Lotus Rental Car wants to reduce expenses and increase their consumer base by adding new fuel efficient and alternative fuel vehicles to the Lotus fleet if these measures would be profitable. Key problems With the high demand for car rentals, and having more ecologically aware consumers, keeping alternative fuel vehicles in stock has been difficult. Hertz Rental Car Corporation has 4,000 hybrids throughout the United States, rents the hybrids for more money and still has a higher demand than supply. The demand for the hybrids has jumped 40% in the last year. Because of high consumer demand, auto manufacturers do not offer big discounts to commercial accounts.
Overall, a rise in revenue and reduction in cost adds to CB’s profitability in Years 6 and 7. In reviewing Competition Bikes total selling expense, it was able to ascertain a huge 33% increase from Years 6 and 7 then managed to decrease that spending in Years 7 and 8 for about 14.9% (approximately $59,000) which is a strength for CB because they were managing their spending. For the Total General and Admin Expenses, Years 6 and 7 had a 20.4 % increase while the following years, 7
In the early eighties, Hyundai Motor Company created an advertising campaign that appeared in many popular magazines. The advertisement was directed towards the working class who couldn’t afford many extravagant items. The punch line of the ad says that the car looks like a million dollars, therefore suggesting that people have the opportunity to buy a car that is worth more than they will have to pay. This gives them the opportunity to own a “superior” product that they would never have had the chance to buy. The article, “The Parable of the Democracy of Goods”, by Roland Marchand states that by convincing middle class consumers of the desirability of the “best” products and then offering those products at an affordable price, the middle class can have those same luxuries.
4. How do the three communication technique pillars support the Duster SUV’s publicity campaign? Are there any other techniques that may be added? (Word Count: 51) • Reputation – Helps identify the car as durable and low maintenance • Reliability – Past success track record helps gain customer confidence • Rightfulness –low pricings attracts those customers, who couldn't afford SUV in the past Buying
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SECTION A1. Discuss specific budgetary items that raise concern in the budget planning. The budgetary areas that raise concern in the budget planning are as follows, Concern #1: Revenue from Sales (income generated from sales) Competition Bikes, Inc. budgeted: $5,247,450 This seems too high based on the decreasing sales trend from Year 7 Net Sales of $5,980,000 to Year 8 Net Sales of only $5,083,000 (Horizontal Analysis) verses Year 9 budgeted Revenue from Sales of $5,247,450. Concern #2: Advertising (expense to run ads) Competition Bikes, Inc. budgeted: $28,412 This seems too high based on the decreasing trend from Year 7 Advertising of $32,760 to Year 8 Advertising of $27,428 (Horizontal Analysis) verses Year 9 budgeted Advertising
Although Coach has seen their profit margins and market share grow exponentially, there are a few issues that should be addressed in order to sustain profitability in the long term. 1) Reliance on U.S. Sales In 2007, 76% percent of Coach Inc.’s sales came from the United States. Louis Vuitton, one of Coach’s main competitors, has a better distribution of their revenues geographically with only 26% coming from the U.S. market, 37% from Europe and 30% from Asia. With most of company sales concentrated in the U.S., Coach will have to depend on the domestic economy to remain stable, as a downturn could lead to American consumers
Economic changes are slowly taking place to accommodate the intermixing of cultures. The city of Oakland, California passed a rule in April of 2001 that required applicants for most city jobs to be proficient in at least two languages. Businesses are faced with many hard choices in dealing with the diversity in cultures. They have to determine how to conduct business when minorities are not necessarily the minority group, when a racial category doesn’t measure race, and when so-called disadvantaged groups have more education and income than advantaged groups. When millions of people are so genetically mixed that they go beyond any racial label, it seems that change is
Prices in gas have changed how much food cost since the transportation of these goods needs gas. This rising tide has also sent the price of rubber and plastic product soaring. Yet, the biggest problem due to these prices is car sales. Transportation of food in America is mainly by semi-trucks or trains. With the cost of diesel gas almost breaking five and a half dollars per gallon, many companies cannot afford to transport their product.
However, the local governments still have the authority to make “judgement” calls on who is allowed to conduct business in their jurisdiction. Many local governments are imposing hefty fees on trucks crossing borders and showing favoritism to local or state owned companies. This makes the political factor less appealing due to the lack of national enforcement on the local jurisdictions. Economic: China’s economy is huge, and has a growing middle class. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has grown in the 6% range for the past several year, and the retail market has grown over 200 times from 1996 to 2002.