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Book SynopsisThe story of the company that was founded by the inventor of the snowmobile In 1942, Joseph-Armand Bombardier invented the snowmobile and founded his company to manufacture them. From its humble beginnings as an entrepreneurial company in rural Quebec, led by an enterprising inventor, Bombardier Inc.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix A Brief History of Bombardier Inc. xi Preface xix Introduction: The Rise of a Corporation 1 A Meteoric Rise 1 The Architects of Success 6 Bombardier Today 8 PART ONE 13 Chapter 1: Joseph-Armand Starts a Company: The 1940s and 1950s 15 Humble Beginnings 15 The Bombardier Snowmobile 16 Inventions and Innovations 25 Chapter 2: The Ski-Doo Adventure: The Golden Age of the 1960s 34 The Family Takes Over 34 A Marketing Renewal 39 Ski-Doo Fever 42 Vertical Integration 46 The First Sea-Doo 49 PART TWO 53 Chapter 3: Diversify or Die: The 1970s 55 A Challenging Decade 55 Taking a New Turn: Rail Transportation 59 The Montreal Subway 61 The Acquisition of MLW-Worthington 67 Chapter 4: The Deal of the Century: The New York City Subway (1982) 73 A Golden Opportunity 73 A Contested Victory 78 The Tools for Success 84 The Royer Way of Doing Things 86 The BMS 91 A Major Breakthrough 97 Tempest in a Teapot 101 The Value of Proven Technologies 104 A Welcome Boost 107 Chapter 5: New Frontiers: Transportation in the 1980s and 1990s 110 The North American Market 110 Full Speed Ahead 112 A Rocky Start for the LRC 114 The Vagaries of High-Speed in America 117 The Disney Monorail 124 The Acquisition of UTDC 125 Capturing the European Market 129 The Chunnel Odyssey 133 Taking Over by Storm: From Talbot to Adtranz 137 PART THREE 143 Chapter 6: Aerospace Takes Off 145 A Bold Move 145 Early Attempts to Diversify: The Automotive Sector 149 The Acquisition of Canadair (1986) 151 Good Things Come in Threes: Shorts, Learjet, and de Havilland 156 Portrait of a Turnaround Artist 165 Power in Numbers: Synergizing Operations 171 Chapter 7: Revolution in the Sky: The Move Toward Regional Jets 176 The Rise of Airline Hubs 176 From Challenger to CRJ 179 A New Captain Steers Aerospace Group 186 Bombardier Takes Off 192 Dogfight in the Clouds 196 Inside the Pro-ex Saga 201 An Affair of State 205 Government Support 208 Chapter 8: Spreading Its Wings 216 The Global Express Business Jet (1991–1996) 216 Diversification Delivers 225 PART FOUR 229 Chapter 9: Two Turbulent Decades at Valcourt 231 The Ski-Doo Loses Speed 231 Pierre Beaudoin and the Return of the Sea-Doo (1988) 233 Extreme Snowmobiling and Innovation 238 Acquisition of Outboard Marine Corporation (2001) 241 Chapter 10: Lessons in Strategic Governance 244 The Éminence Grise 244 Decentralization 248 Management Tools 253 An Evolving Structure 256 Chapter 11: Handing Over the Reins 259 Robert Brown Takes Charge 259 The Impact of September 2001 264 Tellier Joins Bombardier 265 An Unexpected Comeback 270 Pierre Takes the Helm and CSeries Aircraft Takes Off 273 Laurent Beaudoin’s Legacy 276 Endnotes 279 Index 293

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Book SynopsisGrinding It Out: The Making of McDonalds is the personal story behind founder Ray Croc's amazing success. The Founder, is a major motion picture based on Ray Kroc's life, to be released on August 5th, 2016 in wide distribution

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Book SynopsisHugh Campbell holds a Professorial Chair of Sociology at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has written extensively on the sociology of food. Prior to the University of Otago he was Director at the Centre for the Study of Agriculture, Food and Environment at the University of Otago, New Zealand.Trade ReviewThere is much to love about Farming Inside Invisible Worlds. A key strength is its attentiveness to geographical and historical specificity in narrating the solidification and crises of modern agriculture ... Campbell adeptly draws on comparative material from the United States and elsewhere, making the book of interest to those studying agrarian transitions and environmental histories elsewhere in the world ... Yet it is the personal touches, such as his thick description of a fishing camp, both heavily denuded of modernist farming possibility and yet full of vitality, that render the book a true tour de grace. * AAG Review of Books *Campbell is an academic at the top of his game. He covers the history of agriculture in his country with breadth, clarity, and succinctness, as well as a dose of dry humour ... An important contribution from Aotearoa/New Zealand to a growing literature on settler colonial food systems across states of the former British Empire by Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars. * Agriculture and Human Values *‘Drawing upon his farming experiences, and applying extensive knowledge from the social sciences, Hugh Campbell delivers an original and provocative account of agricultural development in Aotearoa New Zealand. It will appeal to a wide public audience, especially readers in nations such as Australia, New Zealand, the US and Canada – where indigenous peoples were forcibly removed from their lands. Thoroughly researched and eloquently written, the book is set to become a classic in agrarian studies.’ * Geoffrey Lawrence, The University of Queensland, Australia *The combination of long-term, widely cast academic experience and situated, personal involvement makes this a truly special book, in which different modes of knowing go together in insightful and compelling ways. -- Annemarie Mol * Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies *An extremely stimulating book that will go down in the history of agri-food studies. Its success lies in Hugh Campbell’s analyses of the origins, crises and alternatives to modern agriculture in New Zealand as well as the theoretical references that he uses to address these issues. -- Ronan Le Velly * Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies *‘Hugh Campbell impressively ‘decolonises’ modern farming, disclosing its explicit and implicit powers, as embodied in material and ontological agency. Through the lens of colonisation of Mãori farming cultures, he foregrounds settler farming history as exemplary in forming capitalist value relations and modernist erasure of Indigenous socio-ecological practices. His unique reflexive narrative is a powerful account of modern farming’s bio-cultural override, challenging boundaries of industrial agriculture and critical scholarship alike.’ * Philip McMichael, Cornell University, USA *‘This book changes the way we must understand and engage with the transformative powers and potentialities of farms and farming in any setting. The book’s brilliant account of the politics of land, people and biota of Aotearoa New Zealand since European colonisation shows that nothing about farms as socio-ecological projects is unchallengeable. He unashamedly frames the power of farms in terms of their visible and invisible powers centred on property. While an extremely robust even brutal expose, the book’s mission is to re-instate contemporary farms as sites of vitality, renewal, experiments and hope. This is the agri-food book of the 21st century.’ * Richard Le Heron, University of Auckland, New Zealand *Table of ContentsPrologue: Visible and Invisible Farming Worlds 1. Farming and Ontology 2. The Powers and Consequences of the Colonial Farm in New Zealand 3. From Colonial to Modernist Farming 4. The Crisis of Modernist Farming 5. Farming Inside Visible Worlds Epilogue: Theorizing the Ontology of Farms Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisImagine if you were there, taking notes, as a small pizza joint became one of the most successful restaurants in the world. The Domino’s Story will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and business practices that made the iconic pizza chain the innovative restaurant and e-commerce leader it is today.

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Book SynopsisBenjamin Coombs is Assistant Lecturer at the University of Kent, UK.Trade ReviewThe book is well researched and is a useful addition to the history of the Second World War. -- G. C. Peden, University of Stirling, UK * The American Historical Review *[Coombs' book] approaches the 'tank debate' from a largely unexplored direction ... With its fascinating cross-fertilization of social, military and economic history this will no doubt become the standard work on this area for some time. * The Second World War Military Operations Research Group *Clearly, substantial effort and attention to detail accompanied this thesis turned monograph. * The Historian *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Government and Industry during Disarmament and Rearmament 2. Government and Industry during Wartime 3. General Staff Requirements and Industrial Capabilities 4. The Tank Workforce and Industrial Output 5. Overcoming Production Problems and Delays 6. Influence of North America upon the British Tank Industry Conclusion Appendixes Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAnne Murcott is Professorial Research Associate, Food Studies Centre, SOAS University of London and Honorary Professor, University of Nottingham, UK.Warren Belasco is Professor Emeritus of American Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. Peter Jackson is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield, UK.Trade ReviewThe Handbook of Food Research covers the whole spectrum of research related to food production, distribution and consumption -- Ellen J. Helsper * LSE Review of Books *This impressive compendium introduces readers to research in food history and sociology on diverse topics including food technologies, adulteration, marketing, and waste; nutrition, food security, and famine; farming, terroir, meals, and media; eating disorders, obesity, and food politics. It will be an invaluable resource for both beginning and established scholars seeking a comprehensive overview of foodways research. * Carole Counihan, Editor-in-Chief of 'Food and Foodways' and co-editor of 'Food and Culture: A Reader' and 'Taking Food Public: Redefining Foodways in a Changing World.' *An ambitious and judicious compilation of reviews of international research on the diverse topics constituting the fragmented field of food studies, this book amasses the evidence and theory from many disciplines needed for a coherent and relevant understanding of current issues of provision, consumption and policy. * Alan Warde, Professor of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, UK. *This Handbook is a comprehensive examination