...Leading Licensing Companies By Dawn Wilensky A combination of new and evergreen properties/brands drove 2006 worldwide retail sales of licensed merchandise. Over the last five years, we have made strategic changes to our Leading Licensors list to ensure up-to-date, accurate worldwide retail sales estimates. This year, we made yet another change. As the line between licensor and licensing agent continues to blur—with many licensors taking on the task of representing properties/brands outside of their portfolio, and many traditional licensing agents being charged with fueling power for the brands/properties they represent—we have widened our list to include overall retail sales figures for licensing agents. As a result, we have changed this feature's name from “Leading Licensors” to “Leading Licensing Companies” to better reflect the power of the licensing business. As for this year’s list, which reflects 2006 worldwide retail sales of licensed merchandise, No. 1 Disney recorded a $2 billion increase in retail sales fueled, in part, by consumer demand for all things Pirates of the Caribbean, High School Musical, Cars, and Disney Princess. Sanrio also saw a significant uptick in sales, rising from $4.2 billion in 2005 to $5.2 billion in 2006. Phillips-Van Heusen makes its debut on the list at No. 2 with $6.7 billion in sales driven by proprietary brands Van Heusen, Arrow, Izod, Bass, and Calvin Klein. Other newcomers include: Carte Blanche Greetings ($700 million); Sean John...
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...Marketing Plan for Vision Events Planning MM522 Marketing Management James Peacock May 30, 2010 Executive Summary Vision Events Planning (VEP) has the energy and know how to make events a one-of-a-kind occasion. VEP is a new company that will provide high quality event planning services to its clients, using nine years of experience. The company is located at PO Box 625, Rock Hill, North Carolina. VEP emphasizes excellent customer service for all of its events, regardless of size. The foundation of the company is Rachel Cook. Originally trained in management, Rachel brings along with her experience, knowledge and creativity to every event. Her plan is to inject new life into the event planning business, leveraging her skills to develop creative event design and decor options for her clientele. The business is a sole proprietorship, with Rachel Cook being the only employee. As growth warrants, additional event consultants and/or outside office location can be realized. Our keys to success: 1. We will service our clients' needs on time and efficiently. 2. We will maintain excellent working relationships with suppliers, 3. We will maintain a professional image in our industry and community. Mission Statement The mission of Vision Events Planning is to create lasting memories. To do this VEP will offer high quality event planning. VEP offers complete consulting services for private social events, corporate functions, non-profit events and weddings. We...
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... Student Name Instructor Name University Affiliation Date Introduction The success of any business organization is highly dependent on its strategic management. It is defined as the process by which managers of a firm analyse the external and internal environments with the aim of formulating strategies and apportioning resources to develop a competitive advantage in an industry that permits for the successful realization of organizational objectives. The company’s mission, vision and future goals are all set from the strategic process. Further, strategic management provides managers with the advantage of allocating resources efficiently. Moreover, these plans help give the firm a competitive advantage in the market. Statistics have proven that on average, companies that employ strategic management are more successful than those that don’t. This assignment will aim to clarify the concept of strategic management in the global sense as well as focus on Southwest Airlines, Starbucks, GAP and Google companies. In so doing, the following questions will be answered: Which of the strategies is the company using? What are the weaknesses and strengths of the different strategies? Under what conditions do they work best? What are the effects of implementation of the organization culture in the strategy? In addition, the report will identify and explain the internal analysis for Google, external analysis for GAP, generic business strategy...
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...ABSTRACT Today is the Era of Globalization and the consumer is not bound within boundaries of a particular place to access products available in the outer world, now he can go beyond the boundaries of any market area where he lives, to access the things of his interest. But this virtual connectivity known as “ONLINE SHOPPING OR E-TAILING” is really a challenge for Indian customers to be associated with; they face some real time problems related to trust and quality. But the Indian shopping trend shows some rigid type of behavior towards online shopping. They do not trust this shopping style as they have to see and choose a product virtually and pay for it, without any kind of physical touch, which was really difficult to be done in Indian market, but in past 2-3 years the trends have changed at least in metros and big cities. It has been observed that Indore is adapting the changes in shopping trends in metros very quickly, they love to shop from home and enjoy online shopping. So the process of analysis of factor affecting customer satisfaction levels was initiated, ACSI Model uses the three manifest variables: Customer’s Expectation, Perceived Values and Over-all Quality, which leads to satisfied customer. This will give us the clear insights of satisfied online shoppers across Indore. Factors affecting online shopping behavior Online shopping is a relatively new type of retail shopping. It has now been adopted all over the world including Thailand. In Thailand, electronic...
