...Steven Fox Strategic Management Professor Mak November 11, 2013 Strategic Analysis Apex Performance is a shoe company with the mission to sell good quality shoes at affordable prices. Our strategy is to attack and focus on a specific market segment until we have a large market share. We are Apex Performance and we want you to get your "bang for the buck" out of our products. Our company's objectives focused on five important goals: 1. Grow out earnings per share by at least 4% in the first few years. 2. Increase our Return on Equity (ROE) each year by at least 10%. 3. Uphold an A- credit rating in case we needed to borrow money. 4. Keep a good image rating by maintaining at least an 80. 5. Increase stock prices an average of 5% annually. The graph below shows that Apex Performance struggled to obtain our image rating goal of 80. Our numbers were below average and our goal was not achieved in our first three years as a company. [pic] Note: Y-axis is in years From the beginning of Y11 to the end of Y13, Apex Performance struggled in many key areas. We had a small global market share, extremely low production in comparison to other companies, our S/Q rating was below industry average, not enough advertising and a shortage of model availability. Therefore, in our first three years of operation we saw limited results and were unable to generate a high profit. [pic] The graph above shows the production capacity in Y12. In comparison...
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...General Background on Global Microfinance Trends 0 Contents 1.0 OVER VIEW OF MICROFINANCE IN GHANA...................................................... 3 1.1 DEFINITION .....................................................................................................................3 1.2 EVOLUTION OF MICROFINANCE IN GHANA ..............................................................3 1.3 THE NEED FOR MICROFINANCE IN GHANA................................................................4 1.4 MICROFINANCE CLIENTS IN GHANA...........................................................................5 2.0 PROFILES OF MICROFINANCE APEX BODIES IN GHANA................................... 5 2.1 Ghana Co-operative Credit Unions Association (GCCUA).....................................5 2.1.1 Some Current Performance of GCCUA.............................................................. 6 2.1.2 Outstanding Challenges and Future Resource Requirements of CUA ........ 6 2.1.3 Summary of Credit Unions Annual Performance ............................................. 6 2.2 GHANA CO-OPERATIVE SUSU COLLECTORS’ ASSOCIATION (GCSCA)..................7 2.2.1 Some Current Performance of GCSCA .............................................................. 7 2.2.2 Outstanding Challenges and Future Resource Requirements for GCSCA .. 7 2.2.3 PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF GCSCA TO CUA AS AT OCTOBER 2007.. 8 2.3 ASSOCIATION OF FINANCIAL NGOs (ASSFIN) .....................................................
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...intend to invest more in marketing in the early rounds of the simulation to maximize awareness and accessibility in order to spend less in subsequent rounds to maintain adequate levels. We intend to achieve a minimum of 80% awareness by round 4 for all of our primary products, though we will likely continue on a similar course with regard to accessibility. Unfortunately, due to what we believe to be an unexplained glitch in the system, our awareness dollars seemed to be wasted on our new products. The primary evidence of this lies with Apex, a new product introduced in practice round 2. Apex started with 25% awareness as a new product in round 2. We invested $1.9M in round 3, only to have our awareness drop to 20%. Therefore, we spent only the $1.4M necessary to maintain awareness in round 4, as we did not want to waste money. We also chose to only invest $1200 in awareness for our newer product, Atlas, given the experience with Apex. Regrettably, this hurt our customer survey scores for both products in round 4. 1.2. Product Attributes...
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...intend to invest more in marketing in the early rounds of the simulation to maximize awareness and accessibility in order to spend less in subsequent rounds to maintain adequate levels. We intend to achieve a minimum of 80% awareness by round 4 for all of our primary products, though we will likely continue on a similar course with regard to accessibility. Unfortunately, due to what we believe to be an unexplained glitch in the system, our awareness dollars seemed to be wasted on our new products. The primary evidence of this lies with Apex, a new product introduced in practice round 2. Apex started with 25% awareness as a new product in round 2. We invested $1.9M in round 3, only to have our awareness drop to 20%. Therefore, we spent only the $1.4M necessary to maintain awareness in round 4, as we did not want to waste money. We also chose to only invest $1200 in awareness for our newer product, Atlas, given the experience with Apex. Regrettably, this hurt our customer survey scores for both products in round 4. 1.2. Product Attributes...
