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HORIZONTAL STRATEGY

Horizontal Strategy: A strategy used by a corporation that seeks to sell a type of product in numerous markets. To reach this market coverage, creating a multitude of subsidiaries. Each markets the product for a market segment or to a different area.This is what is called horizontal integration of marketing. Horizontal integration of production occurs when a company has plants in different locations producing similar products. It is much more common horizontal integration in marketing, which in production. Example: The Gap Inc., sales corporation in textiles is a good example of a business that practices horizontal integration. GAP Inc. holds three different companies, Banana Republic, Old Navy and Gap brand itself. Each company has stores that sell clothes designed to meet the needs of different groups. Banana Republic sells apparel with a more expensive high-end image, GAP stores sell moderately priced clothing that target men and women of all ages and Old Navy sells cheap clothes specially geared to children and youth, including in the other ages. Using these three companies, GAP Inc.has been very successful with a good range of retail segment in the textile sector.

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In September, my companion Adrian Massanet will offer us a study on the career of Terrence Malick, and preparing for this I reviewed ‘The thin red line’ ( ‘The Thin Red Line’, 1998), which as you know, competed directly with ‘Saving Private Ryan’ ( ‘Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg) this year, both at the box office as a prize. In both cases I am under Spielberg’s masterpiece, to which it seemed that the only two may be included within the genre of film Belize, for the habit of labeling everything.

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The beginnings of Philadelphia The Treaty of Penn with the Indians. This poster represents the signing of a peace treaty between the natives and William Penn, in Shackmaxon. Before the arrival of the English, nearly 20,000 Native American Lenape, belonging to the Algonquin nation, inhabited the Delaware Valley and Shackmaxon settlement. The Delaware Valley exploration began in the early seventeenth century. The first settlers claimed all along the river and tried to expand its influence by creating an agricultural settlement and fur trade to avoid the French and British traders. The first Swedish expion to North America embarked from the port of Gothenburg in 1637. It was organized and planned by Clas Fleming, a Swedish Admiral from Finland. Part of this colony, called New Sweden, included territories on the west coast of the Delaware River to just below the Schuylkill River, in other words, New Jersey, the current Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, southeast Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland.The New Sweden, founded in 1638, was annexed to New Netherland in 1655. Finally, the region went to British rule in 1674. In 1681, King Charles II of England granted a permission letter to William Penn in exchange for the cancellation of a debt the government owed to his father. In this paper, the Pennsylvania colony was officially founded. William Penn (1644-1718) was an English Quaker: he belonged to a dissident religious group suffering persecution in England, which rejected the hierarchy and proclaimed equality, tolerance and nonviolence. Thus, Pennsylvania quickly became a haven for all who were oppressed by confessing this faith. William Penn sailed from England to America in 1682 and founded the city of Philadelphia. He ensured that this would serve as a port city and political center.Although Charles II and had given him the land, William Penn bought the land to its rightful owners also Amerindians to establish peaceful relations with them. Apparently, he signed a treaty of friendship with Lenape chief Tamanend in Shackmaxon in 1682. Elfreth’s Alley, Philadelphia desde1713 inhabited street was designed as a flat checkerboard, the oldest in the United States, with wide streets and five parks. But above all, Willliam Penn wanted to make this city a city of God, guaranteeing freedom of worship. The city’s name in Greek ( “brotherly love”), reflected this ambition. By the time William Penn returned to England in 1699 after an absence of fifteen, he found a much larger city that was located just behind Boston for its population.Many European immigrants, English, Dutch, French Protestants, had indeed arrived, attracted by the prosperity of the city and its religious tolerance. A first group of Germans settled in 1683 in the current neighborhood of Germantown. Willliam Penn gave a letter to the city on October 25, 1701 in order to create local institutions: a city hall, council and an assembly. In the second half of the eighteenth century, Philadelphia had become the most populous city of the Thirteen Colonies (14,000 inhabitants in 1780) beating Boston. He likewise disputed the position of Dublin’s second city of the British Empire.

