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What is TXU Energy's current credit rating?
Don't do business with TXU. I have about 5 pages of perfect credit except for one entry from TXU and even though I disputed it they still confirmed it. I paid the bill and the refunded the deposit to the wrong account so I canceled it through my credit card. Once they got it together I paid it back. The show they wrote it off on my credit report.
They also out soured most of their jobs to overseas. Very poor company.
They are an online company offering discount prescription medicine for hair growth and sex enhancement without the need of you seeing a doctor. What could go wrong?
Seriously, prescription medicine should be prescribed. By a doctor who at least spent 5 minutes with you. Best to get Viagra, Cialis and Propecia the old fashioned way, and schedule an appointment.
When is battlefield bad company 3 coming out?
There is no official release date for battlefield bad company 3 because the battlefield series has just made battlefield 3. But I'm sure there will be a battlefield bad company 3 because the bad company series have been very successful in making good games.
Is trafford a real company or a scam?
Trafford is a company of scammers from the top to the bottom. Even if you haven't submitted your book to them after the initial investigations on the phone beware giving them any initial money because when you request it back they will cite a myriad of reasons why they should withhold chunks of it for services never rendered. The FBI should investigate these criminals.
Agreements which allow a company to make and sell a registered product locally?
agreement which allow a company to make and sell a regisred product locally?
Role of operation management in strategic management?
Strategic Formulation
Every company must have business level strategy and corporate level strategy. For the companies that run the international trade need to consider about international level strategy.
1) Business Level Strategy
The organizations must form the business strategy that means formulate the competitive strategy at the individual business unit. A strategic business unit is a distinct part of an organization focuses to serve the certain market with products and services.
There are three types' strategies of generic strategies that comprise differentiation, overall cost leadership and focus. Differentiation and overall cost leadership are serving the industry wide. The focus strategy is serving the particular segment only.
1.1) Overall Cost Leadership
This strategy is defined as organization being a lower cost producer and provides the lower price products for customers. Lower price can attract more potential customers. However, the organization need to implement well in cash flow because of capital equipment updated may be expensive.
In addition, a lower cost makes the stakeholders and shareholders have higher expectation from organization. Therefore, the growth of market share can increase the cost advantage.
This strategy can help organization to defense from rivalry in the marketplace because lower cost and price earn above-average profit for organization. Lastly lower price can help the company to defense from new entrants and substitute because the customers easily attracted by lower price products. By provide lower price products, Tesco can retain its sales and margin from rival such as Sunshine, Jusco and Giant.
1.2) Focus Strategy
The organization just serves a segment within the market. The organizations that uses focus strategy must meet the needs and want of customers exactly. If the organization cannot meet the customers' need exactly, they will become failing.
The organization can get competitive advantage through run as differentiation or lower cost focus. The organization can get competitive advantage within the specific segment or niche and not the whole industry. Tesco has run as focus cost leadership retailer. Its offer all products in lower cost and lower price.
1.2) Resource-based Approach
The internal resources and capabilities is form the direction for the organization and it is the primary source of profit for organization.
The organization must have the good resources and capabilities to run well the businesses. The capabilities are comprise knowledgeable of employees. The resources are including capital equipment and technology. The organization can run well with integration of resources and capabilities. Tesco has provided some machine for workers to make the work become easily.
2) Corporate Level Strategy
Corporate level strategy is defines the area of industries and markets which organization compete to achieve the organizational purpose. This purpose is to maximize the shareholder value. The corporate strategy is needed for all organization whether is run a single business or run many businesses in different market.
2.1)
To grow the organization, they can consider these four main corporate strategies:
2.1.1) Market Penetration
This is standing for increase the market share in existing market. The organization can provide the same existing products but try to increase the customers. Tesco has set lower price for its products and provide Tesco card to increase its customers and sales.
2.1.2) Market Development
This is means that provide the existing products to the new market. The organization can diverse the image of existing products to fit for other market. Tesco has successful go into student and hawker market, not only house wife market.
2.1.3) Product Development
This is developing the new products for the existing market. The needs and demands of customers always change. The organization can develop the new products to satisfy the needs of customers continually. Tesco produce its own brand products for customers.
2.1.4) Diversification
This is means that the organization develops new products for new market. This can help the organization to widen their businesses.
2.2)
Diversification has divided to two groups that comprise related diversification and unrelated diversification.
2.2.1)
Related diversification is entering to the related industry that has some link with organization's value chain. Related diversification is including vertical integration and horizontal integration. Vertical integration occurs when organization going upstream (move on its inputs) or downstream (move on its customers).
Horizontal integration occurs when an organization take over a competitor or offers complementary products at the same stage in supply chain. Horizontal integration is efficiency saving for organization through economies of scale. By horizontal integration, economies of scale easy to achieved far than through internal growth. Tesco has run as related diversification. Therefore, Tesco can efficiency saving its cost through economies of scale.
2.3)
Portfolio is the different business units that run by organization. Portfolio can help the organization to analyze the return of investment on different business units and allocated the resource for them. The organization also can form the suitable strategies for each SBU. Tesco has allocate for its manufacture to produce own brand products by referring portfolio.
2.4)
Parent company exist when an organization run many businesses. Corporate parenting is the process that parent company adds value to the business that make up the organization.
Corporate parent must create value for the organization's businesses. The sound corporate strategies will create value for organization through parenting advantage. Parenting advantage occurs when an organization create more value than their competitors if they involves in same businesses. Corporate parenting will help the organization to decide which new businesses they should acquire and managed. Parent company of Tesco has created value such as offer special promotion. The other company will be noticed to follow some activities.
