...the organizations grow up and my subject of study also similar; I have no doubt to choose this organization as a subject of my present study. 1(B) Strategic marketing planning presents a useful process by which an organization formulates its strategies, providing it is adapted to the organization and its environment. Although it can bring many hidden benefits, like the better coordination of company activities, a strategic marketing plan is mainly concerned with competitive advantage – that is to say, establishing, building, defending and maintaining it. Marketing is a process for: 1. Defining markets. 2. Quantifying the needs of the customer groups (segments) within these markets. 3. Determining the value propositions to meet these needs. 4. Communicating these value propositions to all those people in the organization responsible for delivering them and getting their buy-in to their role....
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...Introduction Martha Stewart was indicted on charges of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and securities fraud. All linked to her sale of 3,928 ImClone Systems Inc shares on December 27, which considered as illegal insider trading by Security and Exchange Commision (S.E.C). Stewart cashed out her ImClone stake at an average price of $58.43, collecting about $229,500. After the market closed the following day, the Food and Drug Administration announced its refusal to review ImClone's application for Erbitux, a promising cancer drug. The next trading day, Dec. 31, ImClone's shares opened at $45.39 per share. That difference in price would have cost Stewart about $51,200 if she sold first thing that morning. However, she was not prosecuted for insider trading, which was the original focus of the government's investigation. She pleaded not guilty and pledged to fight the charges. Although the charges of securities fraud were thrown out, Stewart was found guilty of four counts of obstruction of justice and lying to investigators. She was sentenced to five months of prison, five months of house arrest, and two years of probation. ImClone case was showing unethical and socially irresponsible behavior by business executives. They are in positions of power that allow them to do damage to others. This paper will evaluate the case above thoroughly, start from the prosecution’s arguments, the defense’s arguments. Analysis will be made using four ethical theories; Rights, Justice, Utilitarianism...
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...more than 100 years, Kellogg’s has been a leader in health and nutrition through providing consumers with a wide variety of food products. Kellogg’s market leading position and reputation is built on its commitment to ethical business practices and its values-based culture. Business values identify the beliefs that the company holds to be the most important. These values then guide decision making and shape the way the organisation behaves. For Kellogg’s, these are referred to as K-Values. Kellogg’s long-term business plans, known as strategies, focus on engaging with its stakeholders to ensure their needs are being met. For Kellogg’s, this means ensuring the highest ethical standards and sustainable business practices. Kellogg’s has a Global Code of Ethics governing how it deals with stakeholders across the world. A sustainable business is one which focuses on minimising any negative impact to the environment to ensure future generations can prosper. Kellogg’s vision and core purpose outline what the company wants to achieve. They guide the organisation’s decision making processes to help meet the expectations of its stakeholders. Kellogg’s vision, which was refreshed in 2012, sets out the company’s main aim: ‘To enrich and delight the world through Integrity & Respect • Accountability • Passion Simplicity • Success • Humility & Hunger Values foods and brands that matter.’ This is supported by Kellogg’s purpose of ‘Nourishing families so that they can flourish and thrive...
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...Marketing Marketing entails processes that focus on delivering value and benefits to customers, not just selling goods, services and/or ideas. This uses distribution, communication and pricing strategies to give customers and stakeholders with the goods, services, ideas, values and benefits they desire when and where they want them. There are some market management philosophies. They are production orientation, sales orientation, market orientation and societal marketing orientation. Production orientation is the philosophy that gives what the firm want to give. They focus on internal capabilities of the organization rather than on the desires and need for the marketplace. It means the management assesses its resources and ask questions about their capabilities such as “What can we do best?” and “What can our engineer design?”. Next is sales orientation. Sales orientation is based on the ideas that people will buy more goods and services if aggressive sale techniques are used and that high sales results in high profits. In the other hand, market orientation is based on the understanding that a sale does not depend on aggressive sales force but rather customer’s decision to purchase a product. Besides that, market management philosophies also consists societal marketing orientation. Societal marketing orientation is based on satisfying the customer’s wants and needs and to meet organizational objectives and also preserve or enhance individuals’ and society’s long-term best interests...
