...Company Overview: The organization we choose for the research and our group report writing is Australia’s most popular retail industry Woolworths. We choose Woolworths supermarket on of the brand of the Woolworths Limited Australia. Woolworths limited is well known retail giant over Australia and New Zealand. Woolworths started its first business in city of Sydney by opening its first store in the basement of Imperial arcade in 1924.Current stage Woolworths operates many of the retail brands like Big W, Woolworths, Dan murphy, Cell master, BWS and many more. And it serves 2.4 million customers a week (Woolworthslimited.com.au, 2014). We choose Woolworth’s supermarket located at North Ryde in Macquarie centre, which is known as the store of destination of Woolworths. Store is located inside the Macquarie centre. Store is very popular store because of its largest fresh department with onsite production of the mood. This retail store can be taken as the largest organization where this store operates 24hr work including while trading and while closed. Store has 287 staff including casuals and part time and 14 salaried managers. Store weekly sales are 1.7 million dollar average and daily operating hour is 8 am in the morning till 10pm. One of our group members does works in the Woolworths supermarket store Macquarie centre. According to his experience and analysis during the working hours in that organization he was concerned and focused in the Larger number of employee has been...
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...Marketing Management (AMN442) Assignment Introduction Masters Home Improvement is the trading name of an Australian Home Improvement chain, operated by a joint venture between Australian Retailer Woolworths Limited and Mooresville, North Carolina (United States) based hardware chain, Lowe's.[2] Masters was created as a way for Woolworths Limited to crack into the hardware retail space, which has been historically dominated by Bunnings Warehouse, which is owned by arch rival Wesfarmers. The two companies already compete with each other with groceries and general merchandise. The brand name was announced on 2 May 2011,[3] coinciding with the launch of a website at masters.com.au.[4] Hans Hulsbosch, who has designed brand identities for Woolworths & Qantas designed the Masters brand and logo.[5] The first outlet, located in Braybrook, Victoria, opened to tradesmen on 31 August 2011, and the general public on 1 September 2011.[6] In the Sydney Morning Herald, CEO Don Stallings is attributed as saying that staff will be trained for at least 100 hours, and the stores will offer over 35,000 products.[7] Ways in which Masters will differentiate from its competitors include stores which are more brightly lit, more colourful with polished concrete, large colour signage and store displays, it aims to place more emphases on attracting female shoppers, buzzers scattered around the store which when pressed, will send a nearby staff member to that location to help out a customer,...
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...COMPANY PROFILE Woolworths Limited REFERENCE CODE: 2FF5536D-6BA6-4CE5-81DF-4EABB0A5A391 PUBLICATION DATE: 8 Jul 2014 www.marketline.com COPYRIGHT MARKETLINE. THIS CONTENT IS A LICENSED PRODUCT AND IS NOT TO BE PHOTOCOPIED OR DISTRIBUTED. Woolworths Limited TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS Company Overview..............................................................................................3 Key Facts...............................................................................................................3 SWOT Analysis.....................................................................................................4 Woolworths Limited © MarketLine Page 2 Woolworths Limited Company Overview COMPANY OVERVIEW Woolworths Limited (Woolworths or 'the company') owns and operates retail stores that sell food, liquor, fuel, general merchandise and home improvement products in Australia and New Zealand. It is headquartered in Bella Vista, Australia, and employs more than 197,000 people. The company recorded revenues (excluding financial income) of A$58,921.7 million (approximately $60,506.7 million) during financial year ended June 2013 (FY2013), an increase of 6.9% over FY2012. The operating profit of the company was A$3,594.6 million (approximately $3,691.3 million) during FY2013, an increase of 7.4% over FY2012. The net profit was A$2,259.4 million (approximately $2,320.2 million) in FY2013, an increase of 24.4% over FY2012. KEY FACTS ...
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...Woolworths Limited overview Woolworths Limited (WOW) is a diversified retailer, which operates supermarkets, general merchandise stores, liquor, specialty and discount department stores. WOW operated under retail banners that include Woolworths, Safeway, Woolworths Liquor, BWS, Dan Murphy's, Big W, Foodtown, Langtons, Cellarmasters, Countdown, FreshChoice, Croma and Supervalue. In June 2012, WOW operates 1,033 supermarkets under the brands Woolworths and Safeway in Australia, and Countdown in New Zealand; 11 supermarkets under Thomas Dux brand in Sydney & Melbourne; 599 petrol outlets of which 132 are co-branded Woolworths/Caltex; 329 liquor stores under several banners including Dan Murphy's, BWS, Cellarmasters and Langtons; 172 general merchandise stores under the brand Big W; 15 and 21 home improvement stores under the Master and Danks brand; and operates 294 hotels under the ALH brand. WOW also provides financial services to its customers such as credit cards, prepaid credit cards and epump under the Woolworths Everyday Money brand. In 2012, WOW recorded an increase of 4.8% in revenues to AUD52,129.8 million and gross profit increased by 5.7% to AUD14,476.3 million. Net profit fell by 15.1% to AUD1816.7 million this was due to losses associated with the divestment of its wholesale and retail consumer electronics businesses. WOW is rated A3 by Moody’s and A- by Standard & Poor’s. Key Executive Staff Ralph Waters Chairman Ralph Waters was appointed...
