David Jones

Threat from New Entrants There are currently no new threats from new entrants in this market. Company G’s technology, testing and production process that is very efficient for profitability cannot be easily replicated.

On behalf Li & Partners consulting firm, we are pleased to present the strategic recommendation report. This reports divided into five sections. David Jones’ external and internal environments are discussed in the first two sections. The following section focuses on the identification of stakeholders and their interests. Our strategic recommendations to improve shareholder value are explained in the fourth section followed by the impact our recommendations have on stakeholders. A balance scorecard is constructed in the last section to illustrate the effect our strategic recommendations have on stakeholders and future company performance.

The PEST analysis helps to explain the critical factors in the organization's external environment. The factors include political, economic, social and technological. For Myer, these forces combine with the internal factors, and other external factors like competition. The Australian consumer goods retail market is worth $121 billion (IBISWorld, 2012) but is heavily fragmented. Myer is the third-largest company in the industry behind David Jones and Harvey Norman, but with $3.158 billion in sales holds just 2.6% market share (Myer 2011 Annual Report). This implies that competition is only one of many factors that can contribute to the company's results. This PEST analysis will help to identify the other major factors.

Therefore this industry is a pretty good one to already be in, but would be very tough to try and break into. Since established firms do not have to worry about threat of entrants or substitution, they can focus on making their core business practices cost efficient and profitable. Although firms have to deal with high buyer and supplier power, every firm has to deal with these issues. Therefore this leaves only rivalry to compete on, which forces firms to stay sharp, observe the competition, and provide excellent service to the firm’s customers to generate profit.

Bigotry and stubbornness are perceptible attitudes of small-town communities in 1960's Western Australia. The notion that the inhabitants of the tight-knit community of Corrigan are racist, prejudiced and ignorant is explicated in Craig Silvey's coming of age novel, Jasper Jones. The bildungsroman is narrated by Charlie Bucktin, an adolescent from the small town of Corrigan. Charlie becomes unexpectedly involved with a local indigenous boy, Jasper, as they set out to discover the truth about the death of a young girl from their community. Throughout this quest, Charlie comes to many realisations about life, ultimately, that society can be very cruel. The prejudism and ignorance of the tight-knit community of Corrigan manifests in the

Threat of new entrants is relatively low. There are high barriers to entry in the discount retail market, including high capital costs, limited access to investors, and a largely crowded-out market place.

Threat of new entrants: Retail industry has a higher barrier to entry. First, it is difficult to work out a good value chain as it involves a complex process. Second, it is difficult for new entrants to gain competitive advantage and earn above-average returns in such a highly competitive market. Besides,

The overall threat of new entrants in the retail market is a high level threat as it is relatively easy and inexpensive to enter

On the AMC hit television show, Mad Men, the main character Don Draper spoke very powerful words when he said, “People tell you who they are but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.”. The main character of the novel written by Craig Silvey titled, Jasper Jones dealt with the troubles of, as Don Draper said, people ignoring who somebody is simply because we want them to be who we want. Set in 1965 in a small West Australian town called Corrigan, main character, Charlie Butkin is faced with the fear of being drafted into war with Vietnam and seeing his friends treated poorly by others because of racism. The novel kick starts, however, when Charlie is interrupted by Jason Jones tapping on his window asking Charlie

R v Andrew Leigh Jones pleaded guilty in the magistrate court to trafficking a controlled drug and well as 12 other offences that was brought up from the magistrate court to be sentenced in accordance to section 18 A. Some of the 12 other offences included 5 counts of failing to comply with bail agreements, 2 counts of driving while disqualified, 1 count of driving a motor vehicle without being authorised, one count of driving an unregistered vehicle, 1 count of driving an uninsured vehicle, 1 count of possessing a prohibited weapon and 1 count of unlawful possession. For trafficking a controlled drug a maximum penalty of 50,000 or imprisonment for 10 years while the other 12 offences accumulative not including drug trafficking

In this report I discuss the comparison of competitive strategies between the two major departmental stores in Australia being David Jones and Target and how they differ from each other. I also discuss the current issues that are faced such as Global Financial Crisis that has had much impact on both stores as well as future threats such as online shopping which is believed to be the latest trend is shopping which has already affected the stores but could make competition even tougher in the near future for both stores.

By emphasising on product quality and customer service, it differentiated itself in the Australian market as the leading branded department store with 174 years heritage (DJS Announcement, 21st March 2012). However, David Jones currently faces significant threat of the structural changes of the modern retail industry. The globalisation effect of the internet has brought in greater global price comparisons, hence more competition from high growing online retailing. This includes not only domestic and international online retail pure-plays but also bricks and clicks retailers, brands selling through aggregator websites, as well as established international retailers opening stores in Australia. This threat is detrimental to David Jones as its weakness is its failure to keep up with technology and invest in its online store chain. In addition, David Jones is facing high and increasing funding costs. Nevertheless, there is still an opportunity for David Jones to be present in the new technologies distribution markets and appeal to online customers.

The retail industry shows a low cost for companies wanting to enter the industry. However, these new entrants will not be a direct threat to Couche-Tard, as they established their strong market position throughout the past 37 years by continuously expanding their reach through acquisitions.

Answer: According to the case study what actually gives Aldi and edge over its competitors like Woolworths and Coles is their discounted pricing. As written in the article that a dozen of eggs costs around 4 dollars in Aldi stores whereas it costs around 5 dollars at Coles and close to 6 dollars at Woolworths. Also for Aldi, operating readily involves reducing costs in all niches of the business.

The recent studies show the profit margin of David Jones has declined by 6.1% in 2012 due to the market