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...About Pfeiffer Pfeiffer serves the professional development and hands-on resource needs of training and human resource practitioners and gives them products to do their jobs better. We deliver proven ideas and solutions from experts in HR development and HR management, and we offer effective and customizable tools to improve workplace performance. From novice to seasoned professional, Pfeiffer is the source you can trust to make yourself and your organization more successful. Essential Knowledge Pfeiffer produces insightful, practical, and comprehensive materials on topics that matter the most to training and HR professionals. Our Essential Knowledge resources translate the expertise of seasoned professionals into practical, how-to guidance on critical workplace issues and problems. These resources are supported by case studies, worksheets, and job aids and are frequently supplemented with CD-ROMs, websites, and other means of making the content easier to read, understand, and use. Essential Tools Pfeiffer’s Essential Tools resources save time and expense by offering proven, ready-to-use materials—including exercises, activities, games, instruments, and assessments—for use during a training or team-learning event. These resources are frequently offered in loose-leaf or CD-ROM format to facilitate copying and customization of the material. Pfeiffer also recognizes the remarkable power of new technologies in expanding the reach and effectiveness of training. While e-hype...
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...Ranollo March 4, 2014 CBET-02-806E Prof. Acosta Question #1. Every parts of the organization, why should be an expression of the purpose & policies of firm. Answer: * According to Henry Mintzberg, most organizations can be divided into 5 basic parts. The, Apex, Techno Structure, Support Staff. These are the people that do the basic work of producing the products or delivering the services. In the simplest organizations, the operators are largely self-sufficient, coordinating through mutual adjustment. In those organizations, there is almost nothing but operating core. As the organization grows the need for direct supervision increases. This results in the development of a strategic apex, which in the simplest case is just a single manager. The apex is charged with ensuring that the organization executes its mission. They are responsible to the owners, government agencies, unions, communities, etc. The techno structure’s mission is to effect coordination through standardization. For example, the industrial engineers standardize work processes; the strategic planners standardize outputs; and the personnel trainers and recruiters standardize skills. The apex, middle line, and operating core are known collectively as line positions. In contrast, the techno structure and support staffs are known collectively as staff positions. Originally, the meaning of these terms was that line positions had formal authority to make decisions, while staff positions...
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...factors go into the situation and make it difficult to choose the best outcome. An example of a situation is in the article, “A Question of Appearances”, where Maura, an HR director for a fast-growing information technology company, has to make a decision that could either benefit the company great financially, or cause a very valuable employee to quit. Background Techno Inc. is an up and coming company in the information technology industry. Jack Ridge is Techno’s Vice President for sales and marketing. He has been working very hard to sell a major contract to a company called Apex Co. Sealing the deal would mean a multimillion-dollar contract with Apex Co. This would be huge financially for Techno Inc. and this is why Jack is going to do everything in his power to seal this deal he has been working on. Jack is fairly confident, but there is just one part of the deal he is uncertain about. “Apex executives impressed on him that the company is very...
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...Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 1.1 ORIGIN OF THE REPORT 3 1.2 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 3 1.3 METHODOLOGY USED IN THE STUDY 3 1.4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY 3 1.5 STUDY AREA 4 1.6 LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY 4 Theoretical Overview 5 2.1 Economy of Bangladesh 7 2.2 Economic outlook 7 Industry Analysis 8 COMPANY ANALYSIS 9 ANALYSIS & INTERPRETATION 9 Conclusion 13 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Today’s business world is so much competitive as a result every person has to be very cautious while taking an investment decision. Various types of analysis are performed by the investors to choose the most perfect securities. In a portfolio construction a person analysis the whole macro as well as micro economic scenario of a nation, in industry analysis the industry condition, movement is closely examined and in a company analysis the specific firm is analyzed to take a decision. This are steps of fundamental analysis.. In this report all this are performed on ten firms. Our selected firms are from different industries. All of these companies’ shares are category A shares in DSE. We have collected our necessary information from primary and secondary sources. In our entire report we try to focus on portfolio construction from an investor’s perspective. We have divided the topics of the report into different segments. First we have discussed about the origin of the report, objectives and scope of the study, the method of preparing the report, limitation of the study. Then we have chosen the companies...
