CASE SUMMARY (PROBLEM STATEMENT) After sluggish sales growth in 1980‚ MEM Company‚ Inc. was considering ways to increase sales for the company ’s line of men ’s toiletries. Two main options surfaced; either 1) to expand distribution into food stores or 2) to introduce a new line called Cambridge. MARKET OVERVIEW The men ’s toiletries market was divided into three groups based on pricing‚ namely‚ exclusive‚ medium and mass priced category. MEM had competed primarily in the medium priced market
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CASE CONTEXT: Enager Industries‚ Inc. was a relatively young company‚ which had grown rapidly to its 1993 sales level of over $222 million. (See Exhibits 1 and 2 for financial data for 1992 & 1993). The company has three divisions which were treated as independent companies because of their differing nature of activities. The corporate office of Enager consists only of few managers and staff. The function of the corporate unit is to coordinate the activities of the three divisions. One aspect
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File-It Supplies Inc‚ Present Situation Patsy Akaka is the marketing manager of File-It Supplies which is a file folder manufacturer that has been in business for 28 years. Other primary lines they are file markers‚ labels and indexing systems. On the other hand 40% of FIS´s file folder business is in specialized lines including oversized blue-print and engineer drawings for several high tech industries. Even though the company has a unique knowledge in the field‚ Patsy is facing a complicated
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[pic] |An IT Industry Project | |by | |SAARTHAK VERMA | |(WRO 0284493) | INDEX |S.No |Subject |Page No | | |Foreword
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[Type text] [Type text] [Type text] FIRST INVESTMENTS‚ INC.: ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS CARLOS VILLICANA THURSDAY OCTOBER 23RD‚ 2014 MACC 6753 - FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS DANA MCLENDON‚ MBA WEEK 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Basic Industries is a diversified multinational corporation with major shares in various electric related markets. There is stock that has been held since the early 1980s and we have been asked to analyze and evaluate the past 10 years of data to either sell or continue
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Introduction Optical Distortion‚ Inc. (ODI)‚ is a small‚ new company that has developed contact lenses designed to impair the vision of egg-producing farm chickens. This development came after an accidental discovery that partially blind chickens demonstrate more manageable and productive behaviors that are valuable to chicken farmers. Market Trends As within many industries‚ the poultry and egg production market has evolved dramatically in the last century— from small backyard barnyards to
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Enager Industries‚ Inc. Accounting Consultant’s Report · Introduction Enager Industries‚ Inc. was a relatively young company that consisted of three divisions with distinct services and products. At the urging of CFO Henry Hubbard‚ Enager’s president‚ Carl Randall‚ had decided to begin treating each division as an investment center‚ so as to be able to relate each division’s profit to the assets the division used to generate it profits. · Analysis However‚ several issues
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Case 72 Swan-Davis‚ Inc. Bond and Stock Valuation Swan-Davis‚ Inc. (SDI) manufactures equipment for sale to large contractors. The company was founded in 1976 by Tom Stone‚ the current chairman‚ and it went public in 1980 at $1 per share. The stock currently sells for $15‚ Stone owns 14 percent of the shares‚ and other officers and directors control another 13 percent. The industry is cyclical‚ and competition is strong‚ so profits are some-what unstable. Tables 1‚ 2‚ and 3 provide historical
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Apple Inc. 2010 Apple’s Competitive Advantages Apple was the first company that launched computers for personal use but by 2010 the company viewed itself as mobile device company. The competitive advantages for Apple throughout history have been ease of use‚ industrial design and technical elegance. Apple designed its products from scratch using chips‚ disk drives and monitors. For instance the iMac that came out in august 1998 was available to buy with colorful translucent cases with an eggshell
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The automotive industry is compassed to six different manufacturers‚ General Motors‚ Ford‚ Toyota‚ Honda‚ Volkswagen and DaimlerChrylser. All six of these companies operate in the global competitive market place. Globalization in the automotive industry has moved fast or accelerated during the late 1990’s‚ because of the building of the important overseas companies and all the mergers between the companies. The specialists would to have indicated that the expansion of the foreign commerce in the
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