...Bed Bath & Beyond Case Study Feinstein and Eisenberg founded a small chain of stores called “Bed n Bath” in 1971. They operated their small chain of stores in the New York and New Jersey market where they offered bed linens and bath accessories in their stores. Feinstein and Eisenberg saw an opportunity for growth in extending their offerings beyond just bed linens and bath accessories. They quickly changed their small store format in 1985 and headed towards the superstore business model. With the change in business model came a change in the company’s name, they renamed the company “Bed Bath & Beyond” in 1987. Their stores would now carry a myriad of products with a full-line of domestic home furnishings and merchandise. The first step in making the switch to the superstore model was to expand the stores in which they currently operated. In 1987, they had 20 stores and they quickly began to plan the expansion of their stores’ square footage. The average superstore at that time was approximately 40,000 square feet. As they began to convert existing stores into superstores, they also began to find new store space to build out their superstores. The new model relied on Bed Bath & Beyond being able to provide home furnishings and merchandise at a 20% to 40% discount compared to department stores. Feinstein and Eisenberg also stressed customer service and believed it was the key to success. They spent very little on marketing or advertising which meant they relied heavily...
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...Valued at 1 April, 2007 Matthew Lewis: matthew.lewis@ttu.edu Tyler Page: tyler.page@ttu.edu Alex Segreti: alexander.l.segreti@ttu.edu Andrea Spencer: andrea.spencer@ttu.edu Stephen Wiggins: stephen.wiggins@ttu.edu Table of Contents Executive Summary Business & Industry Analysis. Five Forces Model Rivalry Among Existing Firms Threat of New Entrants Threat of Substitute Products Bargaining Power of Buyers Bargaining Power of Suppliers Competitive Advantage Analysis Key Success Factors Accounting Analysis Key Accounting Policies Accounting Flexibility Accounting Strategy Quality of Disclosure Revenue Manipulation Diagnostics Expense Manipulation Diagnostics Potential “Red Flags” Undo Accounting Distortions Ratio Analysis Forecast Financials Liquidity Analysis Profitability Analysis Capital Structure Analysis Extended Ratio Analysis SGR and IGR Analysis Forecasting Valuation Analysis Cost of Equity Cost of Debt WACC Method of Comparables Intrinsic Valuation Models Altman Z-Score Analyst Recommendation Appendix Works Cited 3 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 14 16 16 18 20 21 23 26 29 30 31 31 37 44 46 47 47 61 61 66 67 68 72 78 79 80 84 1 2 Executive Summary Investment Recommendation: Overvalued, Sell BBBY – NASDAQ $40.40 52 week range $30.92 - $43.32 Revenue (2006) $5,809,562,000 Market Capitalization $11.75 Billion Shares Outstanding 283,380,000 3-month Avg. Daily Trading Volume 2,332,640 Institutional Ownership 83.40% Insider Ownership 3.70% Book Value Per Share (mrq) $9...
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...Valued at 1 April, 2007 Matthew Lewis: matthew.lewis@ttu.edu Tyler Page: tyler.page@ttu.edu Alex Segreti: alexander.l.segreti@ttu.edu Andrea Spencer: andrea.spencer@ttu.edu Stephen Wiggins: stephen.wiggins@ttu.edu Table of Contents Executive Summary Business & Industry Analysis. Five Forces Model Rivalry Among Existing Firms Threat of New Entrants Threat of Substitute Products Bargaining Power of Buyers Bargaining Power of Suppliers Competitive Advantage Analysis Key Success Factors Accounting Analysis Key Accounting Policies Accounting Flexibility Accounting Strategy Quality of Disclosure Revenue Manipulation Diagnostics Expense Manipulation Diagnostics Potential “Red Flags” Undo Accounting Distortions Ratio Analysis Forecast Financials Liquidity Analysis Profitability Analysis Capital Structure Analysis Extended Ratio Analysis SGR and IGR Analysis Forecasting Valuation Analysis Cost of Equity Cost of Debt WACC Method of Comparables Intrinsic Valuation Models Altman Z-Score Analyst Recommendation Appendix Works Cited 1 3 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 14 16 16 18 20 21 23 26 29 30 31 31 37 44 46 47 47 61 61 66 67 68 72 78 79 80 84 2 Executive Summary Investment Recommendation: Overvalued, Sell BBBY – NASDAQ $40.40 52 week range $30.92 - $43.32 Revenue (2006) $5,809,562,000 Market Capitalization $11.75 Billion Shares Outstanding 283,380,000 3-month Avg. Daily Trading Volume 2,332,640 ...
