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marketing followed by an attempt to compare and contrast the marketing orientations of two of the biggest companies in the world, namely Apple Inc., the number one most valuable brand in the world , valued at over $246 billion (BrandZ, 2015) and Foxconn Technology Group, a contract technology company producing the iPad and the iPhone for Apple (Wikipedia, 2015). Main Body Pickton (2014) highlights 6 different marketing orientations namely, production, product, sales, customer, market and societal

Globalization is affecting China Labor Watch Is there only a positive impact from Globalization in our world? Globalization is a process that helps businesses and organizations develop international influence throughout the world. Globalization has impacted labor in China in a negative way. This process have created a lot of labor Exploitation in China but not only that, it have also taken the education from a lot of kids in China and it have make workers feel like they have no rights. This process

Apple Inc. started off as a small computer company and rose to prominence over the following years. They faced great challenges and obstacles to evolve and become one of the top notch corporations today. Having a great CEO, Steve Jobs, is credited for the success of Apple. Under the leadership of Steve Jobs, Apple was able to innovate industry changing technology. Big companies such as Apple Inc. focuses on ethical principles. They have a code of conduct that applies to their four main principles

In 2006, the Mail on Sunday alleged that sweatshop conditions existed in factories in China, where the contract manufacturer Foxconn, operate the factories that produce the iPod. The article stated that one iPod factory, as an example, employed over 200,000 workers who lived and worked in the factory, and regularly performed more than 60 hours of labor per week. The article also reported that workers made around US$100 per month and were required to live on the premises and pay for rent and food

communication strategy, followed by corrective actions (53.3%). That is to say, Foxconn admits the damage brought by the incident and has taken a series of corrective actions. Secondly, although Foxconn adopted denial and evasion of responsibility countermeasures, the percentage is relatively less (both 31.1%). At the same time, Foxconn also combined the apology strategy (17.8%), requesting for forgiveness of the public. Foxconn used different strategies at different stages of the development of the crisis

Apple is well known for its quality products such as iPhone, iPads and Laptops. Foxconn has been exploiting the labor in china by paying them less wages, and asking them to work in hazardous conditions ranging from health and safety violations to the use of underage workers (Nystedt, 2011). Unfortunately, Foxconn had a grim history of suicides at its factories in 2010, it made 18 workers throw themselves from the tops of the company's buildings

Positioning Strategies with the Amazon Fire PC: “The term positioning refers to placing a brand in that part of the market where it will receive a favorable reception compared with competing products. Because the market is heterogeneous, one brand cannot make an impact on the entire market. As a matter of strategy, therefore, a product should be positioned so that it stands apart from competing brands” (Moutinho, 2008). Amazon has past proven successful experience in positioning strategies when speaking

In September 2014 Samsung Electronics presented their new products, which are going to increase their chances in a global technological market against small and large firms, especially against Apple Inc. Samsung presented their new smartphone – Samsung Galaxy Note 4, Samsung Note Edge and new watches – Samsung Gear S. They are planning to get ahead the competition with Apple Inc. I think at the end of 2014 and in 2015 the competition between Samsung and Apple will be in the high period. After this

Suicides at Foxconn (A causal analysis) MBAMGT-665 International & Cross-Cultural Management Fall 2010 Contents Introduction 2 Wages and Working Hours 2 Workers were kept uninformed about wage increase plan 2 Basic wage is just slightly more than minimum wage and far below living wage 2 Excessive overtime 2 Deduction of overtime premium 2 Frequent change of work shifts 2 Management 2 Punishments 2 Extensive work pressure 2 Reward system 2 Trade Unions 2 Health and Safety 2 Student

products competition market. For example: HTC, HP, Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba, Huawei, Philips and etc. These firms compete with Apple and Samsung; also they compete with each other. FOXCONN Co., Ltd was introduced in the third place, in Table 1. The other name of this company is Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. FOXCONN Technology Co., Ltd. exists in some different spheres such as: research, development, communication, manufacture,