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Read the Cadbury plc case study on page 179. Note that this case study was written before Cadbury was taken over by Kraft Food plc in 2010. What was different about the way Cadbury grew in 1969 to how it grew in its first hundred and forty five years of trading?

11A Big Question

Delayering is the process of making an organisation's management structure flatter i.e. getting rid of layers of management. Expalin one good point and one bad point of a business delayering.

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Last lesson you learned about the product lifecycle. Briefly read this article. At what stage of the product lifecycle do HP think PCs are at? Do you think they have made a good decision?

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Last lesson on eof the key objectives was: To know the advantages and disadvantages of locating overseas (especially in terms of minimising costs and increasing revenues)

Show that you have achieved this objective by explaining the advantages and disadvantages of locating abroad.

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Last lesson you learned about the business objectives of a growing business. Explain two possible objectives that a growing business might have.