3/12/15 Dollar General Jacky Akpan Taha Kermalli Allison Schumacher Anlin Wang 1 Dollar General‚ 2007 ● Quality consumer goods in select categories ● Focused inventory on fastest-turning SKU’s ● Targeted demographics ignored by Walmart Store Dollar General Walmart Square Feet 6‚900 100‚000 SKU’s 4‚900 75‚000+ ~20‚000 or less 50‚000+ Surrounding Populations 2 1 3/12/15 Pricing and Brands ● 30% of products priced at $1 or less ● Majority of products under $10 Brands Name Brands
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Memo To: Management From: Date: [ 11/10/2010 ] Re: Competitive strategy Confidential Over the last several years Dollar General has seen great success with the strategies currently in place. With potential changes in the economy and some situations presently in the company Dollar General must plan for the future. This memo was put together to identify our strengths and weakness‚ analysis the external factors of the company‚ and find options for the future. The options of where to invest
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Valuation and Analysis of Dollar General Table of Contents Executive Summary……………………………………………………1 Overview of Dollar General…………………………………………6 Five Forces Model..............................................………..9 Rivalry among Existing Firms................................9 Industry Growth………………………………………….10 Concentration………………………………………….….10 Differentiation and Switching costs……………………13 Scale Economies and Fixed/Variable Costs…………..13 Excess Capacity and Exit Barriers………………………14 Threat
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successful retailers in America is the small town oriented Dollar General Store. The value and convenience offered by Dollar General Store focuses mostly on low‚ middle and fixed income families in rural areas that are not normally served by larger retailers. The current programs used by Dollar General Store helps to bring the consumable basics to their customers at a low price. Dollar General Store Introduction The mission of Dollar General Store to their “customers is a better life”‚ their
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Dollar General Case 1. Consider the $13.4 million of freight costs. What is the correct (GAAP) method of accounting for these? How did Dollar General in fact originally account for these costs? (Include in your answer a table of the effects on income in any years affected‚ both before and after tax‚ of the correct accounting and the accounting they originally used. The correct GAAP method to account for freight costs is as an expense of Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) that occur at the time
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team. In many cases‚ shareholders and board members receive very rewarding financial benefits from this transaction. However‚ in some situations‚ public firms do not have a choice in the matter‚ as is the case in a “hostile takeover”. In assessing Dollar General’s performance‚ we first must conduct an internal comparison‚ in which the Statement of Income shows both production and period cost had increased greatly which resulted in lower income; meanwhile‚ Ratio Analysis also points out relatively
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Porter proposed a general- purpose value chain that companies use to examine all of their activities‚ and show how they are connected. Value chain depicts the activities within and around an organization and relates them to an analysis of the competitive strength of the organization. It evaluates which value each particular activity adds to the organizations products or services. The way the value chain is performed determines costs and affects profit. Porter’s value chain was divided into primary
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Value Chain Analysis-Costco Corporation Brief on the Organization Costco is among the leading global retailers which provide customers a wide range of merchandise‚ ranging from small to well-known brands. The company began operations in 1983. Over the years‚ Costco has been a retailer in low cost membership-only leader‚ in warehouse club of merchandise. Moreover‚ Costco does not offer frills warehouse business models as its competitors do. Costco’s major competitors
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Value Chain as a Company Strategy Introduction Now a day‚ many companies are trying to improve their value chain in order to use the value chain as a strategy in the manner of meeting the customers need and satisfaction. One of the strategies they are using with value chain is to gain competitive advantages for rival among their competitors. Value chain actually can discover and fulfil what customers want and the identification of customer needs will hence become one of the ways to surpass their
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considering the chain of activities a firm performs to deliver value to its customers. The value chain model divides the generic value-adding activities of an organization into primary and secondary activities. An advantage or disadvantage can occur within any of the five primary or four secondary activities. Together‚ these activities constitute the value chain of any firm. The model can be used to examine the development of competitive advantage. By identifying the potential value to the company
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