Case #33 California Pizza Kitchen Synopsis and Objectives This case examines the question of financial leverage at California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) in July 2007. With a highly profitable business and an aversion to debt‚ CPK management is considering a debt-financed stock buyback program. The case is intended to provide an introduction to the Modigliani-Miller capital structure irrelevance propositions and the concept of debt tax shields. With the background of a pizza company‚ the case provides
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«For and against the Italian government interventing in the pasta market to try to reduce pasta prices». First of all‚ to make it clear for the further writing‚ monopoly is a market structure dominated by a single seller of a good‚ and subsidies are the payments by government to producers to encourage production of good and services. In order to protect the interests of consumers‚ the government can regulate the monopoly power of the firms in a free market‚ as this power enables firms to
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NESTLÉ CONFECTIONARY — INTERNSHIP REPORT BACKGROUND OF HOST ORGANIZATION EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This is an internship report regarding the Confectionary Products of Nestlé including Kit Kat‚ Polo and fox Candies. It starts with an introduction about Nestlé followed by the history of Nestlé. It gives a briefing about all the brands of Nestlé. This report also includes the market mix of the product. All the 4P’s of marketing mix for the product has been discussed and explained to reveal the significance
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Preparatory Questions for California Pizza Kitchen 1. In what ways can Susan Collins facilitate the cusses of CPK? 2. Using the scenarios in case Exhibit 9‚ what roles does leverage play in affecting the return on equity (ROE) for CPK? What about the cost of capital? a. Leverage increases Beta for the firm since debt to equity ratio increases from unlevered beta. We use 10 year Treasury bond as our risk free rate and for market risk premium we use current prime lending rate for June 2007
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Nestle is one of the world’s largest global food companies. It has over 500 factories in over 70 countries‚ and sells its products in approximately 200 nations. Only 1% of sales and 3% of employees are located in its home country‚ Switzerland. Having reached the limits of growth and profitable penetration in most Western markets‚ Nestle turned its attention to emerging markets in Eastern Europe‚ Asia‚ and Latin America for growth. Many of these countries are relatively poor‚ but the economies are
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CiCi’s Pizza Table of Contents Introduction 3 Background 3 Purpose of Study 4 Environmental Analysis 4 SWOT 4 Competition 5 Market Analysis 6 Customer Analysis 7 Supply Chain Activities 7 Recommendations 12 Conclusion 12 References 14 Introduction “Hi‚ welcome to CiCi’s!” This is the warm greeting that every CiCi’s employee will welcome every customer with when they walk through the door. This warm welcome is just one of the many things that CiCi’s does to exceed the customer service
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channels and the sales force. The company in discussion here is Nestlé UK and the product for narrow research is Nestlé’s own most successful brand “Kit Kat”. Nestlé homes itself in Switzerland since 1867 today is one of the world’s most successful organisation in the FMCG category. (www.total-logistics.eu.com‚ accessed 08 August 2010) It started its UK activities around 100years before and started their own manufacturing unit. Today Nestlé has 8 manufacturing plants in UK with two head offices in Croydon
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Marketing Strategies of Greenwich Pizza Corporation Greenwich Pizza is one true Filipino pizza chain – a small entrepreneurship that made an extraordinary leap to the big league. What started out as a small over-the-counter pizza store in the Greenhills Commercial Center in 1971‚ is now the Philippines’ biggest pizza chain. STRONGER BRAND IMAGE Greenwich re-invents itself more with a more dynamic “G” logo to attract more customers. This brand look is also an indication of how attuned the company
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Nestlé - The Employment Relationship TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction 2 What is the employment relationship? 3 The importance of the employment relationship 4 Changes affecting the employment relationship 4.1 HRM vs. IR (Pluralist vs. Unitarist) 4.2 Globalization 4.3 Advances in Technology 4.4 Diverse Workforce 4.5 Restructuring and the Decline of manufacturing 4.6 Trade unions decline and marginalization 4.7
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For Yum Yum Pizza Group Group Members: CHIU Chi Cheong‚ Ricky CHOI Kam Tong‚ Danny CHUNG King‚ Carmen FONG Luk Chi‚ Brian LEE Lai Fun‚ Fanny Wong Ming Chung‚ Victor DQM03I2-004 DQM03I3-004 DQM03I3-021 DQM03I3-008 DQM03I3-022 DQM03I3-018 Report of SiX Sigma Project‚ Yum Yum Pizza Group Page 1 of 23 Contents 1. Introduction 2. Define Phase 3. Measure Phase 4. Analysis Phase 5. Improve Phase 6. Control Phase 7. Conclusion Report of SiX Sigma Project‚ Yum Yum Pizza Group Page
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