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...CHAPTER-1 1.1 INTRODUCTION The textile sector played a very important role in many developed /developing countries. In Bangladesh this sector has also contributed as well as still contributing towards the development of the socio-economic condition of the general masses. Textile industry has made substantial progress and has continued to contribute to the national economy, both by reducing imports and increasing exports. The existing scenario of the textiles sector is presented below: • Textile sector contributes around 38% of the industrial value addition and earns about 75% of the total export earni9ngs of the country. • Around 4.5 million workforces are engaged in the textiles sector of which 50% are poor women. • In the 1990’s value addition in the RMG (ready made garments) was 20% which by now stands at around 45%. • Around 25% of the total demand of the woven fabrics for the export oriented RMG is supplied by the local weaving mills & the 40% of the fabrics requirements of the cotton woven RMG exports are met by local mills. • 90% of the domestic fabrics and yarn requirements are met by our primary textiles sector (PTS). [SOURCE: Page: 21, annual report 2005, BTMA]. The primary textile sector (PTS) is meeting the major demand of yarn & fabrics of the local markets. In addition to that a significant part of the demand of fabrics of export oriented RMG units is being met by the PTS. With gradual increase in population and expansion of trade...
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...total sales ¢ Cement – continue the high proportion in this sector Leading business in the group→ generate majority of sale High demand in emerging market, 62% of cement sales Ø Ø ¢ Aggregates and Concrete –expand aggregates and concrete business in emerging markets, explore the potential there, e.g. build factories Aggregates demand increase 5.2 percent in 2015 (Concrete Construction, 2012) and concrete demand also rise in 2017 (Burgess, A., 2014) Demand of concrete fell 40% in EU since 2008 (The Construction Index, 2011) Growth mainly from emerging country (The Freedonia Group , 2012) Small % of sales for aggregates and concrete activities in emerging markets Ø Ø Ø Ø ¢ Gypsum – invest more resources in the whole sector Small proportion in the group recently Forecast to grow at a CAGR of 9.9% (Apex, S., 2013) Reach approximately $2.4 billion by 2018, and $3.8 billion by 2023 (Apex, S., 2013) Ø Ø Ø Question 3 Geographic presence of Lafarge -Current Situation -Worldwide presence in 79 countries However-unbalanced geographic localization -Main focus: Western Europe &North America -Locate...
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...Arts Bangladesh, this term paper entitled - "BAY Emporium’s marketing plan". The topic of the term paper assigned and approved by our respective financial management course instructor Mohammad Sakhawat H Bhuiyan. 2. Corporate Connection: Our company (Bay Emporium Ltd.) is a new shoe company in Bangladesh. Our company also grow slowly it outlets of some major location of Dhaka cities. We also want to grow our business. The brand is getting popular slowly shoes & sandals especially for men. 1. Mission: To satisfy customers by providing commercial fashion footwear at superior value and quality served by competence sales associates. 2. Vision: To position Bay Emporium as one of the leading marketers of family footwear for medium to medium high income group of customers in Bangladesh. 3. Connection of mission & vision: Now we open eight showrooms in six area of Dhaka. Every showroom is near to the Bata & Apex shoes. We also give the similar price of their product to the competitive market. We provide good quality product as customer choice. 3. Environmental analysis and forecasting: We have external & internal environment. Both of the environments are important for our company. 3.1 External environment: External environment are the larger societal forces which affect the internal environment. Company’s growth or decline in international trade, local trading is some example of the...
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...White House stating the new forecast of economic growth will be lower than previously forecasted. Their new forecast included lower GDP, higher unemployment rates, higher consumer prices, higher chances of a recession, and however, improved rates of inflation. Economists’ main concern is businesses and consumers will decrease the amounts they are spending and investing (Executive 1). This will in turn hinder the financial growth of the economy. Fifteen different printing companies or printing manufacturers commented on their views of the new White House forecast and their plan for the upcoming year. Some companies, like Apex Color and Lippmann Printing and Graphics, agreed the print industry will struggle without a “healthy economy” (Executive 2). According to the responses, an unhealthy economy is attributed to the country’s poor housing and mortgage situation, rising fuel costs, rising energy costs, rising paper costs and rising healthcare costs (Executive 2, 6). President and CEO of Ennis also mentioned that companies who struggle with their cost structure will continue to struggle in 2008 opposed to companies who are “financially stable” (Executive 2). Some organizations, Continental Datalabel for example, agreed that past growth and GDP will be crucial for success in the industry for the year 2008 (Executive 2). One company credits its past service, quality and versatility of the equipment sold to its past success and plans to continue to pursue those aspects in the next...
