...owned private Australian company in hand made chocolates * It was established in 1895 by Wilson Taylor. The MD of the company is Arthur Taylor – a fifth generation family member What industry, product segments/markets do they operate in? * Second largest family-owned chocolate maker in the Australian Industry * Core activities include blending of raw cocoa beans and company-owned roasting and chocolate making facilities. * Control & adjust flavours, also produce chocolate dough processing and packaging. * They also are involved in distribution of the products & seeling the product to the end user (consumer) through their own retail stores all over Australia. * Operates in distributing to supermarkets & convenient stores, but also directly to the consumer as a retailer. * They supply domestically * There 4 clearly defined segments: bars, blocks, boxed & seasonal. Sweet Indulgence seems to What is the current life cycle position of the industry? * The industry is in the growth to mature stage of the life cycle. * As they are currently expanding to different stages and involved in value adding to the current products * There also seems to be the initiation of an alliance with Stella’s – contributing to new products and increased revenue. Provide products in all 4 segments, mainly through boxed 3.0% and Seasonal 5.0% of market share within the industry. 2. Assess Industry’s future growth. Key issues influencing historical...
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...International Paper: Combining Industry and Social Responsibility Marketing 406 Roosevelt University December 6, 2014 Natalie Mierzynska, Sujatha Lekshmivaragan, Dmitry Rozental, Ebuka Nkwonta Table of Contents Background 2 Objectives 4 Procedures 4 Summary of Findings 4 Detailed Findings 6 Defying Common Criticisms 6 Integrating Sustainability Principles 8 “Greening” and Beyond 11 Enlightened Marketing 14 Social Responsibility & Financial Success 15 Conclusion 16 Works Cited 18 Background International Paper (IP) is the global leader in the production and distribution of paper and packaging products (Internationalpaper.com). It was founded more than 110 years ago, and produces products that we use every day including various types of paper, consumer packaging, pulp, recycling, and industrial packaging. The company’s stock symbol is IP, and a share of IP stock currently sells at around $53/share. IP is currently headquartered in Memphis Tennessee, and employs over 62,000 people (Kotler & Armstrong, 607). Last year, the company sold over $26 billion worth of product, placing it 111th on the Fortune 500. From a consumer perspective, when a multi-billion dollar producer of paper and packaging products comes to mind, we automatically assume that the company produces a large amount of pollution and destroys forests all over the world. However, International Paper prides itself on being on top of Fortune Magazine’s “Most...
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...Part1. Macro economic factors and Industry Analysis In recent year, PepsiCo was in the extraordinary complicated economic environment. Economic environment can have a significant impact on PepsiCo. The economic factors such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP), interest rates, high inflation rate and commodity price may affect the PepsiCo current and future performance in large extend. First, the increase of GDP affects the sales of PepsiCo. Pepsi is the world second largest food and beverage business, which sold products in more than 200 countries. In America, the GDP presents a slowly but stable increasing trend, the GDP growth rates were affected, and also influenced the sales of Pepsi America. According to the table 1, it can be seen that the core net revenue has increased 14 percent between 2010 and 2011. In addition, it was estimated that approximately 47 percent net revenue comes from outside the United States. Although most developing countries were suffered from global financial crisis, the GDP growth rates still keep a robust trend. For example, in China, the GDP growth was around 9.5 percent during 2010 to 2012. Therefore, PepsiCo in 2010, the revenue outside the America increased approximately 30 percent, which considerable above the global real GDP growth rate. Secondly, the increase of inflation will affect the profits of PepsiCo. The whole world’s inflation rates have increased in recent year and will continually rise in the future. The increasing inflation rates...
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...taxable as income to the recipients. Taking into account the many theories of dividend policy including the Dividend Irrelevance, we can conclude that firms should pay out as dividends “any cash flow that is surplus after the firm has invested in all available positive net present value projects.” In some cases, this may be a way of signaling that the company is financially stable and capable of fulfilling dividend obligations. It may also be a way for companies to mitigate agency problems when they have excess cash. Advantages of paying cash dividends include: * A means of distributing excess cash and lacking in investment opportunities. * Use of Dividends as signal of financial health as dividends send a signal to current and future investors that the company is financially stable. * Dividends may attract institutional investors who preferred some returns from dividends. * Stock price usually increases with the announcement of a new or increased dividends * A signal of the value...
