Study on the Competitiveness of the European Steel Sector Within the Framework Contract of Sectoral Competitiveness Studies – ENTR/06/054 Final report‚ August 2008 Client: Directorate-General Enterprise & Industry ECORYS SCS Group P.O. Box 4175 3006 AD Rotterdam Watermanweg 44 3067 GG Rotterdam The Netherlands T +31 (0)10 453 88 16 F +31 (0)10 453 07 68 E fwc-scs@ecorys.com W www.ecorys.com Registration no. 24316726 Table of contents Executive summary...........................
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Rogers Communications INC. Industry overview The Canadian cellular service’s industry is comprised of approximately 15 cellular providers. These operators employ approximately 16‚000 individuals and generate more than CAN$10B in revenues annually‚ which represents almost 30 percent of the Canadian telecommunications market. The Canadian wireless industry has been experiencing an annual growth rate three times that of any other Canadian telecommunications sector. This is very significant as
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SWOT analysis of Amazon.com‚ Inc. Brief overview of the company: Amazon.com‚ Inc. or www.amazon.com has a mission statement to be the most customer-centric or customer-oriented retailer on this planet‚ where people can browse and buy anything they want to buy online with prices as low as possible on the market. (About Amazon) They are one of the world’s most important online retailers and providers of web service. (Amazon.com Inc.) They offer a large-scale of products such as clothing
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Gap Inc. was founded in 1969 by Donald and Doris Fisher in San Francisco‚ California‚ with a single store and a handful of employees. Today‚ they’re one of the world’s largest specialty retailers with three of the most recognized and respected brands in the apparel industry - Gap‚ Banana Republic and Old Navy. Gap Inc. has more than 153‚000 employees supporting over 4‚200 stores in more than 3‚100 locations in the United States‚ United Kingdom‚ Canada‚ France‚ Japan and Germany. Their 2004 Sales
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"BE OUR GUEST‚ INC." Be Our Guest Inc.‚ a Boston based company‚ is a rapidly growing equipment rental company with substantial seasonality in its revenues and profits. In the spring of 1998‚ the senior management team is reviewing its financial plans in preparation for a meeting with the company’s bank. The case provides an opportunity to forecast financial needs and consider the appropriate structure and amount of bank borrowing. � For years the company has been renting party supplies and furniture
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· First Investments Inc. owned stock of Basic Industries (BI)‚ a diversified multinational corporation with major shares in various electrical related markets · The BI annual report of 1994 shows a decline in the return on owners’ equity (ROE) · Fred Aldrich‚ a trainee in First Investment‚ was asked to conduct a financial analysis on BI · Three years financial statements (1994‚ 1993 and 1985) and reported 10 year financial highlights (1985 to 1994) were available for the analysis
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process for account managers and specialists to work together to serve a client. "The place and time to use team-selling is when customer solutions is more important than price" (Dalrymple et al 2001). The Case Study Imaginative Staffing Inc. is a temporary services firm‚ formed in 1990. With $17 million in revenue; the CEO Angie Roberts is unhappy concerning the length of time to close a sale once a prospect has been identified. Roberts has found the average length of time to close a sale to a major
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Curled Metal Inc – Engineered Product Division Overview Cumberland Metal Industries (CMI) was a company which sold metal as raw material in other products. After the company had developed the product – Slip Seal that could meet the demanding specification of the automakers‚ it had grown rapidly over the past decade. The sales increased from $750‚000 in 1991 to over $55 million in 2007. However‚ the sales decreased from 61 million in 2006 to 55 million in 2007‚ a net decrease of 9.5%‚ the net
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marketing "MacGregor’s Tomatoes" Competitive advantage of being "closer" to mass marketing its tomato Success of industrial and edible oils and cotton seed divisions Bioengineering licensing agreements New "soft picking‚ packing‚ and shipping" methods Operating plants with new "soft" picking‚ packing‚ and shipping systems Weaknesses High costs associated with operating "soft" p/p/s systems Management inexperience with "commercializing" products developed by R&D Bioengineering
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Issue identified in the scenario that is also facing the company Apple Inc.‚ also known as Apple Computer Inc. before changed its name in the beginning of 2007‚ is an American consumer electronics corporation with worldwide annual sales in its fiscal year 2006 of US$19.3 billion (Edgar Online‚ 2006.) Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs out of Silicon Valley founded Apple Computer in the 1976 (Ehrenfried‚ 2004.) From the Apple II microcomputer introduced in 1977 to the Macintosh introduced in 1984‚ Apple
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