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| - Resources: Waldman, Cliff. China's Demographic Destiny and its Economic Implications. Business Economics, October, 2005. Williams-Sonoma has double-digit yearly gains. Furniture/Today, 3/27/2006, Vol. 30 Issue 29, p58-58. Sonoma packs up Hold Everything. By: Tierney, Jim. Multichannel Merchant, Feb2006, Vol. 2 Issue 2. SWEET STOWAWAYS. By: MCCONNON, AILI. Business Week, 8/7/2006 Issue 3996, p84-84. (Describes items sold in specialty containers.) Plastic packaging demand grows despite swelling prices. Purchasing, 7/13/2006 Chemicals Edition, Vol. 135 Issue 10. There has been growth in demand for plastic packaging in the U.S. despite its increasing prices. One of the factors that drive the sustained growth in demand for plastic packaging products from suppliers is Internet retail sales drive deliveries of small packages to households. Analyst Matthew Warren of Morningstar is optimistic that suppliers will achieve 6% compound annual sales growth over the next five years from 2006. Huang, Pingsha; Zhang, Xiuli; Deng, Xingdi. Survey and analysis of public environmental awareness and performance in Ningbo, China: a case study on household electrical and electronic equipment. Journal of Cleaner Production, Aug2006, Vol. 14 Issue 18, p1635-1643 Eight Supertrends Shaping the Future of Business. By: Albrecht, Karl. Futurist, Sep/Oct2006, Vol. 40 Issue 5, p25-29 Household Appliances Industry Profile: China. Household Appliances Industry Profile: China, Jul2006, p1, 20p; Abstract: Presents a profile of the Household Appliances industry in China Ready for warfare in the aisles. Economist, 8/5/2006, Vol. 380 Issue 8489, p59-61, 3p, 1 chart, 1 graph, 1c; Abstract: The article reports on foreign and domestic retailing in China. "Operating profitably in poorer markets often means switching to smaller stores with a narrower range. Xu Lingling, chief financial officer at Lianhua, says that whereas big foreign players, such as Carrefour, have taken top sites in large cities, Chinese chains may be better suited to mid-sized towns where productivity is lower. And these may suit a different approach--such as the franchising of McDonald's, KFC and Tupperware, which lowers the initial level of capital investment. Avon is going further: having finally received permission to resume direct sales in February, the American cosmetics group has already recruited over 114,000 sales agents." Housewares & Specialties Industry Profile: Global. Housewares & Specialties Industry Profile: Global, Apr2006, p1 2006 Personnel Trainer: Kitchen Storage. Gourmet Retailer, Feb2006, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p68-68 Tupperware taking unconventional road. By: Sun, Nina Ying. Plastics News, 11/14/2005, Vol. 17 Issue 37, p8-8, Kitchen Storage Products. Gourmet Retailer, Feb2005, Vol. 26 Issue 2, p54-54, 1p Kitchen Storage Products. Gourmet Retailer, Aug2005, Vol. 26 Issue 8, p94-94 Tupperware to outsource half its line. By: DeRosa, Angie. Plastics News, 4/26/2004, Vol. 16 Issue 8, p1-19, 2p The king of plastic. (cover story) Corporate Finance, May2001 Issue 198, p18 Plastics sitting pretty--and chic. (cover story) By: Pryweller, Joseph. Plastics News, 04/26/99, Vol. 11 Issue 10, p1 Lifestyles in the kitchen. By: Chanil, Debra. Discount Merchandiser, Dec95, Vol. 35 Issue 12, p64 Splashes of color liven storage. Discount Store News, 1/16/95, Vol. 34 Issue 2, p33 When Does Culture Matter? Effects of Personal Knowledge on the Correction of Culture-Based Judgments. By: Briley, Donnel A; Aaker, Jennifer L. Journal of Marketing Research (JMR), Aug2006, Vol. 43 Issue 3, p395-408 When Your Contract Manufacturer Becomes Your Competitor. By: Arruñada, Benito; Vázquez, Xosé H.. Harvard Business Review, Sep2006, Vol. 84 Issue 9, p135-144, 9p, 1 chart, 2c Abstract: PC maker Lenovo started out as a distributor of equipment made by IBM and other companies; now it has formed a joint venture with IBM and will eventually affix its own logo to its computers. Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) started out manufacturing vehicles for Volkswagen and GM; now it's preparing to sell its own cars in China, Europe, and North America. Lenovo and SAIC represent a host of formerly anonymous makers of brand-name products that are breaking out of their defined roles and pushing the brands themselves aside. In this article, the authors explore the double-edged relationships original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) forge with their contract manufacturers (CMs). On the one hand, an OEM can reduce its labor costs, free up capital, and improve worker productivity by outsourcing all the manufacturing of a product. The company can then concentrate on value-adding activities--research and development, product design, and marketing, for instance. On the other hand, an OEM that retains a contract manufacturer may find itself immersed in a melodrama replete with promiscuity (the ambitious CM pursues liaisons with other OEMs), infidelity (the OEM's retailers and distributors shift their business to the upstart CM), and betrayal (the brazen CM transmits the OEM's intellectual property to the OEM's rivals or keeps it for itself when the contract is up). OEMs cannot simply terminate their outsourcing arrangements--they need contract manufacturers in order to keep specializing, adding value, and staying competitive. But OEMs can manage these relationships so that they don't become weak or the CMs too strong. Doing so requires modesty about revealing trade secrets; caution about whom one consorts with; and a judicious degree of intimacy,loyalty, and generosity toward partners and customers. For Sponsors, China's 2008 Olympics Have Already Begun. By: Fowler, Geoffrey A.; Lee, Wendy; Fong, Mei. Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition, 8/8/2006, Vol. 248 Issue 32, pB1-B2, 2p, 2c, 2bw; Abstract: The article focuses on sponsors of China's 2008 Olympics. Numerous advertisements feature Chinese Olympic hurdler Liu Xiang, who has landed multiple endorsements. China's market is so vast that the 2008 Olympic Games are drawing a growing field of corporate competitors. By the time the Games take place, reckons Sir Martin Sorrell of WPP Group PLC, China could be the second-largest advertising market in the world, behind the U.S. and ahead of Japan. Already thirty-six companies have acquired marketing rights to the 2008 Games.; Unlocking the Middle Kingdom. By: Heilemann, John. Business 2.0, Aug2006, Vol. 7 Issue 7, p44-46
- Plastics are required in the following blueprints:
- The Plastics are a band of mean girls that are Hannah Mendoza's ex best friends that appear in Big Hero 6.2 Members: Gg, Destinee, Teresa, Hannah Mendoza (formerly) Inspiration: The Plastics from Mean Girls, Heather and Megan Vandergeld and Heath from White Chicks, The Socs from The Outsiders Affilations: neutral, later bad Personality: downright evil Likes: being mean and dimwitted Dislikes: when everyone disagrees with their opinions Weapons: hurtful words "This isn't over yet." - Destinee "You think you're better than us?" - Gg "I keep telling Hannah I'm pretending to be friends with you guys." - Teresa To get everyone to hate Hannah (failed) To get Hiro to like Gg (failed) Arrested for internet troll recognition and domestic violence, possibly later killed
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