Balanced Scorecard Organizations and upper-management often use a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats, and Trends (SWOTT) analysis model to concentrate on the company’s competitive advantages, their possibilities, evaluate how to improve susceptibilities, and avoid coercion. Organizations depend on SWOTT analysis to remain successful in their industries. For a business to be successful and sustain their performance, the entity is obligated by their external environment to generate strategic objectives and constantly evaluate its vision and mission. Organizations must reflect on their mission and vision frequently to assess each for validity, consistency, and making sure the objectives are components useful to the desired vision. Businesses require a tool to measure the execution of objectives.
The 30 product lines were divided into three operating divisions: Beverage, Food, and General Management. Lipton brands were among the leaders in tea, soup, and salad-dressing markets. Lipton was the dominant supplier of tea to the retail trade in the United States, and tea continued to account for over 40 percent of the company’s revenues. In the industry, Lipton had positioned itself in the growing market for convenience and instant foods. Looking toward the future, Lipton’s marketing strategy was to strengthen the position of its tea business and other segments in which the company held a dominant position.
Rite Aid Accounting Scandal Introduction and History of the company: Rite Aid is a drugstore chain in the United States and a Fortune 500 company headquartered in East Pennsboro Township, Pennsylvania, near Camp Hill. Rite Aid is the largest drugstore chain on the East Coast and the third largest drugstore chain in the U.S. Rite Aid began in 1962 as a single store opened in Scranton, Pennsylvania called Thrif D Discount Center. After several years of growth, Rite Aid adopted its current name and debuted as a public company in 1968. Today, Rite Aid is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker RAD. Rite Aid reported total sales of USD $24.3 billion in fiscal year 2008.
Comparative Ratio Analysis of Tootsie Roll Industries and Hershey Comapny A company’s general financial picture can be determined through a ratio analysis. Financial ratios have proved to be a useful tool for management, investors and creditors. Management uses financial ratios to develop ways to improve operating efficiency strategies for future growth and see how they stack up against the competition in their industry. Creditors and investors analyze ratios to determine a company’s financial strength and operating effectiveness in order to loan money or invest in them. Financial ratios have more impact when compared over several years to help identify trends.
EVA can possibly solve the problem because EVA focuses on maximizing shareholder value, which in effect can improve stock prices. EVA shows management that stockholders are crucial to company success because they fund the company and keep it going, and the company can redistribute the funds to them (dividends). * Using the financial data in Exhibit 5 and assuming 10% as the WACC and 35% as the tax rate, compute EVA for Valmont’s business segment for years 1990-1993. What conclusions can you draw? For example, should Valmont expand or contract Irrigation?
OVERALL AIM Understand if key areas of Deloitte are performing with maximum efficiency and spot the areas that can be polished, in order to: Keep 6% growth rate over the next 6 years Make competitive advantages sustainable What might be in the way of profitability? Hypothesis: + Deloitte be able to: • Identify its major flaws and areas subject to improvement: – Cost reduction for example. Introduce new services, enhance competitive advantage. Finance = HR Industry (Market Opportunities) • Know what opportunities they are ready to exploit: – IT T h e T e a m Joana Assis Teixeira, Ph.D Portugal Study Fields: Management (BA), Finance (MSc), Organizational Psychology (Ph.D) References: University of California, Berkeley Work Experience: Training, Project Management, Consulting, General Research (HR) Others Achievements: Author of the paper “Company as Family: Do you really get the people you work with?” and of the book “Company’s Mirror: Guidelines to understand where you are going wrong”
Through a thorough cost analysis and weightage of pros and cons of three alternatives, the team recommends to use an NVOCC (Non-Vessel operating common carrier) for small shipments which will lead to a lot lesser lead times and will help reduce costs as well. Along with this, the recommendation is also to increase packing efficiency for company’s already in use 20/40-feet containers. Currently the packing efficiency is 85%, and just by making it 95% the cost saving is $ 253,863.89 annually which will increase as total shipments are forecasted to grow by 15% for the next 5 years. Issues: The major issue identified in the case is to reduce the expenses on consolidated shipments from china overall increasing the supply chain efficiency. This issue is in fact more of an opportunity and the opportunity is to reduce the variable cost associated with the consolidated shipments as the estimated growth in shipments from China and Taiwan is 15% per year.
The Coca-Cola Company is one of the leading manufacturers, distributors, and marketers of non alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. They produce non alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups which are sold to bottling partners. The bottlers usually add carbonated water with the concentrates and sweeteners and then bottle the product and sell it to wholesalers or retailers. Coca-Cola owns more than 400 brands in which they market for in over 200 different countries (Coca-Cola Datamonitor, 2007). Coca-Cola sells a variety of soft drinks, juices, sports drinks, teas, and water.
This portfolio restructuring initiative was geared to acquire powerful and emerging brands which would bolster PepsiCo’s profits and dominance within the market. The company during this period acquired major brands such as Tropicana, Cracker Jack, SoBe teas, Quaker Oats, etc. This restructuring enabled the company to record annual increases in revenues by 7% and net income of 12% for the period 1998 - 2007. This lead the company in 2007 to devise strategies aimed at sustaining and improving this favorable performance and to combat challenges such as low international profit, changing consumer preference, value chain efficiency and fierce competition. SWOT Analysis Strengths 1.)
THE COCA-COLA COMPANY- CARBONATED ETHICS History The Coca-Cola Company is the world’s largest beverage company. Along with Coke, recognized as the world’s most valuable brand, the Company’s portfolio includes twelve other billion dollar brands, including Diet Coke, Fanta, Sprite, Coca-Cola Zero, Vitamin Water, and PowerAde. Globally, they are the No. 1 provider of sparkling beverages, juices and juice drinks and ready to drink teas. Through the world’s largest beverage distribution system, consumers in more than 200 countries enjoy the Company’s beverages.