Hedging Tiffany and Co.’s Foreign Currency Exposure in Japan Prepared for the Board of Directors of Tiffany & Company D.A.M.M. Business Consultants June 15‚ 1993 Table of Contents Executive summary ………………………………… Risk of foreign exchange exposure in Japan ……… Overview of the Japanese Economy ………………. Industry analysis ……………………………………. Internal & external environmental analysis………. Financial analysis …………………………………... Hedging foreign exchange exposure ………………. Recommendation …………………………………… Appendices
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Attainable 4. Rewarding 5. Time a. Time to myself b. Time for my family reunions/bonds. c. Time to pray d. Time to share and give love for God’s people. • To become a professional business woman. • I live to create‚ build‚ nourish and grow Vision I would like things to be done in God’s plan. Having a picture of my future to become a businesswoman‚ create and/or stand a firm‚ having a good standard in life through the accomplishments of my studies‚ and attaining excellence. Mature‚ Competent
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I. Introduction The Tiffany & Company is introducing a new product line by the name of Tiffany ’s Essentials. The line will offer authentic luxury designer handbags along the lines of Gucci‚ Chloe‚ Dior‚ Fendi‚ Prada and many more. As concept of luxury changes‚ marketers of high-end products are wrestling with the challenges of maintaining exclusivity while obtaining higher sales. Having a well-known name as Tiffany and Company we have no limitations to create luxury pieces for the luxury lifestyles
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Weighted Competitive Strength Assessment The Weighted Competitive Strength Assessment compares Tiffany & Co. with its closest competitors using some of the key success factors and strength measures in the jewelry industry. The following is a weighted competitive assessment chart; this lists the strength measures‚ weights‚ and the overall scores. |Competitive Strength |Importance Weight |Tiffany & Co |LVMH |Signet Group |Blue Nile
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Tiffany & Co. Case Study After Tiffany & Co. made the new retiling agreement with Mitsukoshi Ltd in July 1993‚ Tiffany & Co Japan. Inc started to be responsible to manage the operations of 29 boutiques in Japan. Tiffany will now face both opportunities and risks. Prior to the new agreement‚ the wholesale transactions were dominated entirely in dollars‚ so yen/dollar exchange rate fluctuations were not the reason of Tiffany’s cash flow volatility‚ and Mitsukoshi bore the exchange risk between the
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Tiffany Case Amy Simmons Regis University With the recent restructure of Tiffany Japan‚ the profits earned by our Japanese division are now exposed to foreign exchange risks that were previously not a concern. In light of this new exposure‚ it has become imperative that we needed to determine whether or not Tiffany should implement a risk management program using financial derivatives to hedge against this risk. The first step in this evaluation was to determine the amount of profits
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Introduction: Company name SONY CORPORATION Founded May 7‚ 1946 by Masaru Ibuka and Akio morita Headquarters Located in Tokyo Japan President and CEO Kazuo Hirai Head count 140‚900 in total Operating revenue 800‚000 yens (2013) MISSION STATEMENT At Sony‚ their mission is to be a company that inspires and fulfills our curiosity. Their unlimited passion for technology‚ content and services‚ and relentless pursuit of innovation‚ drives them to deliver ground-breaking new excitement and entertainment
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way(s) is Tiffany exposed to exchange-rate risk subsequent to its new distribution agreement with Mitsukoshi? How serious are these risks? . 1) Transaction Exposure‚ the probability of loss associated with a business transaction denominated in a foreign currency‚ due to changes in the exchange rate . 2) Operating exposure is the degree of risk that a company is exposed to when there is some type of change in varying currency values that are relevant to the operation of the company. Tiffany is exposed
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Tiffany & Company Case Analysis I. Statement of Issue Should Tiffany hedge against translation risk from their Japanese subsidiary? II. Relevant Facts • Establishment of Tiffany-Japan with new responsibility of setting yen prices and managing currency risk. • Eurodollar 3-month forward rate 3.25% Euroyen 3-month forward rate 3.1875 • Yen/Dollar spot rate ¥106.3500 3-months forward ¥106.3300 • 94 SEP call price 1.99 (100ths of a cent per yen‚ ¥6‚250‚000/contract) • 93.5 SEP put price
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1. Exchange rate point of view. From the story‚ Tiffany bought the property and inventory from Japan Mitsukosi. It will expose to the exchange rate translation risk. So it should do the risk management. The analysis structure will be that: (1) Define the risk source: the exchange rate flucturation‚ the cash flows of different currencies from asset change‚ account receivable and account payable. (2) Define the scope of risk control: the natural currency settlement hedging‚ the overflow exchange
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