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...ABSTRACT In this valuation report, we will analyze the performance of Metcash and Woolworths (Australia) in the past six years from 2007 to 2012 and make some forecasts in order to aid investors in making decisions about investments between these two companies. Two methods of DCF valuation and relative valuation are used during the analysis. Firstly, we estimate FCFF with calculated WACC to determine the two companies’ stock price, comparing their actual current stock price. Secondly, we analyze P/E Ratio, P/S Ratio and EV/EITDA Ratio to make a comparison between the two companies and average industry. Our estimation will show that both Metcash and Woolworth are undervalued and suitable for investment 1. Overview : Metcash Limited(MTS) and Woolworths Limited(WOW) 3 1.1 Metcash Limited 3 1.2 Woolworths Limited 3 2. Metcash DCF valuation within FCFF approach 4 2.1 Weighted average cost of capital 4 2.1.1 Cost of equity 4 2.1.2 Cost of debt 4 2.1.3 Capital structure analysis 5 2.1.4 Effective tax rate analysis 5 2.2Estimation of FCFF 6 2.2.1 Growth rate expectation 6 2.2.2 FCFF and present value 6 3. Woolworths Limited DCF valuation within FCFF approach 7 3.1 Weighted average cost of capital 7 3.1.1 Cost of equity 7 3.1.2 Cost of debt 8 3.1.3 Capital structure analysis 8 3.1.4 Effective tax rate analysis 9 3.2 Estimation of FCFF 10 3.2.1 Growth rate...
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...Resources 10-11 8. Budget 11-15 9. Risk Management 15-16 10. References 16-17 1. Introduction Woolworths is one of the largest retailing companies in Australia. It deals with food and staples. Mr Grant O’Brien is the Managing Director of this company. It holds 190,000 employees across Australia and New Zealand. As it is one of the largest companies in Australia although it’s not a manufacturing industry, it’s indirectly impacting on the environment by producing CO2 through its operation by consumption of electricity and wastage product produced through its day to day operation. By taking this in mind, we decided to work under Woolworths and help it to reduce its carbon emission that is affecting the environment and community as a whole. Therefore, our project will be focused on reducing the impact of carbon emission that is emitted from the day to day operation of Woolworths. 2. Project definition Project “Hello Green” will be fully committed towards the green. Therefore this project will be taking substantial steps to address to today’s emission by reducing the energy uses, focusing on recycling and reducing its carbon footprint as per the standard set by the Australian Government that will be helpful in reducing its overall cost of operations. * To assist Woolworths in maintaining sustainable business. * By assist in reducing energy consumption. * By assist in reducing garbage and waste product. ...
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...Executive summary This individual project is designed for a comparison study of two well know Australia companies that is Billabong international Limited (BBG) and Woolworths Limited (WOW). The report is briefly introduced those two companies’ core business and the name of their subsidiaries. Subsequently, the report provides statistics for instance like market capitalization and PE ratio based on the share price at 10th January 2013 for both companies through the Australian securities exchange website. More importantly, this report will figure out the working capital of each company in several years in order to common on trends of working capital within the company operation. Plot will be also used to illustrate the changes of those ratios in each company. Finally a general comment of each company’s operation will be made depend on the ratio information of those companies. Part 1: About Billabong international limited (BBG) was established in 1973 on Australia’s Gold Cost by surfer and surfboard shaper Gordon Merchant and his then partner, Rena. BBG Limited’s core business is the wholesaling and retailing of apparel, eyewear, accessories, swimwear and other product distributed through board sports. The company is distributed through 100 countries which Australia, North America, Europe, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa and Brazil are those countries which the company generate the most revenue from. The principle subsidiaries are “Von Zipper”, which specialized...