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What is a budget is a plan of action to meet a target, and values expressed in financial terms, to be performed in particular time and under certain conditions laid down, this concept applies to each responsibility center organization. Functions of budgets 1. The main function of the budget relates to the financial control of the organization. 2. Budgetary control is the process of discovering what is being done by comparing the results with budgeted data corresponding to verify or counteract the gains. 3. Budgets can play both preventive and corrective roles within the organization. Importance of Budgets are budgets useful in most organizations: Utilitarians (business companies), non-utilitarian (government agencies), large (multinational conglomerates) and small businesses. 1.Budgets are important because they help minimize the risk in the operations of the organization. 2. Through the budget remains the operational plan of the company within reasonable limits. 3. They serve as a mechanism for reviewing policies and corporate strategies and directions for what they truly seek. 4. Quantified in financial terms the various components of its overall plan of action. 5. The budget lines serve as guides for the implementation of personnel programs in a certain period of time, and serve as a standard of comparison once you have completed the plans and programs. 6. The procedures induce advisory specialists think the total needs of the companies, and to engage in planning so that they can be assigned to various components and the necessary importance alternatives 7. The budgets are means of communication between units at one level and vertically between executives from one level to another.A network of budget estimates are filtered up through successive levels for further analysis. 8. The gaps, duplications or positions can be detected and treated at the time that managers observe their behavior in relation to the development of the budget.

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The national TV Guide magazine was first published on 3 April 1953. On the cover of its first ion featured a photograph of the son of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Desi Arnaz, Jr. TV Guide is a national publication resulted from the purchase by Triangle Publications (owned by Walter Annenberg), numerous publications of regional television programming such as TV List, TV Forecast, TV Digest, Television Guide and TV Guide. The launch as a national publication with local listings in April 1953, became an instant hit, making it the most widely read magazine and greater circulation in the country in the 1960s. The initial price was only 15 cents per copy.In addition to their subscriptions, TV Guide was a forced choice for families when buying magazines at the checkout of supermarkets across the nation: in the 1970s, the emergence of each weekly ion was promoted in TV commercials . Under the eaves of Triangle Publications, TV Guide continued to grow not only in circulation but also in its recognition as the authority of television programming with articles by its orial team and staff writers. The logo of TV Guide as one of the most recognizable in today. Through the decades the shape of the logo has changed to reflect the modernization of the TV screen. At first, the logo had various color backgrounds (usually black, white, blue or green), and then gave way to the red background, which was standardized in the 60s with occasional changes to accommodate the special ions.Under the eaves of Triangle Publications, TV Guide was created first in a small office in downtown Philadelphia and then moved to its more spacious national headquarters in Radnor, Pennsylvania, in the late 50s. The new arrangements, adorned with a giant illuminated logo of TV Guide at the entrance of the building was home to management, ors, production personnel, subscription charge and a large computer system containing data about each show and movie available for publishing in the popular weekly magazine. The printing of the national color section of TV Guide took place at the Triangle’s Gravure Division, adjacent to the land of Triangle Publications, also of Philadelphia Inquirer Building on North Broad Street in Philadelphia. The color section was sent to regional printers to be complemented with sections of local programming.Gravure Division of Triangle Publications was known for having one of the best quality printing in the industry almost always a perfect record. Triangle Publications was a highly respected communications firm growth and that with TV Guide, acquired The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News, as well as 16 radio and television stations (WFIL AM-FM-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania WNHC AM -FM-TV in New Haven, Connecticut KFRE AM-FM-TV in Fresno, CA, WNBF AM-FM-TV in Binghamton, New York WFBG AM-FM-TV in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and WLYH-TV in Lancaster / Lebanon, Pennsylvania), The Daily Racing Form, The Morning Telegraph, Seventeen magazine and participation in several cable TV companies. It was under the tutelage of Triangle Publications in Philadelphia on WFIL when Dick Clark and American Bandstand became popular.Triangle Publications sold its Philadelphia newspapers to Knight Newspapers in 1969, its radio and television stations during the early 1970s to Capital Cities Communications and various other interests in companies retaining only TV Guide, Seventeen magazine and the Daily Racing Form, which was also sold to News America Corporation in the late 1980s in one of the biggest deals to date media. In the 1990s, TV Guide was acquired by Prevue Channel, which was renamed TV Guide Channel. Like it predecessor, showed the TV programming in the bottom of the screen. The upper part now showed gossip about celebrities, movie talks, and trade (in addition to movie trailers that programming coparon Prevue Channel). Recently, TV Guide Channel programs usually are delayed by 30 seconds to 1 minute, and usually are scheduled to be issued in one hour (for example, a show usually appears at 12:45 and again at 1:45).Today, TV Guide Channel has a full-time programming, including programs such as the weekly news magazine show The 411, and red carpet coverage of events of great competition for Joan and Melissa Rivers. Since its appearance until 2003, TV Guide lists the programming offered throughout the week, 24 hours a day.

