Annual Report A history of delivering strong results More than Approximately Approximately 10,700 retail units operated in 27 countries 245M customers served weekly in our stores in 27 countries 75 % of U.S. store operations management joined Walmart as hourly associates Increase of Increase of More than 59% in earnings per share(1) (1) Data reflects five-year period from fiscal 2009 through 2013. 123% in free cash flow(1)(2) $ 60B returned to shareholders
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Customers …………………………………………………………………32 Volume per Customer …………………………………………………………………32 Bargaining Power of Suppliers ………………………………………………33 Switching Costs ………………………………………………………………………….34 Differentiation ……………………………………………………………………………34 Cost and Quality Importance ……………………………………………………….35 Number of Suppliers/Volume per Supplier …………………………………….35 Analysis of Key Success Factors …………………………………………………….36 Cost Leadership
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THE GREAT RECESSION Since publication of Robert L. Hetzel’s he Monetary Policy of the Federal Reserve (Cambridge University Press, 2008), the intellectual consensus that had characterized macroeconomics has disappeared. hat consensus emphasized eicient markets, rational expectations, and the eicacy of the price system in assuring macroeconomic stability. he 2008–2009 recession not only destroyed the professional consensus about the kinds of models required to understand cyclical luctuations
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Filed on 02/09/2012 Filed Period 12/31/2011 Table of Contents UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D. C. 20549 FORM 10-K x ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the Fiscal Year Ended: December 31, 2011 OR ¨ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 Commission File Number: 000-22555 COINSTAR, INC. (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) Delaware 1800
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stewards of a rich man, they are apt to consider attention to small matters as not for their master’s honour, and very easily give themselves a dispensation from having it. Negligence and profusion, therefore, must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs of such a company. — Adam Smith (1776) Keywords: Agency costs and theory, internal control systems, conflicts of interest, capital structure, internal equity, outside equity, demand for security analysis, completeness of markets
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our industry and the market at large. We once again achieved record pre-tax earnings, record earnings per share, record free cash flow and improved profit margins, with increased revenues. At the same time, we continued to deliver superior returns to you, our owners. Most importantly, we are well positioned to grow as the global economy recovers. These results were made possible by decisions and actions that we undertook a decade ago, based on where we believed the world was shifting. But even more
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people in the middle of the night. But the emergency announcement that came over the PA system on the night of April 20 was clearly no false alarm. 1 Testimony from Michael Williams, The Joint United States Coast Guard/The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, “FUSCG/BOEM Marine Board of Investigation into the marine casualty, explosion, fire, pollution, and sinking of mobile offshore drilling unit deepwater horizon,
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Philip H. Jos College of Charleston Mark E. Tompkins University of South Carolina Keeping It Public: Defending Public Service Values in a Customer Service Age New Ideas for Improving Public Administration Notwithstanding the persistence and proliferation of to the breaking point with a RAND Corporation calls to serve “customers,” these relationships incorporate study that exhorted the military to engage in “customdistinctively public priorities and performance er-informed decision-making”
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