) was a native of Yixing in Jiangsu Province. His father, from whom he learned painting in his childhood, was also a painter. At the age of 20, Xu went to Shanghai to sell his paintings. In 1918, at the invitation of Cai Yuanpei, he went to Peking University to work as an...
Cultural Transformations
Thesis - 3 pages - Modern history
World War Two left Europe war torn and destitute. Over 30 million people had been “uprooted, transplanted, expelled, deported and dispersed…in the years 1939-43” (Judt, Postwar, p. 23). Many cities were completely destroyed including Minsk, Royan, Le Havre, Hamburg, Cologne,...
"Mom, why is Black Beauty in the back of that semi?" Truths of Modern Day Horse Slaughter
Case study - 3 pages - Sports
The Black Stallion, Mr. Ed, My Friend Flicka, all reminders of the American icon that has been so closely tied to our past. Horses have served humans throughout our American History, carrying us on their backs through the Wild West, tiling our fields, pulling wagons and carriages, even carrying...
Film as a Form of Dissent: The Politics of Czech Film Miracle
Tutorials/exercises - 7 pages - Political science
In the 1960s Prague was abuzz with artistic excitement. Prague had long been the site of innovative creations in classical music and theater, but now the films coming out of the state sponsored film industry were making headlines, not only in Eastern Europe, but around the world. Czech films...
Parties and party systems in contemporary democracies
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
Laver and Schofield wonder what makes length of a government's life through the examples of Italy and Germany, but also of other countries. Firstly, is the number of parties of the political system related to cabinet stability? This is right in Italy, Belgium and Finland. They have a...
Belgian comics and constructing Belgian national identity
Thesis - 6 pages - Journalism
Belgium is a unique country that uses a federal solution to construct a civic nation from two competing ethnic and cultural identities. In the north is the Flemish region, in the south, Wallonia, and in the middle, the capitol and mainly French speaking, city of Brussels. There is also a...
Was the Great Famine of greater significance for the histories of subsequent generations than for those of the period 1845 - 50?
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
Ireland in the beginning of the 1840's had a population of eight million inhabitants of whom more than four-fifths lived on the land and it was one of the most densely populated countries in Europe. The prosperous phase which prevailed in Ireland at the beginning of the 1840's was unfortunately...
International marketing case study: The mineral water MOUZAïA
Case study - 19 pages - Services marketing
Within the framework of our course, Marketing Internationally, we were invited to realize a group work on “which marketing strategy could Mouzaïa adopt in order to establish its products in French speaking Western Europe countries?” From the beginning, we felt involved in the topic as...
Co-economic climate in Japan
Essay - 7 pages - Economy general
For this economic coursework we have chosen to speak about Japan. We think that Japan is a really interesting country to speak about because of its economy which is one of the greatest in the world nowadays. The economy experienced a major slowdown starting in the 1990s following three decades of...
Child protection and child abuse
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
The problem of child ?buse h?s become incre?singly evident in ?ll p?rts of the world including ?meric? ?nd Europe. Between 1980 ?nd 1993, for ex?mple, the number of children reported once or more than once to the public ?uthorities complaining about m?ltre?tment. The number has more th?n doubled...
Eurocamp : Proposal for development in Slovenia
Essay - 11 pages - Business strategy
Eurocamp is a UK-based tour operator specializing in self-drive camping holidays. The company was founded in 1975 and began with camping holidays in Brittany. Initial success spurred the managers on to expand the product range over the next 10 years to include holiday locations in South and West...
Brand management of Innocent Drinks
Essay - 10 pages - Management
“Involving ‘yes' and ‘no' bins at a festival” (Growing business: 2007) (1) It's the way that Richard Reed, Adam Balon, Jon Wright started their business in 1998 just after their course in Cambridge University got over. Innocent was designed to be a 100% natural brand,...
The successful setting up of Accor in Brazil
Essay - 6 pages - Business strategy
Accor is a French company, born after the merger in 1983 between Novotel (created in 1963) and JBI (Jacques Borel International, created in 1967). Today, the company can be found in 140 countries all over the world, hires 168 500 people and had a € 7622 million turnover in 2005. There is the...
The treaty of Versailles
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
World War I (1914-1918) left the European continent completely devastated (especially France and Belgium). Human and material losses were massive. Indeed, about 10 million lives had been lost during the war. In order to prevent this nightmare from happens again, the victorious powers (the...
Golden Moments Group Limited
Thesis - 7 pages - Business strategy
Golden Moments Group Limited is an international operating supplier of “unique experiences”. The company was founded in 1998 in the United Kingdom by the twin brothers Steve and Paul Cheatle. After that it has grown by introducing the concept on new development markets. At this moment...
Parc Astérix's strategic analysis
Thesis - 11 pages - Business strategy
Parc Astérix is part of the Compagnie des Alpes group (CDA Parks), a group specialized in: The ski business, with 18 ski areas such as La Plagne, Tignes, Méribel, and others. It is the leader in the international market with 55% of the market share. The family recreation business. The CDA Parks...
Europeenne food analysis
Thesis - 9 pages - Business strategy
The EF operation started mid-80 in Paris , with a first entity, Guignard which specialized in the supply of goods for impulsive purchases. EF has since then developed its operations towards new businesses (wholesalers and automats) and regions. This development occurred thanks to the creation of...
