Introduction Peter Sawchyn started Sawchyn guitars back in 1980 and he specialized in custom, handmade mandolins and guitars. When Peter was a teenager, he developed a passion for making guitars all while having no previous training nor desire to make them. During this time, he was able to make his very first guitar on his own. Peter, who is now a 57 year old lifelong entrepreneur, has gained a fair share of experience since his teenager days and is now known by many musicians all over the world. In the case, it explains that Peter also focuses mainly on sound quality and design rather than mass producing like other music businesses. There is no computerized machines to do the work, rather he does it all my ear and designs all his guitars …show more content…
Peter produces all his instruments by hand and doesn’t use machinery to mss produce his products. This makes Sawchyn guitars a very highly sought after business for customers who want a very high quality, customized musical instrument. Although there is a fair but of competition in the music business industry, Peter gains a competitive edge over other producers by creating a unique sound in his instruments. Canada has many known music stores which include L.A Music, and Long and McQuade. Over his years of hand making guitars, Peter has also gained loyal customers. Another strength includes having both national and international customers. With these strengths comes some disadvantages for Sawchyn Guitars. Since Peter makes all his guitars handmade, he is unable to have machinery to create his guitars since each guitar wouldn’t be unique which his customers are fond of. His organization also has a very small number of staff. This is one of the main issues facing Peter and his wife, Kendra. As they are getting older, they both don’t want to work full time, but as Peter is being faced with high demands for his products, he has no other choice but to work full time, seven days a week in order to fill orders. Although he has some help part time, he needs someone who knows how to hand make guitars and mandolins to produce unique sounds. And lastly, Peter doesn’t have enough space to store his guitars. Although they have a new shop, they are still unable to display many
Michael Moscherosch was born on November 23rd, 1962, in Stuttgart Germany. He and his younger brother were born into a working class family, with his mother working as a full-time accountant and his father working as a car mechanic. The Moscherosch family stayed in Stuttgart for since its inception, the families ancestral roots stem as far back as the 1600s and stayed within Stuttgart and the villages surrounding the area. Michael as a child was described to be scholastic and performed well in his school. In Germany, instead of there being an elementary, middle, and high school, there is a primary school and then secondary schools prioritizing certain fields; some of these fields include engineering, trade schools, and “gymnasiums” which closely represent the structure of our American high schools. Upon completing his secondary school education, Michael began studying Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart, working at night during the week to fund his education.
You are the social media director for Tiblana Candle Company. Tiblana is a manufacturer and sells candles through partner retail stores such as novelty stores found in shopping malls, as well as big box retail and department stores, and online through sites such as Amazon.com. The company has a solid 20-year reputation for making popular household decor candles in a variety of scents and colors. Candles are sold in elegant, well-branded boxes. The primary customer base is women 30-45 years old (but Tiblana wants to start targeting women 45-60 as well). Tiblana’s CRM data shows that customers average eight purchases each over lifetime, very good for their niche. The company is profitable and growing.
This was another one of Eddie's home built guitars. These pictures are a representation of the true musician that Eddie Van Halen is. Even expensive guitars would not give the sound Eddie was searching for, so he built his own.
The legal system is considered a place where justice is served and criminals are sent to prison. However, this is not always the case, as seen with Robert Baltovich, who suffered a serious miscarriage of justice. Baltovich was accused and unfairly convicted for a murder that he did not commit. The investigation into the murder of Elizabeth Bain was unfairly skewed to gain a conviction against Baltovich. The bias against Baltovich, in the murder investigation, and his subsequent trial was a disservice to him and to Canadian society.
Lucio Proni is an engineer and cofounded of the company with his high school buddy Jim Birch. During the mid-1970’s when they were on their summer break from the University of Florida, Lucio and Jim decided to mess around with component speakers and wound up building home loudspeakers for fun. They worked out of a garage in Lucios home and showed some of their speakers to their friends and some. Later on, a few of them even bought some, so they built a couple more to sell on the flea market. Lucio’s early success inspired him to start a speaker business so he could make a living from his work. In 1975, he joined fellow business partner and friend, Jim Birch and founded JL Audio; their company name being an amalgamation of the first letters of their names. They didn’t really start out their business with a solid business plan, their early days were instead marked by a lot of trial and error. At first they tried to sell JL Audio products to local audio shops. They found some success doing this since a couple of the loca shops were interested in selling their home speaker systems and kits. In 1977, business became scarce and they encountered financial difficulties as a result. In troubling times like this, it was Jims’s business skills, Lucio’s quality workmanship, and their combined tenacity that got them through it all. As a child, Lucio was given some valuable advice from his father; he said that “if you’re not willing to put your heart into something, then don’t bother doing it”. This work philos...
This company manufactures tables and cabinets to hold microwave ovens and portable televisions. Looking at the data, it is apparent that there are ways to make this company more efficient in their manufacturing processes while looking at the overtime hours involved in the operations. Most of this companies products follow the very same assembly and production lines with the difference being that the Saturn microwave stand and the Gemini TV stand both contain a part refered to as 3079 which requires a special lathe in the production phase. This lathe requires a highly train...
