Urban Outfitters Case

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This case involves a male and female Hispanic, entering TJ Maxx during business hours, and concealing various items in their bags. The suspects attempted to leave the store without paying for the items. Loss Prevention Agent Sergio Castro made contact with the suspects at the front entrance and retrieved all of the loss except for a black Michael Kors purse, valued at $159.99.

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You have recently been hired as the HR manager responsible for two separate Ontario locations belonging to Wilson Brothers Limited. You have been asked by the HR Director at the head office in Brandon, Manitoba, to quickly provide a report on any initial HR issues related to Recruitment and Selection, Compensation and Benefits, Health and Safety, Training and Development and Labour and Employee Relations that are affecting or will affect the Cambridge operation and the new plant in Scarborough. The HR Director has made it very clear that Wilson Brothers would like both the Cambridge location and the new plant in Scarborough to remain union-free and are willing to offer very competitive wages and benefits

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Urban Outfitters, often referring to itself as simply ‘UO’, is the corporate entity that includes retail chains Urban Outfitters, Anthropolgie, Free People, Terrain, and BHLDN, has became the greatest global retailer in the world. Back in the beginning, the first Urban Outfitter store was opened on a street nearby Pennsylvania University in 1970 by Dick Hayne and Scott Belair, both are the company’s chief executive officers (CEO). The first store’s name was Free People and it sold furniture, second-hand clothing, accessories, and decorative items. The store’s target market was young people, especially college students and it continues to dominate this market segment.

Urban Outfitters was founded in 1970 by 23-year-old Richard (Dick) Hayne and his college roommate, Scott Belair, who came up with the idea to open a retail store. The first location was a small space called Free People and was located across the street from The University of Pennsylvania. According to URBN.com, the original mission of the company was “to provide second-hand clothing, furniture, jewelry and home decor for college-aged customers in a casual fun environment.” Since then, Urban Outfitters has evolved and expanded tremendously with over 200 stores in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Urban offers various retail items that include a variety of women’s clothing, men’s clothing, accessories, home products, beauty products, and music while keeping its focus on creativity and cultural understanding for like-minded, creative individuals. Urban Outfitters is a part of the URBN brand which also consists of retail stores Free People and Anthropologie. The brand does a great job of engaging its customers through its marketing mix, social media, events, community involvement, and entrepreneurial opportunities.

. The purpose of the Solidarity Fund was to rethink the role of the unions in promoting economic, development by investing its member’s retirement savings in local companies. The Fund’s goals were to democratize access to professionally managed retirement accounts and to support job growth in Quebec, either through long-term investment in small and mid-size local companies or by investing in outside companies whose activities benefited the province. I think it’s a very good example of social investments. The Quebec Federation of Labor help with social good by helping workers invest in retirement and in a safety net if they lost their job, while gaining a financial return for the Fund.

Bed, Bath and Beyond (BBBY) currently has $400 million more in cash than they need for ongoing growth and operations requirements. While the company is financially sound analysts and investors worry about the company’s capital structure decisions. Investors do not want to see that much cash on the books and worry that the current capital structure is not the most effective for the future. They prefer that BBBY change their capital structure by paying out excess cash and issuing debt. This could allow BBBY to improve their return on equity and raise earnings per share. Given the low interest rates available it seems like the perfect time for BBBY to add debt to its capital structure. Until now they

Old Navy operates a chain of 960 stores in North America. Old Navy offers its own brand if women’s, men’s, and children’s clothing and accessories at discount prices. According to Yahoo Finance, in 2006, the company’s revenue grew 1.6 percent to $6.86 billion.

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1.a) To value Spyder Active Sports Inc., we decided to use the WACC method since we can easily value its cost of assets with the data immediately available to us in the case. We first unlevered the beta’s of 7 comparable companies and took the average to get a comparable unlevered beta for Spyder (Exhibit 1). Since we are assuming Spyder is entirely equity financed, its unlevered asset beta is equal to the beta of its assets. We now have a rough estimate of Spyder’s asset beta, we can

Founded by J.W. Nordstrom in 1880 as a small shoe store, by 1995 Nordstrom had become a giant retailer with net earnings of $203 million and over 35,000 employees. Nordstrom remains a family operation to date. The idea of the ‘Nordstrom Way’ - with strong commitment to the firm, emphasis on proactive service, no external hiring, and a decentralized management structure (e.g., Nordstrom has no CEO) - is central to their employee relations, and is seen as central to their success. Average compensation within the company is above industry average.

oughly ten minutes after Harold, Margaret, Isolde and Walther were in the midst of their little heated argument, the Silent Orphan, Chandler the Fair and the Dewy-Eyed Princess were asked at the request of the Roßweiße and Horst the Worst to meet at Plaidstadt’s armory. They were expected to be there, immediately after the briefing had finally been concluded. Due to the fact that it was only a short walk from where the projector room was, hardly any excuse given could be tolerated. And so, without further hesitation, they three Nightingales went to the armory at Plaidstadt.

As of Jan 3, 2015, the company has 900 full-time and 3,200 part-time employees in 329 company-owned retail stores in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Denmark.