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manager should work closely to the purchasing department for ordering good quality and cheap products for exporting to the buyers from anywhere of this world. The role of an export manager is necessary to deal with import and export duty taxes of local and foreign countries. In the other hand, the WTO is the organization which represents the foundation of the multicultural trade system. The decisions made by the WTO use to solve difficulties and constraints inherent at the entry in a foreign market. For

the University of Oregon where Phil Knight ran in 1959. Bowerman wanted to improve the quality of the running shoes and consequently asked to Knight to do it. * Phil Knight who was responsible to search in a way to make a living without having to give up his love of Athletics. The story began like this; Knight got his MBA at Stanford University in the early 60’s where he had to do a long term project with the goal to devise it, including a marketing plan. Strong of its friendship with Bowerman

a corporation or government is the sole holder of the supply and demand on a particular market (either for manufacturing goods, sales and operating services). In a market of perfect competition, there should have atomicity (many buyers and sellers to promote competition). But in reality, this is not the case, we find that in many markets, there are: few producers: oligopoly (mobile, automotive, petroleum, supermarket ...) A single producer: monopoly (the Post Office, public railways...). The

Summary This report is commissioned to examine the issues faced by Microsoft in online search industry, the opportunity available to it and the analysis of the various facts related to this. Further the report envisages the various options available to Microsoft, their evaluation, the recommendation and the implementation plan for the chosen recommendation. Microsoft is one of the world leaders in technology based companies but it is a distant third when it comes to internet search and related online

Europe, it did everything to increase links with other European countries. With 29 airports, 7,000 km of highway, and several ports, Italy also has numerous public transport such as tram, metro and TAV. Moreover, it is very easy to get around town and when you live in the countryside, many means are available to users to reach the center. * Communication infrastructure: Internet is very present in Italy. The government and some companies like Vodafone attempts to provide Internet in areas that are

used worldwide for centuries. It is an old product which was used by our ancestors; and it knew how to go through the ages to be present in our current society. It was first considered as a healthy product and a medicine, and now it is recognized as a cause for respiratory and circulatory diseases such as cancer. However tobacco products are still well implanted in our time. That is why I decided to study the tobacco industry in Europe; which is composed of chewing tobacco, cigar and cigarillos, loose

make interpreting those environments difficult. Changes in the external environment have a direct impact on the way organisations are run and people are managed. Some of these changes represent opportunities and some of them represent real threats to the organisation (Bohlander and Snell, 2009). The essentials external environmental factors affecting organisations are: 1) The economy environment Factors like, inflation rates, interest rates, trades deficits or surpluses, budget deficits or surpluses

country. (lesser exposure to international risk usually through importation) * Headquartered and produce in the same country but export some of their output. (greater exposure to international risk as need to take cultural difference into account in marketing) MULTINATIONALS = firm invest in value-adding activities outside domestic market or start exercising control over such activities outside its domestic market. control (at least 2 countries), ownership production, power to co-ordinate, engage

suppliers’ American Market: CUTOMERS: Basically every American. IKEA’s target is the American, who doesn’t want to spend a lot of money in its furniture supplies, but who wants style and design as well. In IKEA’s vision, the typical customer is a traveler, who enjoys drinking wine, risk and good life. The target of IKEA is really broad, which is positive for the company. SUPPLIERS: In order to reach the lowest price, IKEA uses its global strength and create a competition with worldwide suppliers. They