...earrings, gold chains); watches; and gift items at some 1,125 stores and 655 kiosks, mostly in malls, throughout the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico. The firm, which targets the value-oriented customer, has a trio of large chains aimed at different jewelry markets: Gordon's Jewelers, flagship chain Zales Jewelers, and Piercing Pagoda. Zale also operates about 130 jewelry outlet stores, run more than 200 stores in Canada under the Peoples Jewellers and Mappins Jewellers names, sells online, and offers jewelry insurance. For nearly 90 years, Zale Corporation has provided extraordinary ways to say "I love you." As a leading specialty retailer in North America, the Zale family of brands provides our customers with fine jewelry, watches and gift items that offer great value at more than 1,930 locations throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, and online at www.zales.com and www.gordonsjewelers.com. With an exceptional assortment of jewelry and gifts, including diamonds and an exclusive wedding collection, our brands are famous for helping turn important milestones and celebrations into priceless, life-long memories. (http://www.zalecorp.com/AboutZaleCorp.aspx) The Zale Corporation Story From a single Zales Jewelers store in 1924, to six retail brands with approximately 1,900 stores throughout North America and online at www.zales.com and www.gordonsjewelers.com, Zale Corporation has stayed true to its original vision: Provide customers with quality merchandise at the lowest possible...
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...which Ms. Lawson was employed in. If necessary, information such as financial statements may need be needed to substantiate the business decision. Impact Assessment: Wal-Mart Stores, Signet Jewelers, and other companies have faced class action lawsuits regarding sex discrimination. Quite often it can have considerable affects. The CEO of Signet Jewelers for instance resigned amidst the scandal and the trial; their stocks fell considerably in that period. Signet Jewelers ultimately received summary judgement upon appeal, but the damage to their reputation and holdings was significant. Wal-Mart has been under fire for many things; low employee compensation, predatory practices with vendors, and in their most recent lawsuit, a severe disparity in pay between men and women. While the counter-suit by Ms. Lawson is not related to sex discrimination, the public tends to view discrimination against pregnant people as such. The public may be concerned that a company who sells jewelry which is primarily marketed to women might be enforcing an incongruent policy regarding pregnant employees. It is unlikely that the public discourse will affect the outcome of the case as the support from precedents, regulations, and the like substantiate the decisions Greene’s Jewelry made. Nevertheless, much like with Signet Jewelers, the company’s reputation will sustain damage for the time being. According to Public Relations Strategist, the best way to handle public perception during active litigation is...
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...Tiffany & Co. focuses on the character of its goods produced to meet the customer’s needs and desires. Wealthy Americans are still willing to spend top dollar on the Tiffany brand because they know the recipient will see that much more value when it is given to them in the little blue box. Tiffany’s competitors focus on a much wider range of consumers to sell their jewelry. Signet Group operates in the jewelry retail segment through Jared and Kay Jewelers. These two subgroups have targeted two different sets of customers. Kay Jewelers based in mall locations and targets households that have a lower annual income and Jared targets a more luxurious retail segment. The threat of new entrants in the jewelry industry is low. There is no single dealer owning in excess of 10% of the total market, so it is not likely that retailers will enter and be able to compete. However, the threat of current rivalry is quite high, growing power of the internet creates rivalry among a mass of retailer jewelers. Consumers are able to compare prices online and with multiple competitors. Competitor Blue Nile, Inc. is an online jeweler that offers reasonable return policies in the event an item needs to...
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...Zale Corporation has stayed true to its original vision: Provide customers with quality merchandise at the lowest possible price. After decades of growth, we are now more passionate than ever about being the jeweler people turn to for the perfect expression of love. SWOT Analysis | Strength | 1. They have over 785 stores in US, which is one of largest buyers and processors of diamonds2. They have decades of experience and expertise in the diamond industry 3. On line purchase has been a great experience for the people and thus increases in sales.4. The revolutionary marketing strategy with a credit plan of "a penny down and a dollar a week," was introduced in 1925 for making jewelry and other merchandise affordable to the average working American.5.Its the first company to use Institute management training in 19506. Has a strong workforce of nearly 13000 employees | Weakness | 1.Less concentration in growing economic countries 2. Limited brand awareness since there is a lot of competition from the local vendors as well as branded luxury products | Opportunity | 1.Going Global through franchisees and tie-ups 2.Use of TV, print media as a tool and expanding its awareness 3. More usage of social media like Face book, Twitter to take customer feedback and to see the current trends in the industry | Threats | 1. Use of conflict diamonds, the diamonds are not legitimated 2.Govt intervention in the operations 3. High debt in case of increasing the retail space or expanding...
