Case Study: Financial performance & SWOT analysis of Pernod Ricard – Global’s premium spirits & wines Date: 22nd November, 2010. I certify that the above coursework is all my own work. Word Count: net 1988 words Table of contents Case Study: Financial performance & SWOT analysis of Pernod Ricard – Global’s premium spirits & wines 1 Table of contents 2 Executive summary 3 Financial Ratios Analysis 4 Liquidity Ratios 4 Assets management ratios 5 Debt ratios 6 Profitability ratios 7 Market value and dividend Ratios 8 Growth ratios 9 Financial Strategies and direction 10 Global Market competition analysis 11 SWOT analysis – Pernod Richard 13 Appendix 1 (Financial Ratios) 15 Appendix 2 (Working of financial ratios calculation) 18 Appendix 3 …show more content…
|1.96 |1.49 | |liabilities) | | | | |Financial year’s end dates |30 June 2008 | |Sales/receivable (sales/average trade |5.55 |6.92 |7.53 | |receivables) | | | | |Financial year’s end dates |30 June 2008 | |Interest cover (operating profit / |4.13 |2.54 |3.37 | |interest expenses) | | | | |Financial year’s end dates |30 June 2008 | |Return on assets (net profit after |4.43% |4.36% |3.66% | |preferred
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A strategic SWOT analysis, crossing internal & external analyses, in order to determine strategic directions for the internationalization of Espressamente.
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