...GUIDING QUESTIONS FOR ANALYSIS OF THE WESTLAKE HOME FURNISHINGS LTD CASE (Case to be used for Class Discussion on Tuesday, Aug.19) 1. Analyze the North American home furnishing industry using both Porter's 5-forces and the PEST models.(Book 1 Chapter 3) 2. Oualitatively, what are the possible advantages and disadvantages of Bowman accepting his customer's price reduction proposal? Do you think Bowman should proceed with the reduction? Why or why not? 3. What other recommendations might you propose or support to improve West Lake's performance? Richard Ivey School of Business The University of Western Ontario IVEY 9B07M071 WEST LAKE HOME FURNISHINGS LTD. Ken Mark wrote this case under the supervision of Professor Charlene Zietsma solely to provide material for class discussion. The authors do not intend to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a managerial situation. The authors may have disguised certain names and other identifying information to protect confidentiality. Ivey Management Services prohibits any form of reproduction, storage or transmittal without its written permission. Reproduction this material is not covered under authorization by any reproduction rights organization. To order copies or request permission reproduce materials, contact Ivey Publishing, Ivey Management Services, c/o Richard Ivey School of Business, The University Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 3K7; phone (519) 661-3208; fax (519) 661-3882; e-mail...
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...Case Analysis on WEST LAKE HOME FURNISHINGS LTD. A report submitted to Professor Swatantra In partial fulfillment of the requirements of the course of Written Analysis and Communication On December 24, 2011 By Sasikumar parupalli 2011PGP853 (Section E) INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT INDORE Executive Summary Charles Bowman, the CEO of West Lake Home Furnishings LTD came across a proposal of reducing the retail price of a signature line of decorative lamps from $69.99 to @29.99 for a period of one year. This customer has a large U.S based retail chain accounted for one-third of West Lake’s wholesale business in 2006. He also assured for providing prominent shelf space to their product. West Lake Home Furnishings LTD is intending to stay at top of its business and is very eager to grow. After analysing the benefits like increase in profit, growth of sales, market penetration, effect of reduced price on other businesses and the rapport with the wholesaler, it has been decided to accept the offer. Large and promised order for a year is the justification for accepting the reduced price in the offer. Problem Statement: To take a decision on “whether to accept the proposal or to reject it”. Evaluation Criteria * Increase in Profits * Growth in Sales * Market penetration & Market Share * Effect of price reduction on other customer’s retail pricing * Maintaining good rapport with the wholesale customer Evaluation...
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...The Internet Newspaper for Young Nigerians * Home * News * Opinion * Politics * Entertainment * More * More For the Records: The Edo State 2012 Budget of Continuity EDO STATE GOVERNMENT. FY2012 BUDGET OF CONTINUITY 1 Table of Content * Budget Summary ……………………………………………………………………………. 2 * Revenue ……………………………………………………………………………. 3-17 * Recurrent Expenditure …………………………………………………………………………… 18 -22 * Capital Receipt …………………………………………………………………………… 23 – 31 * Consolidated Revenue Funds Charges ………………………………………………………………………….. 32 – 33 * Capital Budget o Summary …………………………………………………………………… 35 o Agriculture ………………………………………………………………………….. 36 – 37 o Fisheries …………………………………………………………………………… 38 o Livestock …………………………………………………………………………… 49 o Arts, Culture & Tourism …………………………………………………………………………… 40 o Commerce & Industry …………………………………………………………………………… 41 o Education …………………………………………………………………………… 42 – 43 o Energy (Rural Electrification) ………………………………………………………………………….. 44 – 46 o Water Resources ………………………………………………………………………….. 47 – 59 o Rural Water & Sanitation ………………………………………………………………………….. 50 – 52 o Drainage & Sewage/Environmental Protection …………………………………………………… 53 o Forestry ………………………………………………………………………….. 54 o Health ………………………………………………………………………….. 55 – 56 o Information & Orientation ………………………………………………………………………….. 57 o Community Development ………………………………………………………………………….. 58 o Lands, Surveys & Housing …………………………………………………………………………...