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...in the United States making this industry fiercely competitive. The rival competitors have high fix costs and this is due to the fact the jewelry is expensive because of its luxury. The competitiveness stemmed from highly fragmented sales amongst local and other retail stores and the fact that there are many avenues in which one can purchase jewelry. Because of all of these factors, Blue Nile had to compete with online and offline traders. During the recession, Blue Nile was able to continue functioning because of its strategy. If an order came in online, then would the diamonds be purchase and order was then fulfilled and quickly delivered to the client. The Supplier bargaining power in this particular industry is weak. Blue Niles competitive advantage over other leading vendors is its economical supply chain and it low operating all with keeping a comparable product in terms of quality. Blue Nile negotiated arrangements that allowed for diamond and gem suppliers to have their products on their website. This arrangement s was multi-year contracts and only included certain diamonds on their site. Another advantage was that they never order large quantities of diamonds or gems to keep in stock. They simply placed orders as needed by a client and this drastically reduced cost that other jewelers incurred without making annual sales to cover those initial costs. Other retailers offering substitute products do not fare well in this industry compared to Blue Nile because when...
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...TEACHING MODULE THE FUTURE OF FASHION DECEMBER 2010 This teaching module was independently written by the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program with the generous support of THE FUTURE OF FASHION: SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH THE LENS OF THE FASHION INDUSTRY* By: Jennifer Johnson & Gina Wu Companies across all industries are facing the challenges of business sustainability, debating how best to address these risky issues while also embracing their opportunities for competitive advantage. This Teaching Module uses the context of the fashion industry to discuss topics that are shaping the future of all industries. These topics include sustainable resource management, the challenges and opportunities of global growth, workforce management, and the role of ethical consumption in business. The fashion industry offers a compelling case study for exploring business sustainability issues. In the fashion industry, as in many industries, success requires highly developed sourcing, design, manufacturing, and marketing chains. Increasingly, success also means incorporating sustainability in resource and labor management, as firms realize that long-term corporate survival will depend on new ways of doing business. Climate change, resource challenges, new technologies and dramatic shifts in the global economy are already impacting the industry. The nexus of these concerns allows students to explore sustainability challenges while providing a framework for discussing new business...
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...INVESTMENT BUSINESS CONGRESS 2008 Presented by THE HELPING HAND NETWORK CSI Business Congress 2008 Page 1 THE CALL TO DIALOGUE – SOCIAL REFORMATION CONGRESS REPORT & SUPPLEMENT CONGRESS DATE: 1516 JULY 2008 CONGRESS VENUE: SIBAYA CASINO, 1 SIBAYA DRIVE, UMHLANGA, KWAZULU NATAL OVERALL FEEDBACK “For the first time CSI will tread where no man has trod before, and pave the way to the social reformation of South Africa.” The congress has become a reality and manifested a resounding success as we received excellent feedback from delegates who attended this event. The demand of our country has definitely changed from conferencing and workshops to active dialogues and practical outputs. This was accurately displayed when the panel discussions and dialogues superseded the conventional manner of conferencing. There was a remarkable shift from proclamation to accurate application. The CSI Congress has provided a moral order and accurately confronted specifics that will result in the eradication of systems in which the exploitation of resources leads to the poverty of the country. The CSI Congress primarily identified both the theoretical and practical strengths and weaknesses of alternative approaches to measuring freedom, and clarified on which techniques are most suited for building sustainable systems towards excellence and to chart concrete directions for future research that will add value to SA`s sustainable corporate social development. This interactive dialogue was...
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...The Walt Disney Company MBA 648 Company Research Project Megan Burke, Candace Longo, Irini Pertesis Table of Contents Executive Summary3 Products and Services4 Financial Planning and Analysis6 Operating Performance of the Firm6 Financial Statement Analysis 7 Financial Forecasting………..………………………………………….…………………...11 Sustainable Growth Rate………...………………………………………………………....13 Additional Funds Needed…………………………………………………………………...13 Cost of Capital……………………………………………………………………………….14 WACC………………………………………………………………………………………..14 Dividends and Stock Policies………………………………………………………………….15 Objectives of Business Corporations 16 Working Capital Management: 19 Cash and Marketable Securities Management: 21 Accounts Receivable Management…………………………………………………………….26 Financing Activities…………………………………………………………………………...26 Overall Analysis………..……………………………………………………………………….27 Executive Summary “I knew if this business was ever to get anywhere, if this business was ever to grow, it could never do it by having to answer to someone unsympathetic to its possibilities, by having to answer to someone with only one thought or interest, namely profits. For my idea of how to make profits has differed greatly from those who generally control businesses such as ours. I have blind faith in the policy that quality, tempered with good judgment and showmanship, will win against all odds.”—Walt Disney...