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...quality in an upscale restaurant is the overall service. The customer pays a part of the whole amount because of the service. Thirdly, it is about the location of the restaurant itself. Costumers are only willing to pay an over average amount for their food if he feels comfortable. Not to mention that the restaurant has to be clean and hygienic. On the other side, a fast food follows a complete different strategy. A customer in a fast food restaurant focuses on completely different aspects. Hereby, a customer feels to get a fair value for this money if the portions are large and quickly prepared and served. It is less about service and a nice atmosphere. It is more about receiving a large meal at the lowest possible price. Still, in the case of a fast food restaurant cleanness and hygiene has to be ensured as well. 2. What are the expected augmented value chain elements for each of these retailers? a) Best Buy b) Ikea c) Local hair salon a) Best Buy * Exclusive brands * Trained salespeople * Loyalty programs * Additional services, such as repair service, recycle services b) Ikea * Exclusive products * Customer hotlines * Home delivery c) Local hair salon * High degree of customer relationship * Exclusive Brands...
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...Mobile HomeGoods “Make your dorm a home” Feliciana Liem Alex Lorenzo Julie Martin Emma Munley Ally Murphy April 9, 2014 Table of Contents Executive Summary 4-5 Product 6-7 a. Product Description 6 b. Physical Description 7 Value Proposition 9-10 c. For HomeGoods 9 d. For Customers 9 e. For Mobile HomeGoods 10 Market Analysis Summary 11-15 f. Target Market 11 g. Competition 13 h. Competitive Edge 14 i. S.W.O.T Analysis 14 Financial Plan 16-25 j. Pro Forma Cash Budget 16 k. Income Statement 18 l. Calculations 19 (1) Breakeven Point 19 (2) Sales Revenue 19 (3) Cost Of Goods Sold 21 (4) Expenses 23 (5) Operating Margin 25 Operations 26-30 m. Overview Of Logistics 26 n. Location Of Business 26 o. Schedule 26 p. Suppliers And Supply 27 q. Logistics 28 Sales Plan 31-33 r. Marketing 31 i. Message 31 s. Pricing And Sales Objectives 33 Human Resources 34-35 t. Past Work Experience 34 u. Skills And Abilities 34 v. Maintaining And Engaging Employees 34 w. Key Management People 35 x. Staffing Plan 35 Appendices 34-44 y. Resumes 36 (1) Feliciana Liem 36 (2) Alexander Lorenzo 37 (3) Juliane...
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...THE EMPLOYER AND THE EX-OFFENDER: THE DISCRIMINATORY EFFECTS OF CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………………… 3 II. OFFENDER AND EX OFFENDER HISTORY IN THE UNITED STATES………….. 5 A. LEGAL HISTORY OF EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION AGAINST EX OFFENDERS ……… 5 B. THE NUMBER OF EX OFFENDERS IS RAPIDLY INCREASING .............................................................................8 C. IMPACT OF CONVICTION ON EMPLOYABILITY OF EX OFFENDERS ................................................................. 10 III. CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS AID IN THE DISPROPORTIONATE EXCLUSION OF MINORITIES ………………………………………………………………………………… 13 A. EMPLOYERS ARE PREJUDICED UPON FINDING CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS .................................................. 13 B. BLACKS AND LATINOS ARE EXCLUDED FROM THE WORK FORCE DUE TO STIGMAS OF MINORITY STATUS AND CRIMINAL RECORD ....................................................................................................................... 15 IV. HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY TURNS ON EMPLOYER HIRING PRACTICES INFLUENCED BY CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS………………………………………………………………………………………… 18 A. THE EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION ATTEMPTS TO PROVIDE MUCH NEEDED GUIDANCE ON CONDUCTING CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS AND SUBSEQUENT HIRING PRACTICES ..................................................................................................................... 18 B. NOTABLE LEGAL ACTION STEMMING...
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...Exercises 4 1-1--1-9 1-10--1-20 1-21--1-26 1-27--1-31 5 6 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND THE PRACTICAL NURSE Exercises MD0905 i 3-1--3-15 . . 4-1--4-7 4-8--4-21 5-1--5-9 6-1--6-5 CORRESPONDENCE COURSE OF THE U.S. ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT CENTER AND SCHOOL SUBCOURSE MED905 NURSING FUNDAMENTALS I INTRODUCTION Never before has there been a greater need for nurses. Never before has health care delivery challenged the nurse's commitment, knowledge, or technical competence more. Issues influencing current health-care delivery focus on promoting wellness, preventing illness, and rehabilitation to increase the patient's independence. This subcourse will present theory and concepts the person beginning the study of nursing will need to know in order to develop the knowledge and competence demanded by the complexity of the changing health care system. Subcourse Components: This subcourse consists of 6 lessons: Lesson 1. Patient Relations. Lesson 2. The Adult Patient Care Unit. Lesson 3. Advanced Principles of Patient Hygiene. Lesson 4. Body Mechanics. Lesson 5. Active and...
