Materiality If we were investors in this company‚ we would consider 5% to be material. The company does not seem to have any high risk of fraud or material misstatement‚ so we are very comfortable with the quality of its financial reporting. A misstatement of 5% or above in any of the significant company accounts‚ or a combined misstatement of 5% or above for the company accounts as a whole‚ would require increased investigation and would reduce our confidence in the records. Any misstatement
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Marketing Management COMM 3045 A Crack in the Mug - Can Starbucks mend it? Case Study Prepared for: Professor Pat Gardner Group Members: Kim Denis Tomas Lee Xame Chan Paul Stevens Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 3 2. Problem Statement 4 3. Company Objectives 4 4. Company Background 4 5. Analysis 5-7 5.1. SWOT Analysis 5 5.2. Market Analysis 6 5.3. Competitive Analysis 7 6. Key Factors 7-8 6.1. Key Opportunities 7
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THE INDUSTRY ATTRACTIVE? WHY AND /WHY NOT Starbucks currently operates within three industries: Fast-Food Restaurants‚ Coffee and Snack Shops‚ and Specialty Coffees. Which are defined by NAICS (North American Industry Classification System). Although all three are separate segments Coffee and Snack Shop and Specialty Coffee basically carry various similarities. Despite this fact that this industry is somewhat narrower when compared to the fast food industry that they are also considered to be
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STARBUCKS: AN INTERNATIONAL PRODUCT BRANDING ANALYSIS An internationally recognized brand with over 16‚800 locations worldwide and is valued at $5.23 Billion as of 2005 (source: cafemakers.com/brand_recognition.html) Prepared by Florence L [Fashion Marketing Critic] LOVE COFFEE. Starbucks started its journey back in 1971‚ and has since grown to serve millions of sociable coffee-goers from around the world. With more than 16‚800 locations across the globe as of 2009‚ Starbucks is still the dominant
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the business environment‚ there are different forces such as economic forces‚ legal forces and the socio-cultural forces which can have an impact on the product‚ on the organization and the marketing manoeuvres in which nestle undertakes. This will be further examined in the first section of the report. Marketing Initiatives As we all know that there are several forces that can
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STARBUCKS IN CHINA Marketing in the host country Before entering China‚ Starbucks decided to invest in market research to analyze the best approach to reach the Chinese market by entering joint with local companies in different regions across the country which allowed a direct access to the consumer for market research purposes. Several interesting findings were made regarding market behavior in China; first of all China is a tea-based consumption market so to generate acceptance to the Starbucks
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How organizations organize to respond to the environment Human beings for millennia have used energy‚ initially it was with the use of fire for light‚ heat‚ cooking and for safety‚ and its use can be traced back at least 1.9 million years (Bowman‚ 2009). However‚ most of these resources are limited. According to P. E. Hodgson‚ a Senior Research Fellow Emeritus in Physics at Corpus Christi College‚ Oxford‚ expects the world energy use is doubling every fourteen years and the need is increasing faster
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How Organizations Attract a Quality Workforce And How they Motivate and Retain them. “In today’s workplace‚ almost limitless job opportunities and less employee loyalty has created an environment where a business needs its employees more than the employees need the business” (Smith‚ 2012). When one side of this equation becomes dependant on the other‚ they lose the upper advantage and it puts them in a very vulnerable spot. This is the last place an organization wants to put themselves
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Research/Analysis Paper: Starbucks In 1971 Starbucks was founded on a love for coffee. Three businessmen‚ Gordon Bowker‚ Jerry Baldwin‚ and Zev Siegl‚ had a desire to share that love with Seattle by opening a small coffee shop known as Starbucks Coffee‚ Tea & Spice. Ten years later Starbucks had grown to four retail stores located throughout the Seattle area. Whole bean coffee was sold at all four locations. Upon reaching 100 stores in 1992 the company went public. Starbucks grew at an exponential
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Starbucks Expectations of Starbucks’ customers in terms of Starbucks’ coffee beverages The expectations of Starbucks’ customers regarding coffee beverages would be to receive a perfectly made coffee‚ which is also recognized by the Starbucks’ mission statement. The notion of perfectly made coffee at Starbucks will include freshness and richness of taste‚ choice (varieties by origin‚ type and flavor)‚ consistency of taste‚ image of “premium coffee”‚ some exotic experience‚ gourmet
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