2011, Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation Version: 2011-11-07 INTRODUCTION It was late March 2007, and Richard McDonald, a managing director at Federal Securities (Federal), was briefing his team on a financing proposal for Lululemon Athletica (Lululemon). Federal Securities was a mid-sized investment bank and in recent years, had managed several capital issues for businesses in the retail sector. McDonald had been monitoring Lululemon’s progress over the past few years and had been impressed
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Growth strategies By the end of 2013, Lululemon owned 171 stores in the United States and 54 stores in Canada, which means the North America market was reaching maturity (Natalie, O.R. 2014); but this company has its own strategies to expand their home market of North America. Generally, market penetration strategy involves in additionally advertisements, sales and promotions.（Grewal et al., 2012) However, Lululemon takes organic growth strategy, which is being a part of community, and grow organically
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Introduction lululemon is a very successful company that specializes in yoga clothing and a healthy lifestyle. They have creative strategies and innovative ways to run their business. They are well known by the market that they target to. lululemon needs to broaden the market that they are targeting by repositioning their clothing to more than just yoga activities. By doing this they will make more people aware of the great quality of their clothing and gain even more success in the future.
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to become successful in the market. We will compare what qualities and traits successful companies possessed which provided them with a competitive advantage in the marketplace and kept their customers satisfied. We will compare three companies; Lululemon, American Apparel, and Roots Canada and report on what separates them from their competition and mistakes they have made in the past. Research Method Our research consisted primarily of exploratory research which will focus on the industry’s
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0 Lululemon Marketing Strategy Introduction Marketing plays an important role in a company delivering high quality goods to target consumers. The marketing strategy of a company contributes to the quality management of a product, customer satisfaction, and company profitability. An example of a company with a strong and unique marketing strategy is Lululemon Athletic, focused on yoga-inspired athletic wear for women, founded by Chip Wilson in 1998. It has
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Summary of Article, “Lululemon rides out recession in quality fashion” Many clothing firms cut price to allure customers in the recession. However, Christine Day, the vice president of Lululemon adopted a contrary approach, now lululemon is profitable. The success of lululemon in the recession attributed to the innovative strategies. First of all, Christine Day did not lower price, but devote into improving quality of clothes. Besides, she attracted customers by offering new products such
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choices: - 1. Grant short-term credit to Lululemon Athletica Inc. 2. Grant long-term credit to Lululemon Athletica Inc. 3. Consider purchasing shares in Lululemon Athletica Inc. or buying shares in Nike On face value and looking at ratios in isolation, granting long term credit or investing in Lululemon looks like the best option for Wand Inc. However, further investigation on all the ratios and taking into account financial statement data, granting Lululemon short-term credit such as Notes Payables
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Strategic financial management for LULULEMON Introduction Strategic Financial management is the managing and controlling financial resources of the organization to achieve organization common goal. It is a full range of financial information of an organization. It involves with some steps, establish financial objectives, and identify financial resources, collecting analyzing use financial data to make financial decision. Strategic financial management refers to short time objectives as well
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an organization, the philosophy that guides an organization’s policy toward employees and customers, the rules for getting along with other people in the organization, and the feeling or climate of a particular organization.” Founded in 1998, Lululemon is a specialty retailer of yoga inspired athletic apparel. By 2008, the publicly traded organization earned $350M in revenues, sold its product in over one hundred stores, and employed over three thousand employees. Lululemon’s mission “to create
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