of food in its social, ecological, nutritional, cultural and political dimensions by a stellar line-up of research-scholars. Its organizing frameworks of history, provisioning, consumption, and current issues underscore food’s centrality to all scales of social life. * Philip McMichael, Cornell University, USA *These authoritative essays illuminate key analytical themes and future challenges confronting contemporary and historical research on food in the social sciences. This erudite collection will be an indispensable companion for researchers in the rapidly expanding, diverse field of food studies. * David Goodman, Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, King's College London, and Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA *Making an inventory of paradigms and methods, with an abundance of very relevant empirical data, the authors of this handbook show, in an exemplary manner, how forty years of multidisciplinary interest for food led to the emergence of the "food research"; a sector becoming one of the most dynamic fields of the contemporary science. * Jean Pierre Poulain, Sociologist and Anthropologist, Taylor’s University, Malaysia and University of Toulouse 2, France *This is an important collection of writings by an international group of scholars on the production, distribution and consumption of food, that is both firmly anchored in history and addresses contemporary social problems. It is a valuable guidebook to the rapidly growing and highly diverse field of food research. * Jukka Gronow, Professor Emeritus, Department of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland *A cross-disciplinary and historically rich review, a future research agenda and much provocation. This book will encourage food studies scholars to chart the continuities and changes, consensus and contest in the biological, environmental and social relations of food. * Jane Dixon, Senior Fellow, Australian National University, Australia *Table of ContentsForeword by Sidney W. Mintz (John Hopkins University, USA) A Burgeoning Field: Introduction to The Handbook of Food Research - Anne Murcott (SOAS, University of Nottingham and London South Bank University, UK) Part One: Historical Essentials Editorial Introduction The History of Globalization and the Food Supply - Leigh Bush, Adrianne Bryant, and Richard Wilk (Indiana University, USA) Re-thinking the Economic and Social History of Agriculture and Food, Through the Lens of Food Choice - Richard Le Heron (University of Auckland, NZ) Feeding Growing Cities in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Problems, Innovations and Reputations - Peter Scholliers and Patricia Van Den Eeckhout (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) The Historical Development of Industrial and Domestic Food Technologies - Mónica Truninger (Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal) Social History of the Science of Food Analysis and the Control of Adulteration - Peter J. Atkins (University of Durham, UK) Representations of Food Production and Consumption: Cookbooks as Historical Sources - Kyri W. Claflin (Boston University, USA) Part Two: Frameworks of Provision: Production and Distribution Editorial Introduction Contemporary Food Systems - Terry Marsden (Cardiff University, UK) Economics, Food Demand and Nutrition - Richard Tiffin and Matthew Salois (University of Reading, UK) Food Chains - Bill Pritchard (University of Sydney, Australia) Food and the Audit Society - Hugh Campbell (University of Otago, NZ) Environmental Issues in Agriculture: Farming Systems and Ecosystem Services - Michael Winter (University of Exeter, UK) Appellations and indications of origin, terroir, and the social construction and contestation of place-named foods - Harry G. West (SOAS, UK) A Critical Turn in Hospitality and Tourism Research - Richard Mitchell and David Scott (School of Hospitality, Otago Polytechnic, NZ and Southern Cross University, Australia) Part Three: Buying and Eating Editorial Introduction Food Marketing - Marianne Elisabeth Lien (University of Oslo, Norway) and Eivind Jacobsen (National Institute for Consumer Research (SIFO), Oslo, Norway) Food Retailing - Allan G. Hallsworth (University of Portsmouth, UK) The Twenty-First Century 'Food Consumer': The Emergence of Consumer Science - Helene Brembeck (Centre for Consumer Science, CFK, University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Appetite and Satiety - A Psychobiological Approach - John Blundell, Michelle Dalton, Graham Finlayson (University of Leeds, UK) Sociology of Food Consumption - Lotte Holm (Copenhagen University, Denmark) Meals: Eating at Home and 'Eating Out' - Alice Julier (Chatham University, USA) Drinks: Water, 'Soft' and Alcoholic - Tom Brennan (United States Naval Academy, USA) Food and Identity - Krishnendu Ray (New York University, USA) Part Four: Contemporary Issues, Problems and Policy Editorial Introduction Hunger and Famine Worldwide - Ellen Messer (Boston University, USA) The Politics of Food and Nutrition Policies - David F. Smith (University of Aberdeen, UK) Risk and Trust in the Food Supply - Unni Kjærnes (The National Institute for Consumer Research, Oslo, Norway) Food (In)security in the Global "North" and "South" - Jane L. Midgley (University of Newcastle, UK) Food and the Media: Production, Representation and