Ducati & TPG – A “Wild Ride” LBO Case Study December‚ 2010 Q1. The nature of the opportunity and the question of brand expansion 1.1 The situation of the target firm Positives: (1) The Ducati brand was world famous;(2) The product was great in terms of technology and quality and it had won the 1990‚ 1991‚ 1992‚ 1994‚ and 1995 World Superbike championships against strong competition;(3) Ducati’s product family was broad offering 15 models in four families based on seven different engines;(4)
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Global Cosmetics Industry The cosmetics industry represents one of the most profitable and fast growing market segments in the United States in the past 50 years with cumulative sales of over $32 billion in 2005. The top players in the industry are L’Oreal followed by Procter & Gamble‚ Unilever‚ Shiseido‚ Johnson & Johnson‚ Avon‚ Revlon‚ Estee Lauder‚ Coty Inc‚ and Elizabeth Arden. The industry product categories are identified as cosmetics‚ hair care‚ skin care‚ sun care and perfume‚ which are
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Jennifer Obrien Date: 11/ April 11‚ 2013 Abstract Inexpensive‚ affordable food is a person’s wants. If find some ways to solve this problem‚ keep food quality and price. So‚ in this paper discuss the solution of how to strike a balance between inexpensive‚ affordable food and healthy‚ quality food. Firstly‚ according to international trade‚ people can import some healthy food from other country‚ which place has lower labor. So‚ people can control the
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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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Hurry Date‚ a small & privately owned company‚ is one of the America’s leading provider of speed dating with a strong brand recognition. It’s an online version of traditional round-robin speed dating. It operates a website HurryDate.com to screen singles looking to mingle. The range of service it provides are‚ online match-making‚ personal browsing and event hosting. It does this by hosting round-robin meeting event for potentials dating candidates. This is where they make money by charging
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MapReduce is a widely used parallel computing framework for large scale data processing. The two major performance metrics in MapReduce are job execution time and cluster throughput. They can be seriously impacted by straggler machines— machines on which tasks take an unusually long time to finish. Speculative execution is a common approach for dealing with the straggler problem by simply backing up those slow running tasks on alternative machines. Multiple speculative execution strategies have been
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Airbnb offers free rentals to the victims of hurricane Matthew The government ordered millions of residents in the southeastern U.S to vacate their places due to the dangerous hurricane have approached the city. The home sharing platform‚ Airbnb has decided to help the people whose houses were affected by the dangerous storm. Hurricane Matthew moved to Florida’ east cost before affecting the regions of Georgia and South California. Though the storm has weekend‚ the impacts it created takes days to
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Coursework Assessment One Individual Case Study “Loreal” Dubai Campus 2013/14 Name: Chelsea Tina Potgieter Student Number: M00369950 Module Number & Title: MKT3130 International Marketing Module Leader: Dr. Alun Epps Seminar day: Wednesday; 17:00 pm Assessment ONE: Individual Case Study Report (40%) Thurs 20th February 2014 4:00pm Each student will be provided with a case study and will be required to write a report on the case study based on three questions.
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ronGreg Newman ACC 707 Jones Ironworks 1) I agree with Freddie. The payment system would be more effective as a piece rate. This should effectively increase the employees’ incentive to produce efficiently. The piece rate will encourage higher production. It will benefit employees for them to know that if they work harder‚ they will get more money. Under the other system‚ they could work inefficiently and get paid the same amount as someone who was working much more efficiently. This encourages
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Case summary Alfin Fragrance Inc. was a US based importer and marketer of high end French perfumes and cosmetics. The company was going to introduce an industry breakthrough product – Glycel‚ which was acted like an anti aging crème. The product would be demonstrated and sold at the best departmental and Glycel was expected to provide Alfin Fragrance a fortune as an annual sales of $ 30 million was expected in 1987. The industry observers speculated that Alfin Fragrance needs some external financing
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