...have responded to your request regarding an analysis of the Canadian Tire Corporation and in this report you will find the information about the Company and their recent corporate activity. We have identified various points that will be useful in your decision to invest in this company. We have included information regarding Canadian Tire’s history, the products and services offered by them, and an analysis of the internal and external factors that affect the Corporation’s operations. We have also assessed the critical issues the company is currently facing along with their major implications. In order to see the direction in which the company is head, we also evaluated their vision, mission and long term objectives and strategies, followed by a sound strategy assessment. We have also analysed the company’s marketing strategy in regards to three of the products that they offer and also an overview of the marketing mix pursued by the company in general. We collected data regarding their financials of the past three fiscal years, and checked their sources of capital. Lastly, we have provided conclusions and our recommendations about the company keeping in mind the overall shape of the company’s future operations. We hope that this report guides you in your decision to invest in this company. Sincerely, Star Investors This letter would be even better if it had several paragraphs! 2012 INVESTOR ANALYSIS OF THE CANADIAN TIRE CORPORATION November 27, 2012 ...
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...External Environment Natural and physical environment The variety of consumer goods that general merchandisers like Canadian Tire provide, there are several sustainability considerations for the business. These include decisions on where to source manufactured goods and the pollution effects of the manufacturing processes. Although many retailers have either outsourced or offshored manufacturing to Asia (Deloitte Touche Tomatsu, 2003) where cheaper labour and lax environmental standard make production less costly, North America still retains a huge manufacturing capacity. In addition, energy use in manufacturing and its impact on the natural environment can have an effect on cost and consumer perceptions. The shelf-life of consumer goods and their recyclability contribute to the growth of landfills, and retailers must balance this environmental issue with the need to grow sales and innovate new products regularly. Chemical-based products like pesticides, fertilizers, gasoline, propane, motor oils, et cetera, also contribute to environmental pollution by consumers of these goods, therefore retailers have a responsibility of ensuring that their impact is minimised. Societal environment Economic The retail business in North America is cyclical and most sales occur in the fourth quarter of operations which usually includes the months of November and December. However, a combination of high debt levels and low consumer confidence has resulted in lower than expected growth in...
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...Canadian Tire Check-Out Configuration Glennt Butt the Vice-president of Canadian Tire has to make a decision in a short period of time. He has one month left to decide which check out configuration to implement in the next generation of stores. This is a very important election, since the future profits and clients depend on the lay-out and on their experience in Canadian Tire stores. From my point of view I would choose to implement the single line lay out. After calculating some data, the second option appears to be as the most profitable and effective check –out configuration: * Maintaining the tandem check –out configuration: It requires a total investment of $65.400 using a total space of 150m2 which represents a 3% of the store. This kind of configuration may cause some problems when there is a pick of costumers. As they can only stand in one line, if the queue takes more time as usual the client must feel anxious and disappointed with its experience in our stores. Furthermore, when the business is slow a lot of space would be wasted. * Single Line Implementing the single line configuration implies an investment of $57.000 occupying a total space of 125 m2. In comparison with the tandem configuration we gain 25 m2 more, which means $70.000 of profit per year. The line would be much faster, as the cashier would be working in a more effective way. Moreover the costumer would have a better buying experience as they could go to the fastest register and would not...
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...The role of marketing has changed over time; beginning with the simple trade era, a time when everything was either made or harvested by hand (White, 2010), to the Social Media Marketing Era. The following eras will be described using different business types to explain what companies did during the era; Production Era, Sales Era, Marketing Concept Era, Market Orientation Era, Customer Experience Management Era, and Social Media Marketing Era. The production era began in the mid 1800s and lasted for 60 years. The revolution of mass production began during this era and business’ main focus was on selling their products rather than satisfying customer needs (Crane, 2014). The Ford Motor Company played a big part in the production era, this is when Henry Ford introduced the first moving assembly line. The moving assembly line at the Ford Motor Company was able to to meet the ever growing demands of a motorized vehicle by producing one Model T vehicle every 24 seconds (History, 2009). The main focus of The Ford Motor Company was the amount of vehicles the assembly line could produce and sell; this was done by creating using production plants where the parts being used to produce the vehicles could be interchangeable on the assembly line, and the ability of the assembly line to move instead of being static. After the production era came the sales era, beginning in the 1920s and lasted until the 1960s. Industries, like the flour industry, were producing more than customers could...
