1. Victoria Chemicals evaluate its capital-expenditure proposals in four ways. They are average annual addition to earnings per share‚ payback period‚ net present value‚ and internal rate of return. An earnings per share method is to indicate a company’s profitability. For Victoria Chemical‚ this was calculated with the average annual earnings per share contribution of the engineering-efficiency project over its entire economic life. However‚ for the basis of the calculation‚ the project’s initiator
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The Body Shop was one of the fastest growing manufacturer- retailers in the late 1990s. However‚ throughout the years‚ they failed to maintain its brand image by becoming something of a mass-market line. Anita Roddick‚ the shops founder and Patrick Gournay‚ CEO are looking for assistance in short and long-term planning for The Body Shop. The goal is to yield practical insights while being straightforward. To get started‚ we assumed the growth rate for sales is 13%; the cost of goods sold percent
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Background Victoria Chemicals‚ a major player in the global chemical industry that supplies polypropylene‚ polymer that used to manufacture carpet fibers‚ packaging‚ automobile parts to the customers in Europe and the Middle East. Apart from numerous small producers‚ the company also receives the threats from the other seven major competitors. The company owns two plants in Europe‚ one being Merseyside Works‚ England and Rotterdam Facility‚ Holland. Both plants were built in 1967 and are identical
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BIO INSPIRED NEURAL NETWORKING AMONG MULTI-ROBOTS CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Transportation is one of the most important economic activities of any country. Among the various forms of transport‚ road transport is one of the most popular means of transportation. Transportation has an element of danger attached to it in the form of vehicle crashes. Road crashes not only cause death and injury‚ but they also bring along an immeasurable amount of agony to the people involved. Efforts to improve
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directed by Stanley Kubrick‚ and finally I Robot‚ directed by Alex Proyas. These different texts share the same genre of science fiction‚ and so they convey similar themes and messages. Similarly‚ all three texts share a sub genre of dystopia. Originally derived from the dangers of technology‚ within these texts themes of social class and the flaws of humans are brought up. Social class is clearly a theme portrayed in these texts. Firstly I Robot portrays the robots serving humans as underlings‚ hence
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The book The Three Little Aliens and the Big Bad Robot is a astrological twist to the original tale of The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf. In this story‚ three aliens named Bork‚ Gork‚ and Nklxwcyz leave their family home planet due to the population and venture out to live on their own. Before they leave‚ their mother warns them of the big bad robot that may try to eat them if they don’t stick together. However‚ then searching for new planets‚ Bork and Gork are too stubborn to find a place
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IEEE/ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS‚ VOL. 12‚ NO. 3‚ JUNE 2007 265 Design and Development of a Medical Parallel Robot for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Yangmin Li‚ Senior Member‚ IEEE‚ and Qingsong Xu Abstract—The concept of a medical parallel robot applicable to chest compression in the process of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is proposed in this paper. According to the requirement of CPR action‚ a three-prismatic-universal-universal (3-PUU) translational parallel manipulator
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VICTORIA CHEMICALS PLC THE MERSEYSIDE AND ROTTERDAM PPROJECTS I would choose Merseyside project rather than Rotterdam’s not only for its superior prospect based on the quantitative criteria‚ but also for a more rational strategy consideration. For the four investment criteria‚ here’s the elaboration. NPV. Since the two plants are of identical scale‚ age‚ design and similar project size‚ it makes sense to use NPV to compare the two projects. Not taken into account the erosion at Merseyside‚
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MBA RESEARCH METHODS Dissertation Proposal Submission Date:12/10/2009 LOYALTY AND CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT IN TESCO PLC. CONTENT PROVISIONAL TITLE……………………………………………………………...4 1. INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………...….4 1.1. The Importance Of Customer Relationship Management………4 1.2. Retail Industry…………………………………………………………...5 1.3. Tesco……………………………………………………………………...7 2. LITERATURE OF VIEW……………………………………………………..….7 2.1. Customer service……………………………………………………
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This is a professional and in-depth study on the current state of the PLC industry in Global and China. The report provides a basic overview of the industry including definitions‚ applications and industry chain structure. Global market analysis and Chinese domestic market analysis are provided with a focus on history‚ developments‚ trends and competitive landscape of the market. A comparison between the international and Chinese situation is also offered. The report also focuses on development
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