History of human Essay

The whole history of humankind is inseparably linked to the changes in the dynamics of the population growth that consequently pushed the start of the process of migration. Since ancient times, humankind started to spread from its cradle across the world in quest for a better life. Just recall the Bible stories about the 40 year trip of the Sons of Israel headed by Moses across the desert in search for the land of promise. It might be a fairy tale, but nevertheless it could be the real prove that mass migrations of population have already occurred in those times. Due to absence of reliable information, it’s very hard to estimate the dynamics of people migration throughout the world up to the beginning of the XIX century. At that time European counties started to conduct population census relatively precocious to modern standards. But lets’ get back to the very term â€Å"migration†. Here’s the definitions given by the hyperdictionary. Migration: 1. [n] the movement of persons from one country or locality to another; 2. [n] the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding; 3. [n] (chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule; 4. [n] a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period). However, the definitions relating to the â€Å"people migration† is very brief and I would give the following definition to the term. Migration- is the movement of a person or a group of persons from one locality to other caused by different socioeconomic or other factors. We should differentiate between 2 main types of migration- internal- domestic (people move from one region to another within the borders of one country) and external-interstate migration (from one country to another); we also should discriminate between emigrants (leaving their homeland for a permanent settlement in oversees) and refugees-(those who seek escape from war and disasters, and those people fleeing from persecution based on political or religious beliefs). In last decades the number of people looking for a better life has drastically increased. Nowadays, at the beginning of the XXI century nearly 1 of 35 tellurians is a migrant. If all these people would live in one common state, then it would be the fifth biggest by its population country on the planet with approximately 175 millions of inhabitants. It testifies, that migration is one of the most substantial global sociological phenomenon of our times having a deep impact on the economies and societies ways of life. The last statement is completely proved by the history of the USA, the country that was founded by colonists or in other words migrants. Since the October 12th of 1492 when Columbus have discovered a New World, it became a tasty piece of pie for the European monarchies to bite- a perfect place to develop all the treasuries of new lands and spread the influence. But to conquer the New World, Old Europe needed to build settlements and it led to increase of migrants flow that went to America in hope to get richer, some to escape from never ending wars in Europe, from persecutions based on religious beliefs (Pilligrims), some to propagate Roman-Catholic Christianity. So, the conquest began, but it led to horrible results- many local ethnic groups were wiped out (South America, conquistadors). The whole territory of the New World was divided between the European powers; however the rivalry between them existed, as England was in a constant war with France and its allies. There were one more source for this tension not in Europe but in the New World- it was the population growth of the British continental colonies from 250 thousands people in 1700 up to 1. 75 million in the 1760s. Step by step England forced out France and Spain over the most territories of North America, so London had a vast territories with the population greatly spread over them to guard. With time, the colony was becoming more and more detached from the British Empire. Trying to stop this process, England tried to grab the control over the colony, but with every year the confrontation between colonists and English Parliament grew more and more, until in 1775 American revolution revolved. After gaining independence in 1783, the American society was a ethnic diversity –British (not English as migrants were arriving from all the regions of British isles), French, Spanish colonists, Africans (taken to the continent as slaves), and aborigines- Indian tribes (gradually driven out from their homeland by the colonists). So came the 19th century, the times, when all the circumstances favored the economic growth of the former colony, as there still were undeveloped and wealthy in natural resources lands. The unification of the States and abolishment of slavery favored the arrival of new migrants, so grow the labor force, and it must be added it was a cheap labor force. As a vivid example, is an American railroad system, in building of which Chinese immigrants took a great part (in fact it was build on the bones of the letter, ‘cause of the harsh conditions, absence of health security system and low pay). At those times, a domestic migration rates grew, caused by the well known discovery of gold in Alaska and California (Gold Fever). Poor people from all over the country rushed to those places in hope to find gold and get rich. By the end of 19 century the American nation still was not completely formed. It was rather a â€Å"pot mix† of nations than an ultimately formed nation. The flow of immigrants have not stopped, but