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...CANADIAN TIRE CORPORATION, LIMITED 2012 Annual Information Form February 21, 2013 ANNUAL INFORMATION FORM CANADIAN TIRE CORPORATION, LIMITED TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. 2. Corporate Structure Description of the Business 2.1 Retail Business 2.2 Financial Services Business 2.3 Seasonality of the Business 2.4 Intangible Properties 2.5 Economic Dependence 2.6 Lending 2.7 Financing of the Business 2.8 Risk Factors 2.9 Employees 2.10 Social and Environmental Policies General Development of the Business 3.1 Retail Business Developments 3.2 Financial Services Business Developments 3.3 Other Business Developments Capital Structure 4.1 Description of Capital Structure 4.2 Market for Securities Dividends Security Ratings Transfer Agents and Registrars Directors and Officers Interests of Experts 1 1 2 10 11 12 12 13 13 13 15 15 16 16 21 21 23 23 24 25 26 27 27 32 32 33 i 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Legal Proceedings and Regulatory Actions 11. Additional Information ANNEX A – Audit Committee Mandate and Charter Certain brands mentioned in this report are the trade-marks of Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited, Mark’s Work Wearhouse Ltd., FGL Sports Ltd. or used under license. Others are the property of their respective owners. CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD LOOKING INFORMATION This Annual Information Form, and the documents incorporated by reference herein, contain forward-looking information that reflects management’s current expectations related to matters such as future...
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...Group report The Home Depot, Inc. and Canadian Tire Corporation Financial Statement Analysis Part A Description of Retail Industry: Retail is the process of selling consumer goods and/or services to customers through multiple channels of distribution to earn a profit. Demand is created through diverse target markets and promotional tactics, satisfying consumers' wants and needs through a lean supply chain. In the 2000s, an increasing amount of retailing is done online using electronic payment and delivery via a courier or postal mail. Retailing includes subordinated services, such as delivery. The term "retailer" is also applied where a service provider services the small orders of a large number of individuals, rather than large orders of a small number of wholesale, corporate or government clientele. Shops may be on residential streets, streets with few or no houses, or in a shopping mall. Shopping streets may be for pedestrians only. Sometimes a shopping street has a partial or full roof to create a more comfortable shopping environment protecting customers from various types of weather conditions such as extreme temperatures, winds or precipitation. Online retailing, a type of electronic commerce used for business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions and mail order, are forms of non-shop retailing. Retail Industry competitive environment: Retail industry is a highly competitive industry. Recently, as technologies advances dramatically, traditional retailers have been transforming...
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...Customer Segment Customer Channel Customer Relationship Key resoures Key Activities Key Partners Value Creation Value Preposition Fgkjeiub67thyj7u KK Revenue Models Cost Structure MEYER VITABIOTICS (Pharmacy) 1) Key Resources:- Excellent work, Growth environment to people coming from diverse background, Extensive array of experience, Innovation, Mutual respect. 2) Key Activities:- Sales purchases, Maintaining stock, Development of promotion inputs like visual- aids, LBLS, Carton Labels, package insert to give attractive look to the products. Should also have Medical Representative experience. Such a Implementation of product strategy and generate prescription. Full fill all the sales activity. B pharma/B.Sc with 1 to 2 yrs of exp. in sales. Should have the knowledge in pediatric segment. 3) Key Partners:- * Candimale cream * OMEGA - MEYER LTD. * Global Partners VITABIOTICS. * Jersey 4)Value Creation:- * Well-equipped * modern facilities for Manufacturing * Quality Assurance * Research and Development 5)Value Preposition:- * ISO 9001 * Q9001-2000 high pharmaceutical standards of quality control. * Good Manufacturing Practice * Quality control team 6)Customer Segment:- * Anti-infective * Nutrition...
