[Case Study: Darby Company Distribution System Design] Case Overview Darby Company‚ a producer of meters for measuring electric power consumption has expanded its business operations beyond their El Paso Plant in Texas towards the west coast and built a more cost efficient plant in San Bernardino (SanB)‚ California. The firm also opened a third Distribution Centre (DC) Las Vegas to better serve customers in the larger markets zones of California. The current network presents several constraints
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Thesis Framework On Pricing Strategies Under different market conditions BY:- Nishant Srivastava 2007MBA30 UNDER GUIDANCE OF:- DR. DEEPALI SINGH (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR) Department of Information Technology ABV-IIITM Introduction What is Pricing ? • Pricing is one of the four major elements of the marketing
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A Foray into Indian FMCG Industry Wrote by : Saraswat Bhattacharya MBA 090093 Amrita school of business 1. What is FMCG? Products which have a quick turnover‚ and relatively low cost are known as Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG). FMCG products are those that get replaced within a year. These include a wide range of frequently purchased consumer products such as toiletries‚ soap‚ cosmetics‚ tooth cleaning products‚ shaving products and detergents‚ as well as other nondurables such as glassware
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current ratio‚ the more capable the company is of paying its obligations. An acceptable current ratio varies by industry. Generally‚ the more liquid the current assets‚ the smaller the current ratio can be without cause for concern. For most companies‚ 1.5 is an acceptable current ratio. A ratio under 1 suggests that the company would be unable to pay off its obligations if they came due at that point. As the number approaches or falls below 1 (which means the company has a negative working capital)
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Current Trends: Challenges faced by FMCG supply chain in India * Several layers of intermediaries does not allow the supply chain to be cost effective and efficient. * Use of IT and other systems like ERP‚RFID is not very prevalent. * Complex tax structure: High Indirect tax‚ lack of uniformity‚ high octroi and changing tax policies result in escalating prices at every level of supply chain. * Poorly developed agricultural infrastructure. * High power cost * Lack of proper
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will no doubt help us to select the best companies but beta is one such parameter which can tell us about the returns with the volatility of a particular stock with respect to market. The concept of beta is actually very simple - it ’s a measure of individual stock risk relative to the overall stock market risk. Beta analysis can provide great insights into the movements of a particular stock relative to market movements Before investing in a company ’s stock‚ the beta analysis allows an investor
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FMCG firms in a fix over pricing strategy | | | | Some relief is on the way for fast-moving consumer goods( FMCG) companies‚ with prices of crude oil‚ wheat‚ milk and palm oil either on the decline or stabilising. Even as flexible packaging prices — which had become a new headache for FMCG companies — may come down on the back of stable crude oil prices‚ the verdict on production costs is still unclear. While palm oil prices have crashed by almost 40 per cent‚ wheat and milk rates are
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----------------------------------- Jul 23‚ 2006 Industry Report of the FMCG sector profiling P&G‚UL‚KMN‚ ----------------------------------- Financial Statement Analysis In the healthy and growth inducing economic scenario of the 2000’s‚ P&G has seen double digit revenues growth to around $56b in 2005. Keeping its costs low has seen it achieve healthy profit margins of around 11% - 12%. Refer Table 1. Table 1 Margins P&G (in %) 2003 2004 2005 Gross Margin 49 51
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31 THE RETAIL DISTRIBUTION CHANNEL C H A P T E R 2 Early in 2005‚ IBM Business Consulting Services released a survey that compiled in-depth interviews with more than 100 sales‚ marketing‚ and merchandising executives at over 20 consumer products and retail companies. Only 9 percent of the retailers felt their suppliers had “a good understanding” of their business objectives. The gist of the survey was that retailers felt the product manufacturers have focused their efforts on the end
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activities‚ of a competitor;”. Hence‚ disparaging Audi’s and Mercedes Logo is unlawful in nature. Additionally‚ Delhi High Court in the historical hearing of Reckitt & Coleman Of India Ltd. vs Kiwi T.T.K. Ltd. on 1 January‚ 1800 stated that “A company is not allowed to compare and show that other products are bad so as to promote their own products‚ thereby cannot defame other products.” A child in the navigator’s seat‚ racing in hilly terrian and smoking in public place with a child and showing
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