Interval data: Real numbers, i.e. heights, weights, prices Box plot -Values are real numbers Outliers: -All calculations are valid less than 25th Percentile-Data may be treated as ordinal or nominal 1.5*interquatile Ordinal Data: order poor = 1, fair = 2, good = 3, very good = 4 or -Values must represent the ranked order of the data. Larger than 75th -Calculations based on an ordering process are valid. Percentile+1.5*interquatile -Data may be treated as nominal but not as interval. Nominal Data:
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no. 2-0013 Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Founded by Sam Walton, the first Wal-Mart store opened in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962. Seventeen years later, annual sales topped $1 billion. By the end of January 2002, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Wal-Mart), was the world’s largest retailer, with $218 billion in sales. (See Exhibit 1 for comparative financial data.) Wal-Mart’s winning strategy in the U.S. was based on selling branded products at low cost. Each week, about 100 million customers visited a Wal-Mart store
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Operating Results – by product, customer, geographic region • Sales • Market share • Profit margins • Costs Strategic Issues Analysis • Marketing objectives • Market segmentation • Competitive advantage • Core competences • Positioning • Portfolio analysis Marketing Mix Effectiveness • Product • Price • Promotion • Distribution Marketing Structures • Marketing organization
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Company Profile Physician Sales & Service THE COMPANY PSS World Medical was founded in 1983 with a mission to fulfill the inventory needs of office-based physicians and assisted living facilities by providing unique and innovative services. The elder-care division, Gulf South Medical Supply, provides supplies, equipment and billing services for long-term facilities, home health care and hospice providers. Physician Sales & Service, Inc. focuses on the physician market distributing medical
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Explain the systems or total cost approach in logistics and argue( agree / disagree) how you think it adds significance to the world of business logistics Business logistics refers to a group of related activities all involved in the movement and storage of products and information. business logistics is concerned with the inbound movement of materials and supplies, and the outward movement of finished products. its goal is the delivery of the finished products required by the marketing department
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CHAPTER 9 Ratio Analysis Introduction The analysis of the financial statements and interpretations of financial results of a particular period of operations with the help of 'ratio' is termed as "ratio analysis." Ratio analysis used to determine the financial soundness of a business concern. Alexander Wall designed a system of ratio analysis and presented it in useful form in the year 1909. Meaning and Definition The term 'ratio' refers to the mathematical relationship between any two inter-related
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leads to the fact that fewer women bought products sold door-to door and few teenagers and young women wanted to buy our products. What naturally comes is that only modest revenue and earnings growth have been achieved in a ten year’s time with annual sales growth of less that 1.5%. Now the company is in a very crucial point to make some big strategic changes. 2. Discussion 2.1 Branding Strategy A basic decision in marketing products is branding, in which an organization uses a name, phrase,
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Activities of Value Chain in Wal-Mart Wal-Mart is one of the leading Fortune 500 companies, which is spread across the globe. It is perhaps the largest retail chain which deals with everything from food to consumer electronics. In terms of the revenue generated, it leads the fortune 500 companies like GE and Microsoft. Simply put, it has everything a homemaker can ever think of. Affordable price range coupled with aggressive online and market strategy has led to wide acceptance for Wal-Mart in towns
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Chapter 10 - Property Dispositions Chapter 10 Property Dispositions 32. [LO 1] Rafael sold an asset to Jamal. What is Rafael’s amount realized on the sale in each of the following alternative scenarios? a. Rafael received $80,000 of cash and a vehicle worth $10,000. Rafael also pays $5,000 in selling expenses. b. Rafael received $80,000 of cash and was relieved of a $30,000 mortgage on the asset he sold to Jamal. Rafael also paid a commission of $5,000 on the transaction. c. Rafael received $20
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of $1.6 million for each day that the company owned Snapple). CEO William Smithsburg’s reputation was forever tarnished, and numerous executives were fired. Rasmussen College School of Business QUAKER OATS AND SNAPPLE “We have an excellent sales and marketing team here at Gatorade. We believe we do know how to build brands, we do know how to advance businesses. And our expectation is that we will do the same as we take Snapple as well as Gatorade to the next level.” -Don Uzzi, President
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