received a new push after the beginning of WWI and with subsequent fall of European Empires (Austrian -Hungarian and Russian empire). In those and succeeding years, the number of emigrants from Europe, especially from former Russian Empire has drastically grown. Those emigrants helped to build the economy of the US, as many of them were not just simple unskilled workers, but in many cases intelligent persons. For example, Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky, a famous Russian-American aircraft designer, who was born in Kiev (Ukraine, state within the Russian Empire) and after the revolution immigrated to the USA. Altogether, with his friends and companion-who were also emigrants from Russia, he founded his company â€Å"Sikorsky Aviaengeneering† that some time later became a part of â€Å"United Aircraft† company. In 1972 he passed away being a honorable member of different scientific societies and having a lot of different awards. The man is gone long time ago, but still the design bureau bearing his name produce aircrafts. However, not always the migrants were warmly received. In last decades, many countries have made their policy line much tougher concerning reception and help given to refugees and immigrants. According to the UN statistics, such measures have shown themselves in increased number of refugee status accordance denial. The emigrants and refugees experienced and experience lots of problems beside the migration rules and regulations, but also the confront a much more serious problem, such as – xenophobia, a highly negative attitude of native population toward the comers There’re many reasons for such attitude (just recall Martin Scorsese’s â€Å"Gangs Of New York â€Å"). As usually migrants are coming from the poorer states and ready to work for less money then the native population. In most cases here, the natives are afraid that comers would take their job places. Moreover, illegal migrants may easily beef up the criminal lines, as in most cases they unqualified and unable to find job. There’s also a collision of cultures and mentalities. In such rugged conditions, the migrants start to consolidate and create detached groups, living on own principles, preserving their original way of life. It’s some kind of a protective mechanism against new socium. For example, in many American cities, there’re many culturally â€Å"detached† areas such as China Town and Briton Beach (Russian quarters in Big Apple) etc. In those places, the migrants preserving their native culture and customs, it’s a place where the migrants attempt to reproduce the things they had at homeland. Nevertheless, these days, immigrants constitute an important part of a labor –market in industrially developed countries. According to the statistics of OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development), in many Western states, the interest for the labor potential of foreigners is on the rise. Here we could divide the demand for labor force into two categories- demand for unskilled and demand for qualified laborers. The developed countries are in a constant need for a cheap work force to work in some industries, where the local don’t want to work, for example building industry. So here help the migrant workers. These laborers in most cases work temporarily until their visa expire, then in some time they return back home otherwise become illegal immigrants. The qualified workers in most cases go to the developed countries for a permanent residence, called by the companies interested in their services. In most cases, these companies are working in the Hi-Tech sphere of business, and the latter is booming today, so there’s a lack of well qualified staff to fit the demand. As one of the examples was a problem of â€Å"Y2K†, when most of IT companies in the USA and other countries felt the need to increase the number of qualified personnel to fix the bug in computers before the upcoming of the year 2000. There’s another very interesting fact about the immigrants. It’s the money they send back home to families, they are of a great importance for developing countries economies. In values, such money transfers are taking the second place after the foreign investments as a source of oversees inpayments into the economy of developing countries. In 2002 the total amount of individual foreign transfers to developing countries constituted 72,3 billions dollars. The other important issue of that global community facing toady is illegal human trafficking. It’s not just illegal border crossing, but a very profitable business for the international crime syndicates, that proliferates prostitution, slave labor etc. This problem is or highest importance for the international community and today there’s an urgent need to consolidate all efforts of international bodies and of all the counties to stop this dirty business sucking huge profits from the eternal human strive to find a better life†¦ References 1. www. hyperdictionary. com 2. http://www. geocities. com/davidbofinger/vinland_h. htm 3. http://historicaltextarchive. com/sections. php? op=viewarticle&artid=651 4. http://historicaltextarchive. com/sections. php? op=viewarticle&artid=597 5. http://www. sikorskyarchives. com/indexlnk. html 6. http://www. un. org/popin/data. html 7. www. oecd. org 8. www. oecdobserver. org/

A Telephone Based Wireless Remote Controller

