Description: KFC, world’s largest fried chicken restaurant chain, may face pressure from consumers and environmental groups after McDonald’s announced that it would switch to chickens raised without antibiotics. Source: Financial Post Date: March 12, 2015 Text Link: http://business.financialpost.com/2015/03/12/what-will-kfc-do-fried-chicken-chain-faces-pressure-after-mcdonalds-says-no-antibiotics-in-chicken/ Questions for Discussion: How does McDonald’s new strategy give them a competitive advantage? What should KFC do? Discuss… Read more »
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Impact of Apple Watch on Swiss Watch Brands
Description: Apple Watch will hit the stores next month. It is expected that it will reach sales of 20 million to 30 million units annually in the first few years; in comparison, the four-century old Swiss watch industry exported 28.6 million watches in 2014. Apple Watch is likely to challenge the mighty Swiss watch brands… Read more »
Bell Media President Urges Canadian Broadcasters to Take U.S. Networks off Canadian Airwaves
Description: The president of Bell Media urges Canadian Broadcasters to get rid of U.S. networks such as CBS, NBC and FOX from Canadian Airwaves. This comes in light of Bell Media’s over-the-air-network CTV loosing $40 million last year. Source: The Globe and Mail Date: March 06, 2015 Text Link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/take-us-networks-off-canadian-airwaves-bell-media-urges/article23343364/ Questions for Discussion: Discuss the… Read more »
The Turnaround of Air Canada
Description: Air Canada broke out of its sluggish performance and in 2014 posted a record annual profit of $531 million. Source: CBC Date: March 05, 2015 Video Link: http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Business/ID/2657291092/ Questions for Discussion: Discuss the growth and then the decline of Air Canada over the years? Which factors led to Air Canada’s recent surge in performance? In… Read more »
Apple Working on an Electric Car
Description: Apple Inc. is pushing its team to begin manufacturing of an electric car by 2020. Apple seems set to get in to direct competition with Tesla Motors Co. and General Motors Co., who are scheduled to roll out their electric car costing less than $40,000 by 2017. Source: Business News Network Date: February 20,… Read more »
The McDonald’s Slump
Description: It seems one of the world’s most recognizable brand is in decline – McDonalds faces a severe challenge; it warned that business will be weak in the near future as it reported a 21 per cent drop in fourth-quarter earnings. Source: CBC Date: February 28, 2015 Link: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/the-mcdonald-s-slump-are-golden-days-of-golden-arches-over-1.2975314 Questions for Discussion: Discuss the reasons for… Read more »
Wal-Mart spending $1 billion for pay increase
Description: With support from CEO Doug McMillon, Wal-Mart has initiated a pay increase for its employees. Wal-Mart intends to spend $1 billion to support this pay increase, which will include increasing hourly pay to at least $9 by April and $10 by next February. Source: Business News Network Date: February 20, 2015 Link: http://www.bnn.ca/News/2015/2/20/How-Wal-Marts-CEO-came-to-support-a-1-Billion-pay-increase.aspx Questions… Read more »
Canada’s largest engineering and construction firm facing corruption charges
Description: Canada’s largest engineering and construction firm, Montreal based SNC-Lavalin, is accused of paying $47.9 million in bribes to Libyan officials. Source: CBC Date: February 19, 2015 Link: http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Business/ID/2654817566/ Questions for Discussion: Explain SNC-Lavalin’s corrupt practices? How did these practices benefit SNC-Lavalin? Is bribery common in international business? How should the government reprimand SNC-Lavalin?
HSBC bank helped customers hide money
Description: HSBC, one of the largest banks in the word, helped some of its richest customers hide money, often illegally. The documents that were leaked named 1500 Canadians who had money hidden in HSBC. Source: CBC Date: February 09, 2015 Video Link: http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Business/ID/2652797906/?page=2 Questions for Discussion: In this unique to one bank or is likely… Read more »
Bombardier bring in a new CEO
Description: In a move to halt the falling fortunes of Bombardier, the board of directors have replaced their CEO, Pierre Beaudoin, with an outsider, Alain Bellemare. Pierre Beaudoin will now be the Chairman of Bombardier in place of his father. Source: CBC Date: February 12, 2015 Video Link: http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Business/ID/2653563918/ Questions for Discussion: What were the… Read more »