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...Zale Corporation operates as a specialty retailer of fine jewelry. The company operates through three segments: Fine Jewelry, Kiosk Jewelry, and All Other. The Fine Jewelry segment operates under five brands. Its Zales Jewelers brand provides diamond jewelry primarily in the bridal and fashion segments through 693 stores in 50 states and Puerto Rico; Gordon's Jewelers brand provides jewelry in 202 stores in 31 states of the United States and Puerto Rico; the Peoples Jewellers and Mappins Jewellers brands offer gold jewelry, gemstone jewelry, and watches through 212 stores in Canada; and Zales Outlet brand offers branded watches, gemstones, gold merchandise, and diamond fashion and solitaire products through 140 stores in 36 states and Puerto Rico. The Fine Jewelry segment also sells its products through e-commerce sites, such as zales.com and gordonsjewelers.com. The Kiosk Jewelry segment provides gold and silver products, such as bracelets, earrings, charms, rings, 14 karat and 10 karat gold chains, and silver and diamond jewelry primarily under Piercing Pagoda, Plumb Gold, and Silver and Gold Connection brand names, through 684 mall-based kiosks. The All Other segment provides insurance and reinsurance facilities for various types of insurance coverage, such as merchandise replacement coverage, credit insurance coverage, and discontinued lines of insurance. Zale Corporation was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Irving, Texas. Introduction Zale Corporation is the largest...
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...Tiffany & Company Stock Valuation Project Company Overview Tiffany & Company was founded in 1837 in New York. Traded publicly on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “TIF”. It is a retailer that engages in the design, manufacture, and retail of fine jewelry worldwide. It jewelry product include fine and solitaire jewelry; diamond engagement rings and wedding bands to brides and grooms; and non-gemstone, sterling silver goods, crystal, stationery, fragrances, personal accessories, and leather goods. It also sells its products through Internet; catalog sales, business-to-business sales and wholesale distribution primarily in the US, the Asia-Pacific, Japan and Europe. Now Tiffany has opened over 50 branch stores in the US. Japan is Tiffany’s next largest market, occupying more than 20 percent of its net sales. “Tiffany standards have been the very measure of excellence in the realm of fine jewelry worldwide for more than 150 years.” Tiffany & Co has earned this reputation by ensuring each jewelry quality. There are two important features of Tiffany & Co. The first one is special design to make different people find out its beautiful. Everyone can buy a satisfying jewelry in the Tiffany. Another feature is distinctive box, which distinguish from other jewelry company to attract customers. Year over Year, Tiffany &Co ‘s revenue has grown from $3.1 billion to $3.6 billion, while annual earning equaled $3.6 per share. At the same time, the percentage...
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...December 2012. The objective of Blue Nile is to offer high-quality diamonds and fine jewelry at competitively attractive prices and at the same time providing useful information and guidance throughout their purchase process. High end jewelry shopping has in fact taken a surprising turn as more and more customers order them online at websites like bluenile.com instead of vising a brick and mortar store. Blue Nile is definitely not the only online jeweler. It has competitors like diamonds.com, whiteflash.com and successful retailers like amazon.com have also tapped this market in the recent years needless to say that the competitive market is intense and highly fragmented with brick and mortar stores also selling a big percentage online. While barriers to entry is high in this industry due to high capital costs, regular brick and mortars are entering this online market due to the ability to keep costs down while reaching a huge market. Threat of substitutes is really low which is a significant advantage to all diamond jewelers. The bargaining power of customers is medium as there are many options for purchase. However as people are educated about quality in their website, blue Nile has an advantage over brand names like tiffany and co. Blue Nile has a great relationship with its suppliers as they showcase their products in the website and is paid only after customer orders. If they maintain this relationship, we don’t see a high bargaining power from...
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...Business Plan for “The Glittering Crown Company” OWNER James Anderson 888 Remington Hall Chicago, Illinois, 888 Telephone: 1-888-888-8888, Ext 888 Fax: 888-888-8888 E-Mail: jamesanderson@glitteringcrown.com Table of Contents 2. Executive Summary 3 3. Business Description 3 4. Definition of Market 4 5. Description of Proposed Products or Services 5 6. Organization & Management Descriptions 6 7. Marketing Strategy 7 7. Service or Product Line 7 8. Financial Management 8 9. References 8 1. Executive Summary The state of the Jewelry industry is probably a country's best indicator the overall industrial condition. The fact that the market value of high-quality jewelry never erodes means that the jewelry industry is pretty much here to stay. The jewelry industry is vast and it procures a wide range of components from a plethora of sources through complex supply chains. Glittering Crown envisions of becoming a leading, diversified jewelry manufacturing company that dominates the jewelry market of the country with national leadership and resolute ethical conscience. Glittering Crown will promote crowns as the ideal way of reserving wealth and passing something highly valuable and fine down the family line. Glittering Crown’s mission is to go above and beyond international standards of excellence in the field of jewelry manufacturing and make high-quality jewelry products available to customers at cost effective prices by means of sustained research and advanced technology...