Consumption - Roger Dickinson (University of Leicester, UK) Eating Disorders and Obesity: Symptoms of a Socially Sanctioned Pathway in the Modern World - Jane Ogden (University of Surrey, UK) Food Waste - Catherine Alexander (Goldsmiths' College London, UK) Nicky Gregson (University of Sheffield, UK) and Zsuzsa Gille (University of Illinois at Urbana-champaign, USA) References Name Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisWhenever we turn on the TV, flip a page in a magazine, or glance at a flyer in the grocery store, we are constantly bombarded with nutritional advice. Almond products can boost your memory! Milk helps build up your bones! Cereal is part of a doctor-approved balanced breakfast for growing girls and boys! Study after study tells us what we should eat, how much, and when. Words like "superfood" and "guilt free" convince us that we're making the right choice when we pluck an item off the shelf and head for the checkout line. We count on nutrition science to guide us through the overwhelming choices in our local grocery store and helps us make the best decisions for our health.Except it often doesn't. Many of these studies we rely on to make decisions are not funded by unbiased third parties-they're actually funded by companies seeking to buoy their own products. As renowned food expert Marion Nestle reveals in Unsavory Truth, most nutrition societies, committees, and departments are actually in the food industry's pocket. Whether it's a study claiming moderate exercise is enough to cancel out the calories in sugary sodas (backed by Coca-Cola) or a report about how blueberries can reduce the risk of erectile dysfunction (backed by the US Highbush Blueberry Council), the food industry has learned how to turn selective disclosure and partisan probes into major profit. Like Big Pharma has corrupted medical science, so Big Food has corrupted nutrition. In a nation where more than two-thirds of adults and one-third of children are considered overweight or obese, it's never been more important to put our public health first. With stricter legislation for food companies and researchers, stricter policies for societies and journals, and better consumer education, Nestle argues that we have a fighting chance to get our country's nutrition back on track.With riveting prose and unmatched investigative rigor, Unsavory Truth reveals how big food companies took over nutrition science-and how we can take it back.

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Book SynopsisIn today's global apparel industry, garments that are designed domestically are often manufactured overseas. The production package, a series of forms that define a garment's specifications, is critical to ensuring that a particular style is executed correctly and efficiently. The Complete Guide to the Production Package and Apparel Production Management is the first text of its kind to present the basics of production management with clear instructions for creating each component of a production package. Students will start with a look at the complete management process, from the costing, and planning that takes place domestically, to the off-shore production processes that include sourcing, assembly and finishing, and packaging and distribution. In the last section, a workbook format, with blank templates of production package sheets, give students a chance to put their understanding of the role and steps of the production package within the apparel manufacturing process into action by creating a production package of their own. Features: -- Concise overview of domestic and off-shore apparel production processes -- Diagrams of a production department's division of labor, stages of costing, and scheduling -- Discussion of the role of technology in production management, including a comparison of PDM and PLM software -- Examples of completed production package sheets from actual apparel companies -- Blank production package sheets represent a standard of what's used across the apparel industry -- Appendices containing basic body croquis, industrial sewing stitches, a button selector gauge, plus care label and packaging regulations -- Instructor's Guide provides suggestions for planning the course and using the text in the classroomTable of ContentsProduction Management, Costing, and Planning Production Management Costing Production Planning and Scheduling Sourcing Production Assembly and Finishing Packaging and Distribution The Production Package The Cover Sheet The Fabric Sheet The Component Sheet The Label/Packing Sheet The Construction Sheet The Pattern Sheet The Spec Sheet

