The agriculture of today is getting larger and larger and it demands more efficient machines to handle these larger units. But all farmers don?t have the opportunities or don?t want to expand. What should they do if they want to remain on the farm? An alternative is to start a farm shop.

AbstractA master thesis in business administration 30 hp, Jönköping International Business School, Spring semester 2012.Authors: Sarah Henningsson & Jim BörefeltSupervisor: Urban ÖsterlundTitle: Commercial real estate investment ? Factors from an investor perspectiveBackground and problem: In this study, we focused on the real estate investor and the factors and issues that may arise and affect real estate investment decisions. It has been put in relation to the other parties in the process of assessing and affecting real estate investment decision. The parties that we studied are real estate investors, banks, brokers and appraisers.Purpose: This study aims to describe and explain the factors that affect commercial real estate investments for investors, credit assessment conducted by the bank and valuation made by the broker and appraiser.Delimitations: We have chosen to limit the study to commercial real estates including residential, retail and office properties, industrial properties and combinations thereof. Agriculture buildings and forestry plots are not examined.

The aim with this paper is to elucidate the current situation of the Swedish glulam market. This thesis paper will also consider prospects for the future and analyse the relationship between customer and producer and what makes a specific supplier attractive to their customer. The companies that are included in the paper are: Martinsons Group AB, Moelven Töreboda AB and Setra Group AB, Långshyttan. These three companies are the members of the organi¬sation Svenskt Limträ AB and produce the largest part of glulam in Sweden. Together they produce 140 000 ? 150 000 m3 a year. The study is based on interviews with all three producers and a customer survey, where I have interviewed five customer to each producer.

A growing need to strengthen ones position on the market, even as a city in competition with other cities, has resulted in an increasing number of municipalities developing brand platforms. When the city of Umeå developed their platform, they identified decision makers and investors as one of four important target groups.The aim of this study is to explore the portrayed image of the city of Umeå in two Swedish trade journals which addresses the specific target group decition makers and investors in both public and private sector. The aim is also to compare the image of Umeå in the two papers, to the ambition of the municipality, expressed in the brand platform.In order to make the observations as firmly established as possible, the method of the study is a combination of a quantitative content analysis and a qualitative text analysis. The study draws on the theories of Eli Avraham and Philip Kotler, concerning how to improve city images and how to market a specific city among others. The study shows that the city of Umeå in large extent is portrayed in accordance to the ambition which the municipality expressed in the brand platform.Umeå is displayed as an expanding city.

Bakgrund och problem: Klädbranschen är en konkurrensutsatt bransch med flera stora aktörer på marknaden. Konkurrensen innebär prispress och minskade marginaler och därmed måste företagen hitta nya och bättre lösningar för att nå sina uppsatta mål. Finanskrisen som accelererade under hösten 2008 ställde dessutom allt på sin spets, vilket gör denna tid till ett ypperligt tillfälle att analysera och utvärdera hållbara lösningar för att behålla en stabil lönsamhet. Vi kommer att undersöka hur variablerna konjunktur, konkurrens, strategi, effektivitet och finansiering har påverkat KappAhls, Hennes & Mauritz och Retail and Brands lönsamhet under den senaste finanskrisen.Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att hitta och förklara förändringar i lönsamheten i klädbranschen under den senaste finanskrisen.Avgränsningar: Uppsatsen fokuserar på klädföretag som är börsnoterade i Sverige. Den tidsmässiga avgränsningen är åren 2006-2009.Metod: Rapporten har en abduktiv ansats, då ett antal variabler, som antas ha ett samband, används för att förklara lönsamhetsmönstret i en bransch under finanskrisen.

An increasing number of automotive supplier companies are investing in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in order to gain cost advantages. This has happened in a rapid pace since many of these countries did not have any foreign direct investments (FDI) at the turn of the century. The problem now is for how long these countries will be able to maintain the low costs. One purpose was to create a model of country advantages for automotive supplier companies when relocating further production to CEE. This dissertation was written in cooperation with the Trelleborg Group.

The importance of chemical use is enormous for areas such as agriculture, industry and medicine and hence a prerequisite for our modern society. In order to protect humans and the environment from the negative effects of chemical use, chemical regulations have been used at a relatively early stage in our history. The purpose of REACH, the new chemical regulation of the European Union, is to generate new knowledge of chemicals within the European market and to increase the responsibilities of the enterprises when it comes to risk management. Whether the enterprises will implement the regulations or not will be of vital importance for the realization of the law?s intentions.The purpose of this study was to identify possibilities and problems that can occur when a downstream-user SME is about to implement REACH.

Background: Sporting events conveyed by the TV medium affect people and can give many unforgettable experiences. Sport may be synonymous with excitement and drama or just serve as entertainment. Through TV broadcasts from different sporting events, millions of televiewers all over the world have enjoyed athletic feats of extreme top class. TV broadcast sport always attracts a great number of viewers, also in Sweden. The prices of broadcasting rights to sporting events have risen strongly during the last decade, much as a consequence of the increasing competition between different TV companies both internationally and in Sweden.