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...Amazon Inc. SeifAllah Marzouk – Ahmed Fadel – Mohamed Hajaij Introduction Amazon is the global leader in ecommerce. It directly sells a huge range of diverse products. Ranging from books to music to other physical goods and, their specialized asset, Kindle e-book. The company attains their high value-added differentiation by customer-focused information services such as holding online customers’ preferences and providing customization. One of the main competitive advantages of the company is unique bundling of several recourses such as service and distribution. Amazon was initially an online bookseller that directly shipped orders to customers; however, the company grew substantially and soon established a distribution network through which it could ship millions of items to customers all over the world at the lowest costs possible. Operating 10 websites in more than 45 countries now gives Amazon a strategic advantage in its diversity. Amazon was founded in 1994 in the state of Washington DC, USA. It strategically competes internationally by attaining the lowest prices amongst its competitors. With regards to book selling, Amazon’s biggest competitor is Barnes and Noble. While Barnes and Noble enjoys the spoils of selling in the physical world and online, Amazon is stuck in the cyber world (which evidently keeps costs down but doesn’t help with the sales)...
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...information or to jointly plan services they provide. On the other hand, inter-professional collaboration is how two or more people from different professions communicate and co-operate to achieve a common goal, focusing on the holistic welfare of the service user. The inter-professional partnerships also co-ordinates in order to ensure that, each professional's effort are acted upon, and to ensure that each practitioner is aware of what the others are doing. The children Act 1989 laid the foundation for inter-agency and inter-professional collaborations. In order to clearly explain the benefits of interagency partner in health and social care I will look at some real life situation (case study) and show how the agencies collaborate to focus on the holistic wellbeing of the patient. Case Study John is a 69 years old man and he lives alone. Four months ago, he was diagnosed with neuritis disease and he is been advised by his GP to undergo surgery to remove the damaged nerve but he is nervous about the surgery. As a result of his condition, he has been having difficulty with walking and he has to quit his job. He has started drinking in the evenings and also got a liver problem and because of these problems, he is depressed. The ranges of professionals that are working with John to ensure that he gets the best of care include the following: The first point of contact for John is the General Practitioner (GP). He was the health professional who diagnosed him of neuritis...
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...NM2710-The experience of Health & Illness Assessment: Client case Study- Culture and the “Service User” Experience Introduction In this essay, I will be discussing a client that I cared for while I was on my placement practice. I had to fill in my inter-professional education book where i had to interview a client about his experience in the health care setting and how he is coping with his health and illness and the health care he is receiving whilst he is in the care of the National Health Service. I will be discussing his cultural needs and how it makes impacts on health and the impact it has on the client/ families psychological and social. This essay will show a non-judgemental description of the patient’s personality, family, cultural or social background. In this case study I have changed his name and will be referring to the patient as Mr Asim Khan to maintain confidentiality and identity. I will not give the name of the hospital/PCT. This is a breach of confidentiality policy and by the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC 2008). I choose Asim Khan as my chosen patient because I found him polite, and his social history very interesting, he was easy to talk to, and he was open about his medical condition and willing to discuss any questions I had regarding his condition. I also found out about his medical history and social background. I really appreciated that despite his ill condition and the pain he was going through, he still took time out to talk...
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...OXO Kitchen Gadgets – Developing marketing strategy on a budget 1. SWOT analysis. A SWOT analysis is the cornerstone of any successful strategic plan. A business should be evaluated from all angles before mapping its future and a good way to do that is by looking at its internal and external resources and threats. Identifying the positive and negative influencing factors inside and outside its business, will help navigate and implement a sound marketing strategy. Figure 1.1 shows the internal and external factors affecting the marketing opportunities for OXO International. Pairing external threats with internal weaknesses highlights the most serious issues OXO faces. After identifying risks OXO can decide whether to use company resources to eliminate the internal weakness or reduce the external threat by abandoning that area of business until the company is stronger (Kotler and Armstrong 55-57). 2. OXO target market. Before targeting comes market segmentation – dividing an entire market up into customer segments. There are various variables used in segmenting consumer markets (Kotler and Armstrong 193). In a marketing strategy video, Larry Witt, Senior Vice President of Sales and Market Development for OXO International said while they skew toward older consumers, OXO also attracts younger consumers with their design and innovation. Here the demographic, psychographic, and behavioral segmentation variables are discussed in relationship to three of OXO’s U.S. market segments:...
