...INTRODUCTION ABOUT APU APIIT Education Group has risen throughout the years as one of Malaysia's Largest Education Groups tending to all levels of Education. The Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU) is amongst Malaysia's Premier Private Universities, and is the place a one of a kind combination of innovation, advancement and imagination works adequately towards planning graduates for huge parts in business and society all around. APU has earned an advantageous notoriety as a honor winning University through its accomplishments in winning a large group of prestigious grants at national and global levels, and additionally a fabulous reputation in creating profoundly employable graduates who can quickly add to industry upon graduation. . Initially settled as the Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology (APIIT) in 1993 and the Asia Pacific University College of Technology and Innovation (UCTI) in 2004, APU's sound way to deal with supporting school leavers into qualified experts has brought about our graduates being exceptionally looked for after by businesses. With a universal understudy group from more than 110 nations examining in its Malaysian grounds, APU offers a genuinely cosmopolitan learning environment which gets ready understudies well for the worldwide difficulties which lie ahead. While Technology frames a typical center as an empowering influence over its scholarly projects, APU offers a wide scope of projects including territories...
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...Five Guys Name: Institution: FIVE GUYS Five Guys is a private owned restaurant chain that serves fast and casual food. The restaurant focuses on French fries, hot dogs, soft drinks, and hamburgers. Five Guys started in 1986 and with its headquarters in Lorton, Virginia. It has branches in more than 40 states in the US, as well as in six Canadian provinces. This paper aims to determine the business that Five Guys is in, run the rule on their primary competitors, perform the restaurant’s SWOT analysis, and finally give strategies for the hotel chain in the coming five years. 1. Business Case Five Guys began in 1986 by the Murrells together with their 4 sons. Originally, the restaurant's name was Jerry and the sons. After beginning the business, Janie and Jerry Murrell had a fifth son, with all sons involved in running the business as the Five Guys. Together, the brothers did away with ideas of broad menus, favouring a more honest and solid bugger (DATAMONITOR, 2010). They pride themselves in offering non-frozen buggers, which are hand-patted from ground beef, and 80% lean. The fries preparation occurs daily including cutting the potatoes, along with in the house and fresh buggers. The restaurant created a cult following by word of mouth. Five Guys price their burgers at four dollars; yet manage to keep their clients coming back due to their appeal for high quality and fresh food. The pricing makes the restaurants enjoy increased success in areas with higher...
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...issue.| | |This means that the problem statement will rarely, if ever, be, “Should decider do A or B” | | |Note the objectives of the key character. If secondary characters have objectives that might have an impact on the | | |recommendation, note these here. | |25 |Situation Analysis | | |Start with a paragraph that summarises the business situation (eg do strengths outweigh weaknesses? Is it an | | |attractive industry (i.e. profitable) to be in? etc. | | | | | |Do whatever analysis you deem is necessary. You will use the following frameworks: Five Forces, SWOT, Historical | |...
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...AON Corporation LaDeanna Guy MGT 521 November 27, 2011 U of P – Clance Doelling AON Corporation SWOT Analysis AON CORPORATION COMPANY PROFILE In 1919, William Clement Stone formed Combined Insurance Company of America. In 1960’s Pat Ryan formed the Ryan Insurance Group. The two later merged in 1982 and 5 years later in 1987 the company was renamed to Aon meaning oneness, a Gaelic word. The ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange is AON. ACE Limited brought the corporation for $2.4 billion in April 2008. At the end of December 2010, Aon reported revenues of $8,512 million increase of 12.1% from the previous year. The operating income was $1,059 million increase of 11.6%. However, the net profit was $706 million which result in a decrease of 5.5% from the previous year. The company did experience a slump in 2002 when Securities and Exchange Commission questioned their accounting practice by taking a write-off of $56 million in the last quarter of 2001. Around this time Aon expenses increased as well and competition was succeeding. This caused investors to be on edge. Aon begin to conduct a global re-organization. The restructure entailed actions that were intended to streamline the organization and improve ability to serve clients. The plan was to result in $240 million of annualized savings by 2010. (Aon2) This resulted in a more profitable growth and higher cash flow. In 2010, Aon total executive compensation payout was $61,191,960. This was an increase...
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...Aqua Fish Canada Inc. (AFC) To: Guy Mills, President & CEO From: Adam Rice, Controller Date: May 16th, 2014 Re:Report on business strategies to follow to meet strategic goals set by Board of Directors. Executive Summary: Aqua Fish Canada (AFC) is a Canadian owned company involved in aquaculture in the Maritimes, whose mission is to provide sustainable source of fresh, diesase-free fish to domestic and export markets through aquaculture farming. AFC's goal is to be able to diversify into other markets, mainly the shellfish farming market, while also increasing profitability in the salmon operations. All potential investments must also yield at 10% rate of return in order for AFC to approve the project. Three alternatives were evaluated to hep AFC achieve its goals. The first alternative is to build a blue mussel farm in PEI. The second alternative is to build an American oyster farm in New Brunswick and the last alternative is to sponsor project Blue Wave to genetically modify salmon. It's recommended that AFC accept all three alternatives, as all three meet the 10% required rate of return. Minor issues, include a potential lawsuit against AFC for fish which escaped from Site 3, unethical behaviour by Mrs. Maise in advising employees to write down inventory shipment value to please customers, legislation which requires AFC to cover costs of dismantling any owned aquaculture sites, bonus calculation...
