...1. Signages and graphics should act as a bridge between the merchandise and the target customers. The color and tone of the signages and graphics should complement the merchandise. Color combinations should appeal to specific target customers or highlight specific merchandise. For example, green color for fresh market in vegetables department, bright color for sportswear, pastel for lingerie, and hot vivid colors for teens. 2. Signages and graphics should be up to-date and relevant to the items displayed and should take down after the displays are removed. Fraught, faded, and forgotten signages and graphics if not take down after the display or promotion ends will affect a store’s image. 3. All signages should display at where the merchandise is...
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... Mission statement………………………………………………………3 2. COMPANY DESCRIPTION…………………………………………………………..4 Legal status and ownership……………………………………………..4 Services we provide……………………………………………………..4 Automatic touch less……………………………………………………..5 Outside services………………………………………………………….5 Aim of the business……………………………………………………..6 S.W.O.T analysis………………………………………………………..6 3. MARKET ANALYSIS………………………………………………………………...8 Industry overview………………………………………………………..8 Target market segments………………………………………………….8 The competition…………………………………………………………10 Competitive advantage………………………………………………….11 Barrier to entry………………………………………………………….11 Future competition……………………………………………………...11 4. MARKETING STRATEGY………………………………………………………….12 Pricing Strategy…………………………………………………………12 Budget…………………………………………………………………...12 Promotions……………………………………………………………....12 5. OPERATIONS………………………………………………………………………...13 Facilities……………………………………………………………….13 Capacity Utilization…………………………………………………….13...
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...Ann Taylor (based on an earlier version of the case) 1. Consider the performance of A nn Taylor. How well is the present strategy working? Ann Taylor compared to the industry: I n fiscal year 2005, Ann Taylor was number six in the Women’s Wear Daily’s top twenty of the publicly traded retailers specializing in women 's wear. ANN maintained this position from the previou s fiscal year 2004. Ann Taylor compared to key rivals: Several retailers that target the same or similar demographic of the 35-year old woman include Talbots, Chico's, and Coldwater Creek. Talbots maintained its number seven position with $1.81 billion in sales, and a seven percent increase in volume over the previou s year. Coldwater Creek also maintained its number 18 position with $780 million in sales and a staggering 32 percent increase in volume. Chico's moved up three positions from number nine to 12, also with a 32 percent increase in volume, and $1.4 billion in sales. ANN saw a 12 percent increase in volume over the previou s year and had sales of $2.07 billion. ANN is maintaining its position in the standings, but with a 32 percent growth rate, Chico's may be an even greater threat to ANN in the years to come. Ann Taylor's past performance: Ann Taylor has seen some up years and some down years, but overall seems to be growing each year. In fiscal year 2002, the company as a whole (Ann Taylor and LOFT) experienced a negative sales percentage of 3.9%, but in 2003, they achieved...
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...1000 Eagle Drive Denton, TX 76201 | | p. 1-800-555-BENTOf. 1-800-555-BENTO | | service@bento.com www.bento.com | 1000 Eagle Drive Denton, TX 76201 | | p. 1-800-555-BENTOf. 1-800-555-BENTO | | service@bento.com www.bento.com | BENTO, LLC Est. Dec. 1, 2015 BENTO, LLC Est. Dec. 1, 2015 Table of Contents Executive Summary 2 Highlights Objectives Mission Statement Keys to Success Description of Business 3 Company Ownership/Legal Entity Location Interior Hours of Operation Products and Services Suppliers Service Manufacturing Management Financial Management Start-Up/Acquisition Summary Marketing 3 Market Analysis Market Segmentation Competition Pricing Appendix 3 Start-Up Expenses Determining Start-Up Capital Cash Flow Income Projection Statement Profit and Loss Statement Balance Sheet Sales Forecast Milestones Break-Even Analysis Miscellaneous Documents Executive Summary Bento is a premium food box delivery club. Once subscribed, customers will receive a monthly package containing a variety of food that will feature different themes depending on the time of the year. All food will be selected for its high quality and health-consciousness depending on the theme of the month. Primary customers will typically be men and women aged 18-40 that are looking for a unique and healthy alternative to monthly food subscriptions as well as well thought out gifts. Highlights | Summarize key business highlights. For example, you...
