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Guide to Writing a Business Plan Business Plan Insert Company Name here… Insert Company Slogan here… Prepared By: INSERT NAME Date Prepared: INSERT DATE Index BUSINESS SUMMARY 5 About the Company 5 Your Products and Services 5 The Market 5 The Business Potential 5 Mission, Goals and Objectives 6 Strategies 6 Business Structure 6 Finance 7 THE MARKET 8 Industry Profile 8 Competition 9 Market Segmentation 10 MARKETING PLAN 11 Your Customers 11 Strengths, Weaknesses

ABSTRACT From august 12, 2008 to february 12, 2009, we carried out in COCO SERVICE a research on the topic "Diagnosis of the practice of biosecurity in the breeding of the poultries:case of COCO SERVICE ". The methodological approach consisted in knowing in a theoretical way through documentation what should be made as regards to biosecurity in poultry farming. We then evaluated in a practical manner the performances as regards to biosecurity of the company by sector using interviews

friendly service. Although the early 1990s saw Wal-mart operating more than 2,000 stores worth more than US$73 billion, the stagnant American economy was making it difficult to sustain the company’s historic double-digit comparable store sales growth. With limited domestic options, Wal-mart, for the first time, began to consider expansion outside the US seriously. Wal-mart’s first external foray was into Mexico where, in 1991, it formed a partnership with CIFRA, Mexico’s most successful retailer

variety of products related to computing. The company is known worldwide and employs approximately 88 000 people in more that 100 different countries. Microsoft was born in New Mexico (USA) in 1975. It was created by two american students : Bill Gates and Paul Allen. The company was lead by Bill Gates for a long time, making him the wealthiest man on the planet for many years aswell as a worldly known and famous businessman. The origin of the company goes back to the 1960s, where Gates and his

this transformation to be successful the CEE countries must undertake political and economic transition, as did Poland from 1990. Poland, which has inherited from a planned economy based on heavy industry and agriculture with many state-owned enterprises, known then hyperinflation which ruined its economy. For this reason, the Vice-Chairman and Minister of Finance of the Polish government, Leszek Balcerowicz is implementing a policy to ensure the transition from planned economy to a market economy,

a great position to sell branded merchandise — for example shirts or mugs with logos or slogans on. However, a lot of webmasters are slow to get involved because they don't want to handle large quantities of stock, can't afford the startup costs, or are reluctant to manage distribution etc. Spreadshirt allows these sites to enter the merchandising market without any startup costs or risk whatsoever. A site owner simply signs up for free with Spreadshirt, uploads a new design to the Internet, chooses

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction The major stages in the consulting process Entry Diagnosis Action planning Implementation Termination Differences in the stages of the consultancy process for strategic advice consulting and IT consulting Focus on the stages of the consulting process Level of commitment Sequence of the stages of the consulting process Nature of the consulting process

split up into cartels with strong barriers to entry in order to limit competition. Furniture’s prices were high and also reserved to well-heeled households. Retailers were especially located in downtowns and there were no way to target humble households because of high costs of such a localization. But, after WWII, new socio-demographic trends grew up, such as baby boom and new needs appeared. That is why in 1943, a 17 years old Swedish man, Ingvar Kamprad decided to launch IKEA, named as an acronym

Evil to some is always good to others.” Although written several hundred years ago, and in an entirely different context to the subject matter of the diverse world of strategy, Jane Austen’s words ring true about the different views on, and approaches to the notion of building a strategy for a firm. Just as George Bernard Shaw promoted that “if you took all the economists in the world, and laid them end to end, they would never reach a conclusion”, (Mankiw, 2008, p34) this also seems to be the

SAIDANE** Professor Université Lille Nord de France, LSMRC, EQUIPPE growing share of global merger and acquisition (M&A) activities now relates to thefinancialservices industry. Whether mergers involving total integration or only acquisitions of parts of target companies, banking M&A transactions are at the centre of attention throughout the world. The changes to the banking business model we are witnessing today will boost the M&A process in the banking industry. In the course ofthe iggos, mergers and