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...Reliance |Growth through Vision | | | |"Growth has no limit at Reliance. I keep revising my vision. | |Only when you can dream it, you can do it." | | | |Dhirubhai H. Ambani | |Founder Chairman | |Reliance Group of Companies | | | | | | Reliance |[pic] |[pic]...
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...THE SPORTS GUY 1. CASE SYNOPSIS The Sports Guy is a small sporting goods store located in a small town in the Greater Toronto Area and owned by Bob Rhodes (“Rocky”). Ten years back Rocky decided to start his own sporting goods business, of which he owns 60% and family members and friends 40%. Rocky purchased a land in town, with his startup capital and mortgage loan. Nearly 70% of the sales consist of equipment and uniforms bought by the local teams and the other 30% is consisting of wide range of sports and recreational merchandise. Its main competitor in town is the Canadian Tire store and Sports Guy’s sales have not been growing much in the recent years. Rocky lacks the ability to manage his inventory and his declining inventory turnover is increasing his debt. Rocky wants his business to grow but to do so he needs to access bank credit to finance higher inventories and future expansions. 2. PROBLEM STATEMENT The main problem for Rocky is to improve Sports Guy’s profitability. 3. SITUATION ANALYSIS SWOT ANALYSIS: Strengths * Passion and knowledge about sports – it is a fairly attractive industry for Rocky because his expertise, passion and community involvement differentiate his business from his competitors * Growing company – growing rapidly for the last few years and the area around the store has become a prosperous neighborhood, making their location a busy commercial area * Very well advertised in the local community (TV channel, flyers, local...
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...------------------------------------------------- The Sports guy Key Events / Case Synopsis The Sports Guy is an independent sporting goods store operating outside the GTA owned by Bob “Rocky” Rhodes who is a considerably high profile personality in the local sports community. He has been a star player on local teams his whole life and has always made it a priority to show support for all things related to his sports community. Most of The Sports Guy’s sales consist of equipment and uniforms to local teams. Around 70% of their sales are made up by purchases from hockey, baseball, football, soccer teams with the remaining 30% made up from walk-in retail trade. Rocky has problems with inventory management, low ratio of sales by walk in customers and his major source of sales for teams declining due to lack of registration in local teams. Despite being located in a prosperous neighborhood with little competition except a small, older Canadian tire that offers low prices but lacks in quality and customer service, The Sports Guy is having financial troubles. Problem Statement and Objectives The Sports Guy’s profitability has not been growing sufficiently enough to provide Rocky with the means to grow his company as the town develops. A lack of inventory system which affects his most profitable sales group: walk-ins has also increased his short term debt and interest expenses which all eat away at the already tight profit margins. Decline of popularity for kids’ leagues...
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...SWOT Analysis for McDonald’s Yolanda Jennings Columbia Southern University Abstract This paper explores the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) of McDonald’s. The analysis will list several examples of each. Strengths: 1. Strong brand name, image and reputation: The image of McDonald’s is recognized everywhere whether it be from the golden arches that light up the sky or the face of Ronald McDonald. It is the number one fast food company by sales, with more than 31,000 restaurants in over 120 countries. 2. Partnership with the best brands: McDonald’s offers the most popular brands in its restaurants. Companies such as Coca Cola, Dannon Yogurt and Heinz Ketchup are among the few that have ventured into business with them. 3. More than 80% of restaurants are owned by independent franchisees. This opens the market for future restaurants in more places which equates to more profits for the company.. 4. Children targeting: McDonald’s successfully targets very young children through its offering of playgrounds on the premises, toys with its meals and advertisements on billboards and in commercials. The toys they select are chosen based on the most current trends in movies, television shows and games. 5. Locations: Not only are there locations on public streets but McDonald’s has partnered with Wal-Mart, airports and theme parks to take advantage of highly frequented places. Weaknesses: 1. Unhealthy food menu: Although...
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...Sports Guy and raised capital from obtaining a bank loan and an equity investment from friends and family. His family and friends own 40% of the business while he owns the rest. Mortgage help him purchasing land in small town outside of GTA that consists of two lots on a corner in which one is used to build a store, and another one was planned for the parking lot but never executed the plan because of the surrounding activities. Local sports team account for 70% of the sales whereas 30% comes from regular walk-in customers. Problem Statement & Objectives The major problem is reducing profitability of the business and there is no proper management of the inventory, which leads to sale of inventory at discount rate. Also labor wages are also too high and reducing creditability of business lead to reduce in the trust of the business and loss of the customer due to improper inventory management. The objective is to get access to bank credit to finance high Analysis the financial health of the business and recommend the various way to get the business right on track Situation Analysis Summary The company sell retail sports product to the sport team and children’s. Also there is around 30% of walk-in customer, who help the business to manage inventory. This might not be attractive industry because buyer’s and potential entrants have high power in the market. Company strength out weight the weakness and opportunity and threats are evenly balanced. Porter’s Five Powers...
