BACKGROUND OF PROTON Proton Holdings Bhd Type Public (Bursa Malaysia: PROTON) Industry Automotive Founded 1983 Headquarters Subang Jaya and Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan Malaysia Key people Syed Zainal Abidin (Managing Director) Products Car, Automotive Parts Revenue RM8.23 billion MYR 2009 Net income RM240 million MYR 2009 Total assets RM7.52billion MYR 2009 Employees 10,300 Subsidiaries Lotus Website proton.com Proton is a Malaysian automobile manufacturer headquartered in Subang Jaya and Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia with a manufacturing plant in Tanjung Malim, Perak. Founded in 1983, it was Malaysia's only carmaker until the establishment of its competitor and arch-rival Perodua in 1993. Its name is a Malay acronym …show more content…
As of 3 August 2008, Proton has produced 3 million cars since 1985, where the 3 millionth car is a second-generation Saga. Joint Ventures and Partnerships Abortive strategic partnership with Volkswagen AG In October 2004, Proton announced that an understanding had been reached with Volkswagen AG of Germany to establish a strategic partnership. Under the tie-up, the two carmakers were expected to exploit each other's strengths. Proton would gain access to Volkswagen Group's superior technical capabilities and technology. In return, Volkswagen Group would utilise Proton's spare capacity at the latter's Tanjung Malim plant to assemble cars for export to the South-East Asian market, where the German auto giant had a weak presence. On 13 January 2006, Volkswagen Group finally announced that negotiations about the partnership had failed because its desires clashed with the terms and conditions offered by Proton; their interest was more in eventually controlling Proton Holdings, rather than just being a strategic partner. Despite this, Malaysian news announced that Volkswagen AG had signed an agreement to buy a 51% share in Proton on 26 January 2007, which turned out to be unfounded. Throughout most of 2007, rumours about continuing merger talks with Volkswagen Group, and occasionally General Motors surfaced in the local press and at briefings
We all live in a complex universe and human is curious about by nature. What is the world made of? This is an enormous progress era that allows humans to find some answers to their curiosity. And string theory is the recent attempt of humans to answer this curiosity. Our basic science would explain to us that the world is made of matter. This ordinary matter is made of atoms which is composed of the basic components, electrons which are around the nucleus,a nucleus that is composed of neutrons and protons and both contain smaller particles known as quarks.
VW also benefit from its competitors via its operational strategic in providing the company financial security. Other companies may only specialize in a specific country or focus on catering to upper or middle class, VW provides not Volkswagen (VW) is a versatile company that specializes in manufacturing half the world with luxury and commercial vehicles. VW’s headquarters were established in 1937 and are centrally located in Wolfsburg Lower Saxony, Germany (Volkswagen Group, History 2014). Although VW is an entity and brand within itself, the company consists of many subgroups of brands of luxury vehicles such as Audi, Porsche, Bentley Motors, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Skoda Auto, SEAT, and Ducati (motorbike). The subdivision also
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So why don’t protons get exchanged in clothes? When you add a proton to an atom, the overall charge goes up +1, but the atom itself changes when you add or take away a atom. So if the protons were to get moved when the clothes are in the dryer, the atoms would change on the clothes. That’s why only electrons are moved around on the clothes, because if the protons moved, the atoms on the clothes would change.
The copper atom is constructed from three kinds of particles: protons, neutrons, and electrons. The protons and neutrons are located in a very small spherical volume at the exact center of the atom called the nucleus. Protons have a +1 charge, and nuetrons have no charge, so the nucleus has an overall positive charge. The electrons, which have a -1 charge, are located in a relatively large spherical volume around and centered on the nucleus.
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Atoms are made of three parts, protons, neutrons, and electrons. Protons are pieces of matter that is positively charged (+1). Electrons are really small, smaller than protons, piece of matter with a negative charge(-1). Neutrons are pieces of matter around the same size as protons with no charge(0). Atoms are usually surrounded by electrons. When the electron and protons are at the same amount the net charge is zero. When the number of electrons and protons are not equal it causes the atoms to be ionized. These atoms are called ions. More electrons over protons are negatively charged. More protons over electrons are positive charged. The total charge would be the sum of the positive protons and negative electrons. The number of protons defines
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