Abstract—A telephone based wireless system for the remote operation of the home appliances is proposed. The telephone, acting as a remote controller, generates a DTMF signal corresponding to each dialed digit which is converted to a BCD code by the Telephone interface circuit. This is given as input to the transmitter module which is then used to control various home appliances through a receiver module. Data processing stages of the transmitter and receiver modules have been implemented using digital components, thereby avoiding possible use of conventional devices like monostable multivibrators.Due to the fully digital nature, the proposed design is less complex and hence the implementation is cost effective. I. INTRODUCTION With the advancement in science and technology, human beings have developed a tendency to make their everyday life amply luxurious with the aid of technology. This has led to the development of many sophisticated gadgets and equipments that assist them p artially/fully in their daily activities. Operating all such electronic/electrical instruments in a modern house might be difficult for the elderly as well as disabled people.Our primary motivation to build a simple and low cost system which remotely operates all the home appliances stems from this point. We integrate our system with a standard telephone set so that the telephone can be used for the dual purpose of telephony and remote controller for various home appliances. The proposed system mainly consists of 3 modules, viz. , telephone interface circuit, transmitter and receiver. The transmitter module is in turn made up of a digital data processing block and a wireless (infrared) transmitter block and the eceiver module is made up of a wireless (infrared) receiver block, digital data processing block and a decoding block. In the scheme, a telephone receiver acts as a remote terminal to provide input Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) signals to the telephone interface circuit wh ich converts them to corresponding 4 bit Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) codes. The transmitter generates an 8 bit frame using this BCD code to facilitate asynchronous communication. The receiver decodes the received signals after checking for any transmission errors (single bit) in the frame. These decoded bits act as control signals for the operation of home appliances.The system employs an asynchronous type of communication [1] in which the transmitter and receiver clocks are independent. The receiver clock does not have any prior information regarding the phase of the transmitter clock [2]. This leads to the problem of choosing the correct sampling instants at the receiver [3]. Hence the data is transmitted in the form of frames instead of individual bits. Each such frame consists of start bits, information bits, and stop bits [1]. This is explained in detail in the subsequent sections. When the system is idle, the data processing block of he transmitter gives constant logical high o utput. Since the transmitter consumes more power in transmitting logical high than logical low, the output of data processing block is negated before transmission to save power in the idle state. The receiver module also senses this and remains idle whenever the transmitter is transmitting continuous logical low. The reception of a start bit changes the state of the receiver from an idle to an active state. It then has to sample the remaining data bits in the frame at proper sampling instants. Most of the standard hardware schemes involve the use of monostable ultivibrators at the receiver to recover the data bits following the start bit. The monostable multivibrators commonly rely on variable components such as resistance and capacitance values, as well as they often account for a major part of the propagation delays associated with the receiver. We have extended this treatment to a fully digital design that presents more challenging tasks including a digital output feedback. Moreo ver, use of all digital components in the data processing stages reduces the propagation delay considerably. The complete design outline of all the modules of the roposed system is presented in Section II. Results and discussions are given in Section III. Finally, we present our conclusions in Section IV. II. DESIGN OUTLINE The block diagram of the proposed telephone based wireless remote control system is shown in Fig. 1. In the proposed system, the telephone set performs the dual functions of telephony and remotely controlling various devices. The remote control mode of the telephone can be activated by pressing ‘#’ from the keypad of the telephone. After the desired tasks are accomplished, ‘#’ should be pressed again to deactivate the control system.This is one of the functions of the telephone interface circuit, which is discussed next. A. Telephone Interface Circuit The telephone interface circuit integrates the designed system with the standard teleph one system. As shown in Fig. 2, it basically performs the job of receiving the signals from the local loop and converting them to the standard digital signals in the BCD format. When any telephone button is pressed, a unique DTMF signal is produced for a short duration [4] which is converted to corresponding BCD code by a standard DTMF to BCD converter (KT-3170) [5].The dual tone frequencies and the BCD codes associated with each dialed digit are shown in Table 1. The system remains in the idle state until ‘#’ button is pressed which sets the telephone to remote control mode. This mode remains activated until ‘#’ button is pressed again. This is realized in the hardware by using the