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...[Street Address] [City, ST ZIP Code] | | p. [Telephone]f. [Fax] | | [Email] [Web address] | [Street Address] [City, ST ZIP Code] | | p. [Telephone]f. [Fax] | | [Email] [Web address] | [Business Plan Title] [Business Plan Subtitle] [Business Plan Title] [Business Plan Subtitle] Table of Contents Executive Summary 2 Highlights Objectives Mission Statement Keys to Success Description of Business 2 Company Ownership/Legal Entity Location Interior Hours of Operation Products and Services Suppliers Service Manufacturing Management Financial Management Start-Up/Acquisition Summary Marketing 2 Market Analysis Market Segmentation Competition Pricing Appendix 2 Start-Up Expenses Determining Start-Up Capital Cash Flow Income Projection Statement Profit and Loss Statement Balance Sheet Sales Forecast Milestones Break-Even Analysis Miscellaneous Documents Executive Summary My initial statement to Investors and Financial Lenders, this restaurant business plan, is a candid disclosure of the Murphy’s Bar & Grill business proposal - our intent is to set realistic business expectations, and eliminate any questions about the profitability of this business venture. Entrepreneurs have a tendency to paint the restaurant business plan with a very optimistic brush, highlighting strengths and camouflaging the risks. We, as business owners, have a vested stake and financial commitment in the success of this restaurant. Our intent is to have a definitive business, financial, and marketing...
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...What’s the matter at Walmart? Gordon Wade – Partner Amidst a severe recession, Walmart, the retailer which claims the lowest prices…always…is suffering a continuing downturn in same store sales, the standard metric for evaluating retail success. How can this be? What’s going on? The facts are fairly clear. For seven straight quarters, same store sales in Walmart’s heartland US market have declined. The stubborn persistence of this downtrend supports the conclusion that something basic has gone awry. The stock market seems to agree. Walmart’s stock has been the poorest performer on the big board since the DJI reached its nadir some 3 years ago. The alarming answer is that Walmart’s traditional everyday low price (“EDLP”) positioning is less competitive in the very economic environment in which it seemed designed to prosper. Consumers are more stressed than ever, but now instead of blindly accepting that Walmart has the lowest prices …always… these struggling digitally enabled cybershoppers are surfing the net comparing Walmart’s prices with their competitors. And there are LOTS of competitors, ultra low priced Dollar Stores and hi-lo food retailers, category killers such as Best Buy and Home Depot. Let me give one simple personal example. Yesterday my wife came home from Publix with two huge boxes of Cheerios, which she bought on special for $5. On its best day, Walmart could not match this price or that of dozens of promo items at numerous retailers including...
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...to use their vast amount of resources to exploit market opportunities and neutralize threats, as well as take advantage of the economies of scale and scope. Subsequently, this report touches upon the large scope effects of the Big Box Format; as well as addresses certain strategies that small businesses could apply and if they are realistic. Big Box Firms are organizations that undermine local business as well as entrepreneurialism and innovation. They are composed of Firms that occupy a minimum of 50,000 square feet of land containing a wide variety products available for sale (Investopedia, 2013), therefore many consumers consider Big Box Firms as one stop shop. Subsequently, the Big Box Firms apply predatory marketing strategies, in which they highlight their ability to offer cost savings as well as convenience. FINDINGS Modern Concept, Classic View Although the Big Box format of conducting business can be considered somewhat of a modern business concept, the Big Box format contains certain elements that relate back to classic business theories. The way that these Big Box firms conduct business, contain certain characteristics that can be linked back to the classic articles of Chandler and Barney. These firms have been able take advantage of the cost saving benefits of the economies of scale and scope, as well as have gained a competitive advantage over their competitors, as Barney would see it. Big box firms have adopted a derivative of Chandler’s theory...
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...DEDICATION We would like to dedicate this project to our parents who has given us opportunity to study herein DBMS, and to our respected teacher who give us a chance to work on this project. [pic][pic][pic][pic] 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY««««««««««««««««« 2 2- HISTORY OF PEPSI COLA INTERNATIONAL««««««« 3 3- VISION STATEMENT««««««««««««««««««. 4 4- MISSION STATEMENT«««««««««««««««««. 5 5- IMPROVED MISSION STATEMENT«««««««««««. 5 STAGE 1 (INPUT STAGE) 6- SWOT ANALYSIS«««««««««««««««««««« 6 7- EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS«««««««««. 10 8- KEY EXTERNAL FACTOR ANALYSIS .«««««««««« 14 9- KEY INTERNAL FACTOR ANALYSIS ««.««««««««. 15 10- ANALYSIS OF COMPETITORS PROFILE««««««««... 16 STAGE 2 (MATCHING STAGE) 11- TOWS MATRIX««««««««««««««««««««« 17 12- SPACE MATRIX««««««««««««««««««««.. 18 13- IE MATRIX««««««««««««««««««««««« 20 14- GRAND MATRIX«««««««««««««««««««« 22 STAGE 3 (DECISION STAGE) 15- QSPM OF PEPSICO««««««««««««««««««« 23 16- RECOMMENDATIONS & CONCLUSION«««««««««. 25 Growth, Balance, and aWorld of Fun [pic][pic] 4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We are thankful to Almighty ALLAH ´most beneficent and the most Mercifulµ Who made us able to complete our given project successfully and for giving us much cooperation and supporting parents who has given us this opportunity to study here. we would like to thank SIR SHAHID TUFAIL for giving us the confidence and opportunity to prove ourselves. EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW Strategic management...