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...One of the world’s largest brands in the market of luxurious jewelry is the successful American brand Tiffany& Co. In the following analysis, the customer-driven marketing strategy including the market segmentation, targeting, differentiation and positioning are the ones I would propose in case I would take on the position of the leading marketing manager in the specific company, mostly focusing on a specific product, the famous diamond rings. 1. Suggest how to segment the market. The topic of segmenting the market is not an easy task to accomplish and it could be better defined as a compilation of multiple factors. Therefore, Tiffany& Co. should try through multiple variables to see which give the best segmentation opportunities. We are discussing the case of consumer marketing, so the major segmentation variables are geographic, demographic, psychographic and behavioral. The analysis of each category is vast, but it would be more advisable for the specific brand to narrow the analysis into the most concrete level as to reach our goal more accurately, which is no other but the utmost accurate market segmentation. Tiffany& Co. can segment its customer market based on geographic criteria, in other words divided into different geographic units, such as nations, regions, states, counties, cities or even neighborhoods. Being a brand originating by the United States of America, it could be argued that it targets solely the specific geographic market. This is...
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...ue [pic] Final paper Lars Isaksaetre, Henrik Oiseth, and Jason Casey BUSA 499, Section One Professor Pham May 13, 2009 Table of contents Executive summary……………………………………………………………… page 2 Company profile…………………………………………………………………… page 3 Overview of the jewelry industry………………………………………………. page 4 External environment………………………………………………………… page 5 Industry analysis……………………………………………………………… page 10 Jewelry supply chain…………………………………………………………. page 16 Industry value chain, Jewelry Retail………………………………………….. page 19 Company analysis……………………………………………………………… page 24 SWOT…………………………………………………………………………… page 46 Financial ratios…………………………………………………………………… page 50 Strategies………………………………………………………………………… page 53 Preferred strategy……………………………………………………………….. page 60 EVA……………………………………………………………………………… page 62 Blue Nile balance sheet…………………………………………………………… page 63 References…………………………………………………………………………. Page 64 Executive Summary Blue Nile is a publicly traded company. The company was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA and is one of leading online retailers of diamonds and fine jewelry. In addition to serving the U.S. market, Blue Nile offers products to selected countries through its Canadian and UK websites. 70% of their sales are from engagement rings and wedding bands and they are known for being a high-end jewelry retailer. The company offers its products on its websites without actually holding the...
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...NYSE Listed Eligible Options by Symbol Eligible Options by Symbol as of 25 Oct 2010 Symbol A AA AAI AAN AAP AAPL AATI AAV AAWW AB ABAT ABAX ABB ABC ABFS ABK ABMD ABT ABV ABX ACAD ACAS ACC ACCL ACE ACGL ACGY ACH ACI ACL ACM ACN ACOM ACOR ADBE ADI ADLR ADM ADP ADS ADSK ADTN ADY AEC AEE AEIS AEM AEO AEP AER Name Agilent Technologies Inc. ALCOA, INC AirTran Holdings, Inc. Aaron's, Inc. ADVANCE AUTO PARTS INC Apple Inc. Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc. Advantage Oil & Gas LTD. Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. AllianceBernstein Holding, L.P. Advanced Battery Technologies, Inc. Abaxis Inc ABB Ltd. AmerisourceBergen Corp. Arkansas Best Corp AMBAC Financial Group Abiomed Inc Abbott Laboratories AmBev Compamhia De Bebidas Das Ame Barrick Gold Corp. Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc. American Capital Ltd American Campus Communities, Inc. Accelrys, Inc. ACE Limited Arch Capital Group Ltd Acergy S.A. Alum Corp of China Limited Arch Coal, Inc. ALCON Aecom Technology Corporation Accenture PLC Ancestry.com, Inc. Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. Adobe Systems Inc Analog Devices, Inc. Adolor Corp Archer-Daniels-Midland Co Automatic Data Processing Alliance Data Systems Autodesk Inc Adtran Inc AMERICAN DAIRY INC Associated Estates Realty Ameren Corporation Advanced Energy Industries Inc Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. American Eagle Outfitters American Electric Power Aercap Holdings N.V. NYSE Arca Lead Market Maker UBS SECURITIES, LLC MORGAN STANLEY & CO CITADEL SECURITIES LLC CITADEL SECURITIES LLC...
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...EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF INDIA OCCASIONAL PAPER NO. 138 INDIAN GEMS AND JEWELLERY: A SECTOR STUDY EXIM Bank’s Occasional Paper Series is an attempt to disseminate the findings of research studies carried out in the Bank. The results of research studies can interest exporters, policy makers, industrialists, export promotion agencies as well as researchers. However, views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Bank. While reasonable care has been taken to ensure authenticity of information and data, EXIM Bank accepts no responsibility for authenticity, accuracy or completeness of such items. © Export-Import Bank of India Published by Quest Publications February 2010 CONTENTS Page No. List of Tables List of Exhibits List of Boxes Executive Summary 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Introduction Raw Material Base: Global scenario International Trade in Precious Metals, Gems and Jewellery Profile of Select Countries Status of Precious Metals, Gems and Jewellery Industry in India Market Analysis Challenges and Strategies World Gold Demand Production of Diamond in the World and in India World Exports and Imports (2007) of Select Precious Metals, Gems and Jewellery India’s Major Export Destinations and Import Source Countries of Precious Metals, Gems and Jewellery (2008-09) Members of Kimberley Process 5 7 9 11 30 32 41 47 61 84 93 108 109 110 113 116 Annexure Project Team: Mr. S. Prahalathan, General Manager, Research & Planning Group Ms. Renuka Vijay...
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