The agreement established that she could not sell in retail establishments, only at home demonstrations parties. Isbell later became a unit sales director, and in addition to serving as a beauty consultant, she recruited other beauty consultants. She earned commissions based on her sales as well as on the sales of the consultants she recruited. Then, she rented a space in a shopping mall to serve as a training center. Later, Mary Kay’s legal coordinator contacted Isbell, stating that the store space was not to be used to sell Mary Kay products and was told to cease all photo sessions of potential customers and to stop advertising glamour tips.
Background Medicis sells pharmaceutical products to wholesale distributors and retail drug chains and gives customers a right to return products that are expired or nearly expired. Most of the company’s products have a shelf life of 18 to 24 months. The right of return does not require customers to purchase replacement products, although most often returned products are replaced with fresh ones during the same quarter that Medicis issues return credits. The main accounting issue is that the company’s auditors, E&Y, failed to comply with PCAOB auditing standards in evaluating Medicis’s sales returns reserve estimate, evaluating Medicis’s reserving for most of its estimated product returns at replacement cost, rather than gross sales price, resulted in Medicis’s reported sales returns reserve being materially understated and its reported revenue being misstated. Analysis of Issue On what basis did Medicis initially justify the use of replacement cost to estimate returns?
. An Evaluation of Company Q's Social and Ethical Responsibilities Western Governors University 02-06-2014 Author's Notes This paper was prepared for 2014 Ethical Issues in Business Abstract Company Q is a small local grocery store chain located in a major metropolitan area, and has recently closed some of its stores. These stores happen to be located in higher-crime-rate areas, and closure has been linked to a continual lack of profits. Company Q has also ignored request from its consumers for years, but just recently has decided to start offering a limited amount of requested products. Company Q has also denied request from the local food bank over worries of fraud and stealing.
Company Q failed to act in a timely manner to stock stores with health conscience and organic foods that were requested by customers for two years. Not only were they not socially responsible by not actively providing the need to the stores in the community, but missed the opportunity to make a profit on high margin foods. Company Q was socially irresponsible when the local food bank asked for day-old products and they denied the donation. Instead, the food was thrown in the trash. B.RECOMMENDATIONS My first recommendation is for Company Q to revisit the opening of the two stores that were closed due to money loss.
Kudler Fine Foods Frequent Shopper Program Concerns Kudler Fine Foods wants to implement a frequent shopping program to monitor the shopping habits of its customers, and increase customer satisfaction with a projected revenue increase of 4.75% over the first year. As Kudler Fine Foods is a high end grocer, the goal of the frequent shopping program will not be centered around cost savings, but as a point system offering exclusive awards similar to credit card point systems. Kudler Fine Foods can increase customer satisfaction by tailoring their inventories around customer’s shopping habits, but some concerns need to be addressed concerning the tracking of individual customer purchases. The management needs to understand how the frequent shopper
In this case a large part of the choice is going to be based on buyer feedback and price. Sharies berries has a survey that they ask all of their customers to take on the website and then Sharies berries posts the feedback on the website for new and old composters to see in the form of a parentage. At this time the company is at 94% and has 4 and one half stars out of a five star rating("Sharies Barriers", 2014).... Because this is an online only store there feedback and rating are going to be the number one thing new customers look at if you have a low satisfaction rating then people will not trust the company, then the price of the item compared to everywhere else who offers the same type of items in this case edible arrangements. It is for this reason that we are offering coupons to our new commuters as part of our promotion of the new product
RUNNING HEADER: OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Operations Management University of Phoenix MBA 502 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Kudler Business Processes 4 Figure1. Management Responsibilities of Operational Processes 4 Supply Chain 7 Quality Control and Performance Standards 9 Conclusion 10 References 11 Introduction Kudler Fine Foods is an upscale specialty food store located in the San Diego, Metropolitan area, founded in 1998 by Kathy Kudler. Its mission is to provide customers with the finest selection of foodstuffs, wines and related needs in an unparalleled environment (University of Phoenix, 2008). In keeping with its mission, Kudler has decided to start contracting with growers of organic produce.
Kristy Krause BA 178 News Article Report Nov 16, 2010 Walgreens Complaints- I went to Walgreens to buy tooth brushes that were on sale, it is in the ad as Cologate 360. I purchased them. WhenI got to the car and looked I was charged $4.49 and it was suppose to be on sale for $2.99. I took it back in and the manager said it as the Cologate 360 with a yellow mark on it. hen he tried to find one and there was only the one I bought.
Question 1. As Lora Brill, United Cereal European VP, would you authorize Jean-Luc Michel’s request to launch of Healthy Berry Crunch in France? Be sure to analyze both sides: Launch and Delay Launch (summarize in a table format and then discuss). Question 2. Does United Cereal represent an example of centralized or decentralized international employees much closer and make it a true European entity, also enabling them to learn more about other aspects of business.
But the low carb craze has been eating into our market. Leeza, how successful has our recent advertising campaign been in stopping the erosion of our market share?” Leeza Schaul, Director of Sales and Marketing for Fitter Snacker, thought for a moment before responding. “Well, we certainly haven’t seen a return to the levels of growth that we were seeing before the low-carb craze hit, but we then again, we may be having some success in preserving our current customers. We did some focus group studies on current customers. We showed a group of customers advertising copy that presented research that challenged the long-term success of low carb diets and pointed out the important role that carbohydrates play in overall health.