Home Depot Questions for Case Discussion 1. Look at page 16 of the case (Selected Financial Data). Note that fiscal 1985 ends on February 2‚ 1986 (there is a typo on this page; the far left numbers column should be February 2‚ 1986 instead of February 2‚ 1985). Evaluate Home Depot ’s performance in the following areas: • Growth in Sales • Growth in Total Assets • Change in Net Income • Growth in Long-term Debt 2. Look at page 17 of the case (Management Discussion). Compare 1985 to 1983
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supply business and home service business 4. Cutting labor costs by doubling the number of part-time workers Weakness: 1. The large number of part-time workers can decrease the quality of products. Workers won’t work so hard. 2. Selling wholesale distribution channels makes it loss the wholesale customers. 3. The customer satisfaction decreased‚ because the store is not that modern 4. The huge debt ratio from 10% to 47% Opportunity: 1. Acquiring the Chinese home-improvement retailer
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retail store or online when it comes to buying any item and spending money. Unfornately Best Buy has seen a decline in sales because they have to major rivals one being Walmart a known store for having low prices everyday and Amazon an online store whose revenue is extremely higher than Best Buy. As far as the Porter’s Five Forces the threat of internal rivalry is high because Amazon makes just as much as Best Buy in revenues with 1/3 of its employees and online shopping benefit and they also have
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The Home Depot 2008 Annual Report Dear Shareholders: In 2008‚ our retail sales declined by 7.8 percent‚ with comp sales down 8.7 percent. Our adjusted earnings per share from continuing operations declined 22 percent. In ordinary times‚ these would be very disappointing results. But 2008 was not an ordinary year. Despite the difficult economic environment‚ we continued to improve our retail business‚ through investing in our associates and our stores‚ rebuilding our supply chain and
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Home Depot STRENGTHS - Strong market position - Higher returns than competitors - Balanced brand mix - WEAKNESSES Sub optimal capital structure - Product recall OPPORTUNITIES - International presence - Growing popularity of power tools - Increasing online sales THREATS - Intense competition - Slowdown in US housing market - Rising labor wages in the US |The Home Depot Inc. (HD)
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11‚ 2009 Best Buy Case Analysis Executive Summary Best Buy Co.‚ Inc. has been in operations since 1966‚ they are based out of Minneapolis MN. They have continues to grow steadily over time through innovations. They have become customer-driven by enhancing customer enjoyment of technology. They operate over 940 retail stores across the United States and Canada. The first store in Mexico just opened up in 2009 and they are presently looking into Turkey in the near future. Best Buys current marketing
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Employee involvement is often identified as a key contributor to high performance work systems. Explain why employee involvement is so important. Use theory and examples to support your answer. Companies nowadays need to turn to various methods in shaping their competitive strategy in order to stay competitive and achieve bottom line. The focus on best allocation of human‚ technological and material resources is critical to organisational performance. Theorists often consider people factor as the
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piece of work determines aspects of employee involvement systems and seeks to analyse whether they are likely to enhance productivity and to lead to a happier workforce. The first two parts examine due to which circumstances the principle of em-ployee involvement aroused in the HRM literature and why it is seen as help-ful to lead to greater productivity and a happier workforce and why not. The third part points out some conditions for a succeeding employee involve-ment program and the fourth
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leaders‚ Home Depot and Lowe’s. In an effort to increase their top and bottom-lines‚ Home Depot and Lowe’s have implemented strategies like improving customer service‚ attracting professional customers‚ and introducing a more favorable merchandise mix. Combined sales from the two companies accounted for more than a third of the industry’s sales. In the mean time‚ smaller hardware stores struggled to remain in the game. Galeotafiore reports shows confidence in the methods Home Depot deployed
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Best Buy: Case Study Analysis Company site: www.bestbuy.com Stats: Approximately 180‚000 employees‚ 1‚172 stores‚ $35.9 billion revenue Industry: Electronics/Appliances About Best Buy: “Best Buy began as a small specialty audio retailer in 1966. Today the company is the world’s largest consumer electronics dealer. While many factors contributed to Best Buy’s success‚ one of the most important is its focus on understanding consumer behavior. Best Buy has used consumer research to
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