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...|[pic] | | [pic] [pic] Members: Ms. Sarah Burangi (2103703) : Ms. N.Lin (2053147) Tutor : Mr. L. Wijckmans Date: 04 June 2007 Preface This report is a combination of the effort of two students Na Lin and Sarah Burangi submitted to fulfill the requirements for an MSc in Information Systems particularly the International Marketing Module. The report reflects the success of IKEA in developing its brand internationally. The purpose of this assignment is to give one analysis of the marketing context in which IKEA operates and critical evaluation of its operational options. We would like to thank Fontys and Roehapmton that give us such a good opportunity to work as a group, and we also would like to thank our tutor, Mr. Wijckmans for his instruction. Executive Summary The report gives a detailed account of the IKEA brand development over the years using marketing principles. The first chapter looks at IKEA, the background, evolvement and current position. Chapter two looks at branding in terms of the marketing mix that is product, price, promotion and place. This is the followed by chapter three which looks how IKEA handles cultural differences when conducting business across the world. Chapter four explores the...
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...devastation Chinese competitors are inflicting on U.S. industries, from kitchenware and car tires to electronic circuit boards. These aren't stories of mundane sunset industries equipped with antiquated technology. David W. Johnson, CEO of 92-year-old Summitville Tiles Inc. in Summitville, Ohio, described how imports forced him to shut a state-of-the-art, $120 million tilemaking plant four football fields long, sending Summitville into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Now, a tenfold surge in high-quality Chinese imports at "below our manufacturing costs" threatens to polish Summitville off. Makers of precision machine tools and plastic molds -- essential supports of America's industrial architecture -- told how their business has shrunk as home-appliance makers have shifted manufacturing from Ohio to China. Despite buying the best computer-controlled gear, Douglas S. Bartlett reported that at his Cary (Ill.)-based Bartlett Manufacturing Co., a maker of high-end circuit boards for aerospace and automotive customers, sales are half the late-1990s level and the workforce is one-third smaller. He waved a board Bartlett makes for a U.S. Navy submarine-detection device. His buyer says he can get the same board overseas for 40% less. "From experience I can only assume this is the Chinese price," Bartlett said. "We have faced competition in the past....
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...Draft Letter of Offer For Equity Shareholders of the Company Only PANTALOON RETAIL (INDIA) LIMITED (Originally incorporated as Manz Wear Private Limited on October 12, 1987. The Company’s name was changed to Manz Wear Limited on September 20,1991, further to Pantaloon Fashions (India) Limited on September 25, 1992 and to Pantaloon Retail (India) Limited on July 7 1999) Registered and Corporate Office: Pantaloon Knowledge House, Shyam Nagar, Off. Jogeshwari Vikhroli Link Road, Jogeshwari (East), Mumbai 400 060. The Registered Office of the Company was shifted from Venkatesh Bhavan, 4th Floor 86 Mirza Street, Mumbai 400003 to Pantaloon House , G 11 , M.I.D.C. Cross Road A, Andheri East, Mumbai 400 093 ) Tel: (+91 22) 56442200 Fax: (+91 22) 56442201 E-mail: compliance.officer@pantaloon.com Website: www.pantaloon.com Contact Person: Mr. Pradeep Jain For private circulation to the Equity Shareholders of the Company only DRAFT LETTER OF OFFER ISSUE OF 4,481,180 EQUITY SHARES OF Rs. 10 EACH AT A PREMIUM OF RS. 490 PER EQUITY SHARE AGGREGATING RS. 2,240.59 MILLION TO THE EQUITY SHAREHOLDERS ON RIGHTS BASIS IN THE RATIO OF ONE EQUITY SHARE FOR EVERY FIVE EQUITY SHARES HELD ON THE RECORD DATE [•] (“ISSUE”). THE ISSUE PRICE IS 50 TIMES OF THE FACE VALUE OF THE EQUITY SHARE GENERAL RISKS Investments in equity and equity related securities involve a degree of risk and Investors should not invest any funds in this Issue unless they can afford to take the risk of losing their investment...
