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    Abstract Kmart a long standing discount retailer and Sears have merged to make up Sears Holdings Corporation. As the two struggling retailers combine forces‚ it will allow for both companies‚ now working as one to reemerge bigger and better than ever. Now they are in the process of restructuring their management structure‚ to hopefully be able to locate where their areas of weakness are. K-mart‚ one of the leaders in department stores‚ has been around for over 100 years. Although the company

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    Swot Analysis Of Sears

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    Strengths The company Sears belongs to the parent company‚ Sears Holdings Corporation who is also the parent company of Kmart Holding Corporation and Roebuck and Co. The company was founded in 1886‚ making it one of the oldest retail companies to exist. The locations Sears operates are in the United States as well as parts of Canada and Mexico. As stated in the 10-K form by sec.gov: “Full-line Stores—894 broad line stores‚ of which 842 are full-line stores located across all 50 states and Puerto

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    Swot Analysis Of Sears

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    2009 ANNUAL REPORT Sears Canada Inc. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 2 5 6 7 9 52 53 54 55 Financial Highlights/Common Share Market Information Letter to Our Shareholders Letter from the Chief Financial Officer Eleven Year Summary Quarterly Summary Management’s Discussion and Analysis Management’s Responsibility for Financial Statements Auditors’ Report Consolidated Statements of Financial Position Consolidated Statements of Earnings and Comprehensive Income / Consolidated Statements of Retained Earnings

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    Why Can ’t Kmart Be Successful While Target and Walmart Thrive? What drives some companies to succeed while others languish? Successful companies develop a system of a few truly unique capabilities that help them create differentiated value for their chosen customers. Retailers provide many case studies in capabilities-driven success‚ one of the most compelling of which is the big discounter triad of Walmart‚ Target and Kmart. And in this fourth-quarter retail season‚ we thought it would be

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    sears analysis

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    Business and Industry Analysis Business Analysis Sears Roebuck & Co.‚ founded by R. W. Sears in 1886‚ is a multi-line retailer that offers a variety of merchandise and related services. It operates primarily in the United States‚ Puerto Rico‚ and Canada. Sears‚ Roebuck‚ & Co. is ranked fifth in 3 the retail market‚ behind: Wal-mart Stores Inc.‚ Target Corp.‚ Kohl’s Corp‚ and JC Penney Company Inc. In 2003‚ the company was divided into three domestic segments: Retail and Related Services‚ Credit

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    INTRODUCTION: Kmart is the #3 discount retailer in the US‚ behind Wal-Mart and Target. It sells name-brand and private-label goods (including its Joe Boxer and Jaclyn Smith labels)‚ mostly to low- and mid-income families. It runs more than 1‚200 off-mall stores (including 25 Super Centers) in 49 US states‚ Puerto Rico‚ Guam‚ and the US Virgin Islands. About 270 Kmart stores sell home appliances (including Sears’ Kenmore brand) and some 895 locations house in-store pharmacies. Poor sales have forced

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    Sears analysis

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    Rescue Sears Background summary: Sears is one of the largest retail stores in the US and has a wide range of subsidiaries. It established major national brands‚ such as Kenmore‚ Craftsman‚ Lands End‚ and DieHard which are all highly valued. After it merged with Kmart in 2005‚ the company began renovating some Kmart stores and converting them to the Sears format. Its current products are diverse‚ including household hardware‚ home appliances‚ electronics‚ clothing‚ office supplies‚ etc. Sears‚ like

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    Sears

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    SEAR ROEBUCKS SWOT ANALYSIS Author Diane Hughes SEARS HISTORY Richard Sears was agent of the Minneapolis andSt. Louis railway station. He sold lumber and coal to local residents in his spare time. When he received a shipment of unwanted watches he purchased himself and began selling them at a good profit to other station agent up and down the line. In 1886 Sears began the R.W. Sears Watch Company. In 1887 he moved the business to Chicago and put an adin the local paper for a Watchman

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    Sears Holdings Analysis

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    | Sears Holding Company | Individual Paper | | Gregory A. Squires | 10/15/2010 | | Contents HISTORY 4 Vision Statement 10 Mission Statement 12 Key Leaders 16 Organizational Culture 20 Organizational Structure 23 NAICS/SIC Codes 26 General Environmental Forces 28 Porter’s Five-Forces Model 35 Key Competitors 40 Competitive Profile Matrix 43 General Discussion on Stakeholders 46 Top 70 Stakeholders 47 Nutt&Backoff Model 53 Finn stakeholder Model

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    Sears Company Analysis

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    1 I. Executive Summary Sears began as a small retailer but as the years have gone by‚ they have become the second largest retailer of the national chains. In the environmental analysis you will discover that Sears’ marketing toward women differentiated them from their competitor’s and increased their sales as well as their market share. They have had many social/cultural problems that they have had to overcome‚ such as problems with stakeholders. There has also been a change in the company

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