BCD code corresponding to ‘#’ as the clock to toggle the J-K flip-flop (74112). The flip-flop output toggles whenever the ‘#’ button is pressed and this is directly used to control the mode of operation of the telephone. The DSO output of KT-3170 [5] is used to generate a start it for the system as it is logical high whenever a received tone pair has been registered and the output latch is updated. As the latched 4-bit BCD code is directly available at the output of KT-3170, it is given as such to the data processing block of the transmitter. These data bits are then processed to facilitate asynchronous communication as explained below. B. Transmitter The 4-bit output of KT-3170 can not be directly transmitted as individual bits as the proposed system employs asynchronous mode of communication. The 4-bit BCD code is thus transmitted as frames for proper reception [1].We have chosen an eight bit frame for our system which consists of a start bit followed by four data bits, a parity bit and two stop bits. Parity bit enables the system to detect any single bit error during transmission. Stop bits mark the ending of the frame. The frame is then transmitted using infrared (IR) transmitter. As shown in Fig. 2, the transmitter mainly con sists of two blocks which are explained below. 1) Fully Digital Data Processing Block: This block performs the function of converting individual bits to 8-bit frames in order to carry asynchronous communication.First bit of the frame is the start bit (taken as 0) which is generated when any of the buttons is pressed. The succeeding 4 bits are the data bits (BCD code) generated by the telephone interface circuit as explained before. Next bit is taken as parity check bit generated by XORing the first 5 bits of the frame. Last 2 bits, termed as stop bits, are taken as 1. Following the generation of the start bit, the data bits are loaded in the parallel to serial converter (74165) using a D-type flip-flop (7474) and the frame is transmitted serially. 2) IR Transmitter Block: This module transmits the frames enerated in the previous section using an IR emitting diode. The data to be transmitted is modulated using Amplitude Shift Keying (ASK) with a carrier square wave of 38 kHz. The tra nsmission range of the system is thus highly improved over the case when data is transmitted without modulation. As the data processing stage gives logical high output in the idle state, it is negated before transmission to save power. Thus, a logical low is actually transmitted whenever the system is in idle state. C. Receiver The receiver also has 2 working states, viz. , idle and active.It remains in the idle state until it detects a start bit. It then receives the frame starting from the start bit and checks for a single bit error. If error is detected, no action is taken and the information has to be transmitted again by the user. The received data bits are then decoded which act as control signals for the operation of various appliances. As is evident from Fig. 3, receiver circuit can be subdivided into 3 blocks which are explained below. 1) IR Receiver Block: This block receives the transmitted frames and converts the signal back to Transistor Transistor Logic (TTL) levels.A standard 38 kHz IR receiver (TSOP 1738) [6] is used for this purpose. 2) Sampling Clock Generator: The main function of this block is to generate a sampling instant at approximately the middle of the transmitted bit interval. The start bit activates this block and loads counter 1 (4-bit up-counter) with value ‘0’. The clock frequency of this counter is 16 times the bit rate. When the output of this counter changes from 7 to 8, the most significant bit changes from ‘0’ to ‘1’ and this rising edge is used as the sampling instant for the data.Start bit also loads the counter 2 (4-bit down-counter) with the frame size i. e. , 8. When this reaches the value ‘0’, the whole block is disabled and is reactivated only when next start bit arrives. 3) Data Sampler and Decoder: The serial input data is sampled according to the sampling instant generated in the previous stage and is converted to parallel form using serial to parallel converter ( 74164). This data is then checked for any 1-bit errors by XORing the bits. If error is found, no action is taken and the data has to be retransmitted. If no errors are found, the data is decoded using 4-16 decoder (74154) and he signal is given to the appliance for the completion of the corresponding task. III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS The proposed system has been fully implemented and successfully tested in the standard telephone local loop. The transmitter, kept near the telephone set, taps the DTMF signal from the local loop and transmits the corresponding data frame wirelessly. This signal is received by the receiver installed at the switch board. It decodes the data and takes the corresponding action. At least ten control signals, corresponding to each digit from 0 to 9, can be generated using a standard telephone set.The transmitter was previously implemented without a modulator where the IR LED was kept ON for transmitting logical high and OFF for transmitting logical low. Thi s limited the distance between the transmitter and receiver to a maximum of 30 cms for proper reception. The range of the wireless system has increased to several meters after modulating the data using 38 kHz square wave. This range also depends on the current flowing through the infrared diode which has to be properly tuned to maximize the range. A standard TSOP 1738 receiver is used in the proposed ystem, which requires a minimum burst length of 10 cycles for proper detection. This puts an upper limit on the data rate supported by our system which is practically observed to be 2. 