CONSUMER PROFILE American Apparel have a cult status worldwide for sexy‚ guilt free clothing which wont fall apart or cost a bomb. The American Apparel consumer profile is a young‚ sexy‚ gritty‚ metropolitan type. Dov Charney aims his company towards “metropolitan adults” he says “Our customers are educated‚ sophisticated‚ creative types who adapt to economic dislocation. They don’t own cars. They don’t own stocks. They probably don’t have a lot of dependants. They don’t have a lot of savings
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Table of Contents Part 1A 3 The Fashion Product/Brand 3 Choosing a Target Market 4 Competitive Climate 4 Product Image/Positioning Chart 5 Part 1B – Country Scan of Sweden 6 Apparel Industry Overview 6 Apparel Consumption Patterns 7 Population Overview 9 Level of Development 10 Commercial Transportation 11 Market Receptivity 13 Total Exports 13 Total Imports 17 World Trade Organization 23 Trade 24 Country Risks 26 Economy 26 Intellectual Property Rights 29
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Executive Summary ABC FURNITURE MFR will be incorporated in the state of Industry Market‚ and will consist of two stockholders: Torcatoru Iulia and Zapartan Andra. The operational facilities will be located separately from the administration offices. Start-up costs have been projected with the bulk being provided by Mr. John Houseman‚ former owner of Kustom Kabinets. He has agreed to hold the equipment cost as a private note. ABC FURNITURE MFR is a manufacturer of office furniture‚ with
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4.59% 3.47% 1994‐2004 8.60% 5.82% 6.85% 4.51% For a long‐term investor the geometric average with treasury bonds (4.84%) is used. For a short‐term investor the arithmetic average with treasury bills (7.92%) is used. In both cases the longest possible period is taken. Solutions 1. In December 1995‚ Boise Cascade’s stock had a beta of 0.95. The treasury bill rate at the time was 5.8%‚ and the treasury bond rate was 6.4%. The firm had debt outstanding of $1.7 billion and a market value of equity of $1
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WINTER 2008 V O L . 4 9 N O. 2 C.B. Bhattacharya‚ Sankar Sen and Daniel Korschun Using Corporate Social Responsibility to Win the War for Talent Please note that gray areas reflect artwork that has been intentionally removed. The substantive content of the article appears as originally published. REPRINT NUMBER 49215 HUMAN RESOURCES Using Corporate Social Responsibility to Win the War for Talent t is by now an article of faith that employees who are skilled‚ creative and
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Abstract Activity-based costing (ABC) and the theory of constraints (TOC) represent alternative paradigms for evaluating the economic consequences of production-related decisions. However‚ their application can lead to contradictory productmix decisions. To resolve this con#ict‚ it is frequently suggested that the TOC is appropriate for the short run‚ while ABC is appropriate for the longer term. This paper models the selection of a product mix with the TOC and an ABC model integrating activity-based
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and management accounting for control in response to modern world competition and the trading environment. ABC suggests that activities are the cause of cost which will lead to the production of goods and services which creates demand for activities which will finally lead to the “true” full cost of products and services which is a function of consumption of resources. Using ABC means that all the individual activities that are part of a process can be more accurately in terms of cost. For
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CORPORATE RESOLUTION TO BORROW MONIES AND PLEDGE PROPERTY AS COLLATERAL Date: August __‚ 1974 Corporation: ABC Nonprofit Organization President: Richard Nixon Vice-President: Gerald Ford Secretary: Henry Kissinger Treasurer: John Connally Date of Meeting of Board of Directors: August 9‚ 1974 We‚ the President and the Secretary of the Corporation‚ certify the following facts: 1. ABC Nonprofit Organization is a Texas non-profit corporation‚ is organized and operating under the laws of Texas
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study the impact of activity-based costing (ABC) on adoption of world-class manufacturing (WCM) practices and plant performance. In contrast to earlier research that estimates the direct impact of ABC on plant performance‚ we develop an alternative research model to study the role of world-class manufacturing practices as a mediator of the impact of ABC. Analysis of data from a large cross-sectional sample of US manufacturing plants indicates that ABC has no significant direct impact on plant performance
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Chapter 4: The Valuation of Long-Term Securities 1. What is the market value of a $1‚000 face-value bond with a 10 percent coupon rate when the market’s rate of return is 9 percent? Answer: More than its face value. 2. If an investor may have to sell a bond prior to maturity and interest rates have risen since the bond was purchased‚ the investor is exposed to __________. Answer: interest rate risk 3. Beta Budget Brooms will pay a big $2 dividend next year on its common stock
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