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...Daniel Mr. Caney 3-Amer. Lit. and Comp. 22 March 2011 Automobiles In his novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts automobiles as a major symbol. The automobile is a possession that is owned by the characters in the novel. In The Great Gatsby, the automobile is a symbol of the power and violence of the upper social class. In his novel, Fitzgerald depicts Owl Eyes being accused of driving an automobile into a ditch. Fitzgerald writes: A man in a long duster had dismounted from the wreck and now stood in the middle of the road looking from the car to the tire and from the tire to the observers in a pleasant puzzled way. “See!” he explained. “It went in the ditch.” (58-59) Through this scene, Owl Eyes is depicted as being accused of drunkenly driving a car into a ditch (59). Through Owl Eyes’ drunkenness, Fitzgerald depicts power carelessly used to lead to violence. In The Great Gatsby, the automobile is an invention that only the rich can afford, hence giving them a certain power that not all social classes can obtain. The automobile gives the upper class a certain mobility that allows them to move through American society easily. Hence, the automobile is a tangible symbol of the upper class’ power. When Owl Eyes is accused of crashing the car, Gatsby’s guests become concerned and upset at the mishap (59). The crashing leads to a minor violent situation against Owl Eyes. Hence the crashing of the automobile is a symbol of...
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...Michelin The Michelin Tyre Company Ltd, incorporated in 1905, was set up in 1889 by two brothers, Andre and Edouard Michelin. Now active in more than 170 countries, Michelin operates across all continents of the world, manufacturing and selling tyres for all kinds of vehicles, publishing maps and guides, and operating Specialist digital services. Most people recognize our world famous mascot, Bibendum, 'The Michelin man', looking good considering his age! My own division is concerned with tyres made for heavy goods vehicles over 3.5tonnes, including trucks, coaches, and buses. In the UK and the Republic of Ireland, we have an extensive sales force supporting thousands of tyre distributors, from tyres used in cars and trucks, to those used in specialist industrial and earthmoving equipment. To conduct environmental scanning, we adopt several approaches. We use joint panels with key national and regional trade journals, conducting telephone questionnaires with customers on challenges, issues, and developments in the haulage industry. Our sales Force in the UK and Ireland is responsible for collecting market intelligence, especially on competitors' actions and products. We work with the Road Haulage Association and the Freight Transport Association, which offers us a chance to mix with customers in a non-selling environment, and we belong to the Euro Pool organization, an independent body which acts on behalf of all European tyre manufacturers. Here, we declare our sales on a...
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...1. Be able to identify and select sources of data and information 1.1 Discuss the nature of data and information Before actually looking at the nature of data and information it is important to note that information is a subset of data in that it has a use for the user; as the name implies it informs the user about some subject, but for another person without a use or understanding it is simply data. It is easy to lose the information in the enormous quantity of data available today from many sources especially the internet and additionally to take data presented electronically as being fact whereas in reality it bears little similarity to the truth. In earlier days going to the library and reading a book was a guarantee of receiving information pertinent to the time the book was written. Few, if any, factual books were printed without the information within, being verified by some body. Today on the internet a huge majority of the data presented is not verified and is very unreliable. There are many different types of data but fundamentally these can be reduced to two types: Quantitative: This is the easiest type of data to handle as it has a quantity associated to it be it weight, height, length, frequency, speed… All terms people immediately associate to and given a method the data will always produce the same result. Qualitative: This is a much more difficult data type to handle as it is subjective, which is the better for you, which is more colourful, who will win...
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...Homework: Answer question # 7 at the end of chapter three and question # 3 at the end of chapter four, and the internet exercises on page 76 and page 112. All assignments are due by Sunday, midnight, MST. CH3, Q7 – The owner of a small hardware store—the only one in a medium-sized town in the mountains—has just learned that a large home improvement chain plans to open a new store nearby. How difficult will it be for the owner to plan for this competitive threat? Explain your answer. At first it would be very difficult. The small hardware store owner should choose strategies that avoid head-on competition. The owner needs to find new or better ways to satisfy customers needs and provide value. The small owner should actively seek information about the large home improvement chain and what all they entail? A lot of the information can come from customers and from the internet, remember word of mouth is huge. It is just like having McDonalds next to Burger King, each will have their own regular customers coming in, but each will have to keep bringing something new to the table, to try and get more customers in. CH4, Q3 – List the types of potential segmenting dimensions, and explain which you try to apply first, second, and third in a particular situation. If the nature of the situation would affect your answer, explain how. 1) Behavioral needs, attitudes, and how present and potential goods and services fit into customers consumption patterns. 2) Urgency...
