Astor Lodge & Suites‚ Inc. is a hotel chain founded in 1979. The company operates 200 Astor Lodge properties and 50 Astor Lodge & Suites properties with locations in 10 western and Rocky Mountain states. The company focus on the business travelers as their target market‚ and try to provide clean and comfortable rooms at reasonable price for all customers. The company’s executives decided to position Astor Lodge & Suites‚ Inc. as a limited-service hotel‚ which places the company between midscale hotels
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Study Case Wal*mart Stores‚ Inc 1. Sources of Wal*Mart’s competitive advantages in discount retailing After a detailed analysis of Wal*Mart’s main departments it is obvious that they have many competitive advantages in comparison with their business rivals. Wal*Mart has developed to a leading and fast growing company with a huge market value of $ 57.5 billion. Their average 20 year return on equity is 33% and their compound average sales growth amounts to 35%. Sales per foot² is nearly $ 300
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INTRODUCTION Coach‚ Inc. is a designer‚ producer‚ and marketer of a prestige line of handbags‚ briefcases‚ luggage‚ and accessories. The company made its reputation selling sturdy leather purses in unchanging‚ traditional‚ classic styles‚ and it remains one of the best-known leather brands in the United States and has a growing reputation overseas. In addition to its main product line‚ the company offers Coach brand watches‚ footwear‚ and home and office furniture through agreements with licensing
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Written Assignment: Annie’s Growing Organically Annie’s Inc. is a rapidly growing natural and organic food company who wants to enter a new category by introducing frozen food to their product line. The first product they will launch in this category will be frozen pizza and they need to make several marketing decisions around this. One important decision is deciding the target market for the new product so all the advertising efforts and other marketing mix decisions will be towards attracting
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Motorola Inc. case précis Restatement of the case Motorola was one of the few American companies that marketed a wide range of electronic products‚ form highly sophisticated integrated circuits to consumer electronic products. The company was organized along product and technology lines. To exploit fully the growing demand for semicustom integrated circuits‚ Motorola organized the Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) Division in 1984. The division was organized along functional lines
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Grafica Inc.: Winning the New Jersey Lottery Designing and Managing Integrated Marketing Communications 14/12/2011 Marketing Submitted By Group-4‚ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Grafica Inc. was an advertising firm started my Ms Debra Taeschler in 1986 with her colleague‚ working in Landmark Associates and her husband John Taeschler. By 1998 Grafica had grown in full-service advertising agency. It was located in Chester New Jersey and it was particularly well-known for its expertise in integrated
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CASE CONTEXT New World Chemicals‚ Inc. (NWC) hired Sue Wilson as its new financial manager and consequently‚ Ms. Wilson has to produce a sound financial forecast for the company. PROBLEM DEFINITION In producing the financial forecast for NWC‚ Ms. Wilson has to determine the following: Additional funds needed (AFN) Free cash flow In relation to the above‚ Ms. Wilson has to consider effects on the following items: Operational capacity against sales projections Assumptions in receivables
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II. BUSINESS CONCEPT OVERVIEW Ember Innovatives Inc. desires to provide a product that can promote its use as an aid of hygiene. The company proposes a unique product‚ which is a hand sanitizer that has coffee extract as one of its key ingredients.‚ In the process of coffee extraction‚ extraction‚ in the context of brewing coffee‚ is the bringing out of microscopic particles from coffee grounds into water (Scott‚ 2015). The product is named the Kapetizer‚ in which its name is derived from the words
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Nike Inc. Case 1. What is the WACC and why is it important to estimate a firm’s cost of capital? WACC is weighted average cost of capital‚ which is the expected rate of return on average from all the company’s existing debts and securities. It takes into account all different types of financing in the company’s capital structure. The reason it is important to estimate WACC is because it measures what it costs the firm to take on a project based on its current Debt and Equity mix. When the
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