Price Case Studies Samples For Students

Introduction

It goes without saying that economics and government go hand-in-hand in when it comes to controlling the economy of a certain country. While the government may impose limits and restrictions on how the economy should be run, it is recommended that these decisions are in line with economical ones so as to ensure that the general economy runs smoothly. On the other hand, the economy should also be kept in check by the government so that goods, products, and services will remain affordable and within reasonable price.
One concept in economics in which the relationship between the field of ...

Problem Statement

The objective of this paper is to present a report on the marketing questions raised by the founder of Celtic Chocolate Company Limited. Mr. Ronald Begg founded Celtic Chocolate Company Limited under which he engineered a new product called Milk Mate. The new product is basically a milk modifier. Milk Mate was introduced into a market largely controlled by large companies, such as Nestle with a market share of 50%, Hersey with a market share of 20%, Cadbury at 10%, and the remaining 20% shared by other smaller players in the region.

Generation of Alternatives

The introduction of the new product into ...

What is a cartel? (5 marks)

The companies in a market might collude to set the prices by making explicit or implicit agreements between them on the market price, sharing the market geographically, or controlling the quantity supplied in the market. The agreement between the companies in a specific market might create an oligopoly behaving like a monopoly. The companies might set the price, and all the agreement partners might obey the agreement. If the companies can create a large market power, they might behave like one monopolist. Cartel is the situation of existence of an explicit or implicit agreement between the companies in a ...

Abstract

This case presents a classic duopoly situation. Two shipping firms are in the midst of a price war over the market of containerized shipping to and from a small Caribbean Island. The case presents a table of contributions to both firms, which depend on their respective prices. The tables of contribution serve as a major basis by the concepts of price leadership; prisoner’s dilemma and Nash equilibrium are explored. The main issues addressed in the case include competitive dynamics, international case, game theory, pricing, pricing leadership, and diversity case. The setting of the case is the transportation sector. ...

1. Factors likely to affect the demand for the line of Washburn guitars
Various factors tend to influence the demand for any product. However, the factor in play may depend on the kind of customer for the product and the nature of the product (Boundless n.p). If the product is to be sold to the first time buyer, the demand- determinant factors may be different for a customer demanding for a unique product. The common factors likely to affect the demand for Washburn guitars when bought by first-time buyers include prices of the guitars and the income of the ...

Q1a. From the information contained in the case study above, conduct an analysis of Tesco’s external environment using the STEEPLE model. Your analysis should cover and identify each of the factors as they relate to the case study. (16 marks)

The external environment of a business can be evaluated using a STEEPLE model, which incorporates seven external factors; sociological, technological, economic, environmental, political, legal and ethical (Block 1, Reading 5, p. 34). Here is a brief analysis of Tesco according to the STEEPLE model;

Sociological factors

The variety of business in the UK and across the world is going through ...

Introduction

This is a case of Terra Cog, a privately held company specializing in high-quality Global Positioning System (GPS) and fishing and other outdoor sports surveillance tools and equipment. The company is set to release a new product called Project Aerial or simply Aerial as it was referred to in their pre-launch meetings . The current case revolves around the Emma Richardson, the newly promoted executive vice president, and her dilemma on how she would be able to come up with a new product that would rival the leading GPS product in the market, Birds I by one of their strongest ...

Question 1

AirSec Ltd. aims to become the market leader in the United Kingdom in the sector of technology security systems by 2020.
The company targets to increase our sales and revenue for five years from 2015 by at least 10 percent and proportionately cut costs by 5 percent.
The company aims to expand our workforce from 120 to 170 in a period of one year and enhance the quality and drive of the workforce through training, development, and reward incentives to attain growth and success.
AirSec Ltd also intends to improve customer service by providing superior customer experience and meet ...

Nationwide Telephones

The basic objective of the paper is the identification of reason for the price increase of the plastic components. The intention of Steve is also to help Bill in understanding the possibilities of reduction for the present inflated prices.

Discussion

The main offering of Nationwide Telephone is low-cost and high quality telephone from 2001. Their reliance is mainly on the local suppliers such that maximum lead times can be observed even when the suppliers are limited. The travel costs are minimized by the combination of prompt delivery times and lesser lead times.
The supply manager at Nationwide is Steve Young. ...

b1. Information contained in non-GAAP earnings numbers that GAAP earnings numbers do not give.
According to Harvard (2013), the non-GAAP earnings numbers normally include values that may have either been included or excluded from the GAAP earnings numbers that are comparable directly in terms of the income statement, balance sheet and the statement of cash flows. These numbers include the expected future financial position and performance of an entity.
b2. Merits and demerits of using non-GAAP earnings
The main advantage of non-GAAP measures is that it enables the reporting entity to give more information relating to metrics that are ...

The university is in to contract with Tenex Company where the company supplies the University with stock tab paper. When they entered into the contract, the company was to supply stock tab paper on a fixed price basis. Now that the prices for the stock tab paper have gone up, Tenex approaches the University's purchasing department so that they can go to a guaranteed margin approach as opposed to what they had agreed earlier, fixed price. The university's purchasing department responds to the Company (supplier) reminding them that the case would have been different had the prices gone down. ...