This essay has been made on behalf of the co-operative society Mäster Grön, which is selling ornamental plants to retailers in Sweden. The aim of this study has been to find out what added value Mäster Grön gets from their co-branding with the Swedish Seal of quality. The main topic of discussion was; how much value added does this co-branding give to Mäster Gröns pot plants? Are there differences from a customer point of view in value added between a garden center and a retail store? How much weight does the costumer put on the branding when buying a plant? Does the customer know what the values of Mäster Grön and Swedish Seal of quality mean? Two questions of lesser worth were asked to the consumers about what they thought about the protective plastic around the plant, and if they were interested in getting more information about the origin as well as the method of production of the plant. The study was divided into two parts, one in which customers were observed and one where the customers answered a survey.

Ullberg, Örjan (2009). Fackprovets vara eller icke vara. Fackprovets betydelse för eleven, näringslivet och skolan inom gymnasieskolans hotell- och restaurangprogram. (The occupational tests to be or not to be. The occupational tests significance for the student, the trade and school within the hotel and catering upper secondary school).

Bakgrund och problem: Klädbranschen är en konkurrensutsatt bransch med flera stora aktörer på marknaden. Konkurrensen innebär prispress och minskade marginaler och därmed måste företagen hitta nya och bättre lösningar för att nå sina uppsatta mål. Finanskrisen som accelererade under hösten 2008 ställde dessutom allt på sin spets, vilket gör denna tid till ett ypperligt tillfälle att analysera och utvärdera hållbara lösningar för att behålla en stabil lönsamhet. Vi kommer att undersöka hur variablerna konjunktur, konkurrens, strategi, effektivitet och finansiering har påverkat KappAhls, Hennes & Mauritz och Retail and Brands lönsamhet under den senaste finanskrisen.Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att hitta och förklara förändringar i lönsamheten i klädbranschen under den senaste finanskrisen.Avgränsningar: Uppsatsen fokuserar på klädföretag som är börsnoterade i Sverige. Den tidsmässiga avgränsningen är åren 2006-2009.Metod: Rapporten har en abduktiv ansats, då ett antal variabler, som antas ha ett samband, används för att förklara lönsamhetsmönstret i en bransch under finanskrisen.

Bakgrund och problem: Klädbranschen är en konkurrensutsatt bransch med flera stora aktörer på marknaden. Konkurrensen innebär prispress och minskade marginaler och därmed måste företagen hitta nya och bättre lösningar för att nå sina uppsatta mål. Finanskrisen som accelererade under hösten 2008 ställde dessutom allt på sin spets, vilket gör denna tid till ett ypperligt tillfälle att analysera och utvärdera hållbara lösningar för att behålla en stabil lönsamhet. Vi kommer att undersöka hur variablerna konjunktur, konkurrens, strategi, effektivitet och finansiering har påverkat KappAhls, Hennes & Mauritz och Retail and Brands lönsamhet under den senaste finanskrisen.Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att hitta och förklara förändringar i lönsamheten i klädbranschen under den senaste finanskrisen.Avgränsningar: Uppsatsen fokuserar på klädföretag som är börsnoterade i Sverige. Den tidsmässiga avgränsningen är åren 2006-2009.Metod: Rapporten har en abduktiv ansats, då ett antal variabler, som antas ha ett samband, används för att förklara lönsamhetsmönstret i en bransch under finanskrisen.

China has the world?s largest population and during the last thirty years the country has implemented political and economical changes that have affected China to move towards a more western market economic direction. At first this development was going slow but during the last five years it has increased which today has made China the world?s greatest growing economy. China?s improved cooperation with the world is one reason for this growth which has led to a cumulative of the consumer market.

Live exports of animals began during the late 19th century and are nowadays a valuable alternative to the slaughter industry in Australia. About four million sheep and half a million to one million cattle are exported annually from Australia to the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Most of these animals are exported for slaughter, but some cattle are exported with the purpose of breeding. One factor that has been the driving force for the live export industry is that countries through tariffs and other barriers have favored the import of live animals rather than the import of meat.The export means that animals with a great cognitive ability are exposed to a long chain of production from the farm to the market and there are many factors that can affect the welfare of the animals in a negative way. Some of the most serious are high temperatures and a high stocking density, although seasickness, noises and handling can also have a negative impact on the welfare of animals.

A plant's defensive ability against herbivore attack can be influenced by many different factors, one of them being domestication. During human selection to improve the yield of plants, the resistance against herbivore attack can have been lowered, due to a trade-off for use of resources between these traits in the plants. In this thesis I investigated the effect of domestication on resistance against herbivorous insects in cotton plants. I used different varieties and species of wild and domesticated cotton in three different experiments. A feeding assay was conducted, the mortality, development time and pupal weight of larvae of the Egyptian cotton leaf worm Spodoptera littoralis was studied. In a second experiment the preference of the root-feeding beetle Agriotes spp.