Identifying the problem: * Palladium Door‚ Inc wants to increase its sales goal to $12.5 million for 2004 which represent a 36% increases in sales over projected 2003 year-end sales. * During the planning process‚ a number of fellow executives had voiced concern over whether distribution approach used by Palladium Door was appropriate for the expended sales goal. Richard Hawley is the director of sales and marketing felt that their concerns had merit and should be given careful consideration
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. – Executive Summary This team has been assigned to perform an executive summary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BHI). This company has been profitable for the last three fiscal years‚ and is on the U.S. Stock Exchange. This summary will contain information gathered from BHI’s most recent annual report. Using the company’s balance sheet‚ cash flow statement‚ and income statement (all three are attached following the references) 14 key areas will be addressed: 1. Company
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Case Study: Nike‚ Inc.‚ and Sweatshops Summary: As a company‚ Nike has been the dominant presence in the athletic apparel industry globally. Although they were not the only company known to practice unethical manufacturing processes‚ they were the major target of criticism because of their leadership role. To fight back against the negative publicity‚ Nike changed many working conditions and practices‚ arranged for independent audits by very reputable individuals in the industry to rate these
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Naples Electronics Inc: balance Sheet for the year ending 2004 (In millions of dollars) Cash and securities $ 2.1 Accounts Payable $ 1.2 Accounts Receivable 10.1 Accruals 1.5 Inventory 2.6 Notes Payable .5 Total Current Assets $ 14.8 Total Current Liabilities 3.2 Net Fixed Assets 29.1 Long-term Debt 15.0 Preferred Stock 4.0 Common Stock 1.0 Retained Earnings 20.7 Total Assets 43.9 Total Liabilities & Equity
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Blaine Kitchenware: Capital Structure Summary: Blaine Kitchenware‚ Inc. was founded in 1927 and as a mid-sized producer of branded small appliances primarily used in residential kitchens.BKI had just under 10% of the $2.3 billion U.S. market for small kitchen appliances. For the period 2003–2006‚ the industry’s annual unit sales growth was 2%. During the year ended December 31‚ 2006‚ Blaine earned net income of $53.6 million on revenue of $342 million.Cause recent shift toward higher-end product
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Elektra Product Inc. I. Case problem Elektra Product Inc facing a crisis in the company since their market share was declining among the competition‚ limited idea to create new innovative products‚ lack of communication between the department and all of sudden most of the workers feel uncertain about their future in the company. Lack of leadership and management causing many problems inside the company and reflected to the company profit in the last few years. At the moment company realize
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Analysis of Food Inc. The documentary Food Inc. brings us closer to the reality of mass produced food. The purpose of the video is to open the families‚ meat lovers small shops and restaurants eyes and smarten them up about how the food comes to their plates. Its also sending a message to these big companies‚ saying that we know what you guys are up to. The food we are buying and thinking thats healty‚ is actually not healty at all. During the processing of our food the big companies have absolutely
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sluggish sales growth in 1980‚ MEM Company‚ Inc. was considering ways to increase sales for the company ’s line of men ’s toiletries. Two main options surfaced; either 1) to expand distribution into food stores or 2) to introduce a new line called Cambridge. MARKET OVERVIEW The men ’s toiletries market was divided into three groups based on pricing‚ namely‚ exclusive‚ medium and mass priced category. MEM had competed primarily in the medium priced market. Its principal toiletries were marketed under
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File-It Supplies Inc‚ Present Situation Patsy Akaka is the marketing manager of File-It Supplies which is a file folder manufacturer that has been in business for 28 years. Other primary lines they are file markers‚ labels and indexing systems. On the other hand 40% of FIS´s file folder business is in specialized lines including oversized blue-print and engineer drawings for several high tech industries. Even though the company has a unique knowledge in the field‚ Patsy is facing a complicated
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GOOGLE INC. History of Google Inc. Google ’s founders‚ Larry Page and Sergey Brin‚ met by chance on a Stanford University tour in the summer of 1995. Page‚ at the time‚ was working on a PhD research project involving the mathematical properties of the link structure on the internet. The research project‚ "BackRub"‚ used an algorithm to follow the links in a webpage and analyze all the connections. The PageRank algorithm generated a popularity index for each web page based on the quantity and
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