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...DOCKERS: CREATING A SUB-BRAND INTRODUCTION In the spring of 1985, Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) was flush with its success in the blue jeans market. The company’s star campaign, called “501 Blues,” had recently brought new vitality to the company after several failed expansions into other apparel market segments in the earlier part of the decade. Confident in the wake of 501’s success, the company was contemplating its next steps when research revealed a decline in jeans purchases by LS&Co.’s core customer base of baby boomers. In short, the company’s “bread and butter” customer for the last 30 years - the American male teenager - was now 25-40 and was moving out of the jeans market at an alarming rate. To retain these customers even as their jeans purchases slowed or stopped, the company introduced Levi’s Dockers casual pants. Dockers, as the name was later shortened to, was one of the most successful new product introductions of the 1980s in the clothing industry. Consumers responded to the product design, which utilized the comfort and casual feel of cotton, and likeable advertising by purchasing enough Dockers to make a billion-dollar brand by 1993. Over the course of the 1990s, LS&Co. enjoyed phenomenal success from its Dockers sub-brand. The Dockers brand achieved record sales growth in 1998 and Fortune magazine estimated in 1999 that 75 percent of American men owned a pair of Dockers and that the average customer owned 3.8 pairs. That year, the total...
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...Brand Management Case No. 4 DOCKERS: CREATING A SUB-BRAND INTRODUCTION In the spring of 1985, Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) was flush with its success in the blue jeans market. The company’s star campaign, called “501 Blues,” had recently brought new vitality to the company after several failed expansions into other apparel market segments in the earlier part of the decade. Confident in the wake of 501’s success, the company was contemplating its next steps when research revealed a decline in jeans purchases by LS&Co.’s core customer base of baby boomers. In short, the company’s “bread and butter” customer for the last 30 years - the American male teenager - was now 25-40 and was moving out of the jeans market at an alarming rate. To retain these customers even as their jeans purchases slowed or stopped, the company introduced Levi’s Dockers casual pants. Dockers, as the name was later shortened to, was one of the most successful new product introductions of the 1980s in the clothing industry. Consumers responded to the product design, which utilized the comfort and casual feel of cotton, and likeable advertising by purchasing enough Dockers to make a billion-dollar brand by 1993. Over the course of the 1990s, LS&Co. enjoyed phenomenal success from its Dockers sub-brand. The Dockers brand achieved record sales growth in 1998 and Fortune magazine estimated in 1999 that 75 percent of American men owned a pair of Dockers and that the average customer owned...
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...History of Ready-made Garment (RMG) Sector in Bangladesh Now a days textile sector of Bangladesh retains it's top position in global market. This can't be gained overnights. Bangladesh can get it's present position by dint of merit and industry of people of Bangladesh. The base of textile sector was first established in 60th decade of the last century."mercury shirts"which is originated from Karachi started the rmg business first.the industry exported shirts to the European market in 1965-66 first. | | In 1977-78 only 9 exporting industries were available in this country which deal with 10 million used every year.there were 3 big industries available in that time.they were: 1. Riaz garments 2. Jewel garments 3. Paris garments. Of them, Riaz garments was the most well known and oldest industry in that time.In urdu road of Dhaka it started it's business with some tailoring shop first.In that time it was known as Riaz store.In 1973,it was named Riaz garments.In 1978,it started exporting products abroad.it exported 1 million pieces of shirts to the Olanda,a South Korean company. Another garments known as Desh Garments ,also treated as the pathfinder of textile sector in Bangladesh. In 1979 Desh Garments opened a joint venture project with south korean company "Daiyuu". At present RMG sector of Bangladesh deals with 22 billion USD every year.4 million people directly depend on the ups and downs of the sector.the 81% of the total export earnings are come from...
