GAP INC Financial and Strategic Analysis Review Summary The Gap‚ Inc (Gap) is a specialty retailer‚ engaged in providing a wide range of casual apparel‚ accessories‚ and personal care products for men‚ women and children. The company markets its products under the brand name Gap‚ Old Navy‚ GapKids‚ babyGap‚ GapBody‚ Banana Republic and Piperlime. Gap operates 3‚167 stores in United States‚ Canada‚ the United Kingdom‚ France‚ Ireland and Japan. The company also operates its stores in
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Discussion Case: The Gap Inc.’s Social Responsibility Report Do you think Gap has demonstrated global corporate citizenship‚ as defined in this chapter? Why or why not? The Gap showed global corporate citizenship as they develop a comprehensive monitoring software factory in the garment industry In its response to problems in its contractor factories‚ do you think Gap moved through the stages of corporate citizenship presented in this chapter? Why or why not? Gap move through the stages
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Chapter 7 The Gap Inc.’s Social Responsibility Reports 1) This chapter defined global corporate citizenship as putting an organizations commitment to social and environmental responsibility into practice worldwide. By this definition Gap has demonstrated global corporate citizenship since it has developed one of the most comprehensive factory-monitoring programs in the apparel industry in order to find and stop sweatshops‚ child labor and unsafe working conditions. The Gap has also pledged to
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The Gap Inc. business strategy is a combined of cost leader and differentiation. The company provides a highly competitive price with some differentiated fashion features. As a cost leader‚ Gap supplies the similar products at a lower price‚ uses the simple design‚ and applies a tight cost control system to its store space. At the same time‚ Gap also equipped with some unique product features. The company has variety products designed for different group of target customer‚ like GapKids and Banana
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Capstone Case Analysis (Owen & Minor‚ Inc. Company History) Name: Samuel Ansah Westwood College Instructor: Professor Ali Alavi Course: Management Capstone Date: March 31st‚ 2014 Owens and Minor Inc. History Owens & Minor Inc. is distributor of surgical and medical supplies to hospitals and other health care facilities. Owens & Minor Inc. (O&M) was founded by George Gilmer Minor Jr.‚ a wholesale drug salesman from Richmond Virginia in 1882. The name Owens & Minor
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Back in the early fall of 2012‚ XL Foods Inc.‚ one of Canada’s largest meat processing plants located in Brooks‚ Southeast Alberta‚ was delivering tainted meats contaminated with Escherichia Coli. Escherichia Coli is a group of bacteria found in the lower intestines of humans and animals‚ which can be developed by improper storing of food‚ poor hygiene in the facility and poor food handling practices (Christian Nordqvist‚ par. 1). Canadian Food Inspection Agency officials temporarily shut down the
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Youth Research‚ Inc. RES/351 Youth Research‚ Inc. In January of 2010‚ Tampa Bay Online published an article stating that Youth Research‚ Inc. had defrauded federal regulators in the company’s safety testing reports. The article claimed that Youth Research‚ Inc. had been hired by various lighter manufacturers between 1994 and 2005 to conduct child safety tests on the lighters (Silvestrini‚ 2010). The Consumer Products Safety Commission noticed inconsistencies on reports submitted by Youth
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Introduction The Gap Inc. is a global specialty retailer that operates stores selling casual apparel and accessories for men‚ women‚ and children (Yahoo Market Guide‚ 2001). Under the Gap‚ are the Old Navy and Banana Republic brands (Yahoo Market Guide‚ 2001). Demographic/Psychographic/Geographic Segmentation Gap The Gap’s target age segment is males and females ranging from seventeen to twenty-five years old (Cosmopolitan‚ 2000‚ p. 2). The typical family life cycle for a Gap customer comprises
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CSR Gap Analysis of the GAP Gap Inc prefaces their 2004/5 CSR report with the question: what is a company’s role in society? Their answer is that a company ‘only realizes its full potential when it embraces its role as a global citizen’. This raises two interesting points; the first is that the answer to the question ‘what is a company’s role in society?’ will be conditioned by normative assumptions about business/government relations in a firm’s country of incorporation. David Detomasi
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Case #4: Bridging the Gap As customers once knew‚ The Gap was a popular fashion apparel store that attracted many people to it. However‚ this is no longer the case in the present day. So what happened? According to the case‚ competitors are gaining market share with cheaper and fresher fashion designs. One of the problems Gap (including other retailers) is the rising costs of raw materials. Gap said this would force them to raise their prices on items by 20 percent‚ but the customers
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