Chapter 2- Fundamental principles of value creation Question 1- What was the reason the fast growing company Walgreen and the significantly slower growing company Wrigley‚ Between 1968 and 2007 had nearly the same shareholder return? For example‚ earnings growth alone can’t explain why investors in drugstore chain Walgreens‚ with sales of $54 billion in 2007‚ and global chewinggum maker Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company‚ with sales of $5 billion the same year‚ earned similar shareholder returns between
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Chapter 2 Company and Marketing Strategy: Partnering to Build Customer Relationships GENERAL CONTENT: Multiple-Choice Questions 1. _____ is the task of selecting an overall company strategy for long-run survival and growth. a. Strategic market planning b. Annual market planning c. Short-term planning d. Advertising e. None of the above is correct (Answer: a; p. 37; Easy) 2. Adapting the firm to take advantage of opportunities in its constant changing environment is called
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Answer to Question 1: Efficient Market Hypothesis was firstly brought forward by E. Fama in 1960s. Its main believing is in that security prices fully reflect all available information in an efficient market‚ which allows investors to earn no above average risk-adjusted return (Fama‚ 1965). Although some technical studies and opportunistic investors have stretched hard in searching for proofs to challenge the efficient market hypothesis‚ and to prove above average returns could be gained by predicting
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Faustino Question: 1. How do you start a working relationship with a new staff? * “I start working with them by explaining the rules and regulations‚ and talk them not as a manager‚ but as a friend.” Question: 2. How do you build and maintain a harmonious relationship with your staff? * “I maintain the harmonious relationship with them by cooperating and monitoring each other’s companies that also help us to improve our manager-employee relationship.” Question: 3. How
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Question 1 a) In the late 1990s Nike found itself in a serious situation with its manufacturing approach in Asia.-Select and apply one of Porter’s models of strategy to explain why Nike were manufacturing in Asia? Michael Porter‚ leading author on company strategy and competitive advantage‚ has developed several generic strategies which‚ according to Porter‚ are the driving force behind any given company’s success. These strategies comprise of Cost Leadership‚ Differentiation and Focus. It is Porter’s
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Wilkerson Company 1. What is the competitive situation faced by Wilkerson? The critical product in term of market competition is the pumps of Wilkerson Company. The pumps are Wilkersons major product line with a production of about 12‚500 units per month. Pumps currently have the lowest gross margin among all products‚ because competitors had been reducing prices on pumps and Wilkerson adopted its prices in order to remain competitive and to maintain the volume. 2. Given some apparent problems with
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demonstrates how broad changes in broad environmental factors (i.e. demographics‚ technology‚ culture‚ etc.) have an impact on industry competition. The case is not especially complex‚ so it is not overwhelming as a first case. Study and Discussion Questions 1. Why has the pharmaceutical industry been so successful historically? 2. What is your assessment of the pharmaceutical industry at the time of the case? How is competition changing? What factors are driving the changes? 3. What will competition
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1. Excecutive Summary 1.0 Introduction FRANKROJEIAN Snack House start-up a small bakery that rent in 1.1 The Company FRANKROJEIAN Snack House is a Partnership business‚ this will be under supevision of the five partners as the owner of the business. The business wiill be renting a space at the Sienna building Alunan Avenue near government offices‚ schools and private sectors. 1.2 The Products and Servies FRANKROJEIAN Snack House offers the following food and beverages to customers • Cakes
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Competing coffee companies Industry Analysis According to Starbucks corporation‚ 66 billion cups of coffee are drunk every year in the U.S. and a full three quarters of those cups of coffee are enjoyed at home. The other 25% of coffee is drunk at the office‚ traveling‚ or in a coffee shop (CNN Money). Starbucks has no clear competition; however the closest competitors include other specialty coffee shops‚ doughnut shops‚ and restaurants. Starbucks holds a dominant position in the specialty coffeehouse
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Case 5: Acceptable Pins A company supplies pins in bulk to a customer. The company uses an automatic lathe to produce the pins. Due to many causes-vibrations‚ temperature‚ wear and tear‚ and the like-the lengths of the pins made by the machine are normally distributed with a mean of 1.012 inches and a standard deviation of 0.018 inch. The customer will buy only those pins with lengths in the interval 1.00 ± 0.02 inch. In other words‚ the customer wants the length to be 1.00 inch but will accept
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