8 kbps [5]. The IR transmitter is highly directional and requires the receiver to be in line of sight of the transmitter. The reception angle of the receiver is observed to decrease with increasing distance between the transmitter and receiver. This is because of the fact that the power is not uniformly distributed and is concentrated in narrow transmission angle.Moreover, the signal power reduces when th e distance between the transmitter and the receiver is increased. So, the receiver has to be highly aligned with transmitter when operating at some substantial distance from it. This problem is of not much concern for our system because the transmitter and receiver, being static in nature, can be properly aligned at the time of installation. The data processing blocks of both the transmitter and the receiver are fully digital in nature. This comprehensively reduces the propagation delays involved and increases the rate at which data can be processed in these blocks.Though, data rate is not very important in the present application but this feature makes the design of our data processing blocks suitable for high data rate applications which are commonly seen in wired communication. IV. CONCLUSIONS A wireless system has been proposed to operate the home appliances remotely using a standard telephone set. This has been successfully tested and is found to be working satisfactorily withi n a distance of 10 meters. The telephone receiver performs a dual-function of telephony and remotely controlling various devices with the help of its ‘#’ button on the keypad.The telephone interface circuit is easily integrated with the standard local loop thus avoiding any changes in the telephone set. Hence, the proposed system is compatible with any type of telephone working on standard local loop. The system employs asynchronous mode of communication which avoids the need to synchronize the transmitter and receiver clocks, thus making our system less complex and hence cost effective. The proposed fully digital innovative design of the data processing blocks reduces the propagation delay and makes them useful for even high data rate applications.Moreover, the system is capable of detecting the single bit errors occuring during transmission. The proposed system can be used in a wide range of practical applications such as speed control of motors, switching of applianc es, control of robots, etc. The above discussed characteristics like simple design, high practical utility and easy installation makes our system highly marketable. REFERENCES [1] Gorry Fairhurst. Asynchronous Communication [Online]. Available: http://www. erg. abdn. ac. uk/users/gorry/course/phy-pages/async. html. [2] D. Comer, Computer Networks and Internets with Internet Applications.Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2004. [3] A. Subramanian, V. P. S. Makh and A. Mitra, â€Å"A New Digital Transceiver Circuit for Asynchronous Communication†, Enformatika Trans. , vol. 8, pp. 237-241, Oct. 2005. [4] DTMF Background [Online]. Available: http:// www. ece. utexas. edu/mason/codesign/dtmf. html. [5] Samsung Electronics Datasheet. KT3170 Low Power DTMF Receiver [Online]. Available: http://www. ortodoxism. ro/datasheets/SamsungElectronic/mXuusvq. pdf. 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Current Expansion Strategy - QAF Limited - Free Essay Example

Sample details Pages: 4 Words: 1325 Downloads: 1 Date added: 2017/06/26 Category Marketing Essay Type Narrative essay Did you like this example? Current expansion strategy According to Hsu (2010), a company that is completely separate entity from parent company or holding company is known as wholly owned subsidiary. Gardenia Bakeries is wholly owned subsidiaries by QAF Limited. In such the Gardenia Bakeries is in each country runs on their own operations and QAF Limited holds all of the subsidiarys common stock. However, the parent company has the right to appoint board of directors for the subsidiary in order to control and guide the subsidiaries actions. Hsu (2010), stated that the subsidiary will hire employee technically but not by the parent company. Therefore, wholly owned subsidiaries enable QAF Limited as the parent company to maintain procedures and guide the action of subsidiary in different geographic areas such as Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and China, providing their own assortment of available product. Moreover, wholly owned subsidiaries may be part of the same industry as the parent company or a part of different industry. QAF Limited takes advantage of the structure of a wholly-owned subsidiary for several reasons. The company faces difficulties to operate business in another country where the licensing and regulatory environment makes it hard to create a new company, so subsidiary would be more feasible in the particular country (Eicher Kang, 2005). QAF Limited has the advantage of an existing company which controls the operation of Gardenia Bakeries in the particular location with such structure. Besides, there is no risk of losing technical competence to a competitor. Furthermore, Gardenia Bakeries can realize learning curve and location economies through wholly owned subsidiary. So Gardenia Bakeries is able to diversify its operations to