Nike‚ Inc.: Cost of Capital EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Kimi Ford‚ a portfolio manager of North Point Group a large mutual fund management firm‚ is looking into the viability of investing in the stocks of Nike for the fund that she manages. Ford should base her decision on data on the company which were disclosed in the 2001 fiscal reports. While Nike management addressed several issues that are causing the decrease in market sales and prices of stocks‚ management presented its plans to improve and
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Globalization and Nike‚ Inc. Industry Overview The athletic footwear industry has experienced significant growth over the last two decades. Since 2001‚ consumers in the United States have spent more than $13 billion and have purchased over 300 million pair of athletic shoes. While the industry is highly segmented by sport category‚ models and price‚ a few large players dominate the branded shoe segment. The top ten-footwear companies control over 70 percent of the market share for global athletic
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Nike hit the ground running in 1962. Originally known as Blue Ribbon Sports‚ the company focused on providing high-quality running shoes designed especially for athletes by athletes. Founder Philip Knight believed that high-tech shoes for runners could be manufactured at competitive prices if imported from abroad. The company’s commitment to designing innovative footwear for serious athletes helped it build a cult following among American consumers. By 1980‚ Nike had become the number-one athletic
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MARKETING EXCELLENCE- NIKE The case explains how Nike successfully marketed it products by getting it endorsed through top athletes‚ who influence the buying decision of brands and products of others and created its brand image by associating the products with their persona. By signing the Michael Jordan and relating it air Jordan shoes to his superior performance ‚it generated great revenues in a year alone‚ and its “just do it” ad campaign manifested brand’s attitude of self-empowerment through
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NIKE ANALYSIS The Weight Average Cost of Capital (WACC) is the firm’s cost of capital. We can think of WACC as an average representing the expected return on all of the companies’ securities. It is an extremely important number for both corporations and usually financials advisors. Corporations use this number as a minimum for evaluating their capital projects or investments. So if for example the WACC of a firm is 10% and the return on investing in a project is 4.5%‚ then the company would not
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techniques of saving on capex produced a number of levers for controlling and optimizing capex dedicated to 3G networks. • Differentiated capacity margins and dynamic capacity allocations‚ for instance‚ drive forward efficiencies in the capacity delivery process‚ and as a result curb 3G capex. • Converged or heterogeneous architectures empowered by cloud-based services and dynamic pricing produce capex synergies‚ maximize the monetization of the available capacity and thus generate further savings. Inquire
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Future Land Use Classification Coding Scheme/Color Scheme MetroGIS Future Land Use Organization Team Last Updated May 23‚ 2000 8000 Color Scheme 10 Regional Alpha Land Use Level 1 Field AG 1000 LBCS 11 LUG Numeric Land Use Level 2 Field LBCS Land Use Level 3 Field (Activity) Regional Numeric Land Use Level 1 Field Land Use Coding Name LUG Alpha Land Use Level 2 Field RES LBCS Land Use Level 3 Field (Activity) Agricultural
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Owned and operated by the Villa Group‚ VTV is the Maldives’ first private satellite television broadcaster. Launched on 05 September 2008 (in the holy month of Ramadhan)‚ the station beams a single encrypted channel via the Thaicom 5 satellite and offers a range of news and entertainment programmes in Dhivehi‚ the Maldivian national language. The station is a state-of-the-art facility featuring an all-digital tapeless workflow for ingest‚ post-production‚ storage and transmission with full station
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SWEATSHOPS: UNLOCKING THE POWER OF POVERTY Introduction How should Global Corporations behave in a period of Globalisation filled with International competitors and cheap imitators? It has been argued that such competitive pressure is likely to create new lows in global labour standards. In an attempt to remain competitive‚ Corporations cut costs by paying lower wages‚ hiring child labour‚ and imposing unsanitary working conditions on their workers. From this perspective‚ globalization is
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Case Study: Baria Planning Solutions‚ Inc. Case Overview Baria Planning Solutions (BPS)‚ Inc. was founded in 1997 and is a publically traded firm with $95 million in annual sales. BPS helps its customers reduce procurement costs and improve the performance of their suppliers. BPS uses a combination of software‚ data analysis‚ project management and consulting to scrutinize its customers’ spending categories‚ identify sources of potential savings through initiatives such as supplier consolidation
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