HPL Case Tianli Feng Mengting Xia Qiang Luo Xian Li 1. How would you describe HPL and its position within the private label personal care industry? HPL manufactures soap‚ shampoo‚ mouthwash‚ shaving cream‚ and sun scream for retailers in US and these products are sold under the brand label of a third party. The company is a major player in the $2.4 billion private label personal care industry‚ with a market share of a little more than 28%. HPL’s focus on manufacturing efficiency‚ expense
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BA2800 Assignment 2 Case 1: Milligan’s Backyard Storage Kits Due: July 18‚ 2011 Complete the case with these additional instructions: 1. Add the following columns: 2. Part 1 a. Annual Sales b. Annual COGS c. Annual Gross Profit d. Average Inventory Costs e. Gross Margin Ratio f. Markup g. Inventory Turnover h. Days in Inventory 3. Part 2 a. Gross Margin per Unit b. Percent of Sales 4
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Multi-Attribute Model The ABC model of attitude assumes that a consumer’s attitude (evaluation) of an attitude object (A◦) will depend on the beliefs he or she has about several or many attributes of the object. The use of multiattributes model implies that an attitude toward a product or brand can be predicted by identifying these specific beliefs and coming them to derive a measure of the consumer’s overall attitude. Most researchers agree that an attitude has 3 components: -Affect refers to
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Case Study: Can Knights Apparel satisfy all stakeholders? When there are two separate stakeholders in the picture‚ it’s hard to satisfy them both. In this case‚ Knight Apparel is possessed by its original stakeholders and here we define the term “stakeholder” as one party with an interest in the corporation. Thus the primary stakeholders of Knight Apparel are its investors‚ employees‚ customers‚ suppliers and community. More importantly‚ Knight Apparel focus
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CASE 1 – Targeting the College Age Apparel Market Synopsis: American Eagle and Abercrombie & Fitch are rival retailers vying for a competitive leadership position among the same segment of the teenage/college student market. Each‚ however‚ pursues a slightly different strategy‚ even though some similarities have been the issues for legal contestation. The case details the strategies‚ merchandising‚ operations‚ and competitive positions of the two retailers. Use: Chapter 1 Examines the trends
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How sensitive is return on capital to the forecast assumptions in case Exhibit 8? An increase in cash operating expenses decrease NOPAT‚ which in turn makes ROC extremely sensitive when this ratio goes up; in general when total operating expenses go up NOPAT goes down‚ thus ROC goes down. In addition if the COGS increase this drastically drops ROC. The total assets has a big impact on ROC an increase of 1000m increased ROC by a full 1.5 percent. The ROC is also very sensitive to the Price to Earnings
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Confirming Pages CASE 6 lululemon athletica‚ Inc. Arthur A. Thompson The University of Alabama I n early 2012‚ investor interest in lululemon athletica— a designer and retailer of high-end‚ yoga-inspired athletic apparel under the lululemon athletica and ivivva athletica brand names—was surging. Over the past 30 months‚ growing numbers of female shoppers were patronizing the company’s stores to pay premium prices for lululemon-branded items that offered performance‚ fit‚ and comfort and were
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1. Assess the implementation of the time-driven ABC system at Kemps. What do you like about it? What are you less happy with‚ and would have done differently? One of the best aspects of the way the time-driven ABC system was put into place at Kemps was how efficiently and accurately management determined the main issues with the current cost system and responded with appropriate and relevant solutions. For example‚ one of the greatest problems the company was facing was that many of its
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The case provides several issues that class members will need to address: 1. How well positioned is Puma for the future now that things have gotten turned around? 2. How important is it that Puma strive to gain sales and market share‚ given that the industry arena in which it competes is “fragmented” with many competitors? 3. Does Puma currently have a good strategy for the long-term or are strategic changes and adjustments needed? 1. What is your opinion of the job that Puma’s management
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CASE STUDY OF LOGISTICS STRATEGY GROUP WORK ASSIGNMENT “Assuming you are the Regional Administration Manager ABC (Hong Kong) Limited‚ please work out a Planning of how you would execute a special project on the re-engineering of the logistic flows in the Hong Kong Region.” Hints: As there are various parameters that can be considered in planning a project‚ such as “formation of project team(s)‚ resources consideration‚ availability of time and people‚ management style to be applied‚ definition
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