Store Manager Incentive Design and Retail Performance: An Exploratory Investigation Headnote Store managers perform multiple tasks within a store, and the way in which they are evaluated and rewarded for these tasks affects their behavior. Using empirical data from multiple stores of a consumer electronics retailer, Tweeter Home Entertainment Group, we highlight the extent to which store manager incentive design impacts store manager behavior and, consequently, retail performance. More specifically
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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 September 30, 2014. អ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 for the transition period from to . or Commission file number 333-172973 1MAY200918354900 NBTY, Inc. (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) DELAWARE
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Cogavém | Agave ◦ Coconut ◦ Maqui Berry | | Cogavé is an all-natural, healthy, and effective energy drink. The product strategy is defined in this marketing plan. | | Chad Rodriguez, Alvaro Alvarez, John Paul Mejia, Sabrina Casillas, Huda Tanjung | 5/26/2011 | | Table of Contents I. Executive Summary 3 II. Company Analysis 3 Mission Statement 3 Company Location 3 III. Situational Analysis 3 External Market Environment 3 Economic Environment: 3 Technological
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Analysis of the grocery industry Coles Supermarkets Australia October 2012 Analysis of the grocery industry Contents Glossary ..................................................................................................................................... i Executive Summary.................................................................................................................. iii 1 Introduction ...........................................................................
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1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Brief History History of Pepsi:- Pepsi was first introduced as "Brad's Drink" in New Bern, North Carolina, United States, in 1893 by Caleb Bradham, who made it at his drugstore where the drink was sold. It was later labeled Pepsi Cola, named after the digestive enzyme pepsin and kola nuts used in the recipe. Bradham sought to create a fountain drink that was delicious and would aid in digestion and boost energy. In 1903, Bradham moved the bottling of Pepsi-Cola from his drugstore
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Best Buy Competitor: hhgregg Executive Summary Company Best Buy (“BBY”, or the “Company”) specializes in consumer electronics. They are one of the largest specialty retailers operating as an e-commerce and physical retailer across the United States, Europe, Canada, and China. BBY stores offer video products, including televisions, e-readers, navigation devices, digital cameras, digital camcorders, DVD and Blu-ray players. The Company also offers audio products, such as MP3 players and accessories
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From: Blue Nile To: Board of Directors Re: Strategic Report Date: March 31, 2013 Executive Summary The mission of Blue Nile is to build a premier specialty retailer of jewelry by offering consumers high quality products at compelling values through empowering the shopping experience. We employee a best-cost provider strategy, focused on offering premium jewelry with attractive prices, while offering the shopper a comfortable and user friendly shopping experience. We aim to offer customers
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KODAK VS. FUJI: THE BATTLE FOR GLOBAL MARKET SHARE by Thomas C. Finnerty Thomas C. Finnerty is a doctoral candidate in the Doctoral of Professional Studies Program, Lubin School of Business, Pace University, New York. This case was written under the supervision of Warren J. Keegan, Professor of International Business and Marketing and Director of the Institute for Global Business Strategy, Lubin School of Business, Pace University, New York, as a basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate
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COMPANY BACKGROUND Whole Foods Market was founded in Austin, Texas, when four local businesspeople decided the natural foods industry was ready for a supermarket format. Their founders were John Mackey and Renee Lawson Hardy, owners of Safer Way Natural Foods, and Craig Weller and Mark Skiles, owners of Clarksville Natural Grocery. The original Whole Foods Market opened in 1980 with a staff of only 19 people. It was an immediate success. At the time, there were less than half a dozen natural food
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Notes on The World is Flat (Friedman, 2006) Summary and excerpts from Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat (2006) by Bill Altermatt CHAPTER 2: THE TEN FORCES THAT FLATTENED THE WORLD page 1 What Tom Friedman means by the phrase “The World is Flat” is that “the global competitive playing field is being leveled…It is now possible for more people than ever to collaborate and compete in real time with more other people on more different kinds of work from more different corners of the planet and
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