HIGHLIGHTS REVENUE NET PROFIT Revenue up 2% to $578 million with strong growth in Bathrooms & Kitchens (excluding Hot Water) Net profit after tax of $18.6 million impacted by one-off significant items TRADING EBIT DIVIDENDS Trading earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) up 8% on the prior period to $72.3 million Fully franked final dividend of 5.5 cents per share to be paid in October 2014 STRATEGIC REVIEW COMPLETED SUBJECT TO SUCCESSFUL DIVESTMENT with focus on core
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| |Wealth |-0.57 |4.26 |0.11 |1.74 | |Human Resource Management |0.00 |0.82 |0.06 |0.78 | |Asset Management |0.00 |2.10 |0.08 |1.01 | |Manufacturing Productivity
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STUDY – REVLON Acknowledgement This paper was undertaken during enrollment of master degree of business administration and it is a great opportunity to share this paper for an academic knowledge and development as well as self-improvement management skills. Executive Summary Revlon was founded in 1932 by brothers Charles (Joseph Revson and Charles Lachmann) with a $300 investment from nail products to beauty products. In 1937, Revlon successful started selling products in department
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Corporate Reporting | | British American Tobacco was founded in 1902 and just 10 years after incorporation it was one of the world’s top 12 companies in terms of market capitalization. The group is the world’s second largest stock market listed tobacco group. With products being sold in over 180 markets worldwide, they have market leadership in over 50 markets. They have had a significant global occupancy in over a century and in 2011 alone, its subsidiaries had a sale of 705 billion cigarettes
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Gross Margin First in line of the analysis of your business P & L is to carefully evaluate its gross margin. This calculation is done by subtracting the company's cost of goods sold from sales and by dividing its result by sales. Cost of goods sold is best measured as a percentage and proper care should be exercised to ensure that the periods P & L has properly allocated all direct sales cost to cost of goods sold. Typically most all of these costs will vary proportionally to the amount of product/services
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Unnati Investment Management Research Group Management Development Institute Tata Chemicals Ltd. Tata Chemicals Tata Chemicals was incorporated in 1939 after the acquisition of Okhamandal Salt Works Its products are divided into 3 categories Living essentials, Industry essentials and Farm essentials Presence in 4 continents Africa, Asia, Europe and North America It is the world’s second-largest producer of soda ash, leading manufacturer of soda ash in Africa, sodium Buy (CMP=318.10) carbonate
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Southwest Airlines started from a simple concept. “Rollin King, a San Antonio entrepreneur who owned a small commuter air service, marched into Herb Kelleher’s law office with a plan to start a low-cost/low-fare airline that would shuttle passengers between San Antonio, Dallas, and Houston” (Thompson, Strickland and Gamble, 2010, pg C-401). “His business concept for the airline was simple: attract passengers by flying convenient schedules, get passengers to their destination on time, make sure they
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Competition Bikes Inc. Horizontal Analysis Competition Bikes Inc. net sales when matched to the previous year were substantially lower. In essence, the current economic changes attributed to this situation. However, the company anticipates per unit transactions will go into a period of growth over three subsequent years, and it will thus continue being profitable. In spite of the noted low sales numbers, the net price of product sold when matched to net sales; stayed at seventy percent
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enjoyed excellent financial performance. The firm has posted continuous increase in sales, earnings and cash over the entire period with a 10 year compound growth rates of 9%, 11% and 12% respectively. Most noticeably, the firm has also maintained margins with average gross profit, EBITDA, EBIT and nets margins of 77%, 53%, 50% and 31% respectively. Judging from the financial performance of UST (stable positive earnings), we can firmly conclude that the UST is an assets-in-place firm. The purpose of the
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SODASTREAM INTERNATIONAL LTD. (Report of Foreign Issuer) FORM 6-K Filed 02/29/12 for the Period Ending 02/29/12 Telephone CIK Symbol SIC Code Fiscal Year 972 (3) 976-2323 0001502916 SODA 3630 - Household Appliances 12/31 http://www.edgar-online.com © Copyright 2012, EDGAR Online, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Distribution and use of this document restricted under EDGAR Online, Inc. Terms of Use. UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM 6-K
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