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...Chapter I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Sustainable tourism development is actually taking proactive steps for long-term success that requires long-term sustainable tourism planning that brings all of the major local stakeholders to the table. It makes use of intelligent, sustainable tourism planning to focus on shared goals to move the entire community forward and create a Master Tourism Plan. And in addition major local stakeholders establish unique and creative funding options and marketing options that ensure success for the new tourism organization and the entire community as they move and grow into the future (Kerns, 2010). Local governments and tourism bureaus are the ones tasked with bringing all of the stakeholders to the table and creating a long-term, sustainable tourism master plan that will benefit everyone in the community. These leaders face the difficult task of managing very different groups while creating an attractive tourism product that encourages the desired type of tourist to visit. Local residents are essential partners in any tourism development efforts, as their lives will inevitably be touched by an increase in tourism. If the residents in a community are completely unwelcoming of tourism, then it will eventually fail. On the other hand, welcoming and friendly residents will create a warm and comfortable atmosphere where sustainable tourism will be able to flourish. Poorly planned tourism efforts will result in the failure of...
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...Copenhagen Business School Cand. Merc. M. Sc. IBS - International Business Department of International economics and management, 15 June 2012 Strategic Analysis of the Geox Group Councellor: Bersant Hobdari, Copenhagen Business School Student name: Valeria Serra N. of pages: 79.7 Total n. of characters: 181,415 N. of characters (without figures): 165,415 N. of figures: 20 Executive Summary The purpose of this thesis is evaluating the sources of the extraordinary success of the Italian company Geox S.p.A. in order to assess whether its triumph is sustainable or not in the future. Geox S.p.A. is an Italian company based in Montebelluna (Treviso, Italy). It produces high quality and innovative shoes and apparels, and it is considered one of the most successful Italian firms. The company was born thanks to an innovative idea of its founder, Mr. Mario Moretti Polegato, and its fast growth has been due not only to the knowledge of the district, but also to its strong management and its strategies. All these factors have contributed to Geox’s fast growth in a market that was already mature. Notwithstanding Geox’s leadership position in Italy, the company is not immune from the negative effects of the economic and financial crisis and of globalization. The main challenges that the company is facing are mainly constituted by increasing and labour and raw material costs. The crisis, which has been particularly strong in Italy, has made people poorer. Thus, consumers have became...
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...1. Introduction This paper aims at examining a case study of the Hispanic oriented broadcasting Company Entravision. With outdated customer inquiry strategies such as focus groups or interviews, Entravision slowly but surely fell behind in the ever more digitalized broadcasting market. Having found a market niche in the Hispanic market segment, Entravision set out to create a new Data analytics department called Luminar to utilize and profit from information gathered about the Hispanic core customership. The first segment argues whether and how Luminar is able to create value by implementing Big Data analysis. Consequently, this paper tries to clarify whether the obtained advantage can indeed be of a sustainable nature and thus allow for an independent and successful department within the Entravision construct. Furthermore, the data gathering capabilities are being analyzed to inquire into whether there is viable competitive power to benefit from the advantages mentioned priorly. Finally, having established the background for the undertaking, the paper will shed a light on how exactly the department would fit into the organizational structure and what benefits and pitfalls the embedment or independent venturing of Luminar would have. 2. Value Creation In order to asses the added value of Luminar to the mother enterprise Entravision this paper will provide a first outlook of the Latino segment in the US and then conclude with the Big Data analytics aspect, which comprises...