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...This PSA starts with bearded family guy, probably around in his early 30s, wearing a black shirt, a dark blue jeans sitting on what seems to be a car seat. Anyways, he starts the car engine with his right hand and presses the accelerator with his right foot. Everything seems right until the time where this driver gets distracted by looking at the left where his daughter was situated. After taking a glance, the vehicle driver, holding the steering wheel seems to be desperate trying to make a right move. It appears to be a car’s accident. There is when it comes to scene his angel guardians as daughter and his wife. They both saved this feckless driver by holding him from chest to waist, from what it could have been a catastrophe. Then, the lights slowly start to loss its brightness just to give way to the words and logo. The ad’s setting takes place in a very organized living room of a common middle-class family. His daughter, a light-blue eyed girl, who is surely in her very young age is wearing a gold necklace and a pink dress. The driver’s ear to ear smile suddenly transforms into a huge traumatized look. The rapid closed-up toward the driver embraced the audience into any forthcoming event. The main character, with a bemused look tries to make a right move holding the steering wheel. Fortunately for this family guy, the daughter and the mother reach him. His daughter started saving him by putting her hands in a position of a seatbelt around the driver’s waist. Then, the...
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...This assignment shall be analysing the case study on Michelin .An exploration of Michelin's strengths and weaknesses both internally and externally, and most importantly identifying the management challenges faced by Michelin. This assignment shall thoroughly address how the challenges can be solved using the principles that were mastered during the study of Strategic Management. To find the strengths of Michelin, one will be looking at what the company is good at and also what they are doing well at. According to the case study ,the weaknesses are what Michelin is poor at and those things they need to improve on for Michelin to be successful and to grow as a company. So therefore their weakness are their major management challenges. By being able to look at the strengths and weaknesses of Michelin both internally and externally one can start to plan for Michelin in the future and to be able to look at what Michelin is going not so well and find steps to sort these problems out, which is what this essay will address. Some of Michelin's internal strength is that at the present they have three lines of production to follow. They produce the Michelin guide, and road maps, although their main line of production is their tyres .So the fact that Michelin is in more than one line of production gives them the competitive edge over their competitors. Michelin is committed to safety and is committed to keeping up with research and development in all their production and products...
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...Moments are known to change one’s life completely. Something beautiful or drastic could happen just in a minutes’ time and could alter the way one thinks or behaves altogether. Such was the case with me, when an incident on the 30th of October, 2012, changed the way I drove. It was my birthday. The day had been going well except the few delays before the party at Boat Club. I was anxiously waiting for nightfall since quite a few of my old friends were turning up this time: most of them were studying abroad and it had been a while since I had met them. The celebrations were under way by half past nine and a couple of hours later, the guests had started to leave. By the time everyone had left, it was a quarter to twelve and my best friend was the only one left since I had to drop him home on my way back. It was late and my parents had started calling my phone so we rushed out and into my car. The roads were quiet and empty since it was past midnight on a weekday. I was driving over the speed limit. I distinctly remember my friend telling me to slow down, and, using the phrase “better late than never”. I turned towards him, looking at his face over the rim of my glasses, and said “don’t worry, you know how I drive. I’ve got this!” I had been driving for a few years so I was confident about myself but what soon followed shattered all my confidence and courage since after that night. The car was going at a 100 km/hr and just when I crossed Pizza Hut at the Mai Kolachi – Boat...
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...ME3330 Project 1 Static Design Click Link Below To Buy: http://hwcampus.com/shop/me3330-project-1-static-design/ The sketch below shows a forklift truck negotiating a 15° ramp onto a 4 ft high loading platform. The truck and product it is carrying weighs 5000 lbf and it has a 42 inch wheel base (distance between front and rear tires). When loaded, the center of gravity of the truck is 32 inches from the front tire and 10 inches from the back tire. Design two steel or aluminum ramps that are wide enough to accommodate the tire width which is 6 inches. Allow for extra width space on each side of the tire on each ramp. Assume static loading with a safety factor of 2 when the load is at the "worst" spot on the ramp which causes a maximum bending moment. Minimize the ramp weight by using a sensible cross section geometry. Use steel or aluminum for the material. Assume the ramps can be made of any steel or aluminum in your handout table. Aluminum would be better, lighter. choice. Take a look at channel sections for steel and aluminum which you can find in The Engineering Toolbox: http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/aluminum-channels-d 1327.html http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/american-standard-steel-channels-d 1321.html SCHEDULE • Mar 9 Problem solution steps outline • Mar 16 Most calculations done (there is no class) • Mar 23 Hand in project report. Must be written up with problem statement, goals, all calculations shown, V & M diagrams, references used...
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