SOWT Analysis for the marketing environment of Blockbuster Entertainment ----------------------- Strength: • Ability to keep up the change. For an example when VCR (Video tape Record) were going out of style‚ they quickly move in to DVD rental. • Brand Familiarity. • Blockbuster have global network of stores. • High quality products and Up to date Movies. • Game CDs for all brand‚ such as Nintendo DS‚ PS2‚ PS3‚ PSP‚ Wii‚ Xbox‚Xbox 360 • Offer movie Rentals and Video game rental
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Mercury Footwear Questions 1. Is Mercury an appropriate target for AGI? Why or why not? Yes‚ we do think so. In the case‚ we could find some characteristics of footwear industry: (1) It is a mature‚ highly competitive industry marked by low growth‚ but stable profit margin. (2) Performance of individual firms could be quite volatile for they need to anticipate and exploit fashion trend. (3) Except some global footwear brands‚ athletic and casual shoes market is still fragmented‚ which
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Caledonia focus on project free cash flows as opposed to the accounting profits earned by the project when analyzing whether to undertake the project? Caledonia should observe the free cash flows on the project instead of the accounting profits because free cash flows help show how well the project can pay back its initial investment. Of course it will also show the projected profit of the project yearly as well. The accounting profits do not show just cash flow‚ but instead consider
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an option to expand capacity (current full capacity will be reached in 2014) for $60 million and generate additional sales of 20% base sales in 2014‚ 30% in 2015‚ and 40% thereafter. The two companies tentatively agreed on a cash offer of $265 million. However‚ a discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis of the base acquisition and option will be performed along with a strategic and sensitivity analysis to help Sterling determine the value of the acquisition‚ the expansion option‚ and in combination. Sterling
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Palamon Capital Partners/TeamSystem S.P.A. 1. Valuation of TeamSystem S.P.A. using Free-Cash-Flow-to-Equity Model (FCFE) (1) Calculate Free cash flow to equity per year: FCFE = NI – (CAPX – DEPR) –NWC + Net Borrowing (2) Discount Rate / Equity Rate: Elson estimated discount rate to be 14%. (Source: Elson believed that a 14 percent discount rate would appropriately capture the risk of the cash flows.) (3) Present Value: Note: the company is expected to grow by 6% forever since
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There are several reasons why AGI should consider Mercury Athletic as an appropriate target for acquisition. First‚ acquiring Mercury could improve both companies financially. Acquiring Mercury would double AGI’s revenue. Although Mercury’s financial performance has been disappointing‚ they experienced top line growth of 20% in 2006. Unfortunately‚ their profitability has been disappointing due to price concessions to big box retailers and an unsuccessful women’s line. Mercury’s (and ultimately
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Year 0 2007 Investment Capital outley Δ Net Working Capital Cash outley NWC Investment Recovery Equipment Salvage NWC (full recovery) Sales Cost of Goods Sold (-) SG&A Expense (-) Opperating Savings (+) Depreciation (-) Operating Profit before tax (16‚000‚000) Year 1 2008 (2‚000‚000) 400‚000 (400‚000) Year 2 2009 Year 3 2010 1‚000‚000 (600‚000) 1‚000‚000 4‚000‚000 3‚000‚000 200‚000 2‚000‚000 3‚000‚000 (200‚000) 10‚000‚000 7‚500‚000 500‚000 3‚500‚000 3‚000‚000 2‚500‚000 10
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Caledonia focus on project free cash flows as opposed to the accounting profits earned by the project when analyzing whether to undertake the project? Free cash flows are being focused on because it the amount that Caledonia will receive and they will be able to reinvest that amount. Caledonia should analyze the free cash flow so that they are able to see the real amount of value or what the cost may be. The marginal value from the project would be in the incremental cash flow. The earnings would
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Earnings per share 2.1.8 Return on investment 2.2 Balance Sheet 2.2.1 Current/ quick ratio 2.2.2 Working capital cycle 2.2.3 Gearing 2.2.4 Asset turnover 2.3 Statement of Changes in Equity 2.4 Cash flow Statement 2.4.1 Operating cash flow/Revenue 2.4.2 Free cash flow 2.4.3 Cash in hand 3.0 Review of Qualitative Information 3.1 Dialog Mobile 3.2 Dialog Television 3.3 Dialog Broadband Networks 4.0 Information Systems 4.1 Introduction to information systems 4.2 Role of Information
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shareholder value in general? Do any of these reasons apply to Carborundum acquisition? Prior to the consideration of Carborundum as an acquisition target‚ Kennecott‚ a copper company‚ pursued an acquisition of Peabody‚ a coal company‚ for $285 million in cash in 1968. There are two main rationales behind the acquisition of Peabody by Kennecott. First‚ to stabilize the high volatility in Kennecott’s profitability due to sharp changes in copper prices and increasing competition from copper producers in Chile
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