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Now, it's a time for you to select a country to explore, and understand the complex and highly connected international business environment of your selected country, so that you can prepare a new International Business plan or existing Company expansion plan for your final project. Now, let us know:

2) Briefly describe your selected country PERU, why have you selected the country and how the country has been affected by globalization in last 5-10 years.

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Q: Please read carefully and complete requirement number 4 wich is

A)â¨ Summarize your findings and recommendation for future plans.

B)Include a plan to visit the country. Identify travel objectives, key persons with which to meet, activities to experience (related to your industry),

C) travel plans and cost estimate.

Requirements. Note that requirements 1-3 are already answered in the report bellow the requirements section.

The final project for this course is a written International Investment Report. Your company wants you to research a possible investment in a foreign country. Please pick a company and a country for investment.

You must evaluate the industry and country of investment to determine if the current circumstances in the specified country can support a business of your choice. Country evaluation should focus on economic, financial and political risk of the country. Industry structure analysis would look at the regulatory structure as well as the competition in the target country.

The final recommendation would be whether or not to enter the specific country in the designated sector and what should be your entry strategy. The goal of the project is to analyze the prospects for expanding your company into the foreign country.

Main Elements

To gain the full support of management, your report should include, as a minimum, the following content:

1. Introduction:

Describe the basics of the proposal. Identify:

Country basics

Company basics

Purpose of expansion and project specifications

2. Country Evaluation:â¨Describe the country of investment. Include the following:

Economic structure, indicators and risk

Financial structure, indicators and risk

Political structure and risk

Recent history which impacts current conditions and risks

Geography, natural resources and existing industries that impacts current conditions and risks

Overall risk indicators

3. Industry Evaluation:â¨Describe the industry in the country. Include the following:

Regulatory structure

Competition â Major and minor competitors

Local financing options for the expansion

Overall attractiveness of the industry

4. Recommendationâ¨ Summarize your findings and recommendation for future plans. Include a plan to visit the country. Identify travel objectives, key persons with which to meet, activities to experience (related to your industry), travel plans and cost estimate.

Report.

1.Company Basics: The Company, established in 2014, is a user-centric, focuses on the development of electric vehicles with headquarters in Gardena, California.

Industry: Automobiles

Product: Electronic Cars

Purpose of expansion: There are three main elements to consider China as the platform for company expansion:

Project Specifications:

The company can try to invest in China to produce electric cars. It could concentrate on upper class people to market their cars. They can enter into market with some suitable pricing strategies based on market and product that is targeted. Based on the present analysis, the company should manufacture small and affordable which are suitable for china market. The marketer should formulate suitable strategy to market the same.

2. Country evaluation: The basics of China

China is a country which mostly concentrates on the middle class group. China has a lot of manufacturers but very few retailers, and the products sold to the consumers are generally low cost items. Hence, large and international retailers are not able to sell high cost items in China. Therefore, such big foreign retailers lure the consumers with discounts to attract them.

China has a lot of local manufacturers and less retailers. This emerges as a golden opportunity for the foreign retailers. However, the ability to use the opportunity in a right way can only lead to a successful business

Economic structure: As per the reports, Real GDP raised by 6.7% year on year in the first half of 2016, but they expect a slowdown in the second half to lower full-year expansion to 6.6%. Subsequently, the reports revealed that economic growth will slow gradually, to 4.1% by 2020, as the authorities take delayed steps to tackle an unsustainable build-up in debt. Finally, the government's authoritarian behavior and its disappointing progress on market reform indicate the China's weak economic prospects.

Financial Risk: China has a different structure to finance the corporate. It poses challenging elements to get a deal and obtain financing. Companies should be able to showcase a variety of financing options when negotiating business projects in China. The companies should understand and communicate the western financier's perspective and the Chinese official's perspective while negotiating the projects. The companies should maintain a specialist to engage the operations of banking with Chinese banking community.

Political Risk:

There exists a unique type of political risk in China. There is a constant fight between the countryâs central government and other provincial, local governments over the applicable law and observance or non-observance of it. This concept makes the companies to be more cautious about rules of China. So, there is a dynamic political environment in China and the FF Company should be cautious about the political changes and take decision accordingly.

