Company Background Apple‚ Inc. (formerly known as Apple Computer‚ Inc.) was incorporated in the State of California in 1977. Apple currently designs‚ manufactures‚ and markets a variety of computer and personal electronic products‚ including Macintosh computers‚ and the iPod digital music player. AppleÕs key markets are consumers‚ creative professionals‚ educational institutions‚ and business users. For nearly twenty years‚ Apple computers have been the industry standard for creative industries
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Table of Contents 1.0 INTRODUCTION 2 2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW 3 3.0 CASE ANALYSIS 5 4.0 PORTER’S FIVE FORCES 7 4.1 Internal Rivalry 7 4.2 Potential or new entrants 7 4.3 Substitute products 7 4.4 Power of suppliers 8 4.5 Power of Customers 8 5.0 SWOT ANALYSIS 9 5.1 Strengths 9 5.2 Weaknesses 10 5.3 Opportunities 10 5.4 Threats 10 6.0 CONCLUSION 12 7.0 RECOMMENDATION 14 8.0 REFERENCES 15 1.0 INTRODUCTION In
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Organizational Analysis: Apple Inc. Part 1 Apple Inc. History/Background: Apple Inc. is an iconic United States technological company based in Cupertino‚ California. Apple is engaged in the development of World changing consumer electronic products such a mobile phones‚ music media devices‚ tablets‚ and personal computers. The company also sells and creates operating system software‚ peripherals and delivery of third-party digital content (iTunes) to consumers. Apple sells its products and
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CROCS‚ INC. Case Study Report ¹ SUBMITTED TO PROF. NEIL COHEN School of Business and Public Management The George Washington University BY Anil Kumar Cheerla FINA 6224 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT WASHINGTON‚ DC January 26‚ 2011 Q1: Consider which comparable peers are good matches and use them to perform a multiples analysis‚ calculating and defending an estimate of Crocs value. Soln: Comparable companies analysis – Done to determine appropriate valuation multiple for Crocs‚ Inc. • • Selected
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Abstract For this SWOT analysis I chose Google because for me it is a very interesting company and one of the world´s biggest and most successful ones. The first thing that everyone comes to mind‚ hearing the word Google‚ is search engine. But Google is much more. One of their strengths for example is Android‚ the operating system for Smartphone’s. It is remarkable what Google reached since 2007‚ the year of establishment. A weakness I wrote about is the unprofitable products it developed over the
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Client name: Gold Explorer Inc. Schedule :X-1 Audit area: Risk Assessment Preparer :M.X Balance sheet date: xx/xx/xx Date: 01/01/2012 Raj‚ The following memo addresses the risk assessment of one our clients‚ Gold Explorer Inc.; a major public Canadian gold mining company. The firm has been auditing this company for the past 8 years‚ in which very few misstatements were discovered
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Case Recap This case describes the various aspects of carbonated soft drink industry and the focuses on Squirt’s annual advertising and promotion plan in 2001. Squirt is a brand under the Dr Pepper/Seven Up‚ inc. The brand manager was concerned about the market targeting and product positioning and consulted advertising agency‚ Foote‚ Cone & Belding. The case also focuses on the entire industry structure and the marketing techniques used by the various leading companies so the Squirt’s annual advertising
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Team 3: Team 3: Case Study: Custom Molds‚ INC Case Study: Custom Molds‚ INC Custom Molds Inc.‚ manufactures custom designed molds for plastic parts and produces custom made plastic connectors for the electronics industry. Established in 1987‚ the primary focus was to provide manufacturers or electronic connectors a source of high-quality custom-designed molds for producing plastic parts. After building a strong brand reputation through the designing and fabrication of precision molds‚ Custom
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class inhabitants in the Local Bay region‚ and local businesses that are located inside or outside the Local Bay Industrial Park - their most vital needs are service‚ price‚ and delivery‚ in a specific order. One of the key purposes of Pizza Cottage‚ Inc.’ methodology is to focus on these objective segments that know and comprehend these requirements‚ and are willing to pay a sensible price to have them satisfied. Factors such as current local patterns and historical sales information of comparative
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1. Do you expect the search business to become more concentrated? Is search a winner-take-all business? For the case of Google‚ we can conclude that the search business of Google has become more dominated and concentrated. In terms of the companies‚ they do not expect the search business to be dominated by only fewer firms. Because the search business earned large revenues from the corporates’ advertisement and the fee is very high. If the companies want to advertise on the website of search business
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