Strategic Audit Lowes Home Improvement Inc. Case Number 33 Group #1 November 10th 2010 I. Current Situation A. Current Performance * Good financials, exceeded $10 Billion in sales for the first time in history, price/earnings ratio positive. * Company aggressively grew with from 15 stores in 1962 to over 1000 by 2004. * In 1989 the company redefined its business and positioned itself as a “big box” home improvement retailer.
Stevens had recently read an article in the Wall Street Journal concerning HiTop Toys, Inc., a toy manufacturer. HiTop had posted a six month pretax profit margin of 10 percent. While this was far below the 15% profit margins enjoyed before the market decline, it was far ahead of other companies in the industry. Perhaps HiTop was a good long term investment. The toy industry depended on three main factors for growth: the economy, demographics, and new product innovations on a regular basis.
In Latin American the sales growth in 5.5 percent. In Europe, the sales increased by 1.7 percent, and in the Asia Pacific business, the growth of sales was in 4.2 percent. Kelloggs is the world leading cereal company, second largest producer of cookies, and crackers, and leader in North American frozen foods company. Kelloggs make a $7.4 billion in domestic sales alone. Although these
Annual Sales Data | | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | Net Sales (1,000′s) | $ 418,952,000 | $ 405,132,000 | $ 401,087,000 | $ 373,321,000 | $ 344,759,000 | YoY % Chg | 3.4% | 1.0% | 7.4% | 8.3% | 11.6% | Same-Store Sales Chg | -0.6% | -0.8% | 3.5% | 1.6% | 2.0% | | Walmart reported net income of $3.80 billion ($1.09 Diluted EPS) for the second quarter ended Jul 31, a 6% increase from a year ago. Net sales increased 5.5% to $108.64 billion, while U.S. same-store rose 0.8%, the 2nd consecutive gain after 7 straight declines, while excluding fuel comparable sales were flat as U.S. comps at Walmart were down 0.9%, offset by an 9.1% increase (4.6% ex fuel) at Sam’s Club. Supply The supply for the merchandise products is increasing. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is the world's largest company, and it is expanding in the market over the years. Walmart has succeeded to reduce the cost for its products that made a shift in the supply to shift to the right.
Cash flow Growth: 8%. Dividend Yield: 2.90%. Dividend Growth: 9% (Alden, 2011). Coca-Cola has additionally grown offering 14 brands to the company making a profit of $1 billion or more in annual sales, the company sold $25.5 billion unit case and had revenue of $35.119 billion in 2010 (Alden, 2011). Coca-Cola has grown its’ revenue rapidly over 5 years, this brought about an important highlight for the company in between 5 years, so the company earned about 8.5% in annual revenue growth.
Industry sales of children and juvenile books for 2009 were $3.2 billion (AAP, 2009). Since the staff and employees are X and Y’ers with young families, adding these titles to the product portfolio is a sound strategic move. The demographics give CanGo insight into the most popular titles and the capital expenditure for additional space is addressed by the ASRS systems. While hardcopy book sales declined in 2009, sales of e-books increased. In fact there are 500,000 book titles available for electronic readers and according to the AAP e-book sales increased by 176% in 2009 and Audio book sales totaled $192 million (AAP, 2009) making the addition of e-books and Audio books to their portfolio a logical strategic move.
Case Study: Mattel and Toy Safety Stacey T. Pendolino-Meadors BUS250: Corporate and Social Responsibility Instructor: Dawn Nardini August 1, 2012 Mattel and Toy Safety Mattel Corporation is the largest toy company in the world, a publicly traded organization with a market capitalization of over $6.5 billion, employing approximately 36,000 people worldwide in 42 countries. Their products are sold in 150 nations (mattel.com). With the bad publicity Mattel got, some parents still support them 100%. Yes, I believe that Mattel acted in a socially responsible and ethical manner regarding the safety issue in 2007. According to the case study and given factors, Mattel has always held a reputation of being a good corporate citizen.
Exxon Mobil Corp is in the top 6 in all of the top major integrated oil and gas companies by Market Cap. with 353.94B. However, in terms of P/E Exxon is found in the middle of the pack, ranking 25/46. Overall, Exxon Mobil Corp. ranks in the top 25% of Integrated Oil and Gas Companies. The most notable statistic is Exxon's return on equity which ranks #1 in the industry with 21.61% Nike Inc. Market Capitalization: 41.01B Trailing P/E/: 21.67 Forward P/E: 17.41 PEG Ratio: 1.80 Profit Margin: 10.07% Total Cash: 4.69B Short Ratio: 2.30 Dividend Payout Ratio: 27.00% How do these
However, with its $55.1 million The Avengers domestic cume now stands at a staggering $457.1 million which is the 6th highest gross of all time domestically;right behind Star Wars. What is more interesting is the celerity with which the film reached the $450 million threshold; a record 17 days which surpasses The Dark Knight's 27 day record by a significant 10 day difference. A North American gross above $540 million is guaranteed for Marvel's highest-grossing film of all-time--The Avengers. Internationally, The Avengers also amassed a powerful $56.0 million from 54 territories(95% of int. market) which is a decent drop of 32.5% from last weekend's $93.8 million.
Chapter Four : Writing a Business Plan Week 6 Presentation Case; p.166 Case 4.1 KAZOO TOYS: You Can Compete Against the Big Guys—If You Have the Right Plan QUESTIONS Q.1 To what extent do you sense that Diana Nelson got up to speed quickly on the dynamics of the toy industry when she took over Kazoo & Company in 1998? Become the number 1 toy store in Denver by just using 4 years; And was named the number 1 toy store by Denever’s 5280 magazine from 2002 to 2009; In 2010, Kazoo Toys was on the Inc. 500 list of one of the 500 fastest-growing private companies in U.S.; i.) Merchandise mix – breadth & depth of products retailer carry Differentiation not carrying the same product; no price competition (e.g. no Mattel, Crayola or Fisher-Price; but Gotz Dolls & wide range of educational toys) ii.) Build strong relationship with vendors inviting vendors to have demo & testing in store by time to time, vendors tip what big retailers selling & what Kazoo not to sell ensure selling unique product iii.)