Situation Analysis Strengths • Proven family business with an innovative and entrepreneurial former owner (James Taggart) and a well-schooled, well experienced current owner (Sean Taggart). • National exposure through select marketing activities (semi-annual trade shows & 52-page catalogue). • Demonstrated ability to grow under unfavorable external conditions (sales growth in the early 1990’s). • Large sales growth and increased profitability in 2003. • PPS has a track record of being customer-focused and as a result possesses a loyal customer base.
The Great Olympic Economy The Olympics help to boost the economy by adding massive amounts of revenue for an entire country where they are held. It employs several thousands of people for the duration of the events. It adds major revenue sources in the form of ticket sales, tourism sales and advertising revenue from various activities that are done by businesses in and out of the host city. Aid is also given to a country for rebuilding of their infrastructure in order to host the games. The planning and work required to host the event takes significant time and effort.
Whole Foods has grown dramatically in the past decade, because even though they are generally more expensive, they provide a standard of quality and good business practices. 4. Companies
“D’ Roulhac Custom Baskets expects to have a two to six percent increase in return on capital investments over the next three years. Customer Knowledge The mission of “D’ Roulhac Custom Baskets is to provide consumers that one of kind and unique basket according to his or her specifications at a budget friendly price. Organization’s that implement strategies promoting customer closeness, continually shape and tailor products and services to match an increased and reformulated definition of the consumer. In a very competitive environment that is service oriented, maintaining and achieving consumer satisfaction often involve a commitment from all aspects of
Britvic’s pubs trade was also affected by the recession, company shares fell to its low in 5 years, reaching 222.25 p, a difference of 165p comparing with previous year. In 2008, still feeling the traces of the financial crisis and alert to the changing attitudes in consumer behaviour, Britvic secured exclusive bottling agreements with PepsiCo for V Water and Gatorade in Great Britain. It has also launched and re-designed its packages of squash range, increased large pack production facility, which “unlocked our ability to drive a large-pack performance through increased promotional competitiveness”. Due to these changes, Britvic’s ROCE rose by 3.5% on that year. On Britvic’s liquidity ratios, the most visible trend is that the lines on current and quick ratio are always working in accordance with each other.
Clarkson Lumber’s Company Case Analysis GROUP A: ANA GABRIELA SOTILLO JOHNSON FABIAN FREIHERR VON ROSEN IMRE IGNACIO SZAPARY GIL-CASARES RAYAN SEIF STEFAN RADISAVLJEVIC VERENA RIEDHART YANIS ALEM IE business School Section 4 September 2014 Question 1. Evaluate Clarkson Lumber’s financial performance. Can you explain why Clarkson borrowed so much of money during 1993-1995 despite its positive profitability? Although, the Income Statement of Clarkson Lumber seems profitable from 1993 to 1995 by generating positive net income of 60k and 77k respectively. Further it increased both sales and net income by 54% and 28% vs. 1993, but the company has a problem of a liquidity and a shortage of cash.
Problem Statement ____________________________________________________________ ____________ In 1988, The Clorox Company approved Charlie Couric’s deficit spending proposal to acquire the marketing rights for the Brita pitcher-and-filter water purification system in the United States. Couric’s key argument to Clorox was based on the cash flow from the filters necessary to maintain the home-based water purification system. In a little over ten years, Couric had grown Brita to the point that it accounted for over a 70% share of the revenues for a thriving $350 million industry it had helped to create. Yet, like many industry leaders, Brita had to make decisions for the future. The market was becoming more interested in the advances of faucet-mounted filters versus pitchers.
B&L must improve their disposable lens market only by a 5% margin in order to regain the market share held by Johnson & Johnson. The company suffer a (14.8) loss in earnings from continuing operations, however those losses are shown from the R&D Expenses which show a ($108.1) million dollar difference from 1992 to 1993 due to the increase in R&D. (Harvard Business School-Bausch & Lomb, Inc. 9-101-010 Exhibit 3 p. 7) The net sales were up from 1992 to 1993 to show a net gain of $ 163.1 gain in their optics division. My recommendation: Re-development of their distribution process for their conventional lens product, extending the credit line of so many distributors by more than a 25% increase has placed B&L into unaccredited worthy placement if more than 5% of their distributors fail. B&L can roll out the new distribution plan in three phases: Phase- One: Change the distribution method to the company top 10% distributors. Only the high volume distributors with the high volume customer change over first.
Overall the marketing techniques used by Cadbury have worked out extremely well, for every technique used, Cadbury have come out successful, and they have made millions in profit. They continue to make lots of new products and gain more and more customers at the same time. This is a chart of the sales and profits which Cadbury had mad in each financial year from 2005 to 2011. It clearly shows that Cadbury’s sales and profits are in a steady growth; this success is due to the marketing strategy of branding Cadbury has used, their logo is iconic, it is recognised worldwide, it is most recognised in the U.K this is more than likely due to the fact that Cadbury originates from the U.K, so it advertised more. The logo has been around for many decades now it has weaved its way into people's perception of what chocolate is, when people think of chocolate the first thing is a bar of Cadbury's Dairy Milk, that is how much it has been plastered around for years.
Therefore, this is the best opportunity to Frank to build strategy in order to meet his father requirement. Since GSD was produced annual revenue of $1.5 billion and has growth in revenues over the past three years but they faced quite heavy debt. One of the strength given in the case Calvet applied cost control model to distinguished itself from competitors. By using this model, they could increase the net profit. The calculations as the evident as follows: Current Ratio = Current Asset / Current Liabilities = $270 million / $272 million = 0.9926 : 1 Profit Margin Ratio = Net Income / Sales = $65 million / $2012 million * 100 = 3.22% Debt Equity Ratio = Total liabilities / Total Equity = $272 million / $181 million = 1.50 : 1 It proven that, Calveta’s ability to meet short term liabilities is low as the required current ratio.