Business Analysis

My reason for choosing to apply for Just Group is meany of the stores including Just Jeans Jay Jays and Dotti are stores I enjoy shopping at I have had good experience in theses stores and I enjoy the variety of clothing and styles these stores provide . That is why I would like to work for Just Group.

Commutronics had not accumulated enough profits and had no sufficient capital reserves. The company’s registered capital was therefore very low. The withholding tax rate of

Finish Line combined with its subsidiaries, is one of the biggest athletic apparel retailers in the United States. The Finish Line company operates two different retail stores around the country, one under the Finish Line brand name and the other called Running Specialty. Finish Line is a premium retailer of athletic shoes, apparel and accessories. As of April 4, 2014, the company operated 644 Finish Line stores (Sec.gov). Also, the company operates a website www.finishline.com. Brand names sold by Finish Line include Nike, Brand Jordan, Rebook, adidas, Under Armour, New Balance and more. Footwear accounts for approximately 89% of Finish Line’s net sales (Sec.gov). Finish Line’s goal is to continue to be a premium athletic footwear retailer by selling the most updated products from the biggest brand names in an engaging and exciting shopping environment with knowledgeable staff trained to deliver excellent customer service.

Cool Moose Creamery wants to grow up the business and keep the success of 2009. Perantinos consider that purchase the soft-serve machine, whether best way to do it. And which soft-serve machine will be getting higher

La-Z-Boy had approximately 15,500 shareholders as of June 9, 2015. A very upbeat photo filled section giving an overview of how the company did during the year, it includes upcoming strategies and how they plan to run the business in the future. Many graphs are included for easier viewing to the shareholder. People looking to invest in La-Z-Boy would find this introduction to be a visually appealing.

According to a survey by Duff and Phelps, 53% of adult consumers seek locally produced brands because it is perceived as more fresh and provides a nostalgic emotion associated with home. As a result, if Chocolate Moose were to expand to wholesale stores with a big alumni presence they would be more likely to attain market share. Further, targeting alumni would save Chocolate Moose capital investment because the alumni are likely to already have a degree of familiarity with the Chocolate Moose brand. In terms of distribution, Chocolate Moose presently has transportation infrastructure that it uses to transport ice cream to its Nashville store. This fleet would almost assuredly have to be expanded should the aforementioned strategy be successful, but we believe that Chocolate Moose has demonstrated its ability to manage a simple transportation infrastructure, and would only need invest in a couple more trucks. If Lovey is averse to additional transportation risk, he could investigate bulk shipping with a major regional

Cold Stone Creamery use national marketing strategy but also adapts to use specialized local marketing strategies for its franchisee to help them increase sales. For instance they market themselves for not just giving customer ice cream but rather an “Experience”; they are also targeting the healthier crowd by bringing in healthy smoothies (because they are traditionally known for unhealthy treats). To increase awareness for their healthy smoothies, they are going to offer free smoothies samples at some stores, have smoothies in their menu under “healthy indulgence”, and they are going to give away free samples at Gasparillia Distance Classic Race expo (over 20,000 people attend). They are also bringing in Valpak saving coupons, about 46.6% of the marketing budget, this will help store visits, increase sales and help them tackle their weakness of high prices. In short their national marketing strategy is to reach all target

has pulled their weight and maintained their position on top. Established in 1937; Ice-Fili has survived the change in government, financial hard times, and the ever growing competition from international companies. However, given these events their market share, which was once dominated by Ice-Fili, has been significantly reduced. In fact the Harvard Business School’s 2005 revision of the Ice-Fili case study states that in just a few years the market share decreased by a half billion dollars. This downfall has posed the CEO of Ice-Fili, Anatoliy Shamanov, with many questions. Included amongst

The case presented involves the Polaris Cafe’ located in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The Polaris Café was founded by four partners: Ben Reynolds, responsible for marketing and public relations; Kyle Roman, the overall manager; Sid Carter, responsible for the financial management, potential investors, and obtaining bank loans; and Dominick Trioli, responsible for payroll and purchasing. New Brunswick is a college town, home to Rutgers University and several large corporations, such as Johnson & Johnson.

3.) Strong presence in high margin health services business. In addition to UnitedHealth Group’s leadership position in the health benefits market segment, UnitedHealth Group has strong information and technology based health services platform through its business segments which is Ingenix, OptumHealth and PrescriptionSolutions. The “CNN MONEY” (2012) website states Ingenix is one of the largest health information, technology and consulting companies in the world. The UnitedHealth Group derived $2.3 billion of revenues from Ingenix which contributed $284 million (excluding $200 million in goodwill impairment and business line deposition charges) of operating profit, and an operating margin of 12.1% during FY2010.

While doing our research on the hot dog chain J. Dawgs, we found that while there are many strengths to their company, there are weaknesses that can use improvement. One of the biggest weaknesses that we found was that J. Dawgs is not a well known company. J. Dawgs does not have acceptable marketing, and relies exclusively on word-of-mouth and social media. Improving marketing- such as posting coupons in coupon books, hanging fliers around town, billboards, television commercials, etc.- could greatly improve the traffic that J. Dawgs could bring in. Another smart business move would be joining the online food ordering and delivery app, UberEats. Joining UberEats would be smart considering it is quickly becoming popular in Salt Lake. An increased

In the constantly shifting world of frozen treats, ice cream has followed several trends. The new health conscious American is often looking for ways to beat caloric intake, while still serving an unwavering need to divulge in a vice. Frozen yoghurt, sherbet, sorbet, or low and fat free ice cream have become the avenue for many of the American population’s need to indulge while keeping calorie levels low. To account for the lowered fat and sugar content, ice cream manufacturers pack these low calorie ice cream choices full of preservatives and chemical additives. (Hottinger, n.d.).

Our five group members are starting up a business called, “Not Your Average Ice Cream Shop.” This is a place where you get in line to experience mouth watering, tasty ice cream alcoholic drinks. There will be a variety of products to choose from such as: various UV brand options to mix with vanilla ice cream, Best Damn Root Beer mixed with vanilla ice cream, and Bacardi Limon with strawberry ice cream. With these options you can get a variety of tastes with our multiple UV options, enjoy an alcoholic root beer float, or quench your thirst with the great taste of a strawberry-lemon combo. These three drinks are going to be our specialties. Along with the three drinks we will be known for, we will give you the option to “mix your own malt.” This is a way for you to mix and match any ice cream flavor and alcohol combo we have available to you. Aside from alcoholic beverages, we will offer non-alcoholic malts so you can quench your sweet tooth without getting slightly intoxicated. We will also be a normal bar just in case you would rather have the usual mixers and beers. “Not Your Average Ice Cream Shop” will have a wet bar, otherwise known as a swim up bar, and a dry bar inside. There will be rules regarding how many drinks and shakes will be available to each customer to avoid potential accidents. Lastly, we will also have volleyball courts outside, where we will host league nights for fellow athletes.

The Canadian demographic for ice cream has been a constant presence of a sweet treat on a hot summer day. Thankfully, Canadians love ice cream, and enjoy it all year around. But, just who is enjoying this delicious milky treat, and what opportunities and threats does that leave the ice cream industry with?

Market Analysis Summary3 Cold Stone Creamery® is faced with the exciting challenge of being the first-mover in the Bishkek which has amazing ice- creams and other dairy products. The consistent popularity of ice-cream, cakes, coffee and specialty drinks is a winning concept and we believe it will produce overwhelming results. The market we will engage in is the downtown area. Specifically near the mall “ЦУМ”. The target market we will serve consists of the university student population and those primarily within walking distance of the shop in downtown. Our local market has a mixed educational background - about half have a college degree or Page 8