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... Assignment 1: “Entrepreneurial Leadership” Abstract This paper will show the analysis of how successful this business has been setting itself apart from other fast food chains in relation to their philosophy, their original values as a family run business all the while giving contributions of success. You will see how the ethical and social practices of this family business as paved a customer appreciated restaurant of today with old fashion hard work and common sense. Assignment 1 – “Entrepreneurial Leadership” Determine how Five Guys’ philosophy sets it apart from other fast-food chains? In today’s fast food market chains businesses have to focus more on nutrition as well as making profits. Today within our health conscience world we now live in and with all the media hype about overweight people in the United States fast food chains need to really market themselves in a way to stand out above others in order to compete. Although the number one goal of any business model is to maximize profits and minimize costs in order to meet shareholders expectations as well as growing the business to maximize profits they now have to be thinking of creative ways to grab the customers and make them feel they are making a well educated guess in eating healthier even though it is still considered fast food. The Five-Guy business model has really been creative in certain ways to capture this. The owner Jerry Murrell believes in order to gain a market edge he focused on...
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...and moral evaluation of the impact than an organization has on society * Ethics can be a business constraint “ethics costs” but also an advantage “ethics pays” 1970 – 1985: Rise of business ethics (academia) 1985 – 1995: Ethics into firms 1995 – 2000: Internationalization 2000 – 2012: Corporate Scandals and government regulation * Ethics Scandal Costs: Fines, lawsuits, prison, investor losses, bankruptcies, unemployment, and increased regulation * Market Morality: Will everyone invest their money as agreed or will greed effect them? * Parable of the Sandhu Ethics vs. the law Unclear over moral responsibility Easier to say what is morally right than to do it * Employees value health and safety ethics Consumers value product safety Shareholders want return on investment Need to look at environment * Macroenvironment: social, economic, political, technological factors * Our society is pluralistic in nature * Pluralism: there is diffusion of power among society’s many groups and organizations Decentralization and diversity of power * Strengths of Pluralism: prevents power concentration; maximizes freedom; diversified loyalties; provides safeguards; disperses individual allegiances. Has a set of built in checks and balances * Weaknesses of Pluralism: pursuit of self-interest; proliferates organizations with similar...
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...CAAE STUDY 1 Technology 1. Online purchasing enables cross-border trading activity. This, Nullifies the constraints of business location, scale and time zone. 2. With better technology, shipment of goods from one type of transport to another will be easy. 3. Reduced cost of long distance transport through improved efficiencies and reduced labour requirements. This result in cheaper goods available to consumers. 4. Save time to travel to shopping centres and provide wide range of items than traditional retail shop 5. Retail industry is in decline as users change to online purchasing. This is expected to get worse with the possible increase use of internet. 6. Sophisticated US internet retailers found that with a few tweaks to their websites and some negotiations with logistics suppliers, they had become global internet retailers. 7. The Australian consumers now purchase goods from US, which was not accessible before. 8. Sometimes search engine helped them to find the products at the best price. 9. The technology helped the retailers to identify the consumers behaviour patterns and have their prior purchase history and help them to “see” the products in their home setting 10. Consumers have access to global pricing and they are likely to check online before making the purchase Economy 1. The global financial crises forced US business to look for source of revenue outside their normal channel. This result in direct competition with Australian...
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...Coca-Cola Company FINANCE Spring 2013 [FNCE 601] February 1st, 2013 | WEMBA38 | Team 17 Mathieu Verbeeck Why has coca cola been so successful in the past? When Douglas Ivester took over the reigns at Coca-Cola in October 1997, he had big shoes to fill – indeed, Goizueta – who passed away earlier in the year – would be remembered as one of the greatest wealth builders of the 20th century: during his tenure as CEO, Coca-Cola’s market value grew from $4.3 billion to $165 billion and an investment of in the Coca-Cola stock would have earned a compounded annual rate return of 33% over the last 10 years. Goizueta’s and Coca-Cola’s success can be attributed to a number of factors. Business Strategy Coca-Cola’s mission is to maximize shareholder value over time. To achieve this mission, The Coca-Cola Company executes a business strategy driven by four key objectives: increase volume, expand Coca-Cola’s share of worldwide nonalcoholic ready-to-drink beverage sales, maximize its long-term cash flows and create economic value added by improving economic profit. Coca-Cola achieves these goals by strategically investing in the high-return beverage business and by optimizing their cost of capital through appropriate financial policies. Marketing To meet its long-term growth objectives, Coca-Cola continues to make significant investments in marketing to support their brands. Marketing investments enhance consumer awareness and increase consumer preference for their brands...
