Global Cultural Issues Affecting Chevron Outside the United States Jerry Teague ETH/316 July 29, 2013 Ed McCullough Global Cultural Issues Affecting Chevron outside the United States Chevron ranked number three recently in the Cable News Network (CNN) list of the world’s largest companies as of 2012, up the previous year’s number ten ranking. Presently, the company headquarters is in San Ramon, California, with more than 60,000 employees worldwide including around 4,000 service station employees. Chevron recently sold its Ireland refinery and some assets in the Caribbean and Africa. It bought Atlas Energy and is confident about its prospects in the Gulf. Chevron conducts business worldwide as one of the global integrated energy companies.
Complete the table below with a description of the products and services for at least two commercial organisations, public organisations and third sector organisations. Please ensure you provide a description for each organisation, rather than a list. Organisation type Name of organisation Description of products and services Commercial organisation The Coca Cola Company Provider of 3500 products (drinks) sold in over 200 countries worldwide. The Coca-Cola Company is the world's largest beverage company. They have the world's largest beverage distribution system with consumers in more than 200 countries ranking among the world’s top 10 private employers with more than 700,000 employees.
1. Introduction Imperial Tobacco Group plc. (Imperial) was formed in 1901. It is the world’s fourth-largest cigarette company and the world’s largest producer of cigars, fine-cut tobacco and tobacco papers. The main target market is the UK, which took up 45% market share (Imperial, 2012).
It is also contributed to United States oil industry by seventeenth percent of produce oil, as said by (Pam Barrett pg. 43) “Oil is by far the largest of Alaska’s industries”, and (R. Warren Anderson ) “Former Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton summed up its success in 2003 that Today the pipeline produces 17 percent of our domestic petroleum. It has pumped nearly 14 billion barrels of oil and $400 billion into our economy”, it gave jobs for several thousand people, Alyeska workers and sub-contractors. The pipeline has help Alaska which is the most heavily tax state to the most tax-free state. Alaska has profit more than half of the income from the pipeline has produces and the other profit goes to the United States.
Boeing Employees Credit Union Research Boeing Employees Credit Union (BECU) is the biggest credit union in the state of Washington, and the fourth biggest in the United States nation. It went from 18 members and $9 in 1935 to 675,000 members and $9.2 billion in 2011. Following the guide of credit union principle, which is “people helping people”, BECU is a member-owned, not-for-profit financial cooperative (BECU, 2011). The company scope is shown in order as following: 1. History 2.
Introduction Culture can be defined as a set of shared beliefs that a group of people practice. Every nation across the world has a culture that can best be used to describe them. China has a population of more than 1.5 billion people with a strong culture that stretches for over 4000 years. The Chinese transformation in to the fastest growing economy of at an annual rate of about 10% has brought the country into much international focus. The country has the second largest economy in the world and is also ranked second behind the United States for the recipient of Foreign Direct Investment, FDI.
INDEX INTRODUCTION THE CLIMATE CULTURE MUSEUMS GEOGRAPHY SPORTS TIPS WHEN SHOPPING INTRODUCTION San Francisco is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of more than 7.4 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses (abarca) a land area of 46.7 square (plaza) miles (121 km2) on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, giving it a density of 17,243 people per (por medio de) square mile (6,655/km2). The City of San Francisco is the fourth most populous (populoso) city in California and the 13th most populous city in the United States, with a 2010 estimated population of 808.000. Nowadays, San Francisco
Marketing Mix Lowe’s Companies MKT/421 Marketing April 12, 2012 Marketing Mix Lowe’s was founded in 1946; Lowe’s has developed from a small hardware store to the second leading home improvement retailer worldwide and the 7th largest retailer in the United States (Lowe’s History, 2012). Lowe’s runs more than 1,745 stores in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. In 2011, Lowe’s received numerous distinguished industry awards, including number 50 on the Fortune 500 list, and three- time winner of the Energy Star Excellence Award in Retail (Lowe’s, 2012). Lowe’s sells a wide-range of home improvement products in its large, warehouse-style stores ranging from appliances to tools, paint, lumber, and nursery products. Lowe’s stocks 40,000 products in 16 categories (Lowes, 2012).
market) which is a decent drop of 32.5% from last weekend's $93.8 million. The Avengers international haul is now at $723.3 million which is the #7 highest-grossing film of all time internationally. In Latin America, the superhero tent-pole has already earned $171 million, overcoming the total revenue of Avatar and Titanic to become the highest grossing film of all-time in that territory. With this much energy in overseas markets, The Avengers will have no problem passing the $800 million threshold and possibly the $900 million when it is released in Japan. Summing up both domestic and international numbers, The
Diamond Pipeline Study 2007 The De Beers Group [pic] The largest diamond mining company in the world, with unrivalled expertise in exploration, mining and marketing of rough diamonds GROUP STRUCTURE De Beers Group is a privately owned company with three shareholders: • 45% - Anglo American plc • 40% - Central Holdings Group • 15% - The Government of Botswana REVENUE In 2005 the De Beers Group has generated: • US$ 6.5 billion in annual revenue • US$ 554 million in net earnings SIZE • About 24 000 employees in 19 countries • Multinational professional exploration team on 5 continents and in 13 countries • Over 25 joint venture exploration and evaluation projects with others companies MAJOR EVOLUTIONS • 2001: De Beers goes private • 2004: Redefinition of De Beers Consolidated Mines (DBCM) and Diamond Trading Company (DTC) as stand-alone companies in the De Beers Group PRODUCTION • Ownership of 20 mines (Botswana, South Africa,, Namibia and Tanzania) • Producing over 40% of the world’s supply of rough diamonds • Sorting and valuing almost 60% of the world’s annual supply of rough diamonds MAIN CHALLENGES • Consumer awareness of the social costs of diamond production (ex. conflict diamonds) • Increased production capacity outside De Beers’s control (mainly Canada and Russia), that is leading to high costs in sustaining prices through mopping up excess supply on the open market. • Political antagonism toward De Beers’s dominance from antitrust regulators MAIN STRATEGIES • Increase the market value of De Beers diamond business by increasing market demand. • Increase consumer confidence • Improve operational efficiency and effectiveness through the entire Organization The Diamond Trading Company (DTC) [pic] The Diamond Trading Company (DTC) is