Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2020 ; TDIBM 66.
In this Bachelor Thesis, we research the role of the different actors of the value chain of coffee and their share of the value of the coffee that is finally sold to end- consumers. We then analyse and compare the various costs and margins incurred by Fair Trade and regular coffee. The aim of this research is to better understand how value is allocated in the final retail price of coffee sold...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2015 ; TDEE 284.
As oil became a globally traded product traders learnt to maximize their profits by moving energy commodities around the globe. Globalisation and technological development, besides having a durable positive effect on international maritime trade often triggers enormous risks. As much as financial institutions and big trading companies are trying to reconcile national differences between sourcing...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2020 ; TDIBM 81.
The research objective of this report is to show the impact of reputation risk linked to Glencore’s activities in the DRC. In order to measure the impact of reputational risk, a focus is made on Glencore’s share price. In the first part of this report, the introduction helps the reader to get important contextual information about Glencore’s background and activities in the DRC. An emphasis...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2014 ; TDEE 233.
Commodity trading companies exist because natural resources are not well allocated. Producing countries are not those that consume the most, and the largest consuming regions are not supplied enough by their own natural resources reserves. In order to smooth out regional imbalances and fulfil supply and demand mismatches, commodity traders have to perform several activities in the supply chain....
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2015 ; TDEE 281.
The role of information on the markets is crucial as its purpose is to make the trade more efficient and transparent. The data are released by different sources and each market participant has to be able to sort them out and chose the ones that are more relevant for their activities. For most of the professionals, the data coming from the U.S. Government are the original and most reliable source...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2015 ; TDEE 254.
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2012 ; TDEE 152.
Ce travail de diplôme a pour objectif de déterminer de quelle façon les entreprises de négoce ajoutent de la valeur à leurs activités. Nous verrons tout d’abord que-ce que la valeur ajoutée et comment elle est crée au sein d’une entreprise à travers la Chaine de Valeur Porter et ensuite grâce au Système de Production qui va compléter le modèle. La suite du mémoire porte sur...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2019 ; TDIBM 61.
In this Bachelor thesis, we will study all the key aspects for the implementation of a smart contract for a Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) trade. As starting point, a brief introduction about LNG is written to realise the specificities of the commodity traded. Then, smart contracts will be presented as well as its fundamental goal and the key concerns about how English law is regulating them....
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2016 ; TDIBM 10.
In May 2014, it was discovered that Dezheng Resources, a Chinese trading company, had multiple warehouse receipts issued for metal stored in the ports of Qingdao and Penglai in Shandong province. Approximately 400’000 tons of alumina, aluminium and copper worth around $380 million were used to obtain $4.2 billion in financing from 18 Chinese and 7 international banks. The fraud was discovered...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2015 ; TDEE 261.
Les grandes sociétés de négoce de matières premières jouent un rôle essentiel dans le lissage des disparités des commodités entre les régions du monde. Récemment, certaines de ces sociétés ont décidé d’étendre leur champ d’action sur la chaîne logistique. Tout particulièrement en investissant dans des actifs fixes afin d’obtenir un niveau d’optionalité supérieur....
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