be less susceptible to market fluctuations and it will have a patent on technology or processes that are valuable to the parent company. In addition, the profit or loss of all the Gardenia subsidiaries is consolidated into QAF Limited. Gardenia may gain benefit from the financial strength of the parent company and its management expertise, but the management of the subsidiary may also be significantly handcuffed by restrictions on its operational decisions and autonomy enforced by the parent company. An exception occurs when the subsidiary management has knowledge or experience not readily available outside the subsidiarys operations (Hsu, 2010). The facilities of Gardenia were designed with expertise and it is using a computerized bread-making technology from US and Europe. Gardenia cooperates with equipment suppliers from Germany, Netherlands and United States to assure the standard in the production process. Moreover, Gardenia implements mass promotions to reach the market. For instance, it promotes its products through mass media such as television to ensure customers remember about their existing products. Gardenia Singapore Since 1986, there were no bread eaters in Singapore when QAF acqui red Gardenia. Due to busy lifestyle of Singaporeans, bread has evolved as a healthy breakfast food for them. Besides, Singaporeans are more aware of health and nutrition and have excitement to try new things. Hence, Gardenia takes this opportunity to expand their business in Singapore as a wholly owned subsidiary. This is a great opportunity for the company to target consumers with high nutrition of bread since the citizens are trying to concern of their health and dietary needs. Despite the challenging environment and intense competition from other manufacturers and the retail bake shops, Gardenia Singapore was able to deliver a good result with higher revenue and an improvement in profitability. The subsidiary is able to realize location and experience economies as it is supported by QAF Groupà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s good performance in a difficult economic environment. So Gardenia Singapore is able to strengthen its core competencies and maintain its top position in Singapore. Gard enia maintained its top leadership position in Singapore by releasing several new products and by launching a successful new branding campaign. It has expands its distribution network to 3000 distribution points which can help it easily to reach more consumers on a daily basis. It is committed to provide the Singaporeans with the finest quality bread with hard work distribution team. Gardenia Singapore faces some disadvantages in Singapore too. It is risky and high cost for Gardenia Singapore launches its business in the country with high competition from other manufacturers. Due to Singaporeans are more aware of health and nutrition, the company has to import high quality milk-related products from Australia which cost it a lot in order to avoid melamine scandal. On the other hands, Gardenia Singapore riskily priced and marketed its products such as the branded loaf with the highest calcium content at lowest price to combat with competitors. However, the financial advantages gain by Gardenia Singapore include simpler reporting and more financial resources as QAF Group will use Gardenia Singaporeà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s earnings to grow the business or invest in other assets and businesses to generate a higher rate of return (Cantwell Narula, 2003).So both companies integrate their financial and other information technology systems to reduce cost and easier the business processes. Gardenia Philippines Gardenia Bakeries in Philippines is one of the most widely distributed brands in the country which is a wholly owned subsidiary of QAF Limited. After claiming leadership in the local bread market in just over three years in operation, the company is set for a large expansion in the Philippines with the help of financial resources from QAF Group. The company offers a wide range of bakery products Gardenia Philippines made some changes in its bread formula and process to meet the needs of Filipino as Filipino likes to have lighter color and sweeter taste br ead. However, prices of the bread are adjusted according to the price of flour in the country. Due to melamine scandal, Gardenia Bakeries in Philippines always concerns about freshness, food quality and safety. So this is a costly stage for the company to handle such scandal and improve its product quality by promising the consumers that it only uses high quality and standard ingredients such as milk sources which are ordered from USA, Australia and New Zealand. On the other hands, the company invests in another new production line in order to increase the capability of producing loaves with the help of QAF Group. QAF Group usually maintains direct or indirect operational control over Gardenia Philippines. The parent company often initiates management changes at its subsidiary in order to negotiate better terms and conditions with suppliers. So Gardenia Philippines can take advantage of QAF Groupà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s management and technical expertise. Besides, the subsidiary ca n also reduce administrative overlap and have a better new product development and launch initiatives. However, risk and loss of operational flexibility are the disadvantages of operational control by QAF Group. The parent company only relies on Gardenia