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...Business Plans Handbook Business Plans A COMPILATION OF BUSINESS PLANS DEVELOPED BY INDIVIDUALS NORTH THROUGHOUT AMERICA Handbook VOLUME 16 Lynn M. Pearce, Project Editor Business Plans Handbook, Volume 16 Project Editor: Lynn M. Pearce Product Manager: Jenai Drouillard Product Design: Jennifer Wahi Composition and Electronic Prepress: Evi Seoud Manufacturing: Rita Wimberley Editorial: Erin Braun ª 2010 Gale, Cengage Learning ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this work covered by the copyright herein may be reproduced, transmitted, stored, or used in any form or by any means graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including but not limited to photocopying, recording, scanning, digitizing, taping, Web distribution, information networks, or information storage and retrieval systems, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without the prior written permission of the publisher. This publication is a creative work fully protected by all applicable copyright laws, as well as by misappropriation, trade secret, unfair competition, and other applicable laws. The authors and editors of this work have added value to the underlying factual material herein through one or more of the following: unique and original selection, coordination, expression, arrangement, and classification of the information. For product information and technology assistance, contact us at Gale Customer Support, 1-800-877-4253. For permission to use material...
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...S SUNSET GRILL AT BLUE w 9B10D015 Jason Melhuish wrote this case under the supervision of Professors Dina Ribbink and John Haywood-Farmer solely to provide material for class discussion. The authors do not intend to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a managerial situation. The authors might have disguised certain names and other identifying information to protect confidentiality. Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation prohibits any form of reproduction, storage or transmission without its written permission. Reproduction of this material is not covered under authorization by any reproduction rights organization. To order copies or request permission to reproduce materials, contact Ivey Publishing, Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 3K7; phone (519) 661-3208; fax (519) 661-3882; e-mail cases@ivey.uwo.ca. Copyright © 2010, Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation O D O It always seemed to take staff longer than the owner expected to learn the ropes, and queues were endemic in the restaurant’s operations. On a recent busy weekend, Melhuish had been dismayed to discover that the queue of waiting customers stretched all the way around the street corner. He had darted outside and reassured customers that they would be seated within 15 minutes. Although many patrons groaned and decided to go elsewhere, many others stayed, because breakfast options in the vicinity were...
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...Hogarth Blake Presents: Wonderful Ethiopians Of The Ancient Cushite Empire By Drusilla Dunjee Houston First published in 1926 This e-book was edited by Hogarth Blake Ltd Download this book and many more for FREE at: hh-bb.com hogarthblake@gmail.com ‘Wonderful Ethiopians Of The Ancient Cushite Empire’ by Drusilla Dunjee Houston Reproduction & duplication of this work for FREE is permitted. Refer to the terms & conditions page for more details. Terms & Conditions Scanned at sacred-texts.com, October, 2004. John Bruno Hare, redactor. This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was not renewed at the US Copyright Office in a timely fashion as required by law at the time. These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact in all copies and subject to the sacred texts Terms of Service at http://www.sacred-texts.com/tos.htm Hogarth Blake presents this e-book FREE of charge; it may be used for whatever purpose you see fit. The only limitations are that you may not decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, modify, create derivative works based upon, sell, publish, license or sub-license the work or any part of it without the express written consent of Hogarth Blake Ltd. The work is provided as is. Hogarth Blake Ltd. makes no guarantees or warranties as to the accuracy, adequacy or completeness of or results to be obtained from using the work via hyperlink or otherwise, and expressly...
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...Hogarth Blake Presents: Wonderful Ethiopians Of The Ancient Cushite Empire By Drusilla Dunjee Houston First published in 1926 This e-book was edited by Hogarth Blake Ltd Download this book and many more for FREE at: hh-bb.com hogarthblake@gmail.com ‘Wonderful Ethiopians Of The Ancient Cushite Empire’ by Drusilla Dunjee Houston Reproduction & duplication of this work for FREE is permitted. Refer to the terms & conditions page for more details. Terms & Conditions Scanned at sacred-texts.com, October, 2004. John Bruno Hare, redactor. This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was not renewed at the US Copyright Office in a timely fashion as required by law at the time. These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact in all copies and subject to the sacred texts Terms of Service at http://www.sacred-texts.com/tos.htm Hogarth Blake presents this e-book FREE of charge; it may be used for whatever purpose you see fit. The only limitations are that you may not decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, modify, create derivative works based upon, sell, publish, license or sub-license the work or any part of it without the express written consent of Hogarth Blake Ltd. The work is provided as is. Hogarth Blake Ltd. makes no guarantees or warranties as to the accuracy, adequacy or completeness of or results to be obtained from using the work via hyperlink or otherwise, and expressly...
