Diversification plans for Just Sleeping Inn Related Diversification In an effort to create a competitive advantage over other hotel chains‚ and give our customers greater service‚ Just sleeping Inn will expand our hotel chain to include a car rental service at all of our locations. Through several years of surveying customers and other demographics we have found that offering rental car service at the hotel instead of at the airport would greatly increase the satisfaction of our customers
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What’s brewing at Whitbread? In the annual report for 1999/2000 Whitbread Plc reported a total turnover of £2.9 billion with operating profit of £332 million. The sale of beer‚ one of seven business units‚ accounted for approximately 38% of turnover. Other important revenue was generated by closely allied businesses such as pubs and restaurants. Ten years later and the Annual Report of 2009/10 showed a markedly different company. Total revenue was £1.44 billion and‚ despite a 250 year history
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because it was the year that Whitbread began to plan for its compliance with new rules on tied houses set down by the British government’s Monopolies and Mergers Commission (MMC). After an investigation into the system of tied houses that had been created from the numerous mergers in the brewing industry in the 1960s and 1970s‚ in early 1990 the MMC ordered brewers with more than 2‚000 pubs to sell or lease half of the number greater than 2‚000‚ meaning that Whitbread would have to do so with about
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Diversification is a good way to increase profits‚ create more value or reduce market risks from having only one or few product lines. As such‚ different companies diversify for various reasons‚ and therefore‚ diversification can be either related or unrelated. However‚ not all the companies succeed when choosing diversification as part of their corporate strategy. Like everything else‚ diversification does come with its ups and downs. Diversification can be beneficial‚ but probably up to a certain
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SYMBIOSIS INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES MARKETING MANAGEMENT PROF V.V Ramasastry “Research Paper- Diversification leads to success?” Submitted By- Anil -15
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Diversification Strategies in the Global Retailing Industry: Essays on the Dimensions and Performance Implications DISSERTATION of the University of St. Gallen‚ School of Management‚ Economics‚ Law‚ Social Sciences and International Affairs to obtain the title of Doctor of Philosophy in Management submitted by Timo Sohl from Germany Approved on the application of Prof. Dr. Thomas Rudolph and Prof. Dr. Günter Müller-Stewens Dissertation no. 3987 Difo-Druck GmbH‚ Bamberg 2012
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4006BUSBM Management and Finance Whitbread PLC ID - 490537 Joe Nicholson 27/02/2012 Contents Title | Pages | Financial Ratios | 3 | Executive Summary | 4 | Introduction | 4 | Significant changes affecting financial performance | 4-5 | Profitability | 5 | Liquidity | 5-6 | Efficiency | 6 | Financial Structure | 6-7 | References/Bibliography | 7 | Financial Ratios: (sourced from Fame database) 2009
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What’s brewing at Whitbread? Below is summary of macro factors that influenced Whitbread’s decision makers to exit the brewing industry. Prior to 2000‚ the UK market for beer peaked in 1979 of approximately 41.2 million barrels (BBPA‚ 2008) in combined on-trade and off-trade‚ sales. Since then there has been a decline due to sociocultural & socioeconomic factors. [pic] Up until the 1980’s‚ socialising in a local pub or working man’s club was largely male oriented with the consumption
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Diversification Diversification can be briefly defined as the expansion of a firm into a range of different product areas. Firms may choose to diversify for either of two reasons. First‚ diversification may benefit the firm’s owners by increasing the efficiency of the firm. Second‚ if the firm’s owners are not directly involved in deciding whether to diversify‚ diversification decisions may reflect the preferences of the firm’s managers. Singapore Airlines (SIA) serves as a typical example of diversification
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Diversification C’Airea McCluron Entrepreneurial Finance: Capitalization for the Entrepreneur Diversification Diversification is the practice of spreading your investments around so that your exposure to any one type of asset is limited. This practice is designed to help reduce the volatility of your portfolio over time. Note: Having a lot of investments does not necessarily make your portfolio diversified. For diversity‚ you need several different types of investments. Popular
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