In the early hours of the night on June 1993, Whren and Brown were driving the Pathfinder truck in a high drug region. In the same locale, two plainclothes police officers with unmarked police car were mandated with the task to patrol the area in the District of Columbia. It’s at this juncture that the police officers observed that the Pathfinder truck in which Whren and Brown were driving had stopped at a crossing stop sign for an extraordinarily long time (Whren v the United States, 1996). Without even signaling, Whren turned right sharply and sped off on realizing that the police officers had made a U-turn towards them. Similarly, as this was in violation of the traffic rules the police officers raced after them and stopped them at the side of the road at a red light. Notwithstanding, Whren was found to hold two plastic bags of what seemed like crack cocaine in his hand when the police came to the vehicle. Whren and Brown were thus incarcerated on federal drug charges. Before the trial, counsel for the defense progressed to overturn the possession of drug evidence. They contended that the police were in violation of the fourth amendment of the constitution as the police had wrongly used the pretext of a traffic stop to investigate possible drug crimes
Due to the good establishment of the business, it has huge market national. The company has therefore opened many retail shops and stores all over the country to ensure that their products are accessible to the customers. The entity provides a favorable environment, and many clients view the place as a fun shopping place to be. The retailer has targeted a big pool of customer because of the variety of products it sells. The stores products vary from kitchen goods, jewelry, and electronics clothes to hardware
Black & Decker (B&D) is a global manufacturer and the world’s largest producer of power tools, power tool accessories, electric lawn and garden tools, and residential security hardware. The company was a pioneer in innovation and development of power tools and has used that position to build strong brand names that enjoy worldwide recognition. Key Causes for Poor Performance in the Professional-Tradesmen Segment The reason B&D has performed poorly in the professional-tradesmen segment is due to the positioning of the B&D brand in this segment. Poor positioning of the brand has resulted in customer confusion and negatively impacted customer perception of the brand in terms of being a quality product. B&D Performance in the Power Tool Industry Overall Any adjustments to B&D’s strategy in the professional-tradesmen segment must not have an adverse impact on their success in the consumer or professional-industrial segments. Therefore, a thorough understanding of the needs of each segment will be important in building a viable strategy to challenge Makita in the professional-tradesmen segment, while continuing to maintain share in the other two segments. _Consumer _Segment Professional-Tradesmen Segment This category consists of professionals who are buying a product for their own use on a job site. Their livelihood depends on the quality and performance, as well as the reflection on their skills that using a particular tool brings from others on the job site. Since they are purchasing their own tools, this segment needs this high quality performance at a reasonable price. However, since Makita and Milwaukee are both priced higher than B&D and are seeing greater success in this category, tradesmen are clearly willing to pay more for a product they perceive will be more effective for their use. Key needs for this market segment include: Performance and quality - {text:change} does the job needed to be done, doesn’t break down, produces high-quality results and more efficiently gets the job done. Reliability and durability - does the job every time and can be used for an extended period of heavy continual use. Safety Support from the Manufacturer – if the product breaks or performs poorly, access to replacement parts and service will be key in maximizing performance up-time.
...t to franchising the store, by letting other people put the money up for the locations and using us as an upper management type role to conduct major business and deal with channel members such as the manufacturer and distributing companies. We feel this obviously cuts down on a lot of the risk in the monetary area. We would like to run the Vancouver store thought to ensure the main store taking care of orders is done properly. We would like also to pass down our philosophy on staff having a mix of Immigrants who already know our product, Indian children to help reach the younger market and Canadian counterparts to both groups to reach our goal of making this store popular to the Canadian population swell.
All diseases and disorders are categorized by a set of symptoms, or signs that are indicative of certain diseases or disorders. Thus, symptoms are important when diagnosing a person. They serve as a communication tool between the clinical psychologist and the client. When detecting symptoms of a person, it allows the clinician to understand the client’s physical, emotional, and mental discomforts. Using the symptoms reported by the client, the clinician can then determine what the client’s clinical diagnosis is.
Ethically, I feel all the psychiatrist involved should have done a little more investigating into Phillip Jablonski background. Mr. Jablonski and Ms. Kimball informed Dr. Kopiloff that Jablonski served five years in prison for raping his wife and four days prior to attending the session he attempted to rape Kimball’s mother. I feel this information alone deserved a little more attention from Dr. Kopiloff because Jablonski is definitely displaying a pattern of his lack of respect for women and violating your personal space. Another issue which should have brought up red flags and gave Dr. Kopiloff cause for concern is the fact that the police described the same situation to Dr. Berman who failed to relay the message to Dr. Kopiloff. The level of urgency regarding the safety of others and their clients at this hospital does not seem to be high. Ethically, Dr. Berman and Dr. Kopiloff should have formally informed Kimball of their concerns regarding Jablonski’s recent, current, and vague and uncommunicative demeanor. Both doctors were formed not only by local police also the client himself of his violent tendencies and they still were reluctant to act, and only suggested Jablonski voluntarily hospitalized himself.
We could face many challenges that come from external environment and normally it is unexpected. This requires the entrepreneurs need to be creative to remain the business as well as the company’s prestige. Being the pioneer as Bergqvist will have many advantages comparing to other companies. However, it also has many pressures and mostly we must deal with wicked problems. Besides that, as this business is new in the industry, we need contact with people, who has experiences as well as knowledge in order to get advices from them. The association with these people will help our business run
As centuries crawl by, the concept of music has remained largely a part of social and economic interactions within human culture. Of all instruments that contribute, the guitar is one of the most complex and most widely used across all genres of music. There are records that suggest that the guitar has even been played since the time of the Babylonians (Findlay 3). With that said, the guitar is also one of the most elaborate instruments to build, with the most factors and variables involved in construction. The most important variable is the materials chosen to create the instrument. Contrary to popular belief, the quality of said materials to construct a guitar affects its sound immensely. The subject of materials and components has been a matter of debate between stringed-instrument aficionados and luthiers for decades. The driving force that allows materials to affect the resonance of the guitar so immensely is the guitar’s design; it allows the physics of sound to create most of the instrument’s natural tone.
I was in 2nd grade in 2012-2013.At a school called University Elementary School in Irvington NJ. There was There was a girl I know name Peter Ann. We were good friends then. When at was at that school, I whose to play with her a lot. Then when I got home, I will tell my mother things that happen at school.