Tootsie Roll Loan

The products of this popular culture are aimed at a specific target market. Primary consumers of The Wiggles are young children but the major purchasers of associated products and paraphernalia are the children’s parents and adults.

Keeping Cost of Goods Sold at a minimum is just as vital as Marketing and Advertising. Maximum value for both customers and shareholders rely on the company’s operations being as lean as possible and its raw materials prices as low as possible. Tootsie Rolls Industries continually upgrades its plant assets to add capacity, improve quality, or increase efficiency. The company manages cost of raw materials through competitive bidding and using commodities futures

If you compare bakery sales in July to bakery sales in September, it shows a 66% increase in sales in just two months. Peyton Approved uses its equity to finance the business than taking out loans. It has a .36% Debt to Equity ratio. The best ratio for the business is the profit margin. In three months the profit margin for Peyton Approved is 53.4%. The company just added a product line of hypoallergenic shampoos. It has been selling these products for one month and the company only turned the product over once during that month. At this time it does not look like adding these products to sales is

Let’s look at the balance sheet for Tootsie Roll in more detail. First, the assets on a balance sheet are listed by how easy it is for the asset to be converted into cash. The easiest asset to convert to cash is listed first and the hardest to convert is listed last. The ease which an asset can be converted to cash is called liquidity.

Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc. has been engaged in the manufacture and sale of confectionery products for 113 years. Our products are primarily sold under the familiar brand names: Tootsie Roll, Tootsie Roll Pops, Caramel Apple Pops, Child’s Play, Charms, Blow Pop, Blue Razz, Cella’s chocolate covered cherries, Tootsie Dots, Tootsie Crows, Junior Mints, Junior Caramels, Charleston Chew, Sugar Daddy, Sugar Babies, Andes, Fluffy Stuff cotton candy, Dubble Bubble, Razzles, Cry Baby, Nik-L-Nip and EI Bubble.

“Tootsie Roll’s good fortunes are an accumulation of many small decisions that were probably made right plus bigger key decisions, such as acquisitions, that have been made right, and a lot of luck.” Mel Gordon, CEO – Tootsie Roll, 1993

Tad’s expansion plans require a significant investment, which he plans to finance with a combination of additional funds from outsiders plus some money borrowed from banks. Naturally, the new investors and creditors require more organized and detailed financial statements than Tad has previously prepared. At the urging of his investors, Tad has hired financial analyst Paula Wolfe to evaluate the performance of the company over the past year.

If sales did not increase as management predicts and only increases by 5% annually, TCI would still be fairly sound financially. This level of sales only slightly decreases Net Income over 1996 and 1997 from the managerial case and most ratios react the same as seen in the managerial case proformas.4 However, because sales does not grow as much and inventory does not need to be increased as much from 1996 to 1997, less external financing is needed to build the warehouse. A Bank Loan of $313,000 is required in 1996 and $483,000 in 1997.5 This amount of financing increases the Current and Quick Ratios as well as decreasing Total Liability to Total Assets and Total Liability to Equity from the managerial case because less financing is required.4 This decrease in sales growth prediction shows us the stability in TCI financials.

This is the report about financial ratios analysis of Pumpkin Patch Limited(PPL). This children’s clothing retail brand began with one store in 1991, now has about 600 employees across 43 stores in New Zealand and 1000 staff in 117 stores in Australia. However, it tripped into receivership recently. At the same time, Pumpkin Patch managing director Luke Bunt said “however, despite considerable efforts by the board and its management team, it has become evident that no solution is available to the company, at this time, to address the current over-leveraged and significantly capital constrained position.” (McNicol, 2016)

We will gain additional flexibility with price points. There is opportunity for us to expand from a regional brand to a national brand. While we continue to emphasize the premium teddy bear gift business, we intend to expand into larger markets. There is now a whole new opportunity for us in the corporate incentives and promotions market as well as the wholesale market…Our growth will come not only from expansion of our radio markets but in the corporate and wholesale markets as we use offshore manufacturing alternatives to move to broader price points," (Wheelen & Hunger, 2004).

Again, due to the large range in target audience, different age groups will result in varying levels of these ROIs but the ultimate goal is to maintain and retain older consumers by engaging them and letting them know they’re still important while at the same time appealing to the younger demographic by encouraging game play and integrated brand knowledge. Because this is a demonstrative advergame, it utilizes the highest form of in-game advertising and brand integration which exemplifies the messaging effectiveness by presenting the product in a congruent context that allows the player/consumer to interact with it (S. Ho, Y. Yang

I was too little to understand that numerous items I found in the store utilized a similar blend of mottos, strong content and clever toon characters to speak to millions of children around the world. I was unaware of the promoting strategies, but I could have told you the outright assurance that Tony was more than just the face of Frosted Flakes.

Butler Lumber Company is a lumber distributor that sells plywood, moldings, and sash and door products. Butler Lumber has enjoyed rapid growth in recent years. Their growth has been built up largely on the basis of successful price competition, made possible by careful management on of operating expenses, and by purchasing materials at a substantial discount. Due to the rapid growth and a shortage of cash in 1990, the company has determined they need to raise additional funds and are looking to do this by increasing their bank borrowings. Butler Lumber’s current bank, Suburban National Bank, will not loan Butler more than $250,000, and so the company has had to rely on trade credit to stay under this limit. A larger bank, Northrop National Bank, is considering extending a loan of $465,000 to Butler Lumber. George Dodge, an officer at Northrop National Bank, must determine if the bank should improve the loan, and then work out the specific details of the loan. Mr. Dodge has a number of options; he can agree extend the loan with the standard conditions for a loan like this, he can agree to extend the loan but modify the conditions of the loan, or he can choose to refuse the loan.

The company is experiencing cash flow problems and has not achieved profitability for the past five years. Management is seeking a $2 Million private long-term loan.

The first and second advertisements are about how the corporations use Disney characters and happy kids on food or toys products. Many food and toys, especially geared for children, usually have a kind of contest that goes along with it. If you buy ‘this’, you have a chance to win ‘this’ which makes kids want it more. Usually a PlayStation or Xbox is the big prize offered. Many things geared towards the children have a big impact on the child who then makes it a big impact on the parent. Most of the times companies use happy or cute kids to promote yogurt, cereal and toys advertisements, because people like cute kids. Also all children are looking for that happiness and joy but when they buy it they do not find what they were looking for. The