RESERACH AND ANALYSIS PROJECT Topic 8 The business and financial performance of over a three year period By : ACCA Number: November 2014 Table of Contents Part 1 Introduction................................................................................... 1.1. Reasons for choosing this topic.......................................................... 1.2. Reasons for choosing the organization
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1. Introduction Procter & Gamble (P&G) is an American multinational corporation founded in 1837 headquartered in downtown Cincinnati‚ Ohio and manufactures a wide range of consumer goods. P&G’s annual sales are $50 billion and it has about 54 percent of consumer product business in United States. P&G sells more than 300 brands including soap‚ pet food‚ Tide‚ Pampers‚ Crisco‚ and Folgers. They exist in 160 countries. 2. Analysis When they started to open up to the world‚ their business strategy
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Why has the number of “millionaire cities” increased more rapidly in LEDC’s than MEDC’s in recent years? A millionaire city is a city with a population of over one million people. The number of millionaire cities is higher than ever before and is continuing to increase extremely fast. Recently the percentage of people living in urban areas has surpassed the number of people living in rural areas. This is due to a large proportion of people migrating to urban areas from rural areas. This is due to
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P&G Marketing Strategy Proctor and Gamble ’s marketing strategy on social networks is taking a targeted approach to distributing materials. While doing so P&G provides personalized replies to inquiries‚ aided by having a dedicated team covering the best way to attract the crowd of young consumers‚ while at the same time creating new innovations. Proctor and Gamble has come a long way from soap opera to social media. P&G itself has a history of evolving and adapting to the different
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Company Adidas Adidas is a German Multinational Corporation that designs and manufactures sports clothing or accessories based in Herzogenaurach‚ Bavaria‚ Germany. It is the holding company for the Adidas Group‚ which consists of Reebok sportswear company‚ TalyorMade- Adidas golf company including Ashworth‚ Rockport and 9.1% of FC Bayern Munich. Besides sports footwear‚ Adidas also produces other products such as bags‚ shirts‚ watches‚ eyewears and other sports- and clothing related goods. Adidas is
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purchase terms o Users: People who will actually use the product or service and can help initiate the purchase and set specifications. ¬ So‚ Linda going to classify the seven people that she met at the company by how these people stand at the company Gamble & Simpson. o Marie Doyle: She is the secretary of the department manager which is Mr. Constantin‚ and she belong to the user because she is the type of employee that going to use the product that Linda offer for the company. o Bill Constantin: I
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finance managers can‚ in practice‚ contribute to the maximisation of shareholder wealth”. This essay will examine how finance managers in day to day practice can participate in the aid of increasing maximum shareholder wealth. The focus point of this is based on the financial managers themselves‚ how they can manipulate and change things in order to increase shareholder wealth using certain tools and methods of analysis. Shareholders are deemed as the owners of the business. Their main aim is to
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DEFINITION BCG MATRIX Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Matrix is defined by the following authors as follows: Table 1 Definition of BCG Matrix Pearce (2013) David (2012) BCG Matrix is an approach pioneered by the Boston Consulting Group that attempted to help managers “balance” the flow of cash resources among their various businesses while also identifying their basic strategic purpose within the overall portfolio. It is also known as “portfolio techniques”. BCG Matrix graphically portrays
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INTERNATIONAL CASE – RESTRUCTURING AT KOREA’S DAEWOO Question – 1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of a hands-off‚ decentralized management approach ? Answer – 1 1. Decentralization. It is the “tendency to disperse decision making authority in an organized structure”. 2. Decentralized Organization. A decentralized organization is one in which decision making is not confined to a few top executives rather is throughout the organization‚ with managers at various levels making key operating
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Information 60 years of adidas – the stories that still inspire us today adidas‚ one of the leading sports brands in the world‚ is turning 60 on August 18‚ 2009. It still seems an unlikely story: a modest shoemaker from a small rural town in Germany develops a range of sports products so original and so perfect that they are sought by athletes from all over the world. As he indulges his passion for sport and for innovation‚ he creates a brand as great as any in the world. An unlikely story‚ but
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