Elizabeth Calloway Date: 04/04/2012 Apple is a good to investment Yes‚ apple would be a good investment? because it has stocks that are rising sky-high right now! Apple is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics‚ computers software and personal computers. The company’s best know hardware products include the iPod‚ and the iphone and the ipad. Apple software includes the Mac OS X operating system and the iTunes media Brower; The three
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the brand. Therefore the aim of this assignment is to illustrate how a chosen company has built Brand Equity instilling awareness‚ reputation‚ loyalty and prominence in the marketplace. My choice of brand for evaluation is Apple as it’s a really powerful brand and as an Apple advocate I feel the overwhelming presence of the brand in all my technology based purchases. Brand Management Defined In simple terms Brand Management is the art of creating and maintaining a brand. If we explore further we
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Case study: Strategic planning at Apple Inc. Comparative Advantage Apple has gained a comparative advantage over its competitors by carefully picking their employees. According to researcher and author Alex Frankel Apple tends to only hire people whom are “passionate about what they were selling”‚ this often meant that they hired enthusiastic Apple product users. In addition‚ Apple’s employees are trained to follow a specific three-step sales process known as position‚ permission‚ and probe
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Microeconomics concepts 1. Apple: ‘We can’t keep up with demand’ Global passion for Apple unabated as consumer demand outstrips supply across iPhone‚iPad and iMac ranges‚ Apple says. As Apple announced record profits‚ chief executive Tim Cook confirmed that even supplies of older‚ cheaper models of the iPhone were not enough to satisfy demand‚ and that sales of iMacs fell primarily because the company could not make the new design fast enough. He added that iPad Mini demand‚ too‚ continued to
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APPLE INC. Introduction Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in California. It designs‚ develops and sells consumer electronics‚ computer software and personal computers. The company was founded on April 1‚ 1976 by Steve Jobs‚ Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. Strategy Apple’s strategy has always revolved around innovation and creating a high-performance culture‚ through which it achieves and sustains its competitive advantage. MISSION STATEMENT “Apple is
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Apple‚ Inc. in 2010 Assignment Questions 1. What are the chief elements of Apple’s overall competitive strategy? How well do the pieces fit together? Is the strategy evolving? 2. What are the key elements of Apple’s strategy in computers‚ personal media players‚ and smartphones? Have its strategies in its core businesses yielded success? Explain. 3. What does a competitive strength assessment reveal about Apple’s computer business‚ as compared to the leaders in the personal computer industry
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national economic‚ political system‚ government policy and law. Apple design‚ develop and market numerous product and service lines. They sell their products to education‚ consumer creative professional‚ business and government customers. While apple seems to display numerous products and conduct business on different segments‚ it is legitimate to wonder what the company is really good at? Too much diversity is exactly what crushed Apple during the John Scully days. （一）、政治、法律环境 指一个国家的政治制度、体制、政治形式、方针政策、法律法规等方面。它包括了：
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GAAP v. non-GAAP: Impacts on Financial Statements A non-GAAP financial measure is a numerical measure of past or future financial performance‚ financial position or cash flows that includes amounts that are excluded from the most directly comparable GAAP measure or excludes amounts that are included in the most directly comparable GAAP measure. Some common examples of non-GAAP earnings measures are cash earnings‚ operating earnings‚ EBITDA and FFO. The non-GAAP numbers impact revenue numbers without
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Top 5 Vendors‚ Worldwide Tablet Shipments‚ Fourth Quarter 2012 (Preliminary) (Units Shipments are in millions) Vendor 4Q12 Shipments 4Q12 Market Share 4Q11 Shipments 4Q11 Market Share 4Q12/4Q11 Growth 1. Apple 22.9 43.6% 15.5 51.7% 48.1% 2. Samsung 7.9 15.1% 2.2 7.3% 263.0% 3. Amazon.com Inc. 6.0 11.5% 4.7 15.9% 26.8% 4. ASUS 3.1 5.8% 0.6 2.0% 402.3% 5. Barnes & Noble 1.0 1.9% 1.4 4.6% -27.7% Others 11.6 22.1% 5.5 18.5% 108.9% All Vendors
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Apple Brand Audit 1. Brand Inventory A. Brand Elements Apple Inc. has been committed to bringing the best personal computing experience to students‚ educators‚ creative professionals and consumers around the world through its innovative hardware‚ software and Internet offerings. Apple Inc. designs‚ manufactures‚ and sells computers‚ music players‚ and now mobile communication devices. Apple Inc. has always been known by its users as a revolutionary and innovative company that never
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