that Canadian Tire poorly chose to open up its stores in underdeveloped areas. Furthermore‚ one of the disadvantages in the beginning of a global expansion includes the loss of control. As a result of these factors‚ the American stores didn’t experience much growth and stores had to continuously slash prices on already low priced products. With low rates of growth and increasing competition from retail companies such as Walmart and Target which had a large group of loyal customers‚ Canadian Tire
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CASE SYNOPSIS The IT group at Canadian Tire Corporation (CTC)‚ located at the headquarters of a network of five major business groups‚ is faced with developing an implementation plan for the development of a business intelligence (BI) infrastructure and business capability at Canadian Tire Retail (CTR). Concurrent to this initiative is the development and implementation of an IT strategy for CTC that places a number of programs on the priority list‚ with BI seen as a high priority item for which
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Canadian Tie is one of Canada’s most-shopped general retailers‚ offering everyday products and services to Canadians through more than 1‚700 retail and gasoline outlets from coast-to-coast. Canadian Tire Corporation has many strengths as an organization. First and foremost‚ they enjoy a strong and loyal customer base. Their long history as a Canadian company has helped them in this regard‚ as many of the existing Canadian competitors have been purchased by foreign corporations over the years. They
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Canadian tire history In 1922‚ John W. and Alfred J. Billes buy Hamilton Tire and Garage Ltd in Toronto. One year later‚ the two sell their garage and move to a new location under the name "Canadian Tire. By 1927‚ Canadian Tire was officially incorporated. In 1934‚ Canadian Tire had its first associate store open in Hamilton. This served as a catalyst in the development of the company’s expansion across Canada. In 1937‚ A.J Billes introduces a new and innovative idea to draw attention to their
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CANADIAN TIRE SECTION – A EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Canadian Tire Corporation have more than 490 retail store and 420 FGL sports and Mark’s store. Though it is a retail store but it not competition with Walmart but Loblaw’s is a head to head competitor of Canadian tire. Target Canada was also considered to be a competitor of Canadian tire‚ automotive sector is a backbone of Canadian tire. We found that companies revenue increasing when its competitors target Canada shutdown. FGL contributed a big part
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Chandigarh Dear Business 100 – XYZ Investors‚ We have responded to your request regarding an analysis of the Canadian Tire Corporation and in this report you will find the information about the Company and their recent corporate activity. We have identified various points that will be useful in your decision to invest in this company. We have included information regarding Canadian Tire’s history‚ the products and services offered by them‚ and an analysis of the internal and external factors that
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Business Intelligence at Canadian Tire The overall purpose of Business Intelligence systems and software is to manage and analyze data in a manner that would support effective decision making. The BI initiative could help Canadian Tire to manage and analyze its data in a way that would allow the company to consolidate and integrate some of its information systems. The information provided in the case indicates that CTC is operating and supporting many different operation systems‚ mainframes‚ hardware
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CANADIAN TIRE CORPORATION‚ LIMITED 2012 Annual Information Form February 21‚ 2013 ANNUAL INFORMATION FORM CANADIAN TIRE CORPORATION‚ LIMITED TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. 2. Corporate Structure Description of the Business 2.1 Retail Business 2.2 Financial Services Business 2.3 Seasonality of the Business 2.4 Intangible Properties 2.5 Economic Dependence 2.6 Lending 2.7 Financing of the Business 2.8 Risk Factors 2.9 Employees 2.10 Social and Environmental Policies General Development of the Business
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are the key facts as presented in the article? A few key facts presented in the article are as follows: a. Canadian Tire’s plans to move to smaller sized stores in urban locations in an effort to attract a market they believe is underserviced – sports and outdoor recreational activities b. These decisions were influenced by Target’s arrival in the Canadian market. c. Leasing in urban areas such as malls means greater lease rates. On the contrary‚ urban areas means
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1. What is BI and how can it help Canadian Tire? In the case there are 10 common challenges of BI implementations‚ which of these would you rate as most important for Eubanks and Wnek at CTC‚ and why? How would you address them? Business Intelligence (BI) is the consolidation and analysis of internal data and / or external data for the purpose of effective decision-making. At the core of all BI initiatives is a data warehouse to hold the data and analytics software. The data warehouse stores
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