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...thousand five hundred customers that incorporates all kinds of financial institutions. The organization was established in 1984 and is as of now driven by Jeff Yabuki from Brookfield, Wisconsin. Fiserv's main goal is to give incorporated innovation and administrations arrangements that empower excellent results for their customers. The organization brags one-hundred and forty six areas around the world, utilizes more than twenty-one thousand partners, and produced over five billion in income in 2014 (Fiserv, n.d.). This year, Fiserv is perceived by Fortune Magazine as one of the "World's Most Admired Companies 2015" and Forbes as one of "America's Best Employers 2015" (Fiserv, n.d.). Fiserv is a business pioneer of data administration and computerized business frameworks and gives incorporated innovation that makes both esteem and results for their customers and conveys the accompanying: * Payment Solutions to streamline parts of installments making effectiveness and compelling development * Processing answers that oversee record based exchanges dependably and safely * Risk and Compliance answers for avoid and moderate danger * Customer and Channel Management answers for pull in, hold, and develop client relations * Insights and Optimization arrangements that change information into significant business bits of insight Compelling January 2013, Fiserv executed the Living Proof Recognition Program which perceives partners for exhibited duty to one or a greater...
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...1. Introduction 1.1 Indian Textile Industry India is a traditional textile-producing country with textiles in general, and cotton in particular, being major industries for the country. India is among the world’s top producers of yarns and fabrics, and the export quality of its products is ever increasing. Textile Industry is one of the largest and oldest industries in India. Textile Industry in India is a self-reliant and independent industry and has great diversification and versatility. The textile industry can be broadly classified into two categories, the organized mill sector and the unorganized decentralized sector. The organized sector of the textile industry represents the mills. It could be a spinning mill or a composite mill. Composite mill is one where the spinning, weaving and processing facilities are carried out under one roof. The decentralized sector is engaged mainly in the weaving activity, which makes it heavily dependent on the organized sector for their yarn requirements. This decentralized sector is comprised of the three major segments viz., powerloom, handloom and hosiery. In addition to the above, there are readymade garments, khadi as well as carpet manufacturing units in the decentralized sector. The Indian Textile Industry has an overwhelming presence in the economic life of the country. It is the second largest textile industry in the world after China. Apart from providing one of the basic necessities of life i.e. cloth, the textile industry...
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...ZARA The Zara boutique-clothing store on Calle Real in the northern Spanish city of La Coruna is buzzing. Customers have made the journey here on a rainy Saturday morning to see what new exciting styles are available this week. The red tank tops and black blazers seem to be a hit, but customers also really like the beige and bright purple ones too. Faces with this problem most fashion companies would normally have to spend months retooling and restocking their range. Not Zara, however. Each store manager is able to spot these changes in trends and then type them into their handheld computer on Saturday in the safe knowledge that they will arrive on Monday or Tuesday the next week. There is a very strong link between store managers and the central design team based at Zara’s head office in La Coruna in northern Spain. Each store is electronically linked back to head office so that they can view and assess sales on a real-time basis. This allows the company to make sure that they can adapt quickly to customer wants and desires. One example of this was a new khaki skirt that the company initially just stocked in Spain to see how it would sell. In the Coruna store it was sold out after only having been on the shelves for a couple of hours. After speaking to Barcelona, it was apparent that sales were brisk there too. It was then decided that the skirt should be tested out elsewhere, so overnight Zara sent out 7,800 skirts to more than 1,300 stores worldwide. The results were clear...
