Carrefour S.A. is a large multinational corporation that aims to issue EUR 750 million worth of debt. Consequently‚ Carrefour must decide the market in which it wants to place its bonds. The company had historically financed growth using securities denominated in the currency of its business operations. However‚ Carrefour’s investment banks‚ Morgan Stanley and UBS-Warburg‚ recently recommended borrowing in British pounds sterling to take advantage of a borrowing opportunity in that currency
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Read the following 2 articles for incoming tutorial.. As Poverty Shrinks‚ Should We Worry About Inequality? – Kenneth Rapoza Forbes Magazine Thanks to global capitalism‚ there are much less poor people running around the world today than there was a decade ago. But there are also more rich people. Way more. And in rich countries‚ there are less middle class. So even as poverty is shrinking‚ inequality is rising among income levels as the new global plutocracy takes shape. Today‚ 43% live on less
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Industry Overview Walmart’s NAICS code is 45291 which is the code for supercenters and warehouse clubs and the SIC code is 5399. Though this is the main code for the overall business of Walmart they fall under several other codes‚ 452112 discount stores‚ 445110 supermarkets and other grocery stores‚ 452990 all other general merchandise stores‚ 443142 electronic stores‚ and 446110 pharmacies and drug stores. Walmart was founded by Sam Walton in 1962 in Rogers‚ AK. By 1970 Walmart became a publicly
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Forces The Porter’s Five Forces model is an “outside looking in” business unit strategy tool that is used to make an analysis of the attractiveness or value of an industry structure. The Competitive Forces analysis is made by the identification of 5 fundamental competitive forces: • The entry of competitors (how easy or difficult is it for new entrants to start to compete‚ which barriers do exist) • The threat of substitutes (how easy can our product or service be substituted‚ especially cheaper)
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Title: Michael’s Porter’s five competitive forces in business Business is a form of system that exchanged services or goods with money. When we commence a business in Singapore‚ we have to invest in that business with efficient capital. Successful businesses enable us to gain profit and expand our business to a larger size. Therefore‚ there are a few principles that we must comply. The most basic principle would be the Michael Porter’s five competitive forces. Firstly‚ the most major force will
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Porter’s Five Forces Rivalry Among Competing Sellers: HIGH/MODERATE The rivalry among competing sellers‚ often the strongest competitive pressure‚ is also fairly high for Panera in the restaurant industry. No switching costs‚ numerous competitors‚ and an increase in the availability of healthy food For a company in the restaurant industry‚ there are no switching costs for consumers. It is not like‚ for instance‚ the cable industry where cancellation fees are prevalent or an electronics industry
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Revenue 49 billion Second largest company behind nestle Employs 125‚000 Its five brands are divided into 5 main sectors snacks‚beverages‚grocery‚and convient meals Sanja khosia is the president of kraft His 7 step bussiness model is to drive growth is DISCOVERY: find out what works STRATEGY: focus through lenses VISION: find a simple hook EXECUTION: clarify and deligate ORGANIZATION: build collaborative networks METRICS: manage numbers and tell stories Headquartered in Northfield‚
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Research in Motion Porter’s Five Forces Threat of New Entrants * Moderate The ability for brand new competitors to emerge is very low. The smartphone industry is very technologically intensive. This means that a brand-new entrant would require a significant amount of money to build a comparative technological product in order to compete with RIM’s technology. No man or woman in their right mind would attempt to design and manufacture such an expensive product for such a competitive industry
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Google’s Five Forces Supplier Power * As long as Google continues its dominance as the number one internet search engine in the world‚ supplier bargaining power will remain low. * Thanks to programs like AdSense and AdWords‚ which forms the framework of the advertisement system that Google has in place‚ both the advertiser and the user of the search engine are Google customers. * Google has also formed a joint relationship with Android to increase their sales market and bottom-line
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Air Asia: Flying Low Cost with High Hopes A cost leadership strategy of Air Asia remains viable despite the changing external environment. Although competition and rivalry amongst budget airlines is high‚ and it is difficult to differentiate from other providers due to the nature of the industry and product‚ it still has a first mover advantage which makes cost-leadership remain viable. They must remember that a cost leadership strategy can be maintained by be being efficient in all aspects of business
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