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...variety of groceries line. Countdown has over 160 supermarkets across New Zealand supported by over 18,000 team members. The company delivers customers a choice of more than 20,000 different products in each of stores. The first Countdown supermarket opened in Northlands, Christchurch at 31 December 1981. This business was established by Rattrays Wholesale and gained momentum through the 1980s. The Rattrays Wholesale Group included the Rattrays Cash and Carry warehouses, tobacco vans, now known as the Red Arrow Distributors fleet, and the SuperValue group of franchised supermarkets, now operating as SuperValue/Fresh Choice. Countdown is part of Progressive Enterprises, a subsidiary of the publicly-listed Australian company, Woolworths Limited. In addition to Countdown, Progressive Enterprises is also the franchise co-ordinator for the Fresh Choice and SuperValue banner groups. Countdown works with over 800 food producers and suppliers throughout New Zealand. In-store teams are supported by four dry grocery distribution centres, three fresh produce distribution centres, two meat processing plants, one seafood processing plant and a central support office. Q2---a – internal environmental factors Strength 1. Strong Marketing and advertising teams. Countdown has excellent marketing plans that promote their products in various forms. For example discounts, TV promotions, door to door leafleting, in-store promotional activities (e.g. spending X dollars in exchange...
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...Michael Luscombe Chief Executive Officer Tom Pockett Finance Director Company Results Full Year ended 28 June 2009 Highlights for Financial Year 2009 • This has been a successful year with our business performing well overall in a difficult economic climate • The result is the outcome of our consistent delivery against our clearly defined strategies — proving that Woolworths is built to deliver sustainable results over the long term • The result reflects increased customer acceptance of our offers underpinned by the reinvestment in all our businesses to ensure the momentum continues to build long term shareholder value. We will continue to refine our brands to changing customer expectations • Our strong new store rollout across all brands continued during the year • FY09 saw enhanced Rewards development and launch of new initiatives • We are well positioned for future growth with a strong balance sheet and cash flow 2 Highlights – Full Year 2009 Successful year with solid results across our business FY09 Sales - Group - ex Petrol EBIT NPAT EPS ROFE $49.6b $44.1b $2,815.5m $1,835.7m 150.7¢ 31.9% Growth1 52 v 52 7.5% 8.5% 13.4% 14.9% 13.8% 1.1%pts Growth 52 v 53 5.4% 6.6% 11.3% 12.8% 11.7% 0.5%pts Well positioned for achieving long term sustainable profitable growth 1. Reflects growth normalised to remove the impact of the 53rd week in FY08 3 Highlights for the year 4 Rollout of New Formats – Australia & NZ "We will continue to invest...
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...Growth Plans Woolworths' current business growth plan is built on four key strategic priorities. 1. Extend leadership in food and liquor 2. Act on our portfolio to maximise shareholder value 3. Maintain our track record of building new growth businesses 4. Put in place the enablers for a new era of growth A Changing Business Retailing never stands still - that’s what makes it so exciting and dynamic. Right now we’re in a period of substantial change as customers seek greater value and have more choices at their fingertips than ever before. Customers are now firmly in the driving seat of our business and their decisions and shopping behaviour are changing the way we operate. Woolworths is responding to this new era by laying the foundations for a new phase of growth and opportunity. We put the customer at the heart of our business, listening to what they want and creating new and innovative ways for them to shop with us. The future of shopping Customers now have the ability to shop when, how and where they want and that ability is literally in the palm of their hand. Mobile technology is rapidly changing how we view our world and giving us access to products and prices from around the world. We’ve recognised we need to keep up and understand that customers want to move seamlessly and effortlessly between physical and virtual stores to shop in a way that suits them. Every Woolworths business is becoming multi-option by using websites, mobile apps, virtual stores...
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...a continuous growth. I would like to be in a country where I can explore and extend my abilities as a company and maybe find a hidden skill within my company that I would not have found if I would have stayed in my host country. I also want to move to a country that has the continuous drive to get better, not somewhere that is satisfied with what they already have. Finding a country where there is virtually an endless supply of hidden assets, an economy that is large enough to support foreign investments and wages are low is the type of market where I can enter the market at full force. That is why I have chosen to introduce the privately owned retail chain Wegmans to South Africa. Moving Wegmans to South Africa and acquiring the Woolworths Limited retail chain company...