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...500 extraordinary islands G R E E N L A N D Beaufort Sea Baffin Bay vi Da i tra sS t a nm De it Stra rk Hudson Bay Gulf of Alaska Vancouver Portland C A N A D A Calgary Winnipeg Newfoundland Quebec Minneapolis UNITED STATES San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego Phoenix Dallas Ottawa Montreal ChicagoDetroitToronto Boston New York OF AMERICA Philadelphia Washington DC St. Louis Atlanta New Orleans Houston Monterrey NORTH AT L A N T I C OCEAN MEXICO Guadalajara Mexico City Gulf of Mexico Miami Havana CUBA GUATEMALA HONDURAS b e a n Sea EL SALVADOR NICARAGUA Managua BAHAMAS DOMINICAN REPUBLIC JAMAICA San Juan HAITI BELIZE C a r PUERTO RICO ib TRINIDAD & Caracas N TOBAGO A COSTA RICA IA M PANAMA VENEZUELA UYANRINA H GU C U G Medellín A PAC I F I C OCEAN Galapagos Islands COLOMBIA ECUADOR Bogotá Cali S FR EN Belém Recife Lima BR A Z I L PERU La Paz Brasélia Salvador Belo Horizonte Rio de Janeiro ~ Sao Paulo BOLIVIA PARAGUAY CHILE Cordoba Santiago Pôrto Alegre URUGUAY Montevideo Buenos Aires ARGENTINA FALKLAND/MALVINAS ISLANDS South Georgia extraordinary islands 1st Edition 500 By Julie Duchaine, Holly Hughes, Alexis Lipsitz Flippin, and Sylvie Murphy Contents Chapter 1 Beachcomber Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Aquatic Playgrounds 2 Island Hopping the Turks & Caicos: Barefoot Luxury 12 Life’s a Beach 14 Unvarnished & Unspoiled 21 Sailing...
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...Emerging Trends in Modern Retail Formats & Customer Shopping Behavior in Indian Scenario: A Meta Analysis & Review “If at first the Idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.” -Albert Einstein Aditya P. Tripathi* Abstract The Indian retail sector is going through a transformation and this emerging market is witnessing a significant change in its growth and investment pattern. Both existing and new players are experimenting with new retail formats. Currently two popular formats hypermarkets and supermarkets are growing at a rapid pace. Apart from the brick –mortar formats, brick -click and click-click formats are also increasingly functional on the Indian retail landscape. Consumer dynamics in India is also changing and the retailers need to take note of this and formulate their strategies and tactics to deliver the exact expected value to the customer. In the backdrop of all these developments the present paper makes an attempt to: Explain the emerging trends in the development of Modern Retail formats in Indian Context and Highlights the emerging Rural Retail Landscape and also, Reveals the Consumer Shopping Behavior (Across the Country) among the Modern Retail Formats with special reference to Delhi & NCR. The empirical data has been collected with the help of Primary as well as secondary resources. Key Words: Hypermarket, Convenience Store, Retailing, Malls, Shoppers Introduction India has witnessed a frenetic pace of retail development over the past...
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...Halmstad University School of Business and Engineering Business Culture II VeniltonReinert Marketing And Communication Plan FALU RED PAINT Friday, 14. Dec. 2012 Wan Ting Huang Tatjana Weber Jonathan Tran Quentin Peulot Cyril Albert Matthieu Fernandez 1 Table des matières 1. Introduction (north country/ wood houses) ........................................................................ 3 1.1 Pestel analysis of Russia : ............................................................................................................ 5 1.2 Pestel analysis of Canada: ......................................................................................................... 12 2 Micro environment ............................................................................................................ 19 2.1 Brand ........................................................................................................................................ 19 2.2 Product ..................................................................................................................................... 20 2.3 Price ......................................................................................................................................... 21 2.4 Promotion .................
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...AVB 10-K 12/31/2013 Section 1: 10-K (10-K) Use these links to rapidly review the document TABLE OF CONTENTS PART III UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM 10-K ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013 Commission file number 1-12672 AVALONBAY COMMUNITIES, INC. (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) Maryland (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) 77-0404318 (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) Ballston Tower 671 N. Glebe Rd, Suite 800 Arlington, Virginia 22203 (Address of principal executive office) (703) 329-6300 (Registrant's telephone number, including area code) Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: (Title of each class) (Name of each exchange on which registered) Common Stock, par value $.01 per share New York Stock Exchange Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes ý No o Yes o No ý Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding twelve (12) months (or for such...
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