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...Question 1 When setting selection criteria for selecting a project manager, it is important to apply a just and consistent technique for measuring proposals. Most organizations use selection criteria to assist them screen applicants. The goal is to ensure that the same, unbiased principles are used for each applicant and will lead you to a more objective conclusion. It’s a good plan to use the selection criteria and produce a scoring matrix—and then run all the answers against the matrix. They should contain multiple committee staff to reach an objective totaling of the scores. They might wish to split the technical assessment from the cost or price assessment and decide how much the technical will matter and how much the cost will count in the overall total. Things to take into consideration in selection criteria should include: Number of compulsory responses, set a good enough reply level for the project so that if you don’t get a sufficient number of responses, you can assess whether to go on or redefine the need to get additional proposals. When looking for a project manager, choose those with familiarity that matches your needs. Professional experience—including: • Breadth and deepness of experience • Knowledge of the road industry and this type of project • Technical capability and experience • His/her ability to expand practical advice • Capacity to build trust and work successfully with management and other personnel • Ability to administer...
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...Partnership and it’s relevance in Bangladesh Introduction Since humans are social beings, partnerships between individuals, businesses, interest-based organizations, schools, governments, and varied combinations thereof, have always been and remain commonplace. In the most frequently associated instance of the term, a partnership is formed between one or more businesses in which partners (owners) co-labor to achieve and share profits and losses (see business partners). Partnerships exist within, and across, sectors. Non-profit, religious, and political organizations may partner together to increase the likelihood of each achieving their mission and to amplify their reach. In what is usually called an alliance, governments may partner to achieve their national interests, sometimes against allied governments who hold contrary interests, such as occurred during World War II and the Cold War. In education, accrediting agencies increasingly evaluate schools by the level and quality of their partnerships with other schools and a variety of other entities across societal sectors. Partnerships also occur at personal levels, such as when two or more individuals agree to domicile together, while other partnerships are not only personal but private, known only to the involved parties. Partnerships present the involved parties with special challenges that must be navigated unto agreement. Overarching goals, levels of give-and-take, areas of responsibility, lines of authority and succession...
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...DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING A TRANSACTING SYSTEM OR AN ATM MACHINE. A CASE STUDY OF ECO BANK PLC, OBOSI ONICHA). BY -------------------------- ------------------- A PROJECT SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY, ------------------------ IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIRMENT FOR THE AWARD OF ---------- IN COMPUTER SCIENCE OCTOBER, 2010 APPROVAL PAGE I certify that the study reported in this page was carried out by --------------- in the department of Computer Science, School of Engineering and Technology ------------------- --------------------------------- ----------------------- -------------- Date (Project Supervisor) --------------------------------- ------------------------ -------------- Date (Head of Department) ----------------------------- -------------------------- External Examiner Date TABLE OF CONTENT Title page i Approval Page ii Table of content iii Dedication Acknowledgment Abstract CHAPTER ONE 1. Introduction 1. Background of the study 1. Statement of the problem 2. Objective of the study 3. Scope of the study 4. Significant of the study 5. Limitations of the study CHAPTER TWO Literature review 2.1 A.T.M 2. History of A.T.M 2.3. Components of A.T.M 2.4 functions of A.T.M CHAPTER THREE 3.0 analysis of the existing system 2. Research methodology 3...
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...www.hbrreprints.org HBR CASE STUDY AND COMMENTARY How should Peachtree try to fix its IT infrastructure problem? Four commentators offer expert advice. Too Far Ahead of the IT Curve? by John P Glaser . • Reprint R0707A Peachtree Healthcare’s patchwork IT infrastructure is in critical condition. Should the CEO approve a shift to risky new technology or go with the time-tested monolithic system? HBR CASE STUDY Too Far Ahead of the IT Curve? by John P Glaser . COPYRIGHT © 2007 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Freshly showered and cooling down after their squash game, Max Berndt drank iced tea with his board chairman, Paul Lefler. Max, a thoracic surgeon by training, was the CEO of Peachtree Healthcare. He’d occupied the post for nearly 12 years. In that time the company had grown—mainly by mergers—from a single teaching hospital into a regional network of 11 large and midsize institutions, supported by ancillary clinics, physician practices, trauma centers, rehabilitation facilities, and nursing homes. Together, these entities had nearly 4,000 employed and affiliated physicians, who annually treated a million patients from throughout Georgia and beyond. The patients ranged in age from newborn to nonagenarian; represented all races, ethnicities, lifestyles, and economic conditions; and manifested every imaginable injury and disease. Many of them, over the course of a year, would be seen at more than one Peach- tree...
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