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...WP/04/01 Bank of Uganda Working Paper Recognising the Role of Micro Finance Institutions in Uganda Justine Nannyonjo and James Nsubuga _________________________________ Bank of Uganda 2 WP/04/01 BOU Working PAPER Research Department Recognising the Role of Micro Finance Institutions in Uganda By Justine Nannyonjo and James Nsubuga February 2004 Abstract This paper shows that micro finance is an important part of the growth strategy in Uganda and has in the recent years gained increasing recognition. This is evidenced by initiatives and strong commitment by government, donors and practitioners towards supporting micro finance activities in Uganda, and the rapid expansion of the micro finance industry. Integration of Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs) into the formal financial system has been established, while measures have been taken to build capacity and enhance coordination in the micro finance industry, as well as expand the outreach of sustainable micro finance. The paper, however, identifies a number of challenges to the development of the micro finance industry: There is need to strengthen the capacity of MFIs to build their management information systems, and to rebuild infrastructure in underserved areas as well as strengthen capacity for identifying potential market structures, which could serve as the basis on which to build sustainable micro finance services. Other challenges include restoring peace in conflict areas and strengthening...
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...APEX MINING CO., INC. May 2, 2011 PHILIPPINE STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. Disclosure Department Tower One and Exchange Plaza Ayala Triangle, Ayala Avenue Makati City Attention: Ms. Janet Encarnacion Head, Disclosure Dept. Dear Ms. Encarnacion: We are submitting herewith SEC Form 17-A for the year ended December 31, 2010. Very truly yours, ROSANNA A. PARICA Corporate Information Officer Head Office: Unit 1704 17th Floor, Prestige Tower Condominium, F. Ortigas Jr. Road, Ortigas Center , Pasig City 1605 Tel. Nos.: 706-2805/706-2806 * Fax No.: 706-2804 Minesite: Maco, Compostela Valley COVER SHEET 4 0 6 2 1 S.E.C. Registration Number A P E X M I N I N G C O . I N C . (Company's Full Name) 1 7 T H F. O R T I F L OOR G A S J R P R E S T R D I G E T O W E R P A S I G C I T Y O R TI GA S (Business Address: No. Street City/Town//Province) ROSANNA A. PARICA Contact Person 706-2805 Company Telephone Number 1 2 Month 3 1 Day SEC Form 17-A FORM TYPE 0 6 Month 3 0 Day Fiscal Year Annual Meeting Secondary License Type, If Applicable Dept. Requiring this Doc. Amended Articles Number/Section Total Amount of Borrowings of Stockholders Domestic Foreign To be accomplished by SEC Personnel concerned File Number LCU Document I.D. Cashier STAMPS ck ink for scanning purposes SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION SEC FORM 17-A ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17...
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...model and operating strategy for the organization I led at that time. I will expand further on this subject in today’s post . Abraham Maslow first proposed his hierarchy of needs in a 1943 paper titled “ A Theory of Human Motivation.” Usually depicted as a pyramid, the hierarchy basically describes the fact that, in order for humans to reach their maximum potential, which Maslow defines as “self actualization,” certain basic psychological and physical needs must be met. These build upon each other beginning at the bottom of the pyramid with physiological needs (These include the most basic needs that are vital to survival, such as the need for water, air, food and sleep), and culminate at the apex of the pyramid with self-actualization (self-awareness, concern with personal growth, less concern with the opinions of others and interested fulfilling their potential). If you are not familiar with the theory see thislink for a good overview. I have found that, in order for IT organizations to obtain the equivalent of self actualization, which I call “strategic innovation and partnership,’ certain basic “needs” must be met. Failure to do so will almost always prevent reaching the top of the pyramid. The overall concept is depicted in the accompanying graphic. As one moves from the bottom to the top of the pyramid, the capabilities describe move from mostly tactical to mostly strategic, from commodity services to industry/company specific ones. Those at the bottom, because...
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