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...Executive Summary General Mills first began as a flour Mill in the 1860’s and since the beginning they have been a successful, innovative company. Throughout the years they have grown to becoming the third largest food company in North America. General mills is committed to diversity, innovation and the relationships they have built. They believe their stakeholders are as important to the company as their customers, keeping them in mind for every business decision made. They have 6 key stakeholders; consumers, customers, partners, teams, shareholders and communities. General Mills believes the success of their stakeholders is a success for the company, every decision they make must add value to for their stakeholders. In 2001 General Mills completed a merger with their long-time competitor, Pillsbury. Both sides of the merger felt this was the best decision for each company involved, General Mills felt it would add value to shareholders, while Pillsbury was just happy the business would stay local. The merger was complete with a $10.5 billion price tag and would total $13 billion in annual sales. The only problem was Pillsbury’s weak performance, causing layoffs for General Mills. The best solution to remedy this problem is for General Mills to get its thinking caps on and come up with a new innovative product line for Pillsbury. It will take time and a lot of effort, but in the end the benefits will improve the new company and get Pillsbury performing at the same level as...
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...CHAPTER 1 The Accounting Environment: What Is Accounting and Why Is It Done? QUESTIONS Q1-1. A variety of answers are possible but the essential elements are the production and communication of information so that stakeholders can make decisions. Q1-2. Financial accounting is concerned with providing information to those outside an entity such as investors, lenders, and CRA. Managerial accounting provides information to those inside the entity such as managers and other decision makers. Table 1.3 provides differences: Table 1.3 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FINANCIAL AND MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING | |Financial Accounting |Managerial Accounting | |Stakeholders |External to the entity. Includes investors, |Internal to the entity. Managers and other | | |lenders, taxation authorities (such as the |employees. | | |Canada Revenue Agency), competitors, and many | | | |others. These stakeholders usually don’t have | | | |direct access to information about the entity | | | ...
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...Student Number: 11294636 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Lecture Day: Monday 9 AM to 12 PM ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Lecturer: Dr. Walter Jarvis ------------------------------------------------- Tutor: Ms. Alison Lee ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- UTS: BUSINESS SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT PART A: The educational system in any country around the world is, by no doubt, designed to meet the ever growing hunger of Industrialization. Dubbed by Sir Ken Robinson (2010) as “the fast food model”, this educational system, albeit useful in shaping the world that we all see today, has had some significantly negative impact on the lives of some people who were forced to be a victim of this system. It is indeed true and I agree with the fact that there are many people in this world who often forego their talents and creative abilities in order to be a part of this so called industrial model...
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...INTRODUCTION This chapter presents three cases of recent foreign investment in Egypt. In the case of the Egyptian Company for Mobile Services (MobiNil), an international consortium takes over a state-run mobile phone service, and modernises its operations in a rapidly growing and transforming market. The local partner subsequently becomes a regional player in Africa and the Middle East. Glaxo Smith Kline, a leading pharmaceutical firm, expands in Egypt through multiple acquisitions, while the parent firm itself is subject to M&A at a global level. The leading-brand ketchup manufacturer Heinz has established a production facility for the Middle East jointly with a Kuwaiti multinational specialising in being the local partner for foreign fast-food chains throughout the Arab countries. THE EGYPTIAN COMPANY FOR MOBILE SERVICES (MOBINIL) Introduction Mobile telephony is capturing an increasing share of global telecommunications services, accounting for 23 per cent of global telecommunications revenues (up from 3 per cent in 1990). Mobile telephony is one of the high growth market segments of the Egyptian telecommunications sector, having outpaced the growth of fixed-line telephony, which currently stands at 7.5 million lines, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of approximately 14.6 per cent during the period 1995/2000, compared with the staggering CAGR of 169 per cent for mobile telephony during the period 1997/2002 (American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt 2001...
