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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"direct sales"”.
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Building a Better Local Food System: A Case Study of the Western Montana Growers Cooperative
Local food systems aiming to re-create direct links between producers and consumers are emerging in the United States and elsewhere in response to the social, economic, and environmental consequences of the globalizing food market. Despite growing consumer demand for locally produced food, …
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Building a Better Local Food System: A Case Study of the Western Montana Growers Cooperative
Local food systems aiming to re-create direct links between producers and consumers are emerging in the United States and elsewhere in response to the social, economic, and environmental consequences of the globalizing food market. Despite growing consumer demand for locally produced food, …
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Multi-scale inventory balancing in an extended global supply chain
… inventory, pull manufacturing, and direct sales. Today, continuance of revenue growth for Dell requires not only rapid innovation, but also rapid geographic and product expansion. Until a few years ago, Dell only had one facility in the United States. All of Dell's US-based systems …
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The measurement of organizational identification and organizational commitment found among the membership of Mary Kay Cosmetics
… to the Mary Kay Cosmetics Organization, a Direct Sales Marketing organization. The OIQ and the OCQ are two constructs that have been widely utilized to study the relationship between the employee and the organization. A review of literature illustrates, that although each concept offers a …
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Beyond the Glass: Examining Wine Tasting Room Profitability Using the 4Ps of the Marketing Mix
… on additional revenue-generating opportunities. Direct wine sales are big business with $3.4 billion in sales in the United States in 2010. Research has shown that small and medium-sized wineries have become financially dependent on direct sales linked to wine tasting rooms with an average of 70 …
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A study of Marlborough winery web sites: Do their current formats encourage a beneficial winery-customer relationship?: A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Professional Studies at Lincoln University
… an integral strategy based on wine tourism and direct marketing. The study did not engage a laboratory-based website evaluation, but fieldwork captured winery owners' perceptions of how they view benefits and features of their sites. It analysed each web site using Bernet and Stricker's (2001) …
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Lean concepts in customer care : adding value and reducing waste with proactive order status messaging
… has enabled strategic advantages such as the direct sales model. Operationally, Dell has continuously striven to be best in breed in terms of having an efficient supply chain and manufacturing facilities. Dell's customers were delighted because Dell dealt directly with them without a middle …
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Estudio de prefactibilidad para la elaboración de suplemento alimenticio a base de yacón (Smallanthus sonchifolius)
… project. In addition, thanks to the results, the sales channels were defined, which are retail stores and direct sales. We also established that the product will be offered in 350-gram packages at a price of 30 soles (including taxes) to the final consumer in the first year. On the other hand, …
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Economic Impact of the Williamson Act in San Luis Obispo County
… The results were reflected in changes to direct sales, total sales, total income, total value added and number of jobs lost.</p> <p>The study concluded that removing the Act’s funding would have very little impact on land use in the county because of the strict agricultural zoning, but may …
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Business-to-business marketplaces for freight transportation
… existing intermediaries and also how carriers' direct sales forces may be displaced. The service offering must either reinforce or replace the basic functions of intermediaries. Technology leadership in applications critical to shippers (e.g., shipment consolidation, mode selection and …
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Apostles for Capitalism: Amway, Movement Conservatism, and the Remaking of the American Economy, 1959-2009
… and to participate in free enterprise through direct sales. At the same time, many have attacked Amway as a fraudulent pyramid scheme that trades in false promises and leaves its distributors financially and psychologically worse off than before they joined. In addition to running the company …
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Did State Renewable Portfolio Standards Induce Technical Change In Methane Mitigation in the U.S. Landfill Sector?
… characteristics, I estimate the influence and direction of influence of renewable portfolio standards (RPS). The analysis found that RPS positively influences the diffusion of landfill gas technologies, encouraging landfills to consider electricity generation projects over direct sales of LFG …
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Estudio de mejora en mi tienda online Belcorp
… and assembly line different from those of direct sales, to ensure the immediacy in the delivery of products to customers. On the customer service side, a process was also designed in which both consultants and clients of Mi Tienda Online would be attended, with a specific CRM typification, …
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Food Supply Chains and Food-Miles: An Analysis for Selected Conventional, Non-local Organic and Other-Alternative Foods Sold in Missoula, Montana
… chain, on the other hand, is characterized by direct sales, small-scale production, processing and distribution and by a more transparent market. Certified organic foods began as an alternative to conventional foods. However, certified organic foods have increasingly been criticized for …
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Food Supply Chains and Food-Miles: An Analysis for Selected Conventional, Non-local Organic and Other-Alternative Foods Sold in Missoula, Montana
… chain, on the other hand, is characterized by direct sales, small-scale production, processing and distribution and by a more transparent market. Certified organic foods began as an alternative to conventional foods. However, certified organic foods have increasingly been criticized for …
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Multi-Channel Supply Chain Management in the E -Business Era
… the impact of customers' attitudes toward direct versus traditional shopping on supply chain design. Customers' acceptance of the web-based channel can be weak enough that a vertically integrated manufacturer-distributor would not engage in direct sales, but strong enough that an …
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The fall of Xerox at the turn of the millennium : a system dynamics approach
… of alienating customers and also forcing the sales staff to spend less time selling as they tried to fix the billing errors. Secondly, Xerox realigned and reorganized its direct sales force from a geographic structure to one based on specific industries. This broke tremendous numbers of …
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Information Asymmetry and Profitability of Tomato and Butternut Value Chains: A case of Nwanedi Agri-hub
… and butternut growers, which are affected by sales methods and how the crops are managed. Butternut farmers who sell their produce directly to merchants experience increased profitability and earn an average ROI of 15%, in contrast to those who depend on intermediaries. Profits for tomato …
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MARKETS AND MERCHANTS: ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION IN COLONIAL VIRGINIA, 1700-1775
… These changes included both the substitution of direct sales marketing for complicated consignment systems, and the replacement of part-time merchants who appeared in the colony only seasonally with a permanently resident merchant community. In time these merchants came to represent a Virginian, …
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Strategi komunikasi pemasaran produk KPR iB Muamalat dengan akad musyarakah: Studi pada PT. Bank Muamalat Indonesia Tbk Cabang Malang
… Personal Selling, Public Relations, Direct Sales, Promotions) Musharaka contract associated with the bank. In marketing mortgage products iB Muamalat, Bank Muamalat Indonesia Malang Branch public relations by means of working closely with some of the developers in various areas in the …
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