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total value of own and third-party assets managed Billion Basis point or basis points (100 bps = 1 percentage point) Book value per share = shareholders' equity divided by the number of shares Compound annual growth rate Cantonal income per capita (Switzerland only) Capital expenditures 1) Cash flow from operations, 2) Chief financial officer Costs as a percentage of income Consumer price index Combined ratio = ratio of claims and expenses as a percentage of premiums (for insurance companies) Calendar

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an ingenious arbitrageur could Marketing International 2009 - Chap.4 - Politique internationale de prix buy Big Macs for the equivalent of $1.27 in China, whose yuan is the most undervalued currency in our table, and sell them for $5.05 in Switzerland, whose franc is the most overvalued currency. The impracticality of such a trade highlights some of the flaws in the PPP idea. Trade barriers, transport costs and differences in taxes drive a wedge between prices in different countries. More important

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consumer goods, fruit and vegetables, tobacco, construction minerals, electric power machinery and switchgear, textile fibers, paper 1 data are in 2009 US dollars Page 9 Exports - partners: Syria 26.04%, UAE 14.46%, Saudi Arabia 6.87%, Switzerland 5.97% (2009) Imports: o $16.41 billion (2009 est.) o country comparison to the world: 74 o $16.31 billion (2008 est.) Imports - commodities: petroleum products, cars, medicinal products, clothing, meat and live animals, consumer goods, paper, textile

to change. In fact country branding seems to be a new notion, a new trend in our society. Indeed, nowadays, destination branding is one of the hottest topics among place marketers. As underlined Piggot, “country branding is a burning topic from Switzerland and New Zealand to Hawaii and Costa Rica.” Moreover The World Tourism organization talks about country branding as tomorrow’s fashion items. That means the next century will show the emergence of tourism destination as a ” fashion accessory”. But

Quimper, Caen, Le Havre...). Then, Hippopotamus has the possibility to implement others restaurants abroad. For the moment, the chain has only 5 Hippopotamus in foreign countries. There is probably a market in other European countries like in Switzerland, Luxembourg, Spain or Germany and even in Hong Kong where you have a large community of French people. The last opportunity is the recovery of the economy. After a difficult year in 2008 and at the first semester 2009, Hippopotamus could take

point of expecting spouses to refuse to eat with each other, until the banned spouse repented.[12] This type of strict literalism, on this issue, as well as others, brought about a division among the Mennonites of Southern Germany, the Alsace and Switzerland in 1693, and led to withdrawal of those who sided with Ammann. Swiss Anabaptism developed, from this point, in two parallel streams. Those following Ammann became known as Amish or Amish Mennonite. The others eventually formed the basis of the Swiss

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