Executive summary The Ford Ka cannot be marketed to a specific demographic segment‚ as defined by traditional variables such as income‚ age‚ or marital status. Willingness to purchase the Ka was for the most part not dependent on membership in these traditional segments. Alternatively‚ we propose Ford develop a campaign toward a certain segment defined by attitudinal and psychographic variables. We plan to target this segment with tailored advertising campaigns addressing their unique worldview‚
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1. How would you evaluate the capital budgeting method used historically by AES? What’s good and bad about it? Historically‚ the AES capital budgeting method primarily used the following assumptions: • All nonrecourse debt was regarded as good • Dividend cash flow were considered equally risky • Project was evaluated by the equity discount rate for the dividends from the project • A 12% discount rate was applied to all projects. The historical method is quite simplistic
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Advanced Financial Management – Professor Dahiya 09/12/10 Case 1 We feel that General Foods Corporation ought to go ahead with the Super Project. While we feel the incremental costs approach lacks a certain degree of sufficiency in taking into account all overhead‚ we believe the $453‚000 cost of using the existing Jell-O facilities would have already been accounted for on the Jell-O balance sheet and thus is a non-factor in determining the profitability of the Super Project. Simply adding the
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APPEX CORPORATION Background Appex Corporation’s business is supplying management information systems and intercarrier network services to various cellular phone companies. In 1986‚ Appex entered this fast-growing market as a very small organization. Between 1986 and 1990‚ revenues grew 1600%. Similar growth was also seen inside the company as the number of employees rose from 26 to 180 between 1988 and 1990. Due to the relative youth of both cellular phone technology and Appex‚ the company
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$168 million of Restructuring and special charges in 1992 Stakeholders •Absolute vs Relative priority •Secured claims ($159 million) prefer a low a value •Senior unsecured claims ($88 million) •12.5% junior debtholders‚ 9% debtholders •Junior Debt: 12.5% & 9% Debt ($40 & 16 million) •vultures purchased $16 million at 80-85% off face value •equity: likely wiped out including ESOP •management •cramdown
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--------------------------------------------------Question 1--------------------------------------------------- Boston Beer‚ in response to consumers’ preference changes to more flavorful and bitter tasting brews‚ was founded in 1894. Boston Beer implements a “quality at any cost” strategy with a strong emphasis on product differentiation and implementing quality ingredients into its products. For instance‚ Boston Beer was the first company to employ a stamped freshness date on its bottles and ingredients
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Case Summary One: United Parcel Service Financial Statement Analysis Alexis Lusitana-Ruiz Point Loma Nazarene University Abstract “In July of 1999‚ United Parcel Service (UPS) surprised both Wall Street and Main Street with the announcement that‚ after more than 90 years as a private‚ employee-owned operation‚ it was planning an initial public offering that would transform “Big Brown” into a publicly traded company (Healy 2005)”. This paper reviews UPS against FedEx on financial statements‚ business
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Case 9 1) According to the financial statement and financial-ratio analysis of Horniman Horticulture‚ the revenue of this company kept growing from 788.5 thousand (in 2002) to 1048.8 thousand dollars(in 2005). In addition‚ the growth rate of revenue generally rose from 2.9% to 15.5%‚ even though the benchmark was only -1.8%. Moreover‚ in general‚ the margin‚ NFA turnover‚ ROA and ROC rose toward and above the benchmark from 2002 to 2005. To conclude‚ the profitability of Horniman Horticulture was
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an overview and summary analysis of RIM’s organizational strategy during those critical years when RIM went from dominant market leader to little more than an inconsequential player in the smartphone devices and mobile operating software systems markets. Your analysis should focus on the concepts from Chapter 5—e.g.‚ competitive advantage‚ strategy-making process‚ SWOT analysis‚ corporate‚ industry and firm-level strategies‚ Porter’s five industry forces‚ etc. Your analysis also should include‚ An
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This memo is aimed to evaluate the overall television industry today and to provide a brief overview of one of the industry leading players - Comcast Corporation’s current business situation‚ specifically‚ to examine its internal strengths and weaknesses as well as opportunities and threats in the external environment. More importantly‚ the key challenges that the company is currently facing and the potential solutions to theses problem will be discussed. The current U.S. broadcast and cable television
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