Feedback notes on the Gucci case study Question 1: What are the unique features of a luxury goods supply chain in terms of demand characteristics? Product design and innovation drives demand Low visibility of future demand leads to order based rather than forecast based replenishment High value & margin products High level of new product introduction Short campaign cycles with high level of new product introduction Question 2: Analysing Gucci’s Supply Strategy Gucci supply strategy is focused
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making about to raise capital for further growth and recapitalize the ownership structure of TRX thorough Initial Public Offering. The analysis is examined from two scenarios. One is that TRX keep on IPO at lower price of $9 per share; another is that it postpones the IPO in 2006. I would project the IPO price of 2005 and 2006‚ respectively based on the management plan. According to the TRX’s balance sheet and financial data‚ TRX was a very young technology-integration company which founded in 1999
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Abstract Initial Public Offer (IPO) is one of the ways of raising capital for the companies which proposes to expand their operations or they want to start a new venture. As this is the effective way of getting funds from public for the first time for every company which wants to go public‚ that company has to follow a certain set of guidelines which we call as Disclosure and Investor Protection (DIP) guidelines. And the process of coming to IPO has been very important for the company‚
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1.0 Contingency theory Contingency theory contends managers should contingent upon various situational factors to adjust the management method promptly because the internal and external environments of organization are complex and change constantly. There is no the best method to leading and operating an organization (Donaldson‚ 2001‚). Contingency theory represents a major shift in leadership research from focusing only on the leader to considering the situational context. It is lesson has been
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increasing of rape‚ sexual harassment‚ and battery of women is also what the author narrates. Kilbourne points out that over the years men‚ children and especially girls of younger age are being sexualized in advertisements. With Calvin Klein and Prada billboard examples illustrating young girls close to nudity and toddlers in underwear‚ the author states that this advertising industry is making it more common and acceptable for the audience to spend on designer underwear while disregarding that
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Public Offer Initial public offer (IPO) as the name suggests refers to when a company goes public or issue shares of the company to the public in order to raise capital for the first time. After the IPO‚ the company gets listed and its shares are traded on stock exchange. Once it gets listed then the permission to trade these shares is granted by shareholders i.e. to whom the shares have been allotted in the IPO. There can be many reasons for bringing out an IPO. First‚ when the company issues new
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make public issues. An initial public offer (IPO) is the selling of securities to the public in the primary market by the unlisted companies either a fresh issue of securities or an offer for sale of existing securities are both for the first time to the public. The Indian IPO market is one of the promising markets for the investors. During the period 1993-94 to 2007-08 4‚538 companies had been raised Rs.1‚49‚671 crores from the primary market through IPOs. Every company requires short-as well as long-term
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Corporate Finance: Case Netscape 1. Why has Netscape been so successful to date? What is its strategy? How risky is its current competitive situation? Netscape follows a “give away today make money tomorrow”-strategy. Netscape currently has 75% of web browser market‚ making it by far the most popular browsing software. Netscape is making money by selling server software to companies that require marketing access to potential consumers‚ by selling its software packages and through providing
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managers lower down in the IPO book who were hoping for an early surge decide to get out before going underwater. Facebook on Friday sold 421 million shares of stock in a deal that valued the company at more than $100 billion. But investors‚ expecting a first-day pop in price‚ instead saw it close just 0.6 percent above the IPO price at $38.23. As the underwriter‚ Morgan Stanley (NYS:MS - News) stepped in to support Facebook ’s stock when it fell toward its $38 IPO price shortly after it opened
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Initial public offering (IPO): An initial public offering (IPO) is a type of public offering where shares of stock in a company are sold to the general public‚ on a securities exchange‚ for the first time. Through this process‚ a private company transforms into a public company. Initial public offerings are used by companies to raise expansion capital‚ to possibly monetize the investments of early private investors‚ and to become publicly traded enterprises. A company selling shares is never required
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