BA 555 Practical Business Analysis Group Project 2: Business Simulation **** Due: November 12‚ 2014 **** NAME Tailong Wu (Section 001) NAME Ling Yang (Section 002) NAME Daijie Qi (Section 002) 1. The file Group Project 2 Model.xlsx contains 50 monthly returns of the SCHO and SPY EFT funds from September 2010 to October 2014. Suppose that in each of the next 72 months (six years)‚ it is equally likely that any of the historical returns will occur. Develop a spreadsheet model to simulate the
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1. Positioning- Positioning is the act of designing the company’s offering and image to occupy a distinctive place in the minds of the target market. The goal is to locate the brand in the minds of consumers to maximize the potential benefit to the firm. The result of positioning is the successful creation of a customer focussed value proposition. Examples- a) Mahindra & Mahindra positioned their SUV Scorpio to life style oriented consumers. b) Indica by Tata Motors for small car consumers
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CHEMICAL BANK - Allocation of Profits EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The overall profitability of Chemical Bank has been negatively affected by a decrease in profit contribution from Due Bills. There is an external threat of reduced interest rates and internal threats in the form of misalignment between involved divisions. The following suggestions aim to counteract this development 1. Increasing sales volumes of Due Bills a. Allocate 100% of profits from customer fees to Metro b. Aligning Metro’s
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BRAND POSITIONING OF SCORPIO Presented By KushalDey(314SM100 5) INTRODUCTION Mahindra & Mahindra is a flagship company of the Mahindra group based in Mumbai with a turnover of `55 billion. The company was set up in 1945 in Ludhiana as Mahindra & Mohammed by brothers K.C. Mahindra and J.C. Mahindra along with Malik Ghulam Mohammed. The shares of the company were listed in the Bombay Stock Exchange in 1956. Initially set up to manufacture general-purpose utility vehicles‚ Mahindra
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1. What are four to five ways that specialty retailers differ from discounters (a la Wal-Mart)? Inventory turns: According to the data provided in the Williams-Sonoma Inc. case study (1990) average specialty store turns were just under 2x. If you look at the data from the Wal-Mart Article discount stores have turns many times that‚ actually turns around the neighborhood of 8x. Margins: Discounters such as Wal-Mart go for the high volume low margin approach. Sine their whole approach revolves
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MARKETING ASSIGNMENT on POSITIONING Submitted by: Shivani Gupta MBA (Ignou) Ques 1 Choose one of the category or the product group in the marketing industry. Choose some brands in that category and describe how each of them is positioned? Develop a perceptual positioning map as well. Ans. Positioning is the act of designing the company’s offering and image to occupy a distinctive
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POSITIONING STRATEGY OF AXE Introduction Axe is a product of Hindustan Uniliver‚ one of the biggest FMCG companies in India. Axe is a brand of male grooming products‚ marketed towards young males. Products The brand has three products under his head: * Shower Gel * Talcum Powder * Deodorants Positioning Strategy (Axe Deodorants) “This world
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Strategy and positioning An overview of the organization that our team is working with is the hair industry for example hair salons‚ beauty stores and independent contractors. The type of product that we will talk about is the new hot trend for women‚ virgin hair which is known to be a multimillion dollar industry factors will be expressed how women are willing to spend hundreds on it even in this day and age with the economy being at a low. What is virgin hair? It is defined to be completely
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Five-Step Approach to Unstructured Problems 1. Succinct Statement of the Financial Reporting Issue(s) When has a company completed its side of an arrangement‚ allowing it to record a sale and related loss contingencies (recall product costs)‚ while still conforming to GAAP? 2. Brief Summary of the Economic Purpose of the Transaction To better match revenues and expenses‚ Frequent Fixer has proposed recognizing all of its recall product costs at the time of sale to match its competitors
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What are the five steps required for effective product positioning? 1. Select key criteria that effectively differentiate products or services in the industry. 2. Diagram a two-dimensional product-positioning map with specified criteria on each axis. 3. Plot major competitors ’ products or services in the resultant four-quadrant matrix. 4. Identify areas in the positioning map where the company ’s products or services could be most competitive in the given target market. Look for
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