from Steve Jobs’ garage the company has had the capabilites to attract loyal customers who‚ with time‚ started loving their Macs instead of simply “putting up” with them. The company was able to establish a deep relationship between clients and the brand itself. Thus‚ the customers’ loyalty allowed Apple to sell its products at premium prices which resulted in a gross profit of 50%; therefore‚ the company was able to invest in R&D and develop interesting and unique products that made Apple what it
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Jones Distribution Case Finance Team -13 Executive Summary: The Company Jones Electrical Distribution was founded in 1997. The company distributes and wholesales electrical components. It is a sole proprietorship owned by Nelson Jones who is looking for a new banking relationship that will allow him to receive a larger loan to sustain his business. Even though the company has been turning in profits‚ the ineffective collection practice‚ not availing trade discounts on time and ineffective
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Case Study: British Telecom: Searching for a winning strategy Tuomo Summanen Michael Pollitt Judge Institute of Management November 2002 1. Introduction The development of the telecommunications market in the United Kingdom and the corporate strategy and development of the incumbent‚ British Telecom‚ represents an interesting object of analysis for several reasons. First‚ the UK telecommunications market was - along with the U.S. market - among the first telecommunications market that
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Brand Community Introduction During the last fifteen years‚ there are many popular subjects: relationship marketing and brand building‚etc.These hot subjects encourage interaction and speed up the incubation of new sources of disciplinary growth: Brand Relationship(the relationship between consumer and brand).In Brand Relationship theory sysytem‚more scholars focus on the relationship between consumer and brand‚ but Muniz and O’Guinn(2001) did more research on the relationship among consumers
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Reporting Income for Dot-Coms Priceline.com 1. Under the current system of accounting‚ the company would record revenues of $250 as they are the merchants to the transaction and $200 (80% of transaction value) as their cost of goods sold. 2. Alternatively‚ the company can net off the effect and show $50 (20% of transaction value) as their commission revenue. 3. If I were the CFO‚ I would recommend to opt for the first method of revenue recognition because it would show better
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inventory holding costs. Therefore‚ quantitative and qualitative analysis needs to be done to check the feasibility of having a common National Distribution Centre (NDC) or combining the demand of certain regions or products to have an optimized solution to minimize the total cost by trading off the increased distribution cost and warehouse cost with reduced inventory holding cost Calculating the annual inventory and distribution cost of the current distribution system: In the current system
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Pacific Brands is Australasia’s leading manufacturer and wholesaler of apparel and home and sporting consumer brands including Berlei‚ Bonds‚ Clarks‚ Dunlop‚ Everlast‚ Grosby‚ Holeproof‚ Hush Puppies‚ King Gee‚ Slazenger‚ Sleepmaker and Tontine. Pacific Brands has substantial scale with sale of $A1.5billion and 7000 employees‚ and was the second largest MBO completed in Australia at the time of completion. ‘Catalyst Investment Pty Ltd 2010 case study‚ Pacific Brands Nov 2001 to April 2004’ Globalisation
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Differential Evolution Algorithm for Solving Multi-Stages Assignment Problem: a case study of chicken transportation. I. Introduction The transportation in this case study is a chicken transportation from chicken farm to egg farm. There are 4 types of truck which are ten-wheel truck‚ eight-wheel truck‚ modified four-wheel truck and ordinary four-wheel truck. Each type of truck has different capacity moreover each hen’s farm has different in quantity supplied as same as each egg’s farm also have
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In this fast paced growing of technology and the intense level of people around the globe are using the internet‚ the social network has become an important part of everyone’s life. Since then‚ the movement of social network such as: Facebook‚ Twitter‚ Youtube etc. are fascinating and the entire modern business world seems in its rush. For that reason‚ I strongly encourage to take our business to the social network is necessary. According to CNN .com‚ the Facebook exceeded one billion active users
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Q-1 A surgeon wish to predict the live or death (status) of a CABG patient through their pulse rate‚ systolic blood pressure‚ sugar level‚ hemoglobin etc. He got the data from last 1600 surgeries held in a local hospital and applied an analysis. He got the following result Identification: It is binary logistic regression (LOIGT) Coding 0 = Death 1 = Alive The two post-operative status of the patients are death and alive coded by 0 and 1 respectively to use in binary logistic regression. Hosmer and
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