Assignment 1 Prime Minister Profile: Tony Blair Tony Blair was born in Edinburgh‚ Scotland on May 6‚ 1953. Although born in Scotland‚ Blair spent several years of his childhood attending the Chorister School in Durham‚ England. When Blair was 10‚ his father ran for Parliament as a Tory but suffered from a stroke the night before the election. Blair later cited his father’s inability to finish the election as a driving factor behind his own political ambition. Blair attended St. John’s College at Oxford
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Background and Problem Definition The case describes the competition in U.S. paint industry and also about Jones Blair Company which deals in architectural paint and paint sundries. The problem definition in the case study depicts a meeting of company executives where discussions are made that how to deploy corporate marketing efforts of the company in order to increase the sales‚ as peak painting season is approaching soon. Market and Industry Analysis Paint Industry: The industry is divided
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2012 Jones Blair Case Study Jones Blair Company is a paint manufacturer that distributes paint to Texas‚ Oklahoma‚ New Mexico‚ and Louisiana with its manufacturing plant based in Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW). The main product line of the company is architectural paint with some line depth that they manufacture at their own plant; they also offer the sundries for painting towards their end customers. The sundries offered are not produced by the company itself but carries the Jones Blair brand logo.
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1Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair (born 6 May 1953)[1] is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He resigned from all of these positions in June 2007. Blair was elected Leader of the Labour Party in the leadership election of July 1994‚ following the sudden death of his predecessor‚ John Smith. Under his leadership
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1.Key problems and strategic issues that JB’s management needs to address 2.Analysis of the US paint industry and Jones Blair Co.area 3.Recommandations and arguments Where and how to deploy marketing efforts among the various architectural paint coatings markets served by Jones Blair Co. in the southwestern united states. The US paint industry: Architectural coatings: 43% - general purpose paints - varnishes - lacquers OEM coatings: 35%
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fields by joining the United Mine Workers of America‚ or in short UMWA. In September of 1921 a shootout erupted between agents of the Baldwin-Felts company guards and miners of Matewan‚ WV which sparked what became known as the Battle of Blair Mountain. The Battle of Blair Mountain was one of the largest civil uprisings in United States history and the largest armed rebellion since the American Civil War. By executive order of the President‚ the U.S. Army intervened and squashed the uprising‚ resulting
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Original Equipment manufacturing (OEM) o Special Purpose Coating • The Jones- Blair market specifically can be segmented by “Do it yourself” consumers and consumers who hire professional contractors. It can also be further segmented by looking at consumers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area (urban area) versus the consumers in the smaller rural areas. • Altogether there are four major consumer segments for Jones-Blair: o Do it yourself painters in the DFW area o Do it yourself painters in rural communities
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based on the extremely high quality and performance of the products. By cutting price‚ Jones Blair will be able to stay competitive in price with other the other products on the market. In 1997 architectural product sales volume was $12‚000‚000. Jones Blair has a current net profit of $1.14 million‚ and to stay profitable it must maintain this amount. $12‚000‚000*.35= $4‚200‚000 If Jones Blair reduced its price by 20% the contribution margin will drop to 15%. New contribution margin =
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Background and Problem definition: Jones-Blair is privately held corporation which produces architectural paint coatings and markets them under Jones Blair brand name. Addition to that it also sells paint sundries under Jones Blair brand name even though these items are not manufactured by them. Apart from these the corporation also operates on OEM coating division. The problem in front of the company is to decide where and how to deploy corporate marketing efforts among the various architectural
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films can be traced back to the 1980’s with Cannibal Holocaust‚ it used both a staged filmmaking style and introduced a lost footage‚ then recovered and shown to the public style of filmmaking. While Cannibal Holocaust was one of the first films‚ The Blair Witch Project (1999) gave a new life to the genre which has been kept afloat by the likes of Cloverfield (2008) and the Paranormal Activity series. Found footage films are feature length movies‚ shorts‚ or webseries made to look and to have the feel
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