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Creating and launching a new product range

When consumers decide to buy something, they not only want to know what they are buying, they also want to be confident of having...

Revolution in retailing

The use of technology in the retailing environment has created a massive change in expectations about how customers expect to shop in the future....

Building a single brand

We are all familiar with Coca-Cola, Nike, Heinz, Shell and many other strong global brands. But what is a brand? Someone once described brands...

Supporting Superbrands: The Role Of High-Tech Suppliers

Producers of internationally known high performance products depend heavily on their materials and components suppliers. These suppliers are the unsung heroes that lie behind...

Using planning analysts at the centre of brand development

In a competitive market, the organisations most likely to meet their objectives are those that are capable of leading rather than following changes within...

Private Finance Initiatives

PricewaterhouseCoopers was created in 1998 by the merger of two firms - Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand - each with historical roots going...

Managing financial risk

There is an element of risk in an activity when the outcome cannot be predicted with any certainty, or when the outcome is known...

The commodities futures market – managing trading risk

This case study examines the importance of futures trading and focuses more specifically on commodity futures trading. The futures market plays a key role...

The processes involved in costing aircraft components

When we think about the cost of an aircraft, we tend to think of the cost of buying the product rather than the costs...

De-regulation

These state monopolies reduced consumer choice. For example, only one producer supplied gas, and only one producer supplied electricity. Power lay with government ministers....

Working for free trade

Businesses and consumers in the UK are buying and selling goods and services in ever more diverse and distant markets as globalisation increases. Trade...

Introducing an established brand – bringing Yellow Bus to Britain

Most people in the UK will have seen yellow school buses in American films. The Yellow Bus brand represents more than simply a bus...

The knowledge-driven economy

This case study focuses upon the findings of the Department of Trade and Industry which illustrate how the development of a knowledge-driven economy is...

Corporate citizenship and the community

Today, more than ever, we have come to appreciate and value the relationships that can be forged between individuals, organisations and the wider community....

Championing competition

An Office of Fair Trading case study We live in an economic system that is generally good at channelling scarce resources towards meeting consumers' needs....

Planning and the business cycle

Land Securities is the UK's leading property company. It is quoted on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 100....

Solving complex supply chain problems

Making products available, wherever they are required, benefits customers. Although customers do not actually view the operation of supply chains, they value product availability...

Improving the performance of manufacturers

primary - gifts of nature such as extracting or developing natural resources including farming, forestry, mining or fishingsecondary – manufacturing and the construction industries...

Creating world class quality standards

Successful businesses meet customer requirements. Customers expect products and services to meet certain standards and a Standard is a document that gives guidance on...

Supporting business through standards

New goods and services come to market after a sequence of activities: researchdevelopmenttestingproduction and launch. This case study shows how BSI British Standards (BSI), the UK”s...

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