Every organization has to work on the principles of ethics and responsibility. Ethics make the foundation of every business and if ethics are not followed as such, then the functioning of the business suffers and it loses it image and reputation at a gradual pace. Sometimes, managers face ethical dilemmas where they are not able to decide whether to stick to the values of the company or opt for decisions which are better for the organization in the long run (Ford & Richardson, 2013). The given case is about the ethical dilemma being faced by George Cosgrove who is serving ...

Final Case Study Project

Introduction
In this paper, we will describe and discuss the application of statistics and probability theory to a real-world problem. Our task is to study the impacts of a variety of factors influencing house prices in Prescott, Arizona. As it was mentioned in the previous studies, there are five lakes in the Prescott metropolitan area that provide a number of benefits to those who live or spent their holidays in this area. These benefits include scenic beauty, recreational opportunity, clear water, fresh air and so on and so forth. It is assumed that the property prices should depend on ...

PERSONAL FINANCE INVESTMENT IN QATAR: INVESTING QR 1000000

Abstract
This article describes a personal finance project which entails the investment of QR 1000000 in a short time frame, from 1 March to 27 May 2016. We first define personal finance and establish the five steps of a personal financial planning process, which entails: (1) assessment of the individual’s financial situation; (2) determination of the individual’s financial goals; (3) creation and details of the financial plan, based upon the determined goals; (4) execution of the aforementioned plan; (5) monitoring and reassessment of the plan. For each one of the five stages, we carry out the required ...

Linear technology

1. Linear Technologies Payout Policy
Linear Technologies is a technology company that designs and manufactures integrated circuits since 1981 to the computers market. The company took the approach of the Personal Computer development in the 1980's assuring a constant growth in all those years, having participation in computers, automotive and communications. The company starts listing on the NASDAQ stock exchange in 1986 when the company was available to the public investors to trade its common stocks. The company, thanks to the high availability of cash in its balance sheets, the company decided to start paying dividends to its shareholders, ...

Strategic Analysis Alacer Gold Corp and Gold and Mining Industry

Introduction
Gold is a precious metal with high ductility and malleability, and it finds application as jewelry and investment. It is considered to be one of the safest bet for investment, especially during economic instabilities. Consequently, rapid political instabilities in the Middle East and financial crisis led to rapid increase in the price of gold worldwide. Technological innovation is also a major factor that affects the gold and mining industry. Therefore, the strategic analysis narrows on the gold industry, with a specific focus on Alacer Gold Corporation. It looks at the trends in the industry and how Alacer Gold ...

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Executive Summary
SunEdison is a renewable energy company. Its revenue comes from semiconductor wafer manufacturing, solar energy business and TerraForm Power (wind power and global business). The company has recently filed for bankruptcy due to poor operational performance and its inability to serve its $11 billion debt. Luckily for the company, first and second lien holders have provided the required capital to continue operation. Overall, the renewable energy market is growing at a very high rate. However, due ...

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Executive Summary
Deere is a company that deals in the manufacturing and distribution of a diverse range of agricultural, commercial, consumer, construction, and forestry equipment. Lately, the company’s margins in the gatherer chain have been reducing. This chain constitutes one of the most popular products sold by the company’s Agricultural Products Division. The diminishing margins were mainly attributed to increased market competition and the increasing purchase cost of the chain from Saunders. This paper aims at evaluating this issue and, subsequently, providing solutions to the problem. Deere operates in a market that is highly competitive. As such, ...

Executive Summary

Marketing is an important business function that ensures a company remains competitive. Kingsford is an American brand that produces premium charcoal grilling products and one that enjoyed a steady growth of revenues in the 1980s. The company has relied on an experienced team of sales executives, consistency in marketing and sales actions, superior quality, and brand positioning for success. However, Kingsford’s main problem lies in the aspect of competition. The company has faced serious challenges in regard to the strategic decisions that were necessary to avert competition in relation to aspects such as pricing, advertising, promotion as well ...

Environmental Scan

Under Armour is a sporting apparel manufacturer and wholesaler for women, men and youth. Their products feature special moisture-wick fabrics engineered in a diverse range of styles and designs for the performance athlete in any climate and at any age. Under Armour's products are worn by athletes at all levels including professional as well as consumers living active lifestyles. In 2015, Under Armour grew approximately 20% in revenues from year prior, generating global revenues of $4..9 billion and maintaining an operating income of $503 million.(Mann 2016) The majority of its net revenues are generated from wholesale sales of ...

The biggest problem faced by Instapaper, which is an iPhone app that enables readers to download articles, publications, or other written material available on the internet and read then later is that even after reducing the price needed to upgrade to a premium app version, the number of subscribers did not increase. On the other hand, only the number of version subscribers increased. This posed a challenge to the developers of the app. Freemium is the pricing strategy that was adopted by Instapaper application. Users were allowed to use the application for free but with limited features and were ...

