This number should help explain the importance of the Medicare market. <br>The Fargo Clinic, in 1993, had 250 physicians in 30 locations. Five of these are larger clinics, with the rest being smaller community-based facilities. They had over a million patient visits in 1992, with over half coming from Minnesota. Revenues were $150 million, which represented over a 50% growth in the last five years.
This has required fisheries to develop management plans in order to prevent overfishing. Certain other nations that have signed this treaty are also allowed to fish in US waters under the same agreements. In 2003, the Pew Oceans Commission called for further reform of these laws in order to protect marine ecosystems (Castro & Huber, 2008). It discussed not only fishing, but the degradation of marine habitats. The by-catch and pollution must also be monitored.
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.
If we look at table C-4, total debt/EBITDA ratio is 3.9 in 2001, which is relatively high compare to 1.6 for Kellogg Co., and 1.5 for Keebler in 2000. The merged company is planning to reduce its debt leverage from 3.9 of total debt/EBITDA ratio to 2.4 from 2001 to 2004 based on a cash flow of $200 to $400 million per year available for debt reduction. Since Kellogg’s U.S. share in cereal was mid 30s and 40% globally by 1996, the merged company would grow its noncereal business from roughly 20% to around 35% of sales. Overall, the market share would have a dramatic increase. Based on the recent customer survey, people are more tend to eat breakfast away from their home.
1. How would you characterize the snack chip category and Frito-Lays competitive position in the category? * The United States snack food industry recorded retail sales of $37 billion in 1990, a 5 percent increase from the year before. A large source of growth results from increased per capita consumption. Consumers are buying more snack chips per person, an increase of 2 pounds over four years.
Due to its excellent adaptation and its nutritious content, cod is a remarkable catch with every part of its being a useful resource. By the time discovery voyages were popular, cod was a kind of food that sustained the sailors as they traveled around the world. Although the Vikings had first pursued cod across the Atlantic, it was the Basques who began commerce through the fish during Middle Ages. Applying the technique of salting, Basques’ cods tasted better and far more superior to the blank white meat of fresh cod. The supplies of cod were available year round in the growing
In 2001 more than 28 million people went freshwater fishing, about 13 percent of the population. While many people went fishing in a given year, most did so infrequently. Indeed, almost 57 percent of anglers fished just a few times a year. About 40 percent of anglers were serious anglers, who fished more than fifteen times a year on a recreational basis (see Exhibit 1). Less than 4 percent of anglers participated in fishing tournaments and were considered competitive anglers.
Environmental Protection Agency estimated that 70 to 140 billion gallons of water are used to fracture 35,000 wells in the United States each year. This is approximately the annual water consumption of 40 to 80 cities each with a population of 50,000. Fracture treatments incoalbed methane wells use from 50,000 to 350,000 gallons of water per well, while deeper horizontal shale wells can use anywhere from 2 to 10 million gallons of water to fracture a single well. The extraction of so much water for fracking has raised concerns about the ecological impacts to aquatic resources, as well asdewatering of drinking water aquifers. It has been estimated that the transportation of a million gallons of water (fresh or waste water) requires 200 truck trips.
The impact of immigration, because it includes undocumented illegal immigrants States: For the only time in the 20th century, the population of all 50 states increased, ranging from a tiny half-percent rise in North Dakota to the booming 66 percent in Nevada. Eighty percent of the nation's 3,141 counties and equivalent areas grew, compared with 55 percent in the 1980s. Eight of the 10 largest cities gained population in the 1990s, with only
Fast Food Epidemic: America has become the most obese nation in the world. Nearly 100 million Americans have become either overweight or obese. That is more than 60 percent of all U.S. adults. Since the 1980s, the total of over weight Americans has doubled (Spurlock, 2004). Obesity is now only second to smoking that is a major cause of preventable death in Americans which causes more than 400,000 deaths per year.