3. Industry evaluation:

Auto industry in China:

The Chinaâs automotive sector is growing at the rate of 24% compounding between 2005 and 2011 and, in 2010. Its growth has dominated the United States new car market which is an attractive point for FF to enter in China auto market. The forecasts of China auto market indicate that there are chances of slowing down the growth rate to 8% a year between 2011 and 2020 but still it could be an attractive one for FF company as the sales forecasts to reach 22 million by 2020 which is bigger than the European or North American markets.

Competition: BYD, Chery, FAW Volkswagen, GAC (Guangzhou Auto), BAIC (Beijing Auto) and Beiqi Foton and others have occupied electric car market in China. But there are still chances for the new players to exploit the market. The Electric vehicles are expected to grow in the A model segment due to increased public environmental awareness and expected government policy initiatives. Two trends are driving the Chinese auto market those are consumers will increasingly choose to buy bigger and more expensive cars. Another point to be focused is that the used-car market in China is growing, a development that could increase new car sales of the lower price segment in particular. Emerging urban alternatives such as improved public transportation, increased availability of car rentals and sharing could change the consumer behavior and could influence the auto market segment in China. The estimations say that by 2020, 20 Chinese cities will exceed this car-density threshold. The Chinese automotive structure faces major changes and the industry consolidates as a result of increasing competition.

From my point of view , The Chinaâs automotive sector is growing at the rate of 24% compounding between 2005 and 2011 and, in 2010. Its growth has dominated the United States new car market which is an attractive point for FF to enter in China auto market. The forecasts of China auto market indicate that there are chances of slowing down the growth rate to 8% a year between 2011 and 2020 but still it could be an attractive one for FF company as the sales forecasts to reach 22 million by 2020 which is bigger than the European or North American markets.

So before calculating the travel costs it is important to understand that China has a different structure to finance the corporate. It poses challenging elements to get a deal and obtain financing. Companies should be able to showcase a variety of financing options when negotiating business projects in China. The companies should understand and communicate the western financier's perspective and the Chinese official's perspective while negotiating the projects. The companies should maintain a specialist to engage the operations of banking with Chinese banking community.

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Let's then assume professional roles as we work on this fictional scenario:

It's 2020, and General Foryota Company opens a plant in which to build a new mass-produced hover-craft. This hover-craft will work using E-85 Ethanol, will travel up to 200 mph, and will reduce pollution worldwide at a rate of 10 percent per year. It is likely that when all automobiles in the industrial world have been changed over to hovercrafts, emission of greenhouse gasses may be so reduced that global warming may end and air quality will become completely refreshed.

However, the downside is that during the transition time, GFC's Hover-Vee (only available in red or black), will most likely put all transportation as we know it in major dissaray. Roadways will no longer be necessary, but new methods of controlling traffic will be required. Further, while the old version of cars are still being used, Hover-vee's will cause accidents, parking issues, and most likely class envy and warfare. The sticker price on the first two models will be about four times that of the average SUV (to about $200,000.) Even so, GFC's marketing futurists have let them know that they will be able to pre-sell their first three years of expected production, with a potential waiting list which will take between 15 and 20 years to fill.

The Chief Engineer of GFC commissions a study on potential liabilities for the Hover-vees. The preliminary result is that Hover-vees will likely kill or maim humans at an increased rate of double to triple over automobile travel because of collisions and crashes at high speeds -- projected annual death rates of 100,000 to 200,000. However, global warming will end, and the environment will flourish.

The U. S. Government gets wind of the plans. Congress begins to discuss the rules on who can own and operate Hover-vees. GFC's stock skyrockets. The Chief Engineer takes the results of the study to the Chief Legal Counsel, and together they agree to bury the study, going forward with the production plans. The Chief Project Manager, who has read the study and agreed to bury it, goes ahead and plans out the project for the company, with target dates and production deadlines.

Our class is a team of young lawyers, project managers, engineers, and congressional aides who are all part of the process of helping get this project off the ground. In fact, according to the first letter of your last name, you are the following team:

A-G: Attorney on the GFC team
H-N: Project Manager on the GFC team
0-S: Engineer on the GFC team
T-Z: Congressional Aide

Somebody sent a secret copy of the report to you at your home address. It has no information in it at all, except for the report showing the proof of the increase in accidents and deaths. The report shows, on its face, that the CLO, CE, CPM, and your Congressional Representative have seen copies of this report. On the front there are these words typed in red: They knew â they buried this. Please save the world!

Each of you feel a very loyal tie to your boss and your company/country. You all have mortgages, and families to feed. It is likely if you blow the whistle on this report, you will lose your job and your livelihood. You're not even sure who wrote the study in your envelope or who actually sent it to you.

