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- The Impacts of Evolving Consumer Goods: Retailing Methods on Pallet Use in the U.S.
- Most consumer goods are palletized for storage and subsequent distribution to the purchaser. However, the methods of selling and delivering these consumer goods are varied and changing. This paper reviews the retailing trends. The logistic systems of each retailing method are described and inferences are made regarding the relative impact...
- White papers 2001-01-08
- Driving High Performance Through Outsourcing: Achieving Process Excellence In Consumer Goods
- Consumer goods and retail companies, among other enterprises, are attracted to outsourcing for its demonstrable benefits, including dramatic cost savings and the enhanced focus on core competencies that it facilitates. Yet any serious consideration of outsourcing must also address common concerns, such as the belief that outsourcing entails a loss...
- White papers 2005-01-10
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- Consumer good companies gung ho on sales.
- Oct. 19--AHMEDABAD, India -- With stock markets still holding out, record-breaking rainfall and good industrial growth working as mood elevators for urban and rural consumers, can a big bang Diwali be far behind? Hopeful consumer durables, automobile companies and retailers are dressing up...
- Research articles 2005-10-19
- Factors Affecting Consumer Evaluations of Brand Extensions
- This research investigates the significance and relative importance of factors affecting consumer evaluations of brand extensions. Based on a systematic literature review of leading marketing journals we identified 25 hypotheses concerning 16 main effects and 9 interaction effects of such factors which are tested empirically using a large scale consumer...
- White papers 2002-09-01
- Empirical Generalizability of Consumer Evaluations of Brand Extensions
- This research investigates the significance and relative importance of factors affecting consumer evaluations of brand extensions across a broad set of circumstances. Based on a systematic literature review of leading marketing journals it identifies 25 hypotheses concerning 16 main effects and 9 interaction effects of such brand extension success factors...
- White papers 2004-03-01
- Informed Consent Is The Key To Protecting Consumer Good Will
- Web sites are increasingly asking consumers to allow access to their address books to send invitations to their friends on the consumer's behalf. A common technique to increase the site subscriptions, and benefits for the user by bringing their friends into the service. This paper explains about some general "Best...
- White papers 2009-06-24
- OECD: providing consumer protection in electronic commerce
- What would it take for you to buy something on the Internet today? What kind of assurance would you need about what you buy, whether it is a consumer good (clothes, books, or wine) or digitized product software? Just as some people in the offline world are comfortable purchasing by...
- Research articles 1998-09-01
- The Vanishing American Consumer
- Have Americans given up "retail therapy" for good? A permanent shift could be good for many strapped households — but would spell bad news for the recovery. American consumers have awakened, bolt upright, with belated sticker shock (“I bought what!? I spent how much!?”), from a shopping spree that’s...
- Articles 2009-09-15
- Is Saving More a Good Thing?
- Americans have cut down dramatically on spending and ratcheted up their savings rates. And while that's good for the economy long term, helping to finance valuable investment, in the short term, it's only making our economic woes worse…A recent store visit underscores just how dramatically spending habits have changed in...
- Articles 2009-03-09
- Best consumer confidence for 18 months
- You are here: City and Corporate / Best consumer confidence for 18 months Consumer confidence has risen to its highest level for 18 months but major job fears remain. The latest Consumer Confidence Index, released today Monday by market research company Nielsen and the British Retail Consortium BRC, shows an...
- News items 2009-11-02
- Consumer Reports: Not All 'Employee Discount' Cars Are a Good Deal
- YONKERS, N.Y., July 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- As domestic car manufacturers head into the final weekend of their 'employee discount' promotions, Consumer Reports is reminding last-minute buyers that a good price doesn't necessarily mean a good deal. YONKERS, N.Y., July 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- As domestic car manufacturers head into...
- Research articles 2005-07-28
- CEA forecasts $155B in consumer electronics revenue (Electronic News)
- The Consumer Electronics Association http://www.ce.org/ CEA kicked off its annual Consumer Electronics Show http://www.cesweb.org with some good news, estimating that factory-to-dealer sales of consumer electronics will exceed $155 billion in 2007 The Consumer Electronics Association http://www.ce.org/ CEA kicked off its annual Consumer Electronics Show http://www.cesweb.org...
- Research articles 2007-01-15
- Should Bank CEOs Direct Employees to Scuttle Consumer Protection Agency?
- It's no secret that the American Bankers Association wants to torpedo the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Now the group also wants bank leaders to dragoon employees into opposing it. Says the ABA, the industry's leading trade organization, in an August 21 entry in the "What's News" section of...
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- The Bad News Behind J&J's Good Q3 Earnings and Why Pfizer is Kicking Itself as a Result
- Johnson & Johnson announced its third quarter earnings and reported good news: Sales were up year on year 6.4 percent to $15.9 billion. That topline number illustrates two things: how bad news can be concealed inside a diversified pharma play; and how dumb Pfizer was to sell J&J its consumer...
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- U.S. Bancorp Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you, sir. Operator Instructions. Okay the first question is from Mike Mayo with Deutsche Bank. Mike Mayo - Deutsche Bank Good morning. Richard Davis Good morning, Mike. Andy Cecere Good morning, Mike. Mike Mayo - Deutsche Bank Could you just say something simple, it sounds like...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-16
- Meet the New Consumer: The Simplifier
- We are about to witness a fundamental change in consumerism, at least as we have known it the last 20 years. In the 1990s and 2000s we stocked up on wide-screen TVs, SUVs, and 12-room homes for our three-member families. But not today. Not tomorrow. ...
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- Consumer Reports Gives 'Very Good' Score to Chevrolet Cobalt SS in Tests of Four Sports Coupes
- YONKERS, N.Y., Nov. 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Chevrolet Cobalt SS achieved a "Very Good" overall score in Consumer Reports tests of four sporty coupes for the December issue. The $24,000 Cobalt SS outpointed three competitors in the test group-thYONKERS, N.Y., Nov. 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Chevrolet Cobalt SS...
- Research articles 2005-11-03
- Good Dog Carl gets licensed. (Warner Brothers Consumer Products Property Development department offers license for Alexandra Day's books) (EHN) (Brief Article)
- BURBANK, Cal.--The Warner Bros. Consumer Products Property Development department is offering its first licensing program for Alexandra Day's children's literary series "Good Dog, Carl." The license is available to suppliers in housewares andBURBANK, Cal.--The Warner Bros. Consumer Products Property Development department is offering its first licensing...
- Research articles 1995-01-02
- Consumer Reports Tests Four Small SUVs: Toyota Rav4 Retains 'Very Good' Overall Rating; Saturn Vue & Chevrolet Equinox Finish Midpack
- YONKERS, N.Y., Sept. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Toyota RAV4 achieved a "Very Good" overall rating in tests of four small sport-utility vehicles for the October issue of Consumer Reports. The RAV4 retained its long-standing position as one of CR's YONKERS, N.Y., Sept. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Toyota RAV4...
- Research articles 2004-09-08
- Will Obama Be Good for Business?
- Every so often, a post here at Back to B-school rouses controversy. Today's post will likely draw similar disagreements, and I'll be curious to see where readers stand. I recently interviewed Dr. Robert Frank, professor of management and economics at Cornell's Johnson School of Management and author of The...
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
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