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...• Drop Ship strategy (Order were delivered by the shoe maker in beginning) • Capital Investment problem • Inventory Issue: - Lack of Information / Integration about inventory Status • Service level: - Priority of supplier / shoe makers to the Bulk orders but not to zappos • Conflict with Traditional supply chain management. • Drop and ship (Ship tracking issue) zappos not have information about the shipment dates • Branded shoe maker reluctant • Logistic distribution issue: - between shoe maker warehouse (operated manually, location) & Zappos & UPS • Strategic partnership with UPS for warehousing which was unsuccessful because the number of SKU was too much. Holding Inventory was too much in number ( bar code & Handler_ • Warehouse in California & then bought another in Kentucky ( using bar code strategy ) • Software to handle the inventory • VMI • Risk Pooling (website catalogue , • Replenishment of slow moving items by making partnership with 9M • Lead-time and transportation Drop and ship Supply Chain Management: Supply chain management is increasingly being recognized as the integration of key business processes across the supply chain. Supply chain management is described as a set of approaches utilized to efficiently integrate suppliers, manufacturers, warehouses, and stores, so that merchandise is produced and distributed at the right quantities, to the right locations and at the right time, in order to minimize system wide...
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...Entrepreneurship: Successfully Launching New Ventures, 4e (Barringer/Ireland) Chapter 2 Recognizing Opportunities and Generating Ideas 1) BenchPrep, the company profiled in the opening feature for Chapter 2, sells an iPhone app to help students prepare for the GMAT and other exams. The original idea for the company stemmed from the founders' recognition that if people could use their iPhones to study for the GMAT: A) they wouldn't have to carry heavy study books around and they could maximize their study time by catching a few minutes of studying between meetings and on similar occasions B) they could study more questions and a computer within the app could keep track of their progress on practice exams C) they could save money by not having to buy multiple study guides and a small computer within the app could keep track of their progress on practice exams D) they wouldn't have to carry heavy study books around and they could interact online with other people preparing for the GMAT and similar exams E) they could maximize their study time by catching a few minutes of studying between meetings and on similar occasions and they could save money by not having to buy multiple study guides Answer: A Diff: 2 Page Ref: 41 Topic: Identifying and Recognizing Opportunities AACSB: Reflective Thinking Objective: Describe the role of entrepreneurs and small business 2) A(n) ________ is a favorable set of circumstances that creates a need for a new product, service...
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...to XM Satellite Radio and Sirius. Since now XM has a license they can launch their product but they are facing a lot of questions that are to be answered to have that perfect launch. At top of that, XM Satellite Radio has not proven it value to the market players yet. XM’s biggest rival, Sirius is already far ahead of XM Satellite in term of publicity, timing and fund raising. XM Satellite Radio has a big challenge of getting customers to pay for a service that has been and still is free. Furthermore, people are unaware about Satellite Radio in general and how is it different from AM/FM radio. Moreover, the radio industry is basically in the sales decline stage of the product lifecycle and on the other hand XM Satellite Radio is in the introduction stage of product life cycle. XM is looking for ways to introduce their product to the market but the radio industry is basically trying to stay alive. Now XM needs to decide what should be done so that their launch is perfect from the day one. They have many issues to be resolved like choosing the manufacturers, choosing the target market, setting the price, getting the best retailer, choosing the right promotional tools etc. XM has great opportunities to enter and exploit the market and change the future of radio technology. For this XM need to form effective strategy for 4 P’s and appropriate mix of pull and push strategy to gain competitive advantage and leave the competitors behind. Product Strategy: Add new attributes and...
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...Industry Surveys Retailing: General Jason Asaeda, Department & General Merchandise Stores Equity Analyst JUNE 2013 Current Environment ............................................................................................ 1 Industry Profile .................................................................................................... 12 Industry Trends ................................................................................................... 13 How the Industry Operates ............................................................................... 23 Key Industry Ratios and Statistics ................................................................... 29 How to Analyze a Retail Company ................................................................... 31 Glossary ................................................................................................................ 36 Industry References ........................................................................................... 37 Comparative Company Analysis ...................................................................... 38 This issue updates the one dated November 2012. The next update of this Survey is scheduled for December 2013. CONTACTS: INQUIRIES & CLIENT RELATIONS 800.852.1641 clientrelations@ standardandpoors.com SALES 877.219.1247 wealth@spcapitaliq.com MEDIA Marc Eiger 212.438.1280 marc.eiger@spcapitaliq.com S&P CAPITAL IQ 55 Water Street New York, NY 10041 ...