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...THE LIFE OF MONTAIGNE [This is translated freely from that prefixed to the 'variorum' Paris edition, 1854, 4 vols. 8vo. This biography is the more desirable that it contains all really interesting and important matter in the journal of the Tour in Germany and Italy, which, as it was merely written under Montaigne's dictation, is in the third person, is scarcely worth publication, as a whole, in an English dress.] The author of the Essays was born, as he informs us himself, between eleven and twelve o'clock in the day, the last of February 1533, at the chateau of St. Michel de Montaigne. His father, Pierre Eyquem, esquire, was successively first Jurat of the town of Bordeaux (1530), Under-Mayor 1536, Jurat for the second time in 1540, Procureur in 1546, and at length Mayor from 1553 to 1556. He was a man of austere probity, who had "a particular regard for honour and for propriety in his person and attire . . . a mighty good faith in his speech, and a conscience and a religious feeling inclining to superstition, rather than to the other extreme."[Essays, ii. 2.] Pierre Eyquem bestowed great care on the education of his children, especially on the practical side of it. To associate closely his son Michel with the people, and attach him to those who stand in need of assistance, he caused him to be held at the font by persons of meanest position; subsequently he put him out to nurse with a poor villager, and then, at a later period, made him accustom himself to the most common sort...
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...commercial operation from 12th November,2004 with three star deluxe hotel constructed in its own land at Marine Drive, kala Toli, Cox’s Bazar and hotel named after “ Hotel Sea Crown” and its Corporate office is in Gulshan Model Town, Dhaka from where all reservation, marketing and accounts activities are operated. The methodology, scope of the report & the limitations are also described here. The second part is about overview of Hotel Sea Crown, which includes the historical background, mission & objectives of the hotel. It also plays a great role in Bangladesh. So it faces some threats. But it has a lot of opportunity here. All the departments run here under the law of Companies Act 1994. The third part is about the finding & Analysis of the study i.e. Marketing strategy, 4ps.STP,Management strategies, Cost strategy, planning &action plan of Hotel Sea Crown & the Problem and prospects of Marketing strategy of Hotel Sea Crown at Gulshan. For continuous smooth activities of the marketing department of the...
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...Introduction In this essay, I will be discussing a client that I cared for while I was on my placement practice. I had to fill in my inter-professional education book where i had to interview a client about his experience in the health care setting and how he is coping with his health and illness and the health care he is receiving whilst he is in the care of the National Health Service. I will be discussing his cultural needs and how it makes impacts on health and the impact it has on the client/ families psychological and social. This essay will show a non-judgemental description of the patient’s personality, family, cultural or social background. In this case study I have changed his name and will be referring to the patient as Mr Asim Khan to maintain confidentiality and identity. I will not give the name of the hospital/PCT. This is a breach of confidentiality policy and by the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC 2008). I choose Asim Khan as my chosen patient because I found him polite, and his social history very interesting, he was easy to talk to, and he was open about his medical condition and willing to discuss any questions I had regarding his condition. I also found out about his medical history and social background. I really appreciated that despite his ill condition and the pain he was going through, he still took time out to talk to me. Asim is a 27 year-old Pakistani Muslim man. He was born in Iran and moved to Pakistan 15 years ago with his family...
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...Powerful Sleep – Secrets of the Inner Sleep Clock by Kacper M. Postawski, PowerfulSleep.com Copyright © 2004 PowerfulSleep.com All 1 Rights Reserved Powerful Sleep – Secrets of the Inner Sleep Clock by Kacper M. Postawski, PowerfulSleep.com Table of Contents Disclaimer: ________________________________________________________________5 Introduction _______________________________________________________________6 The Popular Myth about Sleeping ________________________________________________ 6 Recent “Eye Opening” Discoveries ________________________________________________ 7 How Much Sleep Do You Really Need? ____________________________________________ 7 The Mystery of Quality Sleep ____________________________________________________ 7 Chapter 1: Sleep Mechanics __________________________________________________9 What is Sleep, and Why Do We Sleep? __________________________________________9 Your Crash Course on Brain Waves ______________________________________________ 9 The 5 Stages of Sleep ___________________________________________________________ 9 Sleep Cycles __________________________________________________________________ 11 How Important is Deep Sleep? __________________________________________________ 13 How Important is REM Sleep? __________________________________________________ 13 So what is Quality Sleep?_______________________________________________________ 14 Chapter 2: The Inner Sleep Clock_____________________________________________15 ...
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