Why Can ’t Kmart Be Successful While Target and Walmart Thrive? What drives some companies to succeed while others languish? Successful companies develop a system of a few truly unique capabilities that help them create differentiated value for their chosen customers. Retailers provide many case studies in capabilities-driven success‚ one of the most compelling of which is the big discounter triad of Walmart‚ Target and Kmart. And in this fourth-quarter retail season‚ we thought it would be
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Corporate Social Responsibility Corporate social responsibility is defined in several ways. Some of which are the following: A concept of business ethics based on the idea that companies have stakeholders who are broadly defined as anyone or group affected by the activities of the company. The idea of CSR is that a company should be accountable to its stakeholders. For this reason the subjects of CSR focus on how companies should identify and “engage” stakeholders and how they should determine
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| | | | BUSINESS PROFILE Universal Robina Corporation (URC) was founded in 1954 when Mr. John Gokongwei‚ Jr. established Universal Corn Products‚ Inc.‚ a cornstarch manufacturing plant in Pasig. URC is a core subsidiary of JG Summit Holdings‚ Inc.‚ a conglomerate currently listed in the Philippine Stock Exchange. The Company is involved in a wide range of food-related businesses‚ including the manufacture and distribution of branded consumer foods‚ production of hogs and day-old chicks
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of the Board and a control-ling shareholder of Kmart‚ initiated the acquisition of Sears by Kmart for $ 11 billion in November 2004. The new company was to be called Sears Holdings Corporation. Like many retailers‚ both Sears and Kmart struggled to attract shoppers in an overcrowded industry and a slumping economy. Sears Holdings had just launched a bid in November 2007 to purchase Restoration Hardware‚ a home- goods retailer (Wheelen and Hunger‚ 2012). The remainder of this assignment answers discussion
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1. LBO funds have been notably active in the market for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in recent years. The line between some types of hedge funds and LBO funds blurred in the last few years‚ but most hedge fund strategies remained quite distinct from the LBO investing model. For many years‚ hedge funds active in the distressed arena tried to buy defaulted or near-default bonds and then resell them weeks or months later at a profit. The blurring of the line between LBO and hedge funds began when
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the essential source for top-level company data and information. The report examines the company’s key business structure and operations‚ history and products‚ and provides summary analysis of its key revenue lines and strategy. Popular is a bank holding company engaged in retail and commercial banking services‚ as well as investment banking‚ auto and equipment leasing and financing‚ mortgage loans‚ consumer lending‚ insurance and information processing. The company primarily operates in the US‚ the
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in 2005. It all began when journalist‚ Susan Long‚ from The Straits Times published an article on the lack of transparency and accountability in NKF’s usage of the donated funds This led to the former CEO of NKF‚ T. T. Durai‚ suing Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) for defamation. The trial disclosed how Durai misused the donated funds and the financial mismanagement at NKF‚ greatly affecting NKF’s reputation. After the entire incident‚ the public became very concerned over the transparency of charitable
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In today’s business environment‚ a firm’s survival is dependent on how it responds to its stakeholders; CSR is a way that response is communicated. This paper explores whether CSR is necessary for the survival of Banyan Tree in today’s environment. We will evaluate the possible ways that CSR benefits the company and show that CSR is not necessary for Banyan Tree’s survival but it does play a strategic role in building brand equity along with a sustainable business. Introduction Corporate Social
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Founder and chairman emeritus of conglomerate JG Summit Holdings. Background: John L. Gokongwei Jr. serves as President of JG Summit Capital Markets Corp. Mr. Gokongwei served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of JG Summit Holdings‚ Inc. from 1990 to 2001‚ which he founded. Mr. Gokongwei founded Universal Robina Corp. in 1954. He served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Digital Telecommunications Phils Inc. for JG Summit Holdings Inc. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Universal
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company in each year have the ratio over 1. It means that they have enough current assets to settle the current liabilities. Parkson Holding Berhad achieved the highest current ratio which is 1.79 in the year of 2014 among the three years. While it achieve the lowest in the year 2016 which is 1.13.This shows the decreasing of the current ratio each year of the Parkson Holding Berhad. Complete Logistics Service Berhad shows a highest current ratio of 2.98 in the year of 2016‚ and the lowest in year 2014
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