Fort Collins, Colorado Essays

  • New Belgium Brewing Company

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    is known for a culture of high-quality beer and this concept was formulated by an electrical engineer from Fort Collins, Colorado. The electrical engineer, Jeff Lebesch, was traveling through Belgium on his fat-tired mountain bike when he envisioned the same high-quality beer in Colorado. Lebesch acquired the special strain of yeast used in Belgium and took it back to his basement in Colorado and the experimentation process was initiated. His friends were the samplers and when they approved the beer

  • Corporate Social Responsibility and Shareholder Reaction by C. Flammers

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    Since the case study was written, New Belgium has added to its product line with beers divided into these different categories: Year Round, Seasonal, Revival, Hop Kitchen, and Lips of Faith (New Belgium Brewing, n.d.). NBB still calls Fort Collins, Colorado home (New Belgium Brewing, n.d.). However, in 2015 they will be opening up a location in Asheville, North Carolina to reach the East Coast (New Belgium Brewing, n.d.). They now are currently selling beer in 32 states, and produced 764,424 barrels

  • The New Belgium Brewery

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    in Europe. Brewery to brewery, Jeff had a dream that one day he would be able to start his own brewery with a mind full of recipes and a handful of hops. A couple years after his journey through Europe, Jeff started New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins, Colorado. He wanted to create an outstanding craft beer to start off his business. Jeff also wanted the chance to enhance people’s lives while surpassing the consumers’ expectations and taste buds. Not only did he think of well-crafted beer but he

  • The Daniels Fund: Assessing and Evaluating Strategic Communication Plans

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    foundation whose entire existence is based on helping people to a corporation who is basically a monopoly for power in several U.S. states and whose #1 goal is profit. Overview First, The Daniels Fund is a charitable foundation based out of Denver, Colorado. Founded in 2000, The Daniels Fund is named after Bill Daniels, a wealthy entrepreneur that spent the majority of his life helping others. Upon his death, he bequeathed his entire fortune to The Daniels Fund celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2010

  • New Belgium Brewing: SWOT Analysis

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    additional consumer loyalty. Competitive Advantage question 2 The New Belgium Brewing Company transformed the craft brewing into a multi-million d... ... middle of paper ... ...lgium brewing company: Brewing with a conscience. University of Colorado at Denver Health and Sciences Center. The Wirth Chair in Environmental Community Development Policy Franklin, M. (2013, August 26). Top 15 craft beer breweries in USA. USA Today:The daily meal deal. Retrieved from http://www.usatoday.com/story/t

  • New Belgium Brewing Case

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    structure for addressing ethical concerns. (Ferrell et al, 2013 p.219) Yes I do think that New Belgium Brewing has developed a corporate culture that helps lead to ethical decision making. New Belgium Brewing although a small business is based in Colorado and founded by Jeff Lebesch was motivated while on a biking trip through Belgium. The case states “the company places great importance on the ethical culture of the brand.” (p.357) Furthermore explain that, what a company says and does must be synchronized

  • New Belgium Brewery Case Study

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    This case study provides deep understanding of the ethical behaviour of New Belgium Brewery. It undertakes analysis of how this company has integrated corporate social responsibility into their core beliefs and values. NBB has taken care of the environment by saving and renewing energy in every possible area of production. Introducing the competitors and community to the philanthropic idea of giving back to the society is a huge step of moving into the market and trying to put challenge to its competitors

  • Fracking: Extracting Natural Gas

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    (hydrogen carbons) and oil from shale or coal bed methane deposits. Townships in Colorado like Lafayette and Fort Collins, voted on a moratorium to ban fracking within city limits. Environmental organizations like the Clean Water Action and Sierra Club claim that that fracking causes environmental degradation, health issues and impacts negatively on communities and their infrastructure. Whereas organizations like the Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA), Halliburton and other oil and gas industry

  • Brownfield Program Pros And Cons

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    health and the quality of the environment, which Colorado takes very seriously. For years mining and agricultural practices are what stimulated Colorado’s economy but have left behind contaminated properties. This department established a Voluntary Cleanup Program to assist and promote the redevelopment of contaminated properties. This program has provided the state of Colorado with many positive environmental, economic, and social benefits. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment administered

  • The Boys from Joes

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    The Boys from Joes The town of Joes, Colorado was founded in 1906. Just about everyone in the town had someone in their family with name of Joe, and that’s how the town got its name. The Boys from Joes is an incredible story. It’s about a group of ten small town boys who weren’t expected to go anywhere in basketball, or achieve their goals. Joes High School’s total enrollment consisted of sixteen girls, and twenty boys. Ten of the boys that had enrolled there played basketball. All of the boys were

