Thursday, November 10, 2011

3 companies on their way of Ethic

 1. Best ethical company
        Adidas
    As in my reseach , i found out that ADIDAS is one of the best ethical companies in the world.
    To become a zero-emission company, the adidas Group has overall environmental targets. These are focused on the year 2015. Some of the key ones are to:
  • Cut our relative energy use by 20% 
  • Make a total relative cut of 30% in our carbon emissions by also sourcing green energy 
  • Reduce paper use by 50%, all on a per employee basis.

2. processing ethical company

     SHELL oil company
      Shell received worldwide attention for their involvement om the unfair trial and execution .they save oil in the nothern sea . but now , Shell, a company with traditionally one of the worst reputations among environmental and social pressure groups, has made enormous effort to reinvent itself as a socially responsible business.

3. super awful bad company :
     KFC(Kentucky Fried Chicken (restaurant chain)
    As folks know that KFC's fried chicken wings are really delicious, and i personal also loved the chicken wings from KFC.  But i am pretty sure that you guys would not want eat the chicken wings from KFC again after you read this sad narrative from those chicken from the KFC's farm.
      The KFC suppliers cram these chicken into huge waste-filled fatories, breed and drug them to grow as big as they cant, and that caused those chicken cant even walk , and also oftenly break their wings and legs. The suppliers allowed the workers who work in the farm to torch chickens, they steped on the chicken and jumped on the chicken to kill them or they punch chickens on the cage, that why some chickens became cripple or break wings.
           At slaughter, the bird's throats are slit and they are dropping into tanks of scalding- hot water --- often at that time, these chicken are still in CONSCIOUS!!!
       However, KFC never takes any suggestion from the animal welfare advisers even they have asked the company to take steps to eliminate these abuses to Animal!!!!!  ANYWAY KFC are shameless and malicious!!! 







 

Thursday, November 3, 2011

interview with an owner

during my IB business study, i complete an interview with an owner
i visited a married couple, who have being immigrated for 10 years.
they are running the business which belongs to Secondary sector.they have being running business since 5years ago. it is a long story to tell, they have being done so many kinds of business and jobs.
now, they are sole trader, and suppliers to shops. their job is exports commodities from China to Slovakia, and sell stocks to shops' owner, earning profits from between.
As i mentioned before, that they have been go through many different works, to found out the best one for them.

the reason they have choose to be sole trader was because- As  the owner has full control and able to keep all profit.
although the good thing is the owner can keep all profit, however, there is still some risks in this type of business, for example, there are more international stock shops and more shopping mall has built up. it kills the amount of clients and the demand.
however, they have some great strengths, it is their experiences. they did so many kind of jobs, and they are really hard-working.
they make the profits between shops and suppliers.

  • what type of market research did this require?
             it is clothing market.
  •   what did you anticipate would be the greatest challenge?
            i wont able to work so hard...and this business, we have to fly between original location and sellig location. the cost of it is the owner's health.

  • do you have a mission statement?
            they just earn enough money to make them happy, but not deficit
  • explain the different objective for your business?
       
  • were there any ethical considerations you had to make?
             no

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

world business news 2nd of November

Germany warns Greece over rescue
the eruozone plan to save greece from bankruptcy is not up for renegotiation, Germany has warned, ahead of emergency talks with greece and france.
Greek PM George Papandreou is to meet France's Nicolas Sarkozy and Germany's Angela Merkel later on Thursday.
President Sarkozy had thought the priority would be presenting to the wider world a done deal for the Eurozone rescue and asking for active international support, particularly from China.
But instead, Mr Papandreou's move has left Mr Sarkozy, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel appalled by the uncertainty, and the damage already done, our correspondent says.
Mr Papandreou is expected to say that he had no choice: a referendum was vital to try to overcome resistance on the streets to deepening cuts - and a possible alternative of snap elections would risk Greece defaulting on its debt.
Furthermore, the Greek government faces a crucial confidence vote in parliament on Friday.
One MP from the governing Pasok party has resigned, cutting Mr Papandreou's parliamentary majority to two - and six other leading party members have called on him to resign.
The planned referendum threatens to unravel a deal reached at a EU summit last week aimed at resolving the euro debt crisis.
Leaders agreed on a 100bn-euro loan (£86bn; $140bn) to Athens and a 50% debt write-off.
But in return, Greece must make deep cuts in public spending, slashing pensions and wages and making thousands of civil servants redundant
Photo taken on July 20, 2011 at the Chancellery in Berlin showing German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy