THE ZALE CORPORATION Zale Corporation is a leading specialty retailer of diamonds and other jewelry products in North America. The Company has significant brand name recognition as a result of each of its brands’ long-standing presence in the industry‚ having 2.349 stores in the United States‚ Puerto Rico and Canada. The Company´s vision “provide customers with quality merchandise at the lowest possible price” has remain the same since its first store opening in 1920´s. The Mission of Zale Corporation
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Case Questions: 1. Option #3 suggests Stryker Corporation to build its own facility to manufacture its own PBCs. Under the current situation that some contract manufacturers have weak performance in quality and delivery‚ the benefits of this option are obvious as following: First of all‚ option #3 promised the highest degree of control over quality and delivery‚ which can solve the major problem that Stryker has faced with recently. On the other hand‚ self-manufacturing offers an opportunity
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1. What is the value-added by Owens and Minor? Is this value-addition visible? * They own and manage the inventory for the manufacture * They take on the financial risk associated with the function of managing the inventory flow to the hospitals. * They care for product returns and carry the risk for that. * They carry the receivables (cash flow issues due to long payment terms of customers; actually a 90 days credit) * They carry and manage most of the inventory for the hospitals
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Introduction According to the forecasts‚ New Balance will be seeing growth for the next three years. Currently‚ the facility is too small for the desired production and the company needs to expand. The best location for expansion is Texas. Exponential Smoothing Forecast In exponential smoothing forecast‚ more weight is given to recent data. This type of forecasting is ideal for data with no seasonality. Seasonality‚ or regular changes in the data‚ is not seen for New Balance. The forecast includes
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Deluxe Corporation Ninth Annual Institutional Investor Forum Sidoti & Company‚ LLC Jeff Johnson‚ Treasurer and Vice President Investor Relations September 24‚ 2010 Presentation Scope ■ Comments are limited to information already publicly released: – 10-K for 2009‚ filed February 19‚ 2010 – 10-Q for Q2 2010‚ filed August 5‚ 2010 ■ All estimates and projections are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual future results to differ materially from those estimated or projected
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Capstone Turbine Corporation Capstone Turbine announced the results for its third quarter (ended 31st December 2015) of fiscal 2016 on 3rd February. The company’s revenue has increased 20 % sequentially from $ 17.9 million in the second quarter to $ 21.5 million in the third quarter. The company was also able to improve its gross margin sequentially from 11 % to 19 % and reduce the net loss from $ 7.9 million to $ 6.0 million‚ an improvement of 24 %. A more representative metric than the net income
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CASE: HR-27 DATE: 09/11/06 RITE-SOLUTIONS: MAVERICKS UNLEASHING THE QUIET GENIUS OF EMPLOYEES We freely acknowledge that we are not the two smartest people in the company... . Weíve got a lot of real world experience. Weíve got a vision of where we want this thing to be at some point in time. But exactly how to get there‚ and what technologies to use‚ and how we should employ them‚ thatís much bigger than any two people should be responsible for. ó Jim Lavoie‚ CEO of Rite-Solutions‚ speaking
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Marriot Corporation : the Cost of Capital. In front of Dan Chores is the issue of recommending three hurdle rates for each of Marriott Corporation’s three divisions‚ which have significant effect on the firm’s financial and operating strategies as well as its incentive compensation. Marriott Corporation had three major lines of business: lodging‚ contract services and restaurants. Also Marriott had its growth objective‚ to remain a premier growth company. The four components of
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THE PARTIES International Thunderbird Gaming Corporation (‘Thunderbird’) is the Claimant‚ a publicly held Canadian Corporation with its principal offices in San Diego‚ California‚ U.S.A.; the United Mexican States (‘Mexico’) is the Respondent. SUMMARY OF THE FACTS OF THE CASE Thunderbird is engaged in the business of operating gaming facilities‚ conducting investigations in Mexico in 1999-2000 concerning potential “skill machine” opportunities. Pursuant to many meetings and discussions through the
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Case Analysis: The Ethics of Bankruptcy: Jetsgo Corporation Team 4 1.) Summary: Jetsgo was a private company owned by Michel Leblanc. Leblanc had lived his life around airplanes. In 1991‚ he and a partner started Royal Aviation Inc.‚ which he sold in 2001 for $84 million in stock to Canada 3000. Although he was subsequently sued by Canada 3000 for providing inaccurate financial information‚ the case was never tried because Canada 3000 went into bankruptcy protection in November 2001. In
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