CVS Caremark recently announced that it will discontinue the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products. CVS Caremark is a well-known pharmaceutical chain whose primary focus is a reinventing pharmacy to help people on their path to better health. The news comes as a shock to many of its consumers with plans to affect 7‚600 stores by October 2014. Not only is this going to affect tobacco users it will ultimately cause the company to lose approximately 2 billion dollars in annual revenue. I will
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Republic of Vardar Revenue forecasts: Expected Tax Collections PAD 505 June 8‚ 2012 Abstract At independence in November 1991‚ the Republic of Vardar (named after the Vardar River Valley) was the least developed of the Yugoslav republics. Although the poorest of the six former Yugoslav republics‚ the country nevertheless can sustain itself in food and energy needs using its own agricultural and coal resources. From 1998 to 2000 real GDP growth averaged a little
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A Foray into Indian FMCG Industry Wrote by : Saraswat Bhattacharya MBA 090093 Amrita school of business 1. What is FMCG? Products which have a quick turnover‚ and relatively low cost are known as Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG). FMCG products are those that get replaced within a year. These include a wide range of frequently purchased consumer products such as toiletries‚ soap‚ cosmetics‚ tooth cleaning products‚ shaving products and detergents‚ as well as other nondurables such as glassware
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----------------------------------- Jul 23‚ 2006 Industry Report of the FMCG sector profiling P&G‚UL‚KMN‚ ----------------------------------- Financial Statement Analysis In the healthy and growth inducing economic scenario of the 2000’s‚ P&G has seen double digit revenues growth to around $56b in 2005. Keeping its costs low has seen it achieve healthy profit margins of around 11% - 12%. Refer Table 1. Table 1 Margins P&G (in %) 2003 2004 2005 Gross Margin 49 51
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Promotion Mix • Personal Selling‚ Product‚ Sales Promotion The promotion mix was great going into the 21st century. There is not much personal selling in Krispy Kreme. Instead‚ customers come in with the brand awareness of the doughnuts. The store emphasizes its original glazed doughnuts but other than that not much personal selling goes on. Product giveaways are held at grand openings to improve knowledge of Krispy Kreme products. On certain occasions Krispy Kreme sells a special flavored doughnut
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behavior towards the new packaging of FMCG products. The importance of packaging design as a vehicle for communication and branding is growing in competitive markets for packaged FMCG products. This research utilized a focus group methodology to understand consumer behavior toward such products. The challenge for researchers is to integrate packaging into an effective purchasing decision model‚ by understanding Consumer’s behavior towards the packaging of FMCG products. When consumers search for and process
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Case Forecasting Beer Demand at Anadolu Efes Murat Köksalan Department of Industrial Engineering‚ Middle East Technical University‚ Ankara 06531‚ Turkey koksalan@ie.metu.edu.tr Selin Özpeynirci ˙ ˙ Department of Industrial Systems Engineering‚ Izmir University of Economics‚ Izmir 35330‚ Turkey‚ selin.ozpeynirci@ieu.edu.tr Haldun Süral Department of Industrial Engineering‚ Middle East Technical University‚ Ankara 06531‚ Turkey sural@ie.metu.edu.tr Key words: forecasting; regression
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TYPES OF FORECASTING METHODS Qualitative methods: These types of forecasting methods are based on judgments or opinions‚ and are subjective in nature. They do not rely on any mathematical computations. Quantitative methods: These types of forecasting methods are based on quantitative models‚ and are objective in nature. They rely heavily on mathematical computations. QUALITATIVE FORECASTING METHODS Qualitative Methods Executive Opinion Market Research Delphi
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OVERVIEW OF FMCG SECTOR IN INDIA A Supply Chain is a network of facilities and distribution options that performs the function of procurement of materials transformation of these materials into intermediate and finished products and the distribution of these finished products to customers. It is the process used by the companies to ensure that their supply chain is efficient and cost effective. It also basically a collection steps which a company follows to transform raw materials into finished
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Competitive Model for FMCG Industry: 1. Rivalry among Competing Firms: In the FMCG Industry‚ rivalry among competitors is very fierce. There are scarce customers because the industry is highly saturated and the competitors try to snatch their share of market. Market Players use all sorts of tactics and activities from intensive advertisement campaigns to promotional stuff and price wars etc. Hence the intensity of rivalry is very high. 2. Potential Entry of New Competitors: FMCG Industry does not
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