Philippines to develop a distribution channel, hire a sales force and build a customer base. In addition, the operational risk is focused in Gardenia Philippines rather than spread across multiple entities and depends entirely on Gardenia Philippines execution. Furthermore, Gardenia Philippines also adopts joint venture as the alternatives structure to expand its distribution channel. In such, it can access to local partnerà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s knowledge and share development costs and risks with partner (Meyer, 2001). For example, Gardenia Philippines became business partner with Shell for massive distribution effort and costly projects. It shares the costs and participates in the profits. However, decision-making could be slow in partnership because of multiple management levels (Tang Liu,2011). References Cantwell J, Narula R (2003). International Business and the Eclectic Paradigm: Developing the OLI Framework. Routledge, London. pp304 Eicher T, Kang JW (2005). Trade, foreign direct investment or acquisition: Optimal entry modes for multinationals. J. Dev. Econ., 77(1): 207-228. Hsu, C. (2000). Capital budgeting analysis in wholly owned subsidiaries. Journal of Financial and Strategic Decisions, 13(1). Meyer KE (2001). Institutions, transaction costs, and entry mode choice in Eastern Europe. J. Int. Bus. Stud., 32(2): 357-367. Tang, J. A., Liu, B. S. (2011). A Network Based Theory of Foreign Market Entry Mode and Post-Entry Performance. Teixeira, A. A., Grande, M. (2012). Entry mode choices of multinational companies (MNCs) and host countriesà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ corruption: A review. African Journal of Business Management, 6(27), 7942-7958. Don’t waste time! Our writers will create an original "Current Expansion Strategy QAF Limited" essay for you Create order

Should Marijuana Be Legalized - 1715 Words

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This group of customers comprises the fans who visit the stadiums to watch the live matches, and total up to 80,000. Of the 80,000 seats available in the stadium, 58,000 seats are held by season ticket holders, 4000 box seats and VIPs, while the rest are for sale during the match. A good portion of the VIP seats could be one that is variable, with the club having VIP packages which appeal to premium customers who are willing to pay for the special amenities of a VIP room or box, complete with upmarket meals and beverages. While this number is important, its potential is relatively fixed, apart from the ability to expand the VIP privileges or number of seats. 2. People who purchase Real Madrid-branded Merchandises and Programmes Marketing and merchandising comprises a large proportion of the growing revenues of Real Madrid, and these group of customers involved people from around the world who would visit retail stores to buy all sorts of Real Madrid branded goods. We will write a custom essay sample on Real Madrid or any similar topic specifically for you Do Not WasteYour Time HIRE WRITER Only 13.90 / page 3. Sponsors Sponsors remain an essential part of the revenue stream as well as the brand, with sponsors such as Nike having long-term sponsorship of the apparel for Manchester United. These forms of sponsorship help to build the clubs brand and affinity with the partner brands, and partners help to proliferate the sales of merchandises. As in the case of Nike and Manchester United, partnering with Nike will allow for Manchester United apparel to leverage on Nike’s quality as well as the global network of retail outlets in promoting and building the brand. Thus sponsors as customers of the football club’s advertising is fundamental. 4. TV Broadcasters With the deregulation of the media industry, broadcasting rights purchased by TV broadcasters from Real Madrid is an increasingly important source of revenue. We see the importance of TV broadcasters as an important customer to patronize the content that Real Madrid focuses on. Real Madrid continues to build strong players and provide better games for fans, focusing on building greater content for customers. With this, TV broadcasters will see a greater potential in the acquiring of this content as the quality and appeal increases amongst viewers. Merchandising plus members? â€Å"the socios†` Sponsors companies who subscribe to the brand and are willing to buy that advertising and exposure space (on jerseys etc. ) Geography upcoming asian market Age/Class young teens, adults, VIPs Firstly, evidently we see that Real Madrid engages in segmentation based on class – where there are different target audiences for the items that they sell based on the price premium of items. As we can see, there are various target markets of fans – the general public and the VIPs. Real Madrid is looking to double its number of boxes with the understanding that there is a long waiting list for them. This focus on that segment is different from the way in which it would tackle the general fan base. Segmentation seems to have been in merchandising, Real Madrid engaging in specialists to target a variety of geographical markets. For example, the plan for the Asian market would include soccer academies, fan clubs, specialty shops and cafes, however the U. S market was more targeted at partnering with a US major. Furthermore, segmentation would also be targeted according to age groups, with the opening of local school scholarships, local youth soccer organizations meant to be targeted at the youth fan loyalty.