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...SJÖMAN Nestlé and Alcon—The Value of a Listing Wolfgang Reichenberger, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Swiss food giant Nestlé, and Francisco Castañer, Executive Vice President (EVP), stepped into the offices of Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chief Executive Officer (CEO). On this day in early September 2001, they had important business to discuss with the company’s CEO. As EVP, Castañer was responsible for the non-food business of the Nestlé Group worldwide. Although Nestlé was primarily known for its food brands—such as Nescafé, Perrier and Buitoni—the company had some select activities in other sectors. Its two largest non-food holdings were in fullyowned eye-care company Alcon, a producer of ophthalmic drugs, equipment for ocular surgery, and contact lens solutions, and a large stake in cosmetics giant L'Oréal. For a while now, Nestlé had discussed carving out a part of Alcon for a public listing. The larger question then, that Reichenberger and Castañer wanted to discuss with Brabeck, was what effect a carve-out would have on Nestlé’s overall valuation. Assuming further that they did list Alcon, two other questions followed suit. First, how should they arrive at an appropriate valuation of Alcon? Second, on what stock exchange should they list their Texas-based, but Switzerland-incorporated, subsidiary: in New York or Zürich? Nestlé, The World’s Largest Food Company At the beginning of the new millennium, Nestlé was the world’s number one food company.1 It was the world leader...
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... * QUESTION 5…………………………………………………………….………20 ANALYSIS………………………………………………………………………………22 * SWOT……………………………………………………………………………23 * PORTER’S 5 FORCES……………….…………………………………………30 * PORTER’S VALUE CHAIN……………………………………………………36 * BCG MATRIX…………………………………………..………………………39 * PORTER’S GENERIC STRATEGIES……………………….…………………41 FINANCIAL STATEMENT……………………………………………….……………44 CONCLUSION……………………………………………………..……………………49 RECOMMENDATION……………………………………………………….…………51 CITATIONS…………………………………………..…………………………………53 INTRODUCTION Nestlé is the largest food and beverage company in the world. It is also well on its way to becoming world leader in nutrition, health and wellness. Nestlé is a Swiss company, founded in 1866 by Henri Nestle. Henri Nestlé, the founder of Nestlé, was a life-saving chemist but also an innovative marketer. He used scientific knowledge to develop products that met consumer needs. He used his name to brand his products in a distinctive way. And he set up systems to distribute his products quickly and effectively. From the start, nutrition has been at the core of Nestlé business. However, today they place far greater emphasis on it – and on health and wellness. Their Corporate Wellness Unit and the individual business units are driving forces in bringing Good Food, Good Life to all of their consumers...
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...) and $74.72 (18.9% ) per share. Behind this high drama in floor of NYSE, there was a one of the key announcement rocked. Burger King Worldwide Inc., an American based fast food chain and Tim Hortons Inc., Canadian based coffee and doughnut chain combined announced news of potential merger seeing both on the grounds of market strategic and largest food chain in global market. With approximately $23 billion in system sales, over 18,000 restaurants in 100 countries and two strong, thriving, independent brands, the new company will have an extensive international footprint and significant growth potential. The new global company will be based in Canada, the largest market of the combined company. Tim Hortons and Burger King each have strong franchisee networks and iconic brands that are loved by their guests. Following the closing of the transaction, each brand will be managed independently, while benefitting from global scale and reach and sharing of best practices that will come with common ownership by the new company. “By bringing together our two iconic companies under common ownership, we are creating a global QSR powerhouse. Our combined size, international footprint and industry-leading growth trajectory will deliver superb value and opportunity for both Burger King and Tim Hortons shareholders, our dedicated employees, strong franchisees, and partners. We have great respect for the Tim Hortons team and look forward to working together to realize the full potential of...
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