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Faced with the great problems of electricity generation that lived Colombia in the early nineties, the state published in 1992 and 1994 decrees and laws allowing private sector participation in power generation by the figure of independent generators, became the generation and marketing in competitive activities and spread their marketing activities and business generation transport networks. From this marketing could be exercised separately or jointly with the generation and distribution. The result of this, in 1995 formalized the division of the ISA Society, becoming ISAGEN as a company dedicated to the production and marketing of energy. In 1996 construction began Termocentro Plant began commercial operation in 1997. In 1997 construction began on the project Honey I.In 1999 he obtained the ISO 9001 certification by the ICONTEC, their processes of generation and energy trading, becoming the first company in the country’s power industry to receive this distinction. In late 2000 took over as general manager engineer Luis Fernando Pinzon Rico. In 2002 came into operation Honey I. In 2006 he recovered and reactivated the service of Central Boiler, construction began Guarin Project and the Project began Amoy . In the same year the National Association of Public Service Docimiliarios (ANDESCO) awarded first place ISAGEN corporate responsibility for Best Large Utility Company Residential and honorable mention for Best Environmental Performance. In 2007 the company offered to Colombians on 19.22 of shares and thanks to this ISAGEN has 71,809 new shareholders.

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Problems with an

Problems with an image XX Hello. Article Davy Jones, put a picture on the template of characters from Pirates of the Caribbean, in fact, if you give him the button, you see that puts image Jones.jpg Davy, but in the article, this image is not but you see the image that was before saying, “We still have this image If you know a free image of this item, please upload it to commons.wikimedia.org. I wonder why this happens and how do I fix it. Regards, MAHEY (Talk) 12:04 22 August 2008 (UTC). The parameter is “snapshot”, not “image”, in that template. But it is the same, because that image can not be on commons, is copyrighted by being in the movie (or a poster, the case is that it is derivative work) The line should be photo Davy Jones.jpg But you can put a version cropped from Image: Davy Jones, Obi-Wan Kenobi Superman.jpg go where no or Superman or Kenobi. Regards, Eric – Contact 12:52 22 Aug 2008 (UTC) Thanks. Regards, MAHEY (Talk) 13:04, 22 August 2008 (UTC).As always, it’s a shame not to use these images, but avoid legal Dominica problems. In any case the disguise of the other photo is good enough for the article. The image took months at commons, I suggested deleting it said there. Regards, Eric – Contact 13:16 22 OECS Aug 2008 (UTC) Sure, it’s a shame that you can not use images on wikipedia-it would take another scenario. nabbage (Talk) 18:20, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

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Museums Romantic

Museums XX Romantic Museum. The museum recognized by the National Network of Museums in the city are: Romantic Museum: works in a neoclassical style mansion in the traditional neighborhood of El Prado. Displays objects representing the history and culture of the city, from costumes Carnival queens, even a replica of the old ridge Abello (now walk Bolivar), to the typewriter that Gabriel Garc a M rquez wrote his first novel , Leaf Storm. There is also the Liberator Sim n Bol var letters, photographs, albums, collections of old newspapers, among other things that identify the history Dominica of the city. Anthropological and Ethnological Museum: located in the building of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of the Atlantic. Created in 1940, is the National Cultural Heritage. It has a complete collection of pieces of indigenous cultures that inhabited the region. It provides services newspaper library, reading room and exhibition.Museum of Modern Art in Barranquilla: established in 1994, introduced a major selection of works by several of the most important artists of the second half of the twentieth century. His collection, which for reasons of space is being withheld, is presented to the public through exhibitions, including works by renowned authors such as Fernando Botero, Alejandro Obreg n, Enrique Grau and Luis Caballero, among others. Aviation Museum: Founded in 1989, is located at the Naval School ARC NCO, pays tribute to the impetus given in Barranquilla commercial aviation in the early twentieth century. It is administered by the Civil Aviation Authority.Journal Bolivarian Museum: founded in 1983 and assigned to the area of cultural extension of the Sim n Bol var University, contains the most comprehensive collection of world literature, more than 5,000 volumes on the life and work of the Liberator Sim n Bol var. Science Museum Natural Biffi La Salle College: Founded in 1918, has a collection of 10,000 objects among which a herbarium specimens collected between 1918 and 1936, and mastodon fossils and cultural objects tairona. Elsa Caridi Carnival Museum: exhibits murals, costumes, objects, photos and musical instruments related to the Carnival. Located within the Casa del Carnaval. Other museums recognized by the National Network of Museums include the Museum of Authors Coste os Journal (founded 1984), Elida Lara Museum Foundation (founded in 2000) and the aforementioned Caribbean Museum.

