why is target corporation not international?
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The Target Corporation has slimmed down to compete with Walmart and K-Mart in the United States.\n\nThe nation's #2 discount chain (behind Wal-Mart) now operates nearly 1,400 Target and SuperTarget stores in 47 states, as well as an online business called Target.com. After years of struggling to turn around its Marshall Field's and Mervyns departments stores divisions, the discounter sold them both in 2004. Target and its cousins, including SuperTarget, which sells groceries, and Target Greatland, have carved out a niche by offering more upscale, fashion-forward merchandise than rivals Wal-Mart and Kmart. Target also owns apparel supplier The Associated Merchandising Corp. and issues Target Visa and its proprietary Target Card.\n\nFollowing the sale of Marshall Field's to The May Department Stores Co. and Mervyns to a group of private-investment firms, Target is finally free to focus on its core discount store business. The country's #2 discounter plans to add more than 600 new stores over the next five years, bringing its store count to more than 2,000 stores nationwide. It is also expanding its SuperTarget format (about 140 outlets), a newer 174,000-sq.-ft. grocery/discount store concept that includes groceries under the Archer Farms brand. In addition, SuperTarget has broadening its private-label offerings to include about 2,900 different products under the premium Archer Farms and lower-cost Market Pantry brands. Other formats include Target Greatland (70% larger than regular Targets) and a growing online store called target.com. (Target.com is the third most visited retail Web site behind eBay and Amazon, beating out Wal-Mart.com.) Target has also added dollar sections -- called The One Spot -- to all of its stores. To support its growth, Target is building a huge new regional distribution center in Midway, Georgia, scheduled to open in 2007.\n\nThe #2 discounter is also increasing the selection of merchandise available at Target.com; from about 90,000 items currently, to 200,000 by the end of the year. Increasing online business has also been of focus of late of Target's archrival Wal-Mart.\n\nTarget has distinguished itself from rival Wal-Mart Stores and grown to become the nation's #2 discounter by employing a strategy that relies on exclusive private-label offerings from big name designers. To stay a step ahead of archrival Wal-Mart, which hopes to upgrade its fashion profile with the new Metro 7 line, Target recently launched its Go International program; limited-edition collections from global designers including the UK's Luella Bartley. The Luella for Target collection, available in Target stores for 90 days from February through April is priced higher than previous apparel offerings by the cheap-chic discounter.\n\nOther tie ups with the world of high fashion include Target's long-term partnership with fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi, who joined the discounter's stable of in-house talent in mid-2003. Mizrahi offers a line of chic and affordable women's apparel and accessories. Other designers with exclusive lines at Target include Amy Coe (children's bedding and accessories), Liz Lange (maternity), Mossimo (junior fashions), and the architect Michael Graves (housewares).
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An acquisition involves a lot of costs as far as combining IT departments, human resources, training, etc. and not to mention intangibles such as incompatibility between different cultures within the two companies that may arise. Expanding internally, if possible, is much more efficient and less costly. Certain exceptions do exist though. A company should only acquire another if there is some sort of value added to the company. To acquire just to expand is not recommended at all in general.
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You may want to try with companies that employ world wide or work world wide. There are some transnational companies Ex. General Motors, Coca-Cola (and not only US companies) that operates world wide, once there you may have more chances to move around different countries. Other companies such as airlines, maritime transportation and cruises are other options, also engineering companies (oil and mining and related). These companies always search for new people, professionals and non-professionals. If you don't have experience, look for entry level positions where experience is not required. World class companies usually have programs to develop employees.
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probably because doesnt originate from US. Strange really because it is HUGE all over the world and with the population in the states meaning there is a massive pool of potential stars, a bit more interest and they could be real world beaters.
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It does not appear tht geographic location plays any part.\nSee http://www.spectrusgroup.com/facts1031.aspx?ct=11&src=goog&kw=1031+exchange+companies&vc=1031exchangegroup
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I do not know why\nBut here is how the standard differs-\n\nhttp://www.sse.us/main/International_Sizes.html
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Not in America... Elsewhere could be/
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We always need jobs for our people.  If any american company moves to another country, we should stop buying thier products.  I would rather buy from a foriegn company whos factory is in this country, than from an american company with a factory elsewhere, because they would be giving our people jobs.
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We just opened for business in the Philippines.  It's home-based.\n\nTake a look under Business Opportunities at AdPost (below).\n\nM2C Global in the Philippines.
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Lee Scientifics...I think they are international.
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it isn't international, but it is from the same root. originally there were a lot of separate computer networks, the internet was designed to tie them together. Thus "internet" means "across networks" like international means "across nations"
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A bad product might be well within legal and health guidelines in another country. Don't blame a company in another country for trying to make money, blame your country's health guidelines for allowing them to sell it.
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http://sites.target.com/site/en/corporate/page.jsp?contentId=PRD03-000482
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You HAVE noticed it is not about countries anymore, have you?\n\nThe U.S. is not competing with anyone. Big corporations - with support from free market governments - have allowed China to set the world standards of cost and quality of many INDUSTRIAL products and of employee productivity in general. Other economies will suffer for this. \n\nChina is now the Latin America and the Southeast Asia of the 70's and 80's and 90's. Why would the government of a free market country want to kill the golden goose of modern day industrial corporations?\n\nI think you should be more concern with China having so much interest in U.S. treasury bills!!!   50%, my friend.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_Stores
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Most company choose the country where the started their business, but some companies move to countries with favorable taxes or laws.   Bermuda is headquarters for many international corporations, because of its pro business environment.  Some international companies also select countries willing to offer subsidies.  Some companies move to a country where they plan to sell their product or where they produce their product.  Some companies move to countries where they have access to a particular labor source, this is more true for a technically knowledgeable laborer, than a cheap laborer.  Most company stay at the nation they are founded, because they are afraid of offending certain government, fear of moving to a new country means dealing with new laws and cultures, most international corporations are founded in stable nations, and moving may make a company vulnerable to changing political environment, moving into a new nation could mean losing key personnel and retraining an entire new staff, and most importantly moving into a new country means the executives might have to move with the company to the new location.
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Because things bought from foreign manufacturer are actually american products manufactured in other countries by american companies.