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...Fujiyama Electronics, Inc. has been having problems with circuit boards that it has purchased from an outside supplier. The amount of variability found on the distance between two drilled holes has been found unacceptable. So, in an effort to start the process of correcting the problem thirty samples were taken from 4 different control boards that will provide the information for the analysis below. Below is the list of data used for this analysis. Fujiyama Electronics Sample Data | | Observations | Sample | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4.92 | 4.26 | 4.94 | 4.29 | 2 | 4.65 | 5.54 | 5 | 5.42 | 3 | 5.77 | 5.26 | 4.76 | 4.79 | 4 | 6.25 | 4.88 | 5.66 | 4.44 | 5 | 5.27 | 5.41 | 6.02 | 4.91 | 6 | 5.22 | 5.38 | 5.08 | 4.65 | 7 | 5.47 | 4.68 | 4.56 | 4.7 | 8 | 5.71 | 4.54 | 4.17 | 4.87 | 9 | 5.24 | 5.58 | 4.72 | 5.41 | 10 | 4.42 | 5.18 | 4.79 | 4.73 | 11 | 5.14 | 4.26 | 4.71 | 5.48 | 12 | 4.92 | 5.78 | 5.5 | 5.05 | 13 | 5.79 | 3.83 | 4.3 | 4.78 | 14 | 4.92 | 4.8 | 4.75 | 5.59 | 15 | 5.68 | 5.74 | 4.65 | 5.2 | 16 | 5.43 | 4.81 | 5.27 | 4.96 | 17 | 4.79 | 6.04 | 4.47 | 5.18 | 18 | 4.43 | 5.08 | 3.69 | 6.43 | 19 | 6.35 | 5.95 | 6.29 | 5.89 | 20 | 5.03 | 4.66 | 5.25 | 4.46 | 21 | 6.32 | 6.09 | 5.57 | 5.91 | 22 | 4.3 | 5.47 | 4.27 | 4.34 | 23 | 6.07 | 4.97 | 5.51 | 5.02 | 24 | 5.11 | 4.9 | 5.91 | 4.66 | 25 | 4.5 | 5.24 | 4.86 | 4.35 | 26 | 4.91 | 4.79 | 5.74 | 5.03 | 27 | 4.65 | 4.71 | 4.81 | 5.32 | 28 | 4.7 | 5.5 | 6.04 | 4.3 | ...
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...wants is the basis of all economic activity in a society. All desires, tastes and motives of human beings are called wants in economics. 1. 2. 3. 4. Wants may arise due to elementary and psychological causes. The wants for food, clothing and housing are elementary and psychological. Wants may arise due to social causes. As members of society, we may require a particular type of dress and food. Wants arise due to customs and habits like drinking tea and chewing. Wants may arise due to advertisements. In the early stages of civilisation, wants of men were few and simple. With advancement of civilisation, wants have become unlimited and also complex. Man tries to satisfy most of his wants through economic activity. Since the resources are limited, he has to choose between urgent wants and not so urgent wants. A systematic survey of this process is called consumption. Consumption means using up of goods and services in the satisfaction of human wants. The economics of consumption is related to a study of nature of wants and the behaviour of demand. Characteristics of wants 1. 2. Wants are unlimited: Man is a bundle of desires. There is no limit to human wants. If one set of wants are fulfilled, immediately another set of wants would be felt. Even the richest man will have a list of wants to be fulfilled. Every want is satiable: wants in general are unlimited. But a single or a particular want is satiable. We can completely satisfy...
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...A Supernatural Perspective TODAY’S SCRIPTURE “...I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland” (Isaiah 43:19, NIV) TODAY’S WORD from Joel and Victoria So often, people limit themselves in their thinking. They don’t think they’ll ever accomplish their dreams. They start thinking they don’t have the talent, the connections or the funds. They don’t think a marriage could ever be restored or they’ll ever get out of debt. But that kind of thinking comes from looking at things in the natural. That’s a limited perspective. We have to realize that God is a supernatural God. And just because we don’t see a way doesn’t mean that God doesn’t have a way. God can bring one opportunity across your path that will thrust you to a new level. He has explosive blessings that can blast you out of debt and into abundance! He can do what medical science can’t do! Today, I encourage you to take the limits off your thinking. Lift up your eyes to Jesus, the Author and Finisher of your faith. Trust that He is working behind the scenes on your behalf, and He will make a way out of no way. Remember, what you are facing may seem impossible with man, but when God puts His “super” on your “natural,” anything is possible! A PRAYER FOR TODAY Father God, thank You for Your hand of blessing on my life. Help me to take the limits off my thoughts and see with a supernatural perspective. Today, I choose to lift up my eyes to You, Jesus, the Author and Finisher of my faith. In Jesus’...
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...plans. Our final draft is a complete marketing plan with a detailed media and budget plan. We included a comprehensive analysis of the environment and the opportunities that it offers and a marketing strategy to maximize income by taking advantage of those opportunities. History Foot Locker was introduced to the retail market place in 1974. First and foremost it is the world's leading athletic retailer and has acquired more than 3,900 stores in 20 countries in North America, Europe and Australia. They also own Footaction, Lady Foot Locker, Kids Foot Locker and Champs Sports retail stores. You can also purchase merchandise through their website at footlocker.com/Eastbay. They were known as the F.W. Woolworth Company, founded by Frank and Charles Woolworth in 1911 as five-and-dime discount stores in New York City. With time they went ahead and opened the first Foot Locker in 1974 and grew to thousands of stores worldwide. The company changed its name to Foot Locker Inc. in 2001. It would acquire the Footaction chain in 2004. Making its mark in this world, it is the destination for their core customers between...
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