Ubu Productions, Inc., is an independent production company founded in 1981 by television producer Gary David Goldberg. Ubu's notable productions include Family Ties (1982–1989), Brooklyn Bridge (1991–1993) , and Spin City (1996–2002).[1][2]
Ubu co-produced many of its shows with Paramount Television and in later years, DreamWorks Television.[2]


worldwide coffee trade was worth US $33 billion. Coffee demand dropped in 2001 to 2003, with growth falling to 1%. Small and medium sized producers suffered the most from this drop, while the growth in retail sales mitigated the effect on coffee retailers.

Two types of coffee beans are in highest demand - Coffee Arabica and Coffee Robusta, the latter of which has seen strong growth due to increase in instant coffee sales. Brazil and Columbia are the world’s largest producers of arabica coffee, which is generally in higher demand than robusta coffee. Most coffee futures are based on arabica coffee prices. Vietnam is the world's largest producer of coffee robusta.

In early 2009, coffee was trading at approximately US 1.22 per pound. This has only reflected a recent drop in high coffee prices during 2008. Participating in the rise of almost all commodity prices during 2008, coffee prices exceeded US 1.60 per pound briefly in March 2008. In comparison, a recent low in coffee was at 68 US cents per pound in August of 2004.

Coffee is likely to stay at these relatively high prices during 2009. The US Department of Agriculture in January 2009, estimated that coffee producers had slightly less than 40 million bages in stock, which is only 39% of the normal coffee annual usage of 120 million bags. This has been driven heavily by expectations of a smaller crop in Brazil in 2008-2009.


nsidering the mobile Internet users in designing and implementing their marketing strategies. Thus, the group must design and launch a website that can be browsed and navigated by using any mobile phone. The said website must detect what type of mobile phone is accessing it, and can display its content in the right screen size, so that, it will be easily navigated regardless of the model and brand of cell phone being used by the visitor/customer. The said mobile site must contains the same type of content and information contained in the traditional website of the hotels, but its content must have been optimized in order to be viewed and displayed on a mobile phone.

By doing that, the customer will be able to leave messages and enquiry at the same time enables them to book and reserve their desired services, products and request in fast and more efficient manner (eCornell 2009).

Aside from that, another important factor to be considered is the different factors that can affect the preferences of the customers. As of now the world is facing global financial crisis, and this can affect the travel and tour activities of different tourists and visitors, or push them to look for alternative and less costly hotels in order to save money. In Hong Kong alone, majority of the travelers are from Mainland China, and they are very price sensitive when it comes to hotel accommodation and food, because they tend to spend most of their money in different high tech and electronic gadgets. It will be important for the group to focus on the said growing number of market, by renovating some structure of the hotels that will enable the hotels to offer lower rates of stays in the hotel. However, the company must make sure that it will still focus on its premium products and services, due to the fact that, the number of business travelers, particularly in Hong Kong, Manila and other major cities, where in their hotels are located is increasing.

Above all, the group must focus on continued innovation in terms of applying technologies in their processes which include their application of Information Technology, together with the different technological services to there customers.
 
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