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2% Switzerland 1% Spain 13% Argentina 2% Belgium 6% Brazil 4% China 2% Portugal 1% Poland 1% Mexico 1% South Korea 2% Italy 7% France 52% Greece 2% Latest Major Developments (1/2 January 2003 - Carrefour has reported a slip in gross sales for 2002 of 1.6% to EUR76.78 billion. Although currency effects in emerging markets (devaluations in Brazil and Argentina and weaker Asian currencies) knocke sales growth back, on a constant currency basis sales rose by 4.5%. January 2003

| |Since the 1960s, South Korea has achieved an incredible record of growth and global integration to become a high-tech industrialized economy. Four | |decades ago, GDP (Gross Domestic Product) per capita was comparable with levels in the poorer countries of Africa and Asia. In 2004, South Korea joined| |the trillion dollar club of world economies, and currently is among the world's twenty largest economies. Initially, a system

asset variable. Additionally, we add information on time-varying country characteristics which we presume to influence the location of corporate patents, precisely the number of scientific researchers per million of country inhabitants and the gross domestic product (GDP) (both obtained from the World Development Indicator database). The average subsidiary in our sample is located in a country with a GDP of 1.4 trillions US dollars and 2, 918 scientific researchers per million of country inhabitants.

European Coal and Steel Community. * EU: European Union. * EU15: The 15 countries member of the European Union before the last enlargement. * FDI: Foreign Direct Investment * GATT: General Agreement on Tariff and Trade. * GDP: Gross Domestic Product. * OEEC: Organisation for European Economic Cooperation. * NAFTA: North American Free Trade Agreement. * USA: United States of America. INTRODUCTION The idea of a united Europe was once just a dream in the minds of philosophers

Contents Part 1: Analysis of the Japan market 1) SLEPT - PEST Analysis of Japan 2) The 12C Framework 3) Hofstede analysis PART 2: The principal challenges of the Japanese market 1) Cultural challenges 2) Product adaptation 3) Competition challenges PART 3: Market entry mode 1) The general strategy of H&M 2) The best suited strategy to enter Japan Part 4: Impact of Madonna’s Collaboration with H&M in Japan 1) Impact of using

nouvelle 500. Vous connaissez ? En somme ils se servent vraiment des caractéristiques de participation, de partage sur lesquelles on fonde toutes les communautés qui fonctionnent, et ils les utilisent pour une opération de « Consumer Generated Product », dans le sens il y a vraiment en jeu la possibilité de voir appliquée la caractéristique inventée directement sur le véhicule prochainement dans le commerce […]» © CCMP 2010 – Nouvelle Fiat 500 – Jean-Marc POINTET Université Paris Est -

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economic sectors while causing no hindrance to the business activities. 2.2 Economic data | |Venezuela |United Arab Emirates | |Gross Domestic Product (2006) |$181,608 billion |$163,296 billion | | |(oil : more than 25 %) |(Abou Dhabi: 56.15 % ;

.................................................................................. 9 Trends Centering around Operative Efficiency. .................................................................................... 9 Trends Centering around New Product Innovation ............................................................................ 12 Economic Environment Trend ................................................................................................................ 15 North America

diverse mix of policies with varying degrees of government intervention (Leipziger & Vinod, 1994)– diversity - Major changes also occurred within East Asia including a remarkable increase in the relative importance of machinery and electronics products in intra-regional trade, and a rapid expansion of international production sharing as reflected in trade in parts and components.(Ng & Yeats, 2003) - Dynamic region: “East Asian regional trade and cooperation initiatives. Since the mid-1980s