Sector Report Fast-Moving Consumer Goods in Africa kpmg.com/africa The series has the following reports: • Oil and Gas in Africa • Private Equity in Africa • Manufacturing in Africa • Luxury Goods in Africa • The African Consumer and Retail • White Goods in Africa • Insurance in Africa • Agriculture in Africa • Power in Africa • Construction in Africa • Banking in Africa • Healthcare in Africa Contents Introduction and Overview 1 Key Drivers 2
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slump in the high-tech market — the company just posted a 16% increase in sales for its most recent quarter, the sixth straight quarter Dell has enjoyed a double-digit revenue gain. Even more impressively, the hike in sales was accompanied by a 21% increase in profit. All told, Dell expects to reach $40 billion for the year, a substantial improvement on the $32 billion in sales it had last year. The secret to Dell’s success is really no secret at all — the company has said all along that its direct
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McKinsey Global Institute July 2013 Game changers: Five opportunities for US growth and renewal The McKinsey Global Institute The McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), the business and economics research arm of McKinsey & Company, was established in 1990 to develop a deeper understanding of the evolving global economy. Our goal is to provide leaders in the commercial, public, and social sectors with the facts and insights on which to base management and policy decisions. MGI research combines
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ACCOUNTING Published by McGraw-Hill/Irwin, a business unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, 10020. Copyright © 2011, 2008, 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written consent of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., including, but not limited to, in any network or other electronic storage
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Costing: A Tool to Aid Decision Making Solutions to Questions 7-1 Activity-based costing differs from traditional costing systems in a number of ways. In activity-based costing, nonmanufacturing as well as manufacturing costs may be assigned to products. And, some manufacturing costs—including the costs of idle capacity—may be excluded from product costs. An activity-based costing system typically includes a number of activity cost pools, each of which has its unique measure of activity.
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Motorola Inc. Company Analysis Abstract The mobile phone industry is a very tough market to compete in. The birth of the smartphone brought about a whole new level of competition. Not only is the technology side constantly changing, but marketer must pay attention to the needs, wants, and concerns held by the very people who purchase these “smartphones,” the consumer, because they are ever changing as well. The contents of this paper will demonstrate how Motorola Inc. almost missed the smartphone
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Chapter Three 3 Fundamentals of Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis Orientation P A R T 1 LEARNING OBJECTIVES Preparing and Organizing Yourself After reading this chapter, you should be able to: for Success in College L.O.1 Use cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis to analyze decisions. L.O.2 Understand the effect of cost structure on decisions. L.O.3 Use Microsoft Excel to perform CVP analysis. L.O.4 Incorporate taxes, multiple products, and alternative cost structures into the CVP analysis. L.O.5 Understand
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MORRELL & COMPANY 9.1 DEVELOPING NULL AND ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESES The Alternative Hypothesis as a Research Hypothesis The Null Hypothesis as an Assumption to Be Challenged Summary of Forms for Null and Alternative Hypotheses 9.2 TYPE I AND TYPE II ERRORS 9.3 POPULATION MEAN: σ KNOWN One-Tailed Test Two-Tailed Test Summary and Practical Advice Relationship Between Interval Estimation and Hypothesis Testing 349 Statistics in Practice STATISTICS in PRACTICE JOHN MORRELL & COMPANY* CINCINNATI
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Opportunities for collaboration increase while anti-globalization movements and national patriotism can be mobilized for effective defense.. The framework presented in this paper builds on existing strategic theories and concepts in addition to published case studies. It offers a flexible and dynamic approach for reviewing alternative strategies for implementation and research. Key words: Defensive strategies, Incumbents, Global threats, Global opportunities, Globalization trends. Defending a Domestic Position
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NEW PRODUCTS AND BRAND EXTENSIONS To facilitate the discussion, it is useful to establish some terminology. When a firm introduces a new product, it has three main choices as to how to brand it: 1. It can develop a new brand, individually chosen for the new product. 2. It can apply, in some way, one of its existing brands. 3. It can use a combination of a new brand with an existing brand. A brand extension is when a firm uses an established brand name to introduce a new product. When a new
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