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...to male consumers. Introduction The following essay will discuss how and utilizing what methods that Revlon will market to male consumers. Revlon is an American, cosmetics, fragrance and skin care corporation that was founded in 1932. The company is known for providing cosmetics, health, and beauty products for a variety of consumers. There are several divisions of Revlon that target different types of customers such as; Princess Marcella Bourghese is the upscale and international division, Moon Drops is the dry skin division, and Etherea is the hypo-allergenic division. Revlon is now concentrating on developing their male market. http://www.revlon.com/ There are five topics that will be discussed in the essay. The first topic that will be discussed is to develop a marketing strategy for Revlon to enter the men’s cosmetics market with a complete product line. The second topic that will be discussed is to determine and discuss the needed branding strategy that Revlon should...
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...Muangsakul Chayut Bhamornsuwan Chattanon Saekow Thesis Denchartphan Jinnawat Pinchai 5122790124 Strategy Analysis 5122790645 Project Manager 5122792864 Marketing Analysis 5122790306 IT Management 5422800433 Collector & Complier yonitiam@gmail.com Stroke.boat@gmail.com Chattanon1@hotmail.com tumpkkk@hotmail.com Nut_narook@hotmail.com Submit to Dr. Saprangsit Mruetusatorn 13/09/11 Ihere.tv Project Report 2 Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ....................................................................................................................... 4 Background of the business ............................................................................................................. 5 The structure of ihere.tv ........................................................................................ 5 Business process & Marketing Activities ................................................................. 6 Applied Information Technology ............................................................................ 6 Analysis of Source of Revenue ............................................................................... 7 Outstanding Point of the business Model ............................................................... 7 Major Key Success Factor ....................................................................................... 8 Business analysis and planning ....................................................................................
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...1.0) Introduction Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation which designs and produces computer software, hardware, commercial server and other consumer electronics. Apple was established on April 1, 1976 and was incorporated in Cupertino California on January 3, 1977. Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne are best known as the founder of Apple. Currently, Apple is the world’s largest technology company and second largest company in terms of market capitalization. Apple is committed to delivering the optative individual computing and music experience to all sectors of society such as students, educators, creative professionals, businesses, government agencies, and consumers via its innovative hardware, software, peripherals, services, and Internet offerings. Unique ability are being leveraged by company strategy by designing and developing specifications and physical characteristics of its own operating system, hardware, and abundant software applications and technologies, it helps to provide customers with new products and solutions in terms of superior ease of use, seamless integrating, and innovative industrial design. It contributes amazing changes to the computer industry, and these changes are still visible in today’s world. In the past decade, Apple has developed into a complicated company which specializes in much more than just computers. In 2001, Apple broke the barrier with the iPod and finally...
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...March 20, 2014 GBA 490-005 Written Case #2: Panera Bread Company Table of Contents Executive Summary……………………………………………………….Page 3 Recommendations and Justification……………………………………..Page 4-5 Appendix…………………………………………………………………..Page 5 External Analysis of Industry Exhibit 1: Economic Characteristics & Driving Forces…………….Page 5 Exhibit 2: PESTEL Analysis……………………………………… .Page 7 Exhibit 3: Five Forces Analysis…………………………………….Page 8 Exhibit 4: Key Success Factors……………………………………..Page 9 Exhibit 5: Driving Forces…….……………………………………..Page 10 Internal Analysis of Yammer Exhibit 6: VRIN(E)……………………………………………… …Page 11 Exhibit 7: Weighted Competitive Strength Analysis.…. …………...Page 12 Exhibit 8: SWOT(TOWS)…………………………………………...Page 13 Exhibit 9: Strategic Group Map……………………………………..Page 14 Exhibit 10: Financial Analysis………………………………………Page 15 Executive Summary In 1981, Louis Kane and Ron Saich founded a bakery-café named Au Bon Pain that were opened up in airports, shopping centers, and malls throughout the east coast. Au Bon Pain found stiff competition from fast-food competitors, so they initiated a company overhaul and opened re-concepted restaurants which would soon become nation-wide. In August of 1998 they announced the sale of Au Bon Pain for $73 million in cash and the company changed its name to Panera Bread Company. Panera Bread Company was founded during a time of growth in the economy when customers were more willing to spend the few extra...
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...share. Overview Formed in 1998, Jet Blue (ticker: JBLU) began commercial air travel operations in February, 2000. Designated as an LCC (“Low Cost Carrier”), it did not launch as a typical no-comfort airline. In reality, Jet Blue was seen as a “value player” (Barney & Hesterly. Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage. Pg. 162). As a new entrant in a mature industry, Jet Blue used specific resources to position itself as a cost leader. These resources are the foundation of our Resource Based View (“RBV”) of the company. We will attempt to compare Jet Blue’s standing with that of Southwest Airlines (ticker: LUV), considered a market leader in its designated regions, and build on a strategy to differentiate the airline. SWOT Recap/Analysis |Strengths |Weaknesses | |Little variation in fleet’s aircraft |Aging fleet | |Low cost/high impact amenities |Lacks economy of...
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