Chiquita Case

The power of buyers in the industry varies at different levels depending on the field. For pharmaceutical drug companies, which have thousands of patients, customers have lower price sensitivity as they are rarely able to refuse the treatments they need and they have low bargaining leverage due to commonly lack of information as well as knowledge on the drugs. For biotech firms that distribute specialized products to the government and hospitals, their customers actually have more of a bargaining power due to being the sole consumer sources

Using at least two (2) of the foundational ethical theories studied in Module 2, you should answer the following questions. With each answer, you should discuss the issues and set forth and defend a clear position on whether or not any constraint ought to be placed on the freedom of a business to:

B. However these promotions and ideas were only a cover-up of that the “governor got them to sign a deed for their land without their knowledge”. The chief’s considerer it out of consideration to that it was not in their power to do any such thing without consent from other nations.

Issue 1: I do believe that corporations have a responsibility to society as a whole, not only to maximize their own profits and benefit the economy but also to respect the community that they reside in. They achieve this by not only providing employment, but also upholding an image. It is up to

CompuCo is attempting to move from a domestic producer to that of an international producer. In order to achieve this feat, the company must have an international focus in regards to its overall business operations. It is quite apparent from the case, that CompuCo does not have the will or desire to be proactive with its international subsidiaries. In order to achieve greater international success, Dr. Durand must first alter the company culture. First, all international subsidiaries should be treated as a primary business irrespective of their individual performance. It seems, through reading the case, that much more emphasis is placed on French product development and applications that is given to its international counterparts. This is a detriment to business as many of CompuCo's international customers have differing tastes and sentiments in regards to product offerings. The case cites numerous examples of this between both French and American consumers. French consumers, for example, like to read product manuals and prefer complexity over simplicity. Their American counterparts however prefer ease of use, and a simple design. The company was slow to discern these changes in consumer demands and elected instead to emphasize its French product design. This created consumer ill-will and

By 1993, the Banana Empire ceased to exist due to Panama Disease, ongoing labour issues, the rise of new competition and the increased assertiveness of host country governments all contributed to the growing intricacy of the industry. Nowadays, the modern banana farmer has been exposed to many pesticides, which have led to adverse health conditions for the majority of workers but working conditions and wages are on the rise currently. The introduction of fair trade bananas in 2004 was fundamental in bettering the working conditions for farmers and labourers.

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The author of the book, “The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World” (2008), Dan Koeppel, who is a famous journalist describes in a fascinating way banana’s cultural importance, threats associated with the crops of banana in the future and banana’ history. Banana is a very delicious fruit and is eaten all over the world. Banana is one of the world’s fourth largest harvests in the world. Dole and Chiquita are eminent American based distributors and producers of banana. They are claiming to produce the banana on low price. In this book, Koeppel discusses the risks associated to the plantation of banana around the world. He also discusses the fact that due to blight, the plantation of banana is destroyed (Koeppel, 2008). He points out that the farmers and the producers have no insight at all regarding this matter (Koeppel, 2008).

Coriant, which is a company that provides innovative networking solutions to network operators, has a new CEO. The company has appointed Shaygan Kheradpri as the new CEO. He is also the chairman of the board. Shaygan brings extensive experience to the company. Before he joined Coriant, he was the Operating Partner at Marlin Equity Partners. He has also had over 28 years of experience in technology, telecom and financial services.

It seems that in going through Chiquita’s company background, that they have been somewhat of a shady brand since its origin. Eli Black, CEO in 1970, paid a US$1.25 million bribe to Honduran official in return for them reducing taxes on the company’s banana exports. He then proceeded to kill himself. The next CEO, Carl Linder, was know for ‘bottom fishing’ and led the company into bankrupty in 2002. Next in line to assume the title was Agguire.

In 1998, Gallagher and McWhirter accused the organization that they were mistreating the employees, polluting the environment, allowing cocaine on ships to the United States, bribing foreign officials, evading foreign laws on land ownership, and preventing employees from unionizing to name a few (Schotter & Teagarden, 2010). Chiquita realizes that all of their subsidiaries should be on the same page with work ethics and therefore they established Chiquita’s Core Values. This seemed to work because in 2004 Chiquita provided insight that one of its subsidiaries were making protection payments to a terrorist group. So, even though this meant trouble for Chiquita they knew that they must uphold the core

So-called Major domestics producers, especially Anheuser Bush, MMBC’s main competitor, are focused on economies of scale in production and advertisement and spend heavily to maintain their own sales level. They dominate the market with 42% of market share in the East Central Region (Case study - Exhibit 3)

This should not be underestimated by the industry. Cacao industry must consider the power of buyers to lower the prices of a product. Usually, when the buyers purchase a high volume of products, their power also increases and it will result to earning a low profit. Cacao industry has

Another important cause to Chiquita’s actions in this country is the employees. The company felt, as it was their duty to protect their employees. If it did not pay the AUC, the AUC would have attacked or even kill its employees, that work and lived in that region of Colombia. Chiquita thought if they didn’t protect their employees that the nation and other countries have heard these stories and begin to question them, on the value they have for their employees.

3. Cuál es su opinión con respecto al equipo gestor compuesto por Aravind, Kartik, y los investigadores asociados, y el involucramiento de estos en el negocio?