Some Business questions...

[edyzmedieval]

I have to do a Business quiz by Tuesday and I hope I can win a prize, so I humbly request the help of Orgahs.

1. What's the French department store with the name Every Happy Family in Chinese?
2. What's the biggest department store in Europe? It's Spanish and has a 17.4 billion turnover.
3. The price of this commodity went over 1000 dollars per troy ounce...


Any ideas?

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Well, I tried googling it but it says the biggest department stores in europe are

1) KaDeWe (german)
2) Harrods (English)

So...

[edyzmedieval]

Maybe El Corte Ingles?

[InsaneApache]

The last one must be gold.

[Louis VI the Fat]

I have to do a Business quiz by Tuesday and I hope I can win a prize, so I humbly request the help of Orgahs.

1. What's the French department store with the name Every Happy Family in Chinese?
2. What's the biggest department store in Europe? It's Spanish and has a 17.4 billion turnover.
3. The price of this commodity went over 1000 dollars per troy ounce...


Any ideas?

1 'Carrefour' means Every Happy Family in Chinese.

It is a famous business story. When translating 'Carrefour' (which means simply 'crossroads', because that's where the first store was located at) into Chinese, characters were chosen that phonetically resemble French 'Carrefour', but which are the characters for 'Happy-Family-Blessed'.

It is a famous case not only for the sheer luck that it could be done, but also for the clever means of penetrating business into China. Carrefour is quite succesful, and the name and the acute awareness of Chinese culture it showed are often credited.



For 2 and 3, I would say El Corte Inglés and Gold too.

[gaelic cowboy]

1 'Carrefour' means Every Happy Family in Chinese.

It is a famous business story. When translating 'Carrefour' (which means simply 'crossroads', because that's where the first store was located at) into Chinese, characters were chosen that phonetically resemble French 'Carrefour', but which are the characters for 'Happy-Family-Blessed'.

It is a famous case not only for the sheer luck that it could be done, but also for the clever means of penetrating business into China. Carrefour is quite succesful, and the name and the acute awareness of Chinese culture it showed are often credited.



For 2 and 3, I would say El Corte Inglés and Gold too.

well seeing as it seems to have a slant towards food and supermakets I would say the commodity was either Saffron or Chateau Petrus

[Lemur]

3. The price of this commodity went over 1000 dollars per troy ounce...

Probably gold, but according to my friends who smoke, there's a certain relaxing herb that's gotten up to that price at times. Which makes me wonder why they don't switch to something cheaper, like 20-year old single malt scotches.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I believe troy ounces are only for precious metals and maybe gemstones.

[gaelic cowboy]

Its true Troy ounces are generally used for precious metals but can also be used for expensive powders too so that would include very rare or expensive spices at least it would have in the days when these were commodities people killed for.

[Ice]

Probably gold, but according to my friends who smoke, there's a certain relaxing herb that's gotten up to that price at times. Which makes me wonder why they don't switch to something cheaper, like 20-year old single malt scotches.

Pfft, that doesn't compare!

On topic, I'm 100% sure #3 is gold.

[naut]

Probably gold, but according to my friends who smoke, there's a certain relaxing herb that's gotten up to that price at times. Which makes me wonder why they don't switch to something cheaper, like 20-year old single malt scotches.

Cheaper != better. No hangover = better.