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...Michelle L. Stotts, Charles B. Shrader and Samuel M. DeMarie Victory: The New American Motorcycle Celebrates Its First Decade on the Road Now that we are in our 10th year and have a fairly complete line of premium cruiser and touring motorcycles, it is clear what we stand for, and who we appeal to most. Victory stands for class-leading quality, innovation and style. Victory is American and new- always looking forward. We are all about the future of American motorcycles. - Mark Blackwell, Victory Vice President1 Mark Blackwell, vice president in charge of Victory Motorcycle at Polaris Industries, glanced up at company headquarters in Medina, Minnesota as he pulled his gleaming cruiser into the parking lot. An accomplished rider himself, winning the national 500cc motocross championship and being inducted into the American Motorcycle Association’s Hall of Fame, he knew his company’s bikes had come pretty far since they were first introduced to the riding public in 1998. With the development of the new Vision, a luxury touring bike, and the steady release of aggressively-styled cruisers, the company had continually innovated throughout its first decade in business. Yet Blackwell pondered the recurring questions facing Victory Motorcycles and Polaris. He wondered if the initial decision to diversify into heavyweight motorcycles was the right road to take. He realized Polaris took a big risk by moving into motorcycles and going up against the recognized powerhouses in the industry...
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...Chapter 1 Case Study: Harmonix Embrace Your Inner Rock Star Little more than three years ago, you had probably never heard of Harmonix. In 2005, the video game design studio released Guitar Hero, which subsequently became the fastest video game in history to top $1 billion in North American sales. The game concept focuses around a plastic guitar-shaped controller. Players press colored buttons along the guitar neck to match a series of dots that scroll down the TV in time with music from a famous rock tune, such as the Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated” and Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water.” Players score points based on their accuracy. In November 2007, Harmonix released Rock Band, adding drums, vocals, and bass guitar options to the game. Rock Band has sold over 3.5 million units with a $169 price tag (most video games retail at $50 to $60). In 2006, Harmonix’s founders sold the company to Viacom for $175 million, maintaining their operational autonomy while providing them greater budgets for product development and licensing music for their games. Harmonix’s success, however, did not come overnight. The company was originally founded by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy in 1995, focused around some demo software they had created in grad school and a company vision of providing a way for people without much musical training or talent to experience the joy of playing and creating music. The founders believed that if people had the opportunity to create their own music, they would jump...
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...Chapter 1 Case Study: Harmonix Embrace Your Inner Rock Star Little more than three years ago, you had probably never heard of Harmonix. In 2005, the video game design studio released Guitar Hero, which subsequently became the fastest video game in history to top $1 billion in North American sales. The game concept focuses around a plastic guitar-shaped controller. Players press colored buttons along the guitar neck to match a series of dots that scroll down the TV in time with music from a famous rock tune, such as the Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated” and Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water.” Players score points based on their accuracy. In November 2007, Harmonix released Rock Band, adding drums, vocals, and bass guitar options to the game. Rock Band has sold over 3.5 million units with a $169 price tag (most video games retail at $50 to $60). In 2006, Harmonix’s founders sold the company to Viacom for $175 million, maintaining their operational autonomy while providing them greater budgets for product development and licensing music for their games. Harmonix’s success, however, did not come overnight. The company was originally founded by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy in 1995, focused around some demo software they had created in grad school and a company vision of providing a way for people without much musical training or talent to experience the joy of playing and creating music. The founders believed that if people had the opportunity to create their own music, they would jump...
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...Bangladesh garment exports boom despite disasters Published July 09, 2013 AFP * In this photograph taken on June 23, 2010, Bangladeshi women sew clothes in a garment factory in Ashulia. Output from Bangladesh's accident-prone garment sector has increased in June, with demand from foreign retailers still growing despite the country's factory disaster in April. (AFP/File) DHAKA (AFP) – Output from Bangladesh's accident-prone garment sector increased in June, data showed Tuesday, with demand from foreign retailers still growing despite the country's factory disaster in April. At least 1,129 people were killed when the Rana Plaza factory complex collapsed outside the capital Dhaka in April, sparking demonstrations against Western brands and prompting some retailers to threaten to cancel orders. Government data released on Tuesday showed that the country's total exports -- 80 percent of which come from the garment sector -- soared by 16 percent year-on-year in June to $2.7 billion, following an increase of 15 percent in May. "The disasters didn't have much impact. They are scattered incidents," head of the government's Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) Shuvhashish Bose told AFP, referring to the Rana Plaza tragedy and other factory fires that have killed another 130 workers since November. Total exports from Bangladesh, the second-biggest clothing manufacturer in the world after China, grew by 11 percent to a record $27.02 billion in the 2012-13 financial year to June. ...
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