P1 – Describe the current business travel environment The Role of the Business Travel agent description: | The role of a business travel agent is to book accommodation and arrange the travel of business travellers. Also provide them with accommodation that provide business services such as meeting rooms as well as arrange them with transport from airport to hotel and any other events or conferences they have to go to. | Independent agencies description and organisation example: | An independent travel agent is an independent business, which is not part of a chain and is often managed by the owner and a small team of staff. They also include business travel agents that are often independent and they specialise in business market. Some of the agents provide only business travel whilst others provide both business and leisure to clients.
CVS Caremark Global Expansion to United Kingdom Global Business Management Abstract CVS Corporations was founded by Sid Goldstein, Stanley Goldstein and Ralph Hoagland, May 8, 1963 in Lowell, Massachusetts. In 2007 CVS pharmacy merged with Caremark Rx which created CVS Caremark. CVS Caremark is currently the number two pharmacy store in the United States with revenues exceeded $100 billion dollars and has over 7,400 hundred stores in 42 states. The corporation has been successful for over 40 years in the United States. CVS Caremark is designing a global expansion strategy to target areas that are profitable and promising demographically.
Easy jet is the largest air line in terms of passengers volume – ‘59 million’ (Easy Jet corporate media file, p.3) in UK and internationally across 30 countries with flight scheduled services of ‘600 routes’ as well as the fourth largest short-haul carrier in Europe with a market share of ‘8%’ (Easy jet annual report, 2012, p.12). In order to promote efficient service to customers, they introduce speed boarding that gives passenger’s greater choice over their seat arrangements. Furthermore, the volumes of passenger’s turnover have increased their financial performance to ‘£317 million’ (p.9) profit before tax and after tax of ‘£255 million’ (p.19). Their annual report can be assess at http://2012annualreport.easyjet.com/downloads/PDFs/Full_Annual_Report_2012.pdf and http://corporate.easyjet.com/~/media/Files/E/Easyjet-Plc-V2/pdf/content/press-info-kit.pdf a. Table: The vocabulary of strategy in Easy jet airline (2012 annual report) Term Definition Example (including why chosen and evidence Mission Overriding purpose in line with values or expectations of stakeholders Their mission statement is to ‘leverage cost advantage, leading market position, and brand to deliver point-to-point low fares with operational
Introduction In recent years, 12-step programs have flooded the world at an amazing rate. Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), founded in 1935 pioneered this movement and currently has an estimated membership of 2,076,635, present in 180 countries (AA World Services [AAWS], 2005). Narcotics Anonymous (NA) membership has also grown rapidly from “200 registered groups in 1978 to 21,500 registered groups in 116 countries (NA World Services [NAWS], 2005). (NAWS, 2005) The above figures derive from group registration at world service offices. There is no way to calculate actual members, as these fellowships do not keep attendance (anonymous) records.
• George Washington operated a lottery to finance construction of the Mountain Road, which opened westward expansion from Virginia. • Thomas Jefferson, $80,000 in debt at the end of his life, used a lottery to dispose of the bulk of his property. During the 1700’s, lotteries flourished with the revenues used for a broad range of personal and public financing including the colonial army in the Thirteen Colonies as a means to fight the war with Britain and further including the financing of fifty colleges, 300 schools and 200 churches including universities such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia. In 1726, the Netherlands formed a lottery that is still in operation today. An early record of Canadian lotteries was noted in 1856 but
Labor Laws & Unions Paper United Parcel Service (UPS) has been in business since 1907 starting with only foot and bicycle delivery services (UPS, 2012). In 1916, “UPS drivers joined the International Brotherhood of Teamsters” (Collective Bargaining FAQ’s). Over the years to follow UPS entered the retail delivery market, air delivery market, international market, and in 1999 became a publically traded company. From the years 2000 to 2007 UPS globalized its business by reaching new markets in Asia, Europe and South America. Teamsters have been the representation for hourly workers at UPS since their relationship started back in 1916.
P & G spread out into other countries and became an international corporation in the early 1930s, in both areas of product sales and manufacturing. The company caters to the needs of consumers in more than 180 countries around the world (Procter & Gamble, 2011). Today P & G functions in almost 80 countries worldwide and employs over 130,000 employees. P & G’s global business unit focuses on consumer’s first, brands backed by guarantee, and competitors across the world. This unit is accountable for the shareholder returns from their businesses, innovation pipeline, and profitability.
********* ********** 17 November 2011 Encyclopedia Project Dundee, Oregon In 1874, a man named William Reid made the voyage from Dundee, Scotland to Portland, Oregon with high hopes of economic success. Back in Scotland, Reid was American vice consul for five years. While acting in this role he published a pamphlet, “Oregon and Washington as Fields for Capital and Labor.” In Portland, Reid became a resident agent at Scottish bank, later organizing the Oregon and Washington Mortgage Savings Bank, then the First National Bank in Salem. Due to his work in these fields, Oregon enacted a law that authorized foreign corporations to build railroads. In 1880, immediately after this law was put into place, Reid began construction on The Oregonian
US Social Issues During World War II William Polk 2012 US Social Issues During World War II William Polk 2012 America’s success in WWII depended heavily on mobilization on the home front. Ultimately, it was this war-time industrial boom that brought the nation out of the Great Depression and made the United States the wealthiest nation in the world after the war ended. During the war years, the U. S. economy expanded rapidly. Each year saw the Gross National Product (GNP) rise by 15 percent or more. Production skyrocketed from 1942-1945 as President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the construction of hundreds of thousands of planes and the nation exported massive quantities of supplies, including 2.5 million trucks
To increase population, Galveston solicited immigration; and it became the focus of an immigration plan called the Galveston Movement, which between 1907 and 1914 diverted an estimated 10,000 Jewish immigrants from the cities of the Northeastern United States. In 1905 William Lewis Moody Jr. founded the American National Insurance Company. Two years later he established the City National Bank, which is now the Moody National Bank. Houston prospered after the storm of 1900 and is now the center of population and economic growth in