  • Noco United Soccer Center Case Analysis

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    Wesley Diekens established the NOCO United Soccer Academy in 2006. He is a soccer coach who trains children in Northern Colorado. He has typically rented not always the best spaces to train the children in. Diekens is looking to build a training facility of his own or expand his business to other small cities within twenty-five miles of Fort Collins, where ninety percent of his current customers live. In order to expand his business, he needs to develop a well-developed market strategy. In

  • Personal Narrative: My Trip To Colorado

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    The summer of 2016 was full of fun activities my family and I participated in. My favorite thing we did was take a vacation to Colorado. Every year we go there during the winter to ski and snowboard. Colorado is a beautiful state that I had never seen in the summer. The main reason we went to Colorado was to visit colleges for my older brother, Hunter. We did go to schools but the most memorable part of the trip was the activities we did and the time spent with my family. We began the trip on July

  • Christmas Persuasive Essay

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    Jadyn Chavannes skeen Mrs. Ministro HRT3M1 Wednesday 28th 2014 Christmas a time of Joy The festival that I am doing is considered to be a big diverse holiday that is celebrated each December for a period of time. The preparing for Christmas is called Advent and begins on a Sunday four weeks before Christmas till after New Year’s. Christmas was originated because of Christ’s birth Christmas is a holiday shared and celebrated by many religions. It is a day that has happy and memorable

  • Transnational Corporation (TNC) Networks

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    ... middle of paper ... ... Colorado, in particular by providing a beneficial regulatory system. A number of local states are directly contesting this support of natural gas in their areas. After Longmont passed a ban on hydrolytic fracturing, “Gov. John W. Hickenlooper, a Democrat, has warned Longmont residents that the ban is likely to mean a lawsuit from the state” (Healy, 2012). During the elections of 2013, a number of other cities, including Fort Collins and Boulder, passed moratoriums

  • Trader Joe's Case Study

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    Imagine this: more customers than ever before, more products to save, bigger donations to new communities, and giving shoppers what they need when they need it. I am an eighth-grade student at Silver Hills Middle School in Westminster, Colorado. I am also a loyal customer at Trader Joe’s, you bargain hard to pass the saving to the customers, and I enjoy that! I can’t thank you enough for all the hard work you put into every one of your Trader Joe’s stores and in the way you give back to the community

  • Trucking Industry

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    Companies like Uber have developed a self-driving truck and have put it to test on or about October 17, 2016. This truck transported Budweiser beer from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs in Colorado. It’s trip covered 120 miles of distance and was traveling at a speed of 55 mph. The trucking industry has a workforce that is predominantly men around age 49 and only 5.8% of female. According to the American Trucking Association

  • Sexual Assault Case Summary

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    On February 28, 2017, Dispatch request I contact a victim to a cold sexual assault, the assault occurred at 21401 MC RD E, within the County of Montezuma, State of Colorado. I contacted the reported victim Davis, Jacolynne (DOB 12-26-1985) who stated that she was raped by her boyfriend June 9, 2014. She stated the following occurred at the above stated address. On June 9, 2014, Davis, Jacolynne was at her boyfriends identified as Wright, Randy (DOB 09-12-1988) house and was waiting for him to

  • Tipping Benefits

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    experience, years with the operation, etc. Her thoughts are emblematic of most other servers interviewed. Figure 2 shows the results of a survey of 25 servers in the restaurant industry. Although these numbers are representative only of servers in Fort Collins and not of the United States population as a whole, it is interesting to see that a strong number of them, 60 percent, would keep the tipping model around if they had the

  • Wayne's 'Arrived In Alaska'

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    6. Chris believes that if he too the ticket from Wayne that would be a shortcut, an easy way out. Chris believes that the voyage is just as important as the destination. One example of this is on Page 67 Chapter 7 “Once Alex made his mind up about something, there was no changing it.” This quote shows Chris’s stubbornness and how he is determined to get to Alaska as he intended, the long way. Another quote showing that he lives to his own words, and wouldn’t take a shortcut is on Page 68 Chapter

  • Instructional Design

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    Instructional Design Cornella Brothers is a large excavating company that does excavation in a multitude of aspects on the Colorado Front Range. This ranges from Pueblo to Fort Collins Colorado. The organization also owns a home building company, and is an investor in multiple ventures in the Colorado area. However, their bread and butter so to speak, are the excavation aspects of their company. The following will describe the organizations professional context, learner characteristics, and what