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(Amy, Sharon, Courntey)

Location

located in California United States

265 retail stores across 44 states with average over 100 employees ployees

About 2 million US jobs created in engineering retail employees suppliers manufacture to app developers quarters

Advantages

Using third party companies, Apple can provide access to labour that is cheaper and more efficient. Also, Apple Companies quality of the labour is often still great, despite the reduced costs.Moving manufacturing overseas can mean that companies can close plants in their own countries. Saves money for company because it expensive to manufacture in their home country.

Disadvantages

Because people in third world countries are desperate for jobs, they are willing to work for Apple at any cost. The workers in China often make less than seventeen dollars a day, with not very good working conditions. Another point is that this company sometimes has factories and buildings with very few regulations which makes the environment dangerous. The people work extremely long hours of about 80 hours a week and often have to stand, or are only allowed to use one third of a chair to sit in order to keep them focused.

Wealth

As of May 2016, Apple company was named #41 on the market cap, with $586 billion.

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Alex and Ewan

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-The headquarters of Starbucks is located in Seattle, Washington, United States of America
-In 2016 they had 238 000 employees worldwide and made a total of 21.32 billion dollars
-They currently have over 25 000 stores in over 75 countries
-The presence of Starbucks has promoted the coffee industry into being much larger than it was before Starbucks was founded
-(Again 2016), they purchased 40 million pounds of Free-Trade coffee beans, this helps support nations across the world focus on what they specialize in and maximizes profit
-They have worked with RED, an organization that works towards AIDS/HIV protection in developing countries, specifically Africa
-They came together with the Arizona State University to provide funding for college students, with the Starbucks College Achievement plan workers (part-time or full) can earn full tuition coverage on a bachelor's degree
-They have community projects underway and currently have nearly 88 000 volunteer workers
-Starbucks is currently #146 on the Fortune 500
- companies like Quingdao Xingbake copying Starbucks in China

- Starbucks has to contend with copyright infringement, China doesn't enforce trademark violations

- adaptation for foreign markets & trends is costly

- developing countries involved with coffee industry have to fight for intellectual property (Ethiopia vs. Starbucks)

- poor countries frequently trod on in legal battles in Starbucks' efforts for widespread 'Starbucks experience'

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With an annual revenue of 55 Billion dollars and over 195000 employees Disney's expanse is global. Headquartered in Burbank California Disney has over 11 theme parks with three in America and seven in France, Hong Kong and Japan. Disney has an impressive list of subsidiaries ranging form Marvel, Maker Studios, Abc Disney Cruise Lines. In recent years Disney has donated 1

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annual revenue of six thousand million dollars
two hundred seventy four thousand full time employees
sold in over 200 countries
30 global production sites
Disadvantage:
-high operational costs, due to amount of employees, and maintenance
-has to maintain global health and safety standards with their food and drink produced
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Advantages of the company
-easier sourced cheap food
-many jobs produced, other

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IBM is a computer services company with 380,300 employees and has a revenue of 80.84 Billion. It is from the United States and the headquarters is in Arrmonk, NY. It has operations in over 170 countries.
Advantages: By outsourcing work to other countries IBM can save money, as well as providing jobs to workers in poor countries. Due to the demand for computers and technology, outsourcing would improve the host countries economy. This also means more access to computers and new innovations for the people in the country. With decreased prices for IBM they can innovate more and improve computers.
Wil and Simon

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Bronwen, Carley & Keighly

Background Information:
- 85 Factories
- Less than 3% of factories are located in Canada
-  11K full time and part time employees

Disadvantages of Company:
- Increased operating costs due to more more stores and factories
- Decrease in companies profits due to boycotts caused by poor working conditions
- Increase in inventory mark downs due to large amount of product recalls

As of 2013:
- Cambodia and Bangladesh working conditions have come into question
- Strikes for higher pay resulting in charges and property damage
- Factory collapse in Bangladesh leaving 1129 workers dead
- Decrease in consumers due to outsourcing affecting supply and demand

Advantages:
- Increase in salaries/wages for store workers due to more products being produced
- Earnings per share increased $1.55 in February 2015
- In 2015 sales increased from $711 million to $1.8 billion
- Cheap labour for Vancouver based headquarters caused by outsourcing