Now to the task at hand:
Utilizing your profession's code of ethics, what would be your first step? Who would you talk to first? Would you go to the press? Would you go to your boss? Should you do anything at all?

pucewildebeest226

Hello, I am working on an assignment related to Harley-Davidson Motorcycles. After reading the article below, please complete the 3 questions at the end.

Harley-Davidson Wheels Out an Electric Bike; Hog Maker Aims for Younger Riders With Electric-

Motorcycle Test

Harley-Davidson Inc., known for gasoline-powered motorcycles thundering with machismo, is testing a battery-powered model that it hopes will appeal to younger people concerned about the environment.

"We'd like to get customer feedback," Matt Levatich, Harley's president and chief operating officer, said in an interview, adding that the product is at least two years away from being offered for sale. For now, he said, the lithium-ion batteries in prototype models have a range of roughly 100 miles between recharges under typical riding conditions. They can go from zero to 60 miles an hour in "just under four seconds," he said.

The Milwaukee-based company said on Thursday that "select consumers" around the country next week will start getting a chance to ride prototype cycles with rechargeable batteries.

Harley wouldn't be the first to offer such a motorcycle. Companies including Zero Motorcycles Inc., Brammo Inc. and Mission Motorcycles Inc. now sell battery-powered motorcycles, and bigger manufacturers are experimenting. BMW AG sells a battery-powered scooter, dubbed the C evolution, in Europe. So far, said Harley's Mr. Levatich, sales of electric motorcycles are "insignificant."

"We anticipate it's going to appeal to a younger, more urban demographic," a Harley spokesman said. The company said the test was part of a goal of "preserving the riding environment."

The company still hasn't decided whether or when to put such motorcycles on the market and is looking for feedback from bike owners before proceeding further, he said. The project, dubbed LiveWire, has been in the works for four years, he said.

Chris Narayanan, 39, said he is curious about the battery-powered bike. "I'd give it a try if I had the opportunity," said the New York resident. For now, though, he is having fun with his 1998 Harley Sportster 1200 and plans to upgrade to a bigger Harley in a few years. "It's an interesting gamble for Harley. I know they want to appeal to younger riders and get them into Harley."

Justin Massey, general sales manager for a Harley-Davidson dealership in Hammond, Ind., thinks the sporty, racing-bike styling and first-of-its-kind status for Harley will attract an audience on its tour of dealerships. "I'm sure it will create quite a buzz," said Mr. Massey, who doesn't know if his dealership will be on the tour. "It's a good-looking bike and people will want to be around it."

Rather than the rumbling sound of traditional Harleys, the new machines sound more like a jet engine, only much quieter, Mr. Levatich said.

The project wasn't launched in response to environmental regulations, he said. Rather, current technology allows the company to produce a battery-powered cycle and "we feel we should," Mr. Levatich added.

James Hardiman, an analyst for Longbow Research, called the project a surprise. "It's a pretty big departure from anything they've ever done," he said and should help Harley appeal more to a younger and more environmentally conscious crowd.

Initially, "you're not going to get very far from one charge," he said, but battery technology is going to get "a whole lot more efficient in the years to come."

For people who don't already ride motorcycles, Harley promised to offer a "simulated riding experience" rather than a road test. Experienced riders will be invited for highway rides.

In recent years, Harley has striven to reduce its reliance on ageing white male baby boomers and appeal more to young people, women and minorities. As part of the company's strategy, two new bikes, known as the 750 and 500, are being rolled out. These smaller bikes are aimed at younger riders, who might find a traditional Harley touring bike too large or heavy to handle, particularly on crowded city streets.

The company didn't release a possible price for the LiveWire. High costs and limited range have kept demand low for battery-powered cars so far.

Harley-Davidson is the dominant U.S. supplier of heavyweight motorcycles. For this year's first quarter, the company reported that its share of sales in the U.S. market for new motorcycles with engines of 601 cubic-centimetres displacements or greater was 56%.

(Please use detail in answering each question below. And also please use the information in the article above to answer the three questions below).

1. Please segment the consumer market for motorcycles in the US using a needs-based segmentation strategy.

2. For each needs-based segment, determine which demographics, life-styles, and usage behaviors make the segment distinct and identifiable (actionable by marketers).

3. Based on the information in the article and your own research, determine the overall attractiveness and profitability of each segment.