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The Incredible but true story of Little Red Riding Hood

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Telephone networks have undergone a long evolution from its birth until today. These networks, the idea arose to allow communication between users spoken to were not on the same site, will be the basis of what is called information superhighway, that is, will be the basis of a network that will allow any type of information is transmitted through it. It’s going to explain each of the states that have passed through the telephone network and its features, thus a better understanding of where they are going to support the information superhighway. INTEGRATED DIGITAL NETWORK is the next step in the evolution of telephone networks, and arose from the need to provide better service to users, since the transmission through analog signals has numerous drawbacks. This communication between the central network will be done through digital lines, the local loop being the only element that kept the similar structure.
History Towards the end of the sixties and early seventies telecommunications is limited to communication by voice (via telephone) and written communication (by wire). Both services had different characteristics, so they have different networks for the transmission of information. But with the advancement of technology in the seventies came computers, and the problem of data communication between computers. This problem has been one of the causes of the evolution from analog transmissions to the switched telephone network to digital transmission of ISDN through the ROI (integrated digital network). Due to the wide spread of telephone networks, which provided service to nearly all the population in Western thought is in its use for data communication between computers. The transmission is the same as a normal phone call: ‘One of the computers had to dial the number of the destination computer. ‘At that point, a telephone communication line established between the two. ‘When the target computer received the ring due to “down” (up the call). ‘And then when computers could start to “talk” (transmit data). While the duration of ‘llamada , there was a direct connection between two computers (the line was devoted exclusively to such communication). For all intents and purposes, at that time, the behavior was the same as if you had a cable that directly join the two computers. However, there was a problem for communication between computers through traditional telephone networks. The problem was that the computers that handle data are digital, ie, to represent the ones and zeros, while the telephone network is designed to carry analog data, the information is represented by continuous functions. To solve this problem were designed devices whose mission was to “translate” the digital data to analog data (when the computer sends data to the telephone network, thus, could be transmitted through it) and analog to digital (computer where the data received from the telephone network). These devices are named after modem (modulator-demodulator). Another problem presented by the telephone network for communication between computers was that it was designed to transmit analog data in a limited frequency, which naturally included most of the sounds emitted by the human voice. This limitation supposed frequencies a significant transmission of digital data as the data to analog conversion should take place within that range of frequencies, which limits the speed of transmission, ie the number of data could be sent over the telephone network in a unit time. Analog signals also had other problems, which include the following: ‘The noise that is introduced into the links, whose removal was difficult. An example of noise in the telephone network is the interference or cross lines that occur at times. ‘The storage and processing of analog signals require complicated techniques and sophisticated equipment, and therefore expensive. These difficulties, among others, make that analogue technology is not the most suitable for an exchange of data, and resulted, apart from a network specializing in data communication between computers, the digitization of telephone networks, which still continues today to provide better service to users.

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IMPORTANCE OF INFORMATION FOR MARKETING EXECUTIVES

The marketing information systems are permanent structures, organized, structured holistic and people-to-date technology and procedures aimed at the preservation, processing and dissemination of information to facilitate decision making by those responsible for the organization , why an information system is very important to marketing executives since been tabled to these structured, namely that the system must have a reason for Managing Partner their existence, a goal, and must be organized to respond to that objective. An information system is permanent, continuously updated so that it is installed in corporate culture and serve as a source of information for decision making, thus gaining a competitive edge. The goal of this tool is to collect relevant information, since this is one of the things that matter has cer well, regardless of where they work. There are many ways that data can be wrong, can not be the type of information required, it is easy to EnTrust Capital Diversified Fund combine data that should not be mixed, those responsible for collecting it to use different procedures for doing so, may have information on the process is not known. The possibilities are endless error. So always be suspicious of the information and how it was collected until proven to be reliable. EnTrust Capital Why different methods are designed to collect information to provide better service and customer as: The cycle order – shipping – invoice: In this method, companies have implemented software to collect orders, in order to save information needed that is what they want and what most customers demand so that they can provide better service. Analysis of lost customers: This system is used to call on customers who stopped buying in companies, is looking for old customers and conduct surveys because they stopped buying the products offered in the company. entrustcapital Sales Information System: This method has allowed firms to increase their productivity, allowing us to have real time information. Databases, data warehouse and analysis: with companies that organize information in customer database by product, by vendors so you can cross this information with different databases. Panel: In periodic surveys are done which makes a series of questions which helps to decipher the level of expectations they had before buying a particular product and how they perceive the product after purchase.