Unique Selling Proposition (USP) Here are a few guidelines on how to ensure your business has something unique in both your product and communication messages and then how to market your business to the customers you highlighted yesterday. How to develop your unique selling proposition When there are many companies wanting people to spend money on their business‚ one of the most important areas for you to focus on is something unique that sets your business apart from your competitors. This will
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NIGERIA’S ’DEMOCRACY DIVIDENDS’ The nation’s literary clan went agog recently when it generously expended kilometers of expensive newsprint and megawatts of electronic media energy on what looked like a stock-taking ritual in commemoration of the second year of the Obasanjo regime. One by one‚ all the learned commentators who mounted the podium had something to say about the status of the regime’s half time scorecard. And depending on the analyst’s loyalty‚ it was possible to make a general classification
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THE SETTING OF DIVIDEND POLICY Dividend policy is likely to be set in the form of a goal rather than a rigid rule‚ even though a definite policy has the advantage of providing the investor‚ or potential investor‚ a clear basis for choice. Investors knowing the dividend policy of the alternative companies can choose the type of company that best fits their individual investment goals. This is desirable‚ because stockholders differ in the extent to which they prefer dividends rather than opportunities
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‘The sums available for payment of a dividend depends on a company being able to satisfy both a profit and loss (realised profits) test and a balance sheet test’- Explain the profit and loss test and the balance sheet test and consider the accuracy of the above statement in relation to both public and private companies. Paying a dividend is the usual way for a company to distribute a share of its profits among the shareholders. A dividend is an amount payable to a shareholder
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THE EXCHANGE OFFER6EVALUATION OF THE TRADE-OFF7REFERENCES10INTRODUCTIONA firm’s decisions about dividends are often mixed up with other financing and investment decisions. Some firms pay low dividends because management is optimistic about the firm’s future and wishes to retain earnings for expansion. Other firms might finance capital expenditures largely by borrowing. All the above are examples of dividend policies which can be defined more precisely as the trade-off between retaining earnings on the
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economic growth and the concept of “demographic dividend” emerged. Demographic dividend is defined as a rise in the rate of economic growth due to a rising share of working age people in a population. This phenomenon occurs with a falling birth rate and the consequent shift in the age structure of the population towards the adult working ages. It is also commonly known as the demographic gift or bonus or demographic window. The demographic dividend‚ however‚ does not last forever. There is a limited
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Lower investment rate due to the fact that FPL probably does not raise dividends as discussed - Suggestion of dividend cuts by FPL’s managers - FPL’s stock price has fallen by 19.6% while the S&P index has decreased by 22.1% - Rising interest rate and increasing competition in electric industry From investors’ perspective‚ the current payout ratio is appropriate to some extent: - FPL’s current payout ration = cash dividend/net income = 461693/248749 = 107.7%. According to the exhibit 9‚ FPL has
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RIM’s dividend policy is no dividend. The company has not paid any dividend since they completed its initial public offering during fiscal 1998. Motorola has never paid dividend. Apple has not paid dividend since 1996. Nokia and HTC paid dividend regularly maybe because they are not North American company. Basically high technology companies in their growth stage typically have not paid a dividend because the thinking is that they can re-invest their earnings to boost the growth of the company
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Frank Miller was born January 27‚ 1957. Miller was born in Olney‚ Maryland‚ and raised in Montpelier‚ Vermont. He was the fifth of seven children. His mother was a nurse and his father was a carpenter and electrician. His family was Irish Catholic. Miller was formerly married to colorist Lynn Varley‚ who colored many of his noted works from Ronin through 300 and the backgrounds to the movie 300. Miller and Varley divorced in 2005. He has since been romantically linked to New York-based Shakespearean
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environmental conditions? Herman Miller produced its first office furniture in 1942 by a man Gilbert Rhode‚ he died 2 years after the design was made and De Pree had to find a new designer then he hired George Nelson as Herman’s first designer. Herman miller is a 1.3 billion dollar manufacturer that produces office furniture. It is one of only four organizations and the only non-high technology that was selected for Fortune magazines “100 Best Companies to Work For.” Herman Miller has a rich legacy‚ they
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