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Book SynopsisIn the early nineteenth century the major English chocolate firms,Fry, Rowntree, and Cadbury,were all Quaker family enterprises that aimed to do well by doing good. The English chocolatiers introduced the world's first chocolate bar and ever fancier chocolate temptations,while also writing ground-breaking papers on poverty, publishing authoritative studies of the Bible, and campaigning against human rights abuses. Chocolate was always a global business, and in the global competitors, especially the Swiss and the Americans Hershey and Mars, the Quaker capitalists met their match. The ensuing chocolate wars would culminate in a multi-billion-dollar showdown pitting Quaker tradition against the cutthroat tactics of a corporate behemoth. Featuring a cast of savvy entrepreneurs, brilliant eccentrics, and resourceful visionaries, Chocolate Wars is a delicious history of the fierce, 150-year business rivalry for one of the world's most coveted markets.Trade ReviewBooklist, October 1, 2010 "This tale of capitalist rivalry mixed with Quaker values makes for a very sweet journey." Washington Post "This is a delicious book, seductive as a tray of bonbons, a Fancy Box in every way." The New Yorker Book Bench "For chocolate lovers and Roald Dahl fans, some heartening news: Willy Wonka's factory - or at least something that sounds very much like it - was a real place... Though Cadbury begins with teasingly enviable childhood recollections... the story she tells is really about Quakers, and one family's continuous struggle to reconcile religious values - pacifism, austerity, sobriety - with the indulgent nature of their product and the ruthlessly competitive capitalism of the world in which they made their fortune... It's hard not to root for these guys and the story is all the more bittersweet because we know how it ends." The Daily Telegraph "Engaging and scholarly, confident and compassionate, Chocolate Wars is less a family biography than an impressively thought provoking parable for our times... A vibrant history." Business Times "Fascinating...Chocolate Wars presents narrative history at its most absorbing, peopled by colourful characters: the true story of the chocolate pioneers, the visions and ideals that inspired them and the mouth-watering concoctions they created... Deborah gives readers an insider look, fleshing out the stories around her family with her familiar competence as a bestselling historian and award winning documentary maker." Kirkus "A fine pocket history of corporate confectionery... Cadbury has a knack for capturing the driven personalities who launched these [chocolate] empires." Library Journal "Although written by proud Cadbury kin, the narrative is balanced and fair. This is a well written and well researched look at chocolate and the Quaker business tradition that any food or history buff will enjoy." Sunday Times "Chocolate Wars - clear, readable and richly detailed - is at least as much about Quakers as it is about chocolate... enjoyable." Financial Times, November 15, 2010 "Deborah Cadbury's branch of the Cadbury family wasn't involved in the chocolate business but she garnered a deep impression from a childhood visit to her cousins' company and the reader of Chocolate Wars feels they are getting an insider's view. Her own background as a historian and TV documentary maker means that this book communicates in an episodic and visual style, making what risks being a dull subject gripping as it flips back and forth around the world documenting parallel events in the emergence of the chocolate industry." Examiner.com, November 14, 2010 "The 150-year rivalry among the world's greatest chocolate making families, is told by a descendant of one of the families. Just think what sweetness came out of these families' rivalries, depicted deliciously in this new book." Boston Globe, November 14, 2010 "Deborah Cadbury begins with a brief description of Quaker aims and humane business practices before moving on through the history of the family business. This takes in the truly exciting race to put Cadbury's chocolate candy in every mouth, to the exclusion of that made by rival English Quaker firms, Rowntree and Fry, to say nothing of the Swiss Lindt and Nestle. Her many faceted account takes in technology, distribution, and industrial espionage, advertising and packaging, labor relations and model housing for workers, the role of the firm and its owners in wartime and international expansion." Gulfnews.com, November 26, 2010 "Engaging and scholarly, Chocolate Wars is less a family biography than an impressively thought-provoking parable for our times." Los Angeles Times, November 28, 2010 "Fascinating...Read this excellent book." Philadelphia Inquirer, November 28, 2010 "The inside story of the 150-year rivalry among Cadbury, Hershey, Nestle, and Mars is a fascinating and luscious tale. Deborah Cadbury, great-great-great-granddaughter of 19th-century chocolate maker John Cadbury, tells it eloquently in Chocolate Wars, drawing the reader into her epic of family and industry with clear love for her subject." Christian Science Monitor, December 1, 2010 "[Chocolate Wars] pits idealism against capitalism, religious piety against the forces of greed and cutthroat competition. Though, like great fiction, it defies belief, it's the true story of our favorite guilty pleasure. Cadbury's book, like her namesake's famous sampler, is full of surprises and delights." Bnreview.com, December 2010 "This engaging history of the 150-year rivalry among the world's greatest chocolate makers-the English firms Fry, Rowntree, and Cadbury (to which the author, Deborah Cadbury, is an heiress), their European competitors Lindt and Nestle, and the American upstarts Hershey and Mars-is delightful, especially for its fascinating portrait of the 19th-century success of Quaker capitalism, built quite remuneratively on the ideal that wealth creation entails responsibilities beyond personal gain."

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