After reading Matthew Andersons blog on Lululemon I was reminded about all our discussions in class, but this was looking at Lululemon in a negative light. Recently the CEO said ” Some women just can’t wear lululemon pants”, basically telling the consumer that his clothes were just not made for plus size people. As Matthew […]
Whether its a big budget blockbuster or a science fiction novel we have all heard of and imagined flying through the guy strapped to a jet pack with our aviators on. Now we actually can as a company in Christchurch, New Zealand has been able to make a jetpack that is not only practical but […]
I found Matthew Anderson’s blog post on Tesla quite interesting because he pointed out a problem I was quite interested in. One believes that once a car company, that too a relatively new one like Tesla receives news of their cars catching on fire it is the end of the line for them. But as […]
“$3 billion isn’t cool. You know what’s cool ? walking away from $3 billion” Said Snapchat to Facebook upon declining a 3 billion dollar offer by Facebook for a buyout. Snapchat is a company that was started about 2 years ago and has an app that allows its users to send pictures or videos that can […]
Booster Juice has now become a household name all around Canada with more than 300 stores nationwide. Dale Wishewan, president and chief executive of Booster Juice was awarded with the entrepreneur of the year award by Prairies EY. He started Booster Juice in 1999 and within 2 years he grew his start up into a chain of 50 […]
On the 1st of August 2013 LG introduced its new catchphrase ” It’s All Possible” this will be placed alongside its current catchphrase “Life’s Good”. This is being launched in leu of the new line of products in 2013 and other products to come. This will be a wide spread add campaign which will be […]
As of September the 3rd Microsoft announced that it would buy out Nokia for 5.44 billion Euros. This would be an easy way for Microsoft to enter the phone market directly and bring more innovation to the market than Nokia. We see that this not only good for Microsoft but also for Nokia as now […]
In October the US government announced its shutdown, the first time in 17 years. The question that arises from this is that how does this shutdown affect the USA’s and the worlds businesses and economy ? We have seen the immediate affect of the shutdown in many government related organisations across the USA like Lockheed […]
As of the 20th of September Apple Inc. has released as new phone to its very successful iPhone line, the IPhone 5c will be a phone that is priced between the iPhone 5 and iPhone 5s thus increasing their consumer base as now they are targeting the market which could afford a iPhone 5 but […]
The long running crisis in Egypt that erupted in late November of 2012 has had adverse effects on the economy of the country. The tourism industry in Egypt was providing approximately 2.8 million jobs and was 11% of the GDP. Due to the continuing crisis in Egypt, tourism has been heavily impacted. This has lead to […]