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...sales, acknowledges, and awards; HTC stock price, a Taiwan base handset manufacturer, started to going down in Q1, 2012. The main reasons include a fight with Apple on smartphone IP, the market reaction on the integration of the main OS suppliers (Android of Google and Microsoft Mobile) with cellphone manufacturers (Motorola and Nokia), and the launching of a new category of handset device, the tablets. Since those challenges, Peter Chou, the HTC´s CEO, recognize that is the moment to make important decisions in order to compete successfully and sustainably in the competitive mobile devices market. Among the HTC´s issues that Chou hope to resolve are: How to differentiate its strategy in a sustainable way?, What actions and strategy follow in order to manage uncertainty and to anticipate the changes of the acquisition of Motorola by Google and the alliance Microsoft-Nokia?, Will they need to develop their own OS or license another from the market?, How compete in the market of tablets? How important is for the company be leader in tablet?, and How face the Strategy IP be moving forward? Problem: HTC is a well know Taiwanese company, recognized as one of the best handset hardware manufacturer. At the beginning they were producing handset for well-known companies such as Microsoft, Compaq, Handspring (Treo) and even Google. Later they focused in carrier operators...
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...Series, published in December 2010. Another title in this IDH Case Study Series is: • nilever sustainable tea, Part II: U Reaching out to smallholders IDH also has a Best Practices Series, whose titles include: • Marketing sustainability • Sustainable sourcing among SME’s • Beyond auditing • Sustainable trading • Retailers and sustainability • Sustainable sourcing and procurement Case study Unilever sustainable tea Part I: Leapfrogging to mainstream y Tania Braga, B Aileen Ionescu-Somers and Ralf Seifert, IMD’s Center for Corporate Sustainability Management Dutch Sustainable Trade Initiative (Initiatief Duurzame Handel) Utrecht, The Netherlands www.dutchsustainabletrade.com office@dutchsustainabletrade.com Foreword A tipping point happens when a critical mass of people begin to shift their perception of an issue and take action in a new direction. As I look across the global landscape, I feel that we are approaching a tipping point concerning global sustainability. It is catalyzed by at least three important realizations by business, government, and civil society: The first is a realization that the world is finite and that a growing population with a higher ambition for living standards will inevitably lead to a world which will be resource and carbon constrained. The second is the realization that to solve the challenges for this future world we need systems solutions. We cannot solve individual problems in silos. The connections between...
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...surpassing the year-ago estimate by 10% on the back of improved volumes despite price increases. Further, the emerging markets business continues to deliver double digit growth. Management s recent organizational changes have also resulted in cost savings, which augurs well for future operating performance. Moreover, the company has a consistent record of returning cash to shareholders in terms of regular dividend payments. However, intense competition from other established players and exposure to unfavorable foreign currency translations undermines the company s future growth prospects and profitability. SUMMARY DATA 52-Week High 52-Week Low One-Year Return (%) Beta Average Daily Volume (sh) Shares Outstanding (mil) Market Capitalization ($mil) Short Interest Ratio (days) Institutional Ownership (%) Insider Ownership (%) Annual Cash Dividend Dividend Yield (%) 5-Yr. Historical Growth Rates Sales (%) Earnings Per Share (%) Dividend (%) P/E using TTM EPS P/E using 2011 Estimate P/E using 2012 Estimate Zacks Rank *: Short Term 1 3 months outlook * Definition / Disclosure on last page $34.30 $27.96 18.31 0.79 1,611,163 2,980 $97,506 1.63 3 1 $1.23 3.75 Risk Level * Type of Stock Industry Zacks Industry Rank * Low, Large-Growth Food-Misc/Dvrsd 101 out of 291 ZACKS CONSENSUS ESTIMATES Revenue Estimates (In millions of $) Q1 (Mar) Q2 (Jun) Q3 (Sep) Q4 (Dec) Year (Dec) 55,553 A 61,171 A 65,012 E 68,782 E 2009 2010 2011 2012 N/A N/A 15.2 N/A 15.2 14...
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...when she came across Enoch Wilson whom she later married. Their son Arthur came along shortly after. In the years proceeding, Arthur attended and graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later returned to California. His career began as a construction engineer working for Oakland’s Leona Heights Quarry. Across the bay in Santa Cruz, a gentleman by the name of Warren Porter came across potential in the granite quarry located in Aromas. Warren suggested the purchase of the quarry to Arthur who later borrowed $10,000, and moved his entire family to Watsonville where he incorporated Granite Rock Company. Doors first opened for this construction company on February 14, 1900. Labor did not come easy back then as men worked by hand crushing stone to six inch and minus. Horse drawn carriages moved material from one location to another, where rail lines took care of longer distances. Workers dedicated entire lives to this labor, sleeping in bunkhouses, and eating in a cafeteria together before work began each day. Moving forward into...
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