3) International Level Strategy
International Level Strategy is an organization embrace business and competes internationally. Organization requires forming specific autonomy to restrain its position in marketplace.
3.1) Globalization and Localization
Globalization refers the linkage between market that across national borders. What happens in one country will bring impact to other country. For globalize strategy, technology is main driving force of globalization. In contrast, localization point out national differences must be concerned by organization in products offering, distribution and promotion.
3.2) Types of International Strategies
3.3.1) Multidomestic Strategy
Every national market is unique and independent in different country. Adapting the products for national market allow an organization easy to get effectively responding to changes in local demand condition. Organization required adapting the products that can fulfill the demands in national market. Tesco has offered the products that suitable for local customers.
3.3.2) Global Strategy
An organization adapting standardized products for its international market. By compare with multidomestic strategy, global strategy can get cost reduction because of manufacturing standardized products. Organizations that run global strategy has develop manufacturing, R&D department, marketing in certain location. Tesco has developed manufacture and marketing in some foreign country to produce its products for each other country.
3.3.3) International Strategy
Organizations that adopt international strategy will exploit core competencies and capabilities, the other decentralized. Organization will retain core competencies in home country, the other work or activities such as manufacturing, packaging will take place in other country. Tesco has produce its own brand products in foreign country, but packaging maybe decentralize to Malaysia and some other countries.
Lottery is a gov scam just to get money from you?
Government lotteries are a scam on two levels.
1. Typically they are sold to the citizens on the basis of "We'll use this money for funding schools" or some such hard to argue with project. But then for every lottery dollar that goes to the schools or other good project, a tax dollar that formerly went there will be withdrawn. Thus the schools or other worthy projects are no better off financially, and a bit worse off spiritually, depending on your beliefs.
2. While they are technically offering a chance at money, they neglect truth in advertising laws such as would apply to other legal vices like cigarettes and alcohol. In other words, they fail to warn that the vast majority of lottery players will never win, and that worse, the vast majority of lottery "winners" are not only not happier, but nearly always much sadder.
Proof of this can be seen not only in numerous books and articles wrote about it, but in the fact that with all the millions the state lotteries spend on advertising, they NEVER show a follow up on how a "winner" is doing one year later. Let alone five or ten years later.
This is because an average "winner" is quickly alienated from family and friends, generally gets in way over his head, ends up selling his annuity for pennies on the dollar (except in states where you can take a lump sum), and is often times bankrupt within five years, without even having his or her old job any more.
Now, frankly, people being silly or inexperienced with money is not technically the state's fault. But then again, people being silly with ciggs and booze isn't the fault of cigarette and alcohol providers either, is it? But while those companies must warn of the danger, you'll not see any such warnings on a lottery ticket.
The following should be on every ticket:
"WARNING: You most likely will never win back the money you invest in these tickets, let alone get a big payout. And if you do, you'll most likely be bankrupt, jobless and alone within a year or so after winning."
"WARNING: If you invested a dollar a day in a regular savings account for twenty years, you'd get a return - after taxes - of two dollars for every one invested! No lottery ticket offered will consistently pay out double your investment!"
Is Bethea myhealthwealthandhappiness a scam?
all of you people that think it is a scam,why do you take the time looking at it or reading it ? I just found out that my daughter has canser probably in several places in her body,you think you have a problem? TONIGHTwhen i opened up my mail from berthathe first thing she told me was that she knew that I needed a merical I could not believe that she could know that. How right she is. i probably need more than one but i will take the oneshe talked about. so you people that want to queston her and be stupid about this thing, why don't you just stop reading what she has to say. There may be a day in your life that you may need americal just like my family needs now.so don't be too hard on her or anyone else that tries to help othersin need. thank you . shirley E
My name is Steve Abbate and I am the owner of Cetane Associates. We worked as an adviser to a company who purchased a very, very small piece of HOP Energy related to delivering diesel fuel to trucks.
Mike Anton has never worked for Cetane Associates nor is he a member of the Board of Directors as we don't even have a Board of Directors. We are a small advisory company. I am not an officer of HOP nor have I ever been. I was the Director of Commercial Business from 2000-2005 but that is not an officer and I was not on the Board of Directors. I managed the diesel business eleven years ago. I was a logical choice as an adviser to the buyer as I worked there and knew that business.
It's amazing the crap you read on the internet from uninformed people. The real facts are stated above. you can contact me through cetane.net if you have any questions.
The below post was on this site and it is inaccurate:
Yes, HOP is being sold bit by bit, state by state, by Cetane Associates, of which Mike Anton (CEO, HOP) and Steve Abbate (officer of HOP) are the main players. If the heads of the company are jumping ship, what does that tell you?
Just a little legwork will provide tons of interesting information!!!!
Pib said I won money is this a scam?
If they simply wish to mail you a check, by all means let them. But if they need you to send in some money first, for a processing fee, taxes, admin charges, etc...then yes, it's a scam.
I would say NO because a scam implies somebody is going to get money from you for doing nothing.
Ourstage (I have my material there under "Mark Murphy") gives you a platform (Link) to showcase your music and to share it with others and it free.
I do have my doubts as to the veracity of the contests. It has been my experience in music contests that there are either too few judges to listen too far too much material being submitted (or) bands with the biggest followers get the most votes - which effectively weeds out unknowns who while may be musically superior, don't have a large group of "cheerleaders" casting votes for them. This gives the illusion they must be "the best" Its the old "If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a noise" idea.
yes it has a limited liability and yes it is it is owned by family and friends (1-50) people
Where does General Motors belong to?
General Motors belongs to the stockholders. It is an independent company.
