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Diamond Chemicals: Case 21-22 TO: Lucy Morris FROM: DATE: September 30, 2009 SUBJECT: Merseyside Project In this memo I will be making a recommendation for or against the Merseyside Project. With the help of a few questions that guide my memo, I will be able to determine whether or not to continue funding for the Merseyside Project. This memo will include an exhibit that will show an analysis of the Merseyside Project including the NPV and the IRR. In the DCF analysis that was

Marks each ) | | Case 1 | Conflict Diamonds | | | During the late 1990s South African diamond product De Beers and other companies on the diamond industry discovered that some of the diamonds they were buying or selling came from groups who used the proceeds to finance brutal civil wars. In Sierra Leone, rebels took control of diamond mines by systematically chopping off the arms and hands of as many as 20,000 children, women and men until the diamond operations were turned over to them. Similarly

Tiffany & Co. Overview Tiffany & Co. is a retailer, designer, manufacturer, and distributor of luxury fine jewelry. As of January 31st, 2003, they had 44 company-operated stores within US borders and 82 company-operated stores internationally. Fine jewelry makes up 79% of their net sales followed by other products such as timepieces, stationery, and sterling silverware. Michael J. Kowalski, Tiffany & Co.’s current CEO, has the same mission the company had when it first started in 1837:

THE ZALE CORPORATION Zale Corporation is a leading specialty retailer of diamonds and other jewelry products in North America. The Company has significant brand name recognition as a result of each of its brands’ long-standing presence in the industry, having 2.349 stores in the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada. The Company´s vision “provide customers with quality merchandise at the lowest possible price” has remain the same since its first store opening in 1920´s. The Mission of Zale Corporation

Findings of Fieldwork – Interview analysis When conducting our interview, we separated the questions based on our marketing research objectives. We felt this would be the best way to sort through the information so we could best address our objectives. To investigate the motivation behind women buying fine jewellery We decided that it was first best to determine the frequency with which respondents wear jewellery, which gave us an insight into the frequency of jewellery use in the target market

“The price of diamonds is too high” This essay discusses the statement “the price of diamonds is too high”; it will analyze the diamond cartel and its history in order to determine the validity of this statement. Various microeconomic theories will be discussed and explained, all of which are involved in the diamond cartel. The Oxford Dictionary defines a cartel as “an association of manufacturers or suppliers with the purpose of maintaining prices at a high level and restricting competition”

“The price of diamonds is too high”. Diamonds have always been presumed to be rare. They have been present in history as a symbol of wealth and luxury as they were so difficult to find. Nowadays diamonds are mined and are found all over the world but they are sold through a cartel. (Epstein 1982) A cartel limits the supply of a product in order to keep prices high and to limit competition. (South African Pocket Oxford Dictionary: 2002) This raises the question of whether diamonds are actually worth

I had been about two weeks since Lexi had gone to the doctors and had experienced that amazing night with Logan. She was about three days late for her period now and had just come back from the store, a pregnancy test in hand. Now she was anxiously awaiting the results. She bit her lip, looking in the mirror. What if she really was pregnant? How would Logan react? Would he be happy or mad? Lexi really wanted a baby, to start her own family, especially with Logan. The test suddenly dinged

Deterministic grinding process development for metal bonded diamond grinding wheels through patterned grinding wheel by utilizing micro EDM comprises four main investigation on: (1) material removal mechanism considering interaction between diamond grains, workpiece, metal bond and electrical spark, (2) effective pattern geometry design for effective material removal and grinding performance, (3) application of micro EDM to create the pattern on the metal bonded grinding wheel, (4) analysing the

Introduction Boron nitride (BN) is a lab-grown binary compound consisting of equal number of boron (B) and nitrogen (N) atoms. BN crystallizes either as a hexagonal layered structure or as a tetrahedral linked structure, similar to that of graphite and diamond