Marketing Strategy

Red Bull organization is regarded as main energy drink provider that is distributing its products throughout the world. Red Bull is an international organization that is trying to market Red Bull Energy Drink. The mission of red Bull here is to enter into market of Hong Kong. Hong Kong is selected because it is located and China and China has successfully entered into the global market, and has provided several opportunities to international organizations to conduct their business in China. Further, China has also opened several platforms for businesses in order to facilitate them to enter into the Chinese ...

Summary of the Decision Situation:

In the closing days of the first quarter of 2011 (March 28), The New York Times restricted access to its once free-read news website The Times, except for the home page and the front pages of each section (Kumar, et al., 2013). Users who exceed its free 20 articles each month were directed into its digital subscription page, which is referred to as “the paywall.” The test launching, however, occurred mid-way through March in Canada. The goal: to test paid reading acceptance. The newspaper battled for the value of its journalism. The critics decried its short-sightedness. However, the digital ...

The case is about Gerald who had a health insurance cover that had an 80/20 copayment arrangement. When Gerald received a surgery bill of $950, he wanted to ascertain that the insurance company actually paid $760 or 80% of the total bill. A copayment plan requires patients to pay a portion of their medical bill in accordance with a pre-agreed ratio (Chang, 2014). Upon investigation, Gerald discovered that the insurance company had negotiated for a discount and their part of the bill was only $374. However, Gerald Copayment of 20% was still based on the original fee and not ...

The canvas model

The canvas model refers to an ideal business model which is comprised of 9 major items, which touch on different aspects of business (Wirtz, 2010). The firsts aspect here, as pointed out by Wirtz (2010) are key partnerships. These refer to alliances that an enterprise creates to help in its normal operations. At Blue Buddies, the manufacturing of most accessories is outsourced, meaning that the manufacturing firms in the Far East come up as the key partners. The second aspect is the customer segments. The segments refer to the different categories of customers that a company targets . At Blue ...

Business Process

“Chemito Free” is the manufacturing company that produces the cleaning products free of toxic chemicals and insights. The mission of the company is to protect the environment from the toxic substances and facilitate the society with environmentally-friendly products. The products include household cleaners, vehicle cleaners, hand washes, sanitizers, baby cleaners, fresheners, bathroom cleaners and controllers. The company is going to offer its products in the local as well as in the international market. Being a manufacturing business, it is very required and important for the company to maintain its business processes to make its products outreach to the customers ...

External Analysis

The first opportunity was holding a design contest for its first product. In this manner, the company managed to secure the manufacturing and engineering expertise of Lotus cars who brought experience to Tesla Motors. The use of Lotus’ software and tools also ensured that a company that has specialized in the area built the chassis. There were financial challenges that faced the company due to the misleading by the CEO, who lied to the investors about the manufacturing cost of the car. Furthermore, there was a discovery that the technology used was outdated, resulting in safety issues in the ...

Based on the above discussion, recommend and justify the risk exposures that should be reported as part of an Enterprise Risk Management System for the Toyota Motor Company? (10 Marks)
The first risk that Toyota is faced with is the investment in commodities. Commodities such as non-ferrous metals, precious metals, ferrous alloys, energy, and plastic resin from outside sources may be subjected to price changes. Changes in prices can have a negative impact on the productivity for Toyota because inflated prices may result in delayed projects and the inability to complete planned products based on a lack of resources. ...

Issues

This case concerns the analysis of the validity of the offer and its acceptance under the terms and rules of the contract law made in different forms by virtue of the advertisements in the newspaper.

Contractual relations are comprised out of two primary pillars as the offer and acceptance. In fact, the one party to the contractual relations should provide the other one with the offer. In case the second party accepts this offer this implies that these people have entered into the legal and binding relations. Given the merits of the case, one may see that Philip plays ...

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Analysis of the United Display Cases, Inc. (UDCI)

UDCI believed it has a good product but he still hasn’t able to attract investors or convince banks for financing. For this goal, UDCI needs to present its break-even operating capital and projections of production volume that will yield maximum profitability. A successful product launch can be a major point in convincing financiers and it would need a cost-effective marketing strategy as current finances are limited.
For its plan to distribute through, it needs to determine a price it will pass to retailers that can generate more sales than direct selling.
There are no direct ...

Visualize a particular time when you needed to acquire a new mobile phone. The processes of deciding on a particular model are usually complicated and thus as a prospective buyer, you may have opted to acquire one of the most popular brand. Another method of simplifying that decision would have been going for the brand that worked well for you in the past and opt for the newer improved version of the same. In other cases, a recommendation from a friend or just copying what your peers are using may have influenced your decision to go for a particular ...

Introduction

Technology advance and innovation paved way for the introduction of the Apple’s iPhone. However, Steve Jobs had the view that targeting only 1 percent share of the market, they could sell over ten million phones. That was considering that the brand was going into a highly competitive market with more players and the view that the product was the best in the world. However, the iPhone was subject to various market forces that determined its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats as well as the strategies that Apple could apply. In that respect, this analysis presents a summary of ...

Question 1: What alternatives should Barney Rubble consider when addressing the problem?

The process of selecting a supplier is crucial for any business because the final decision has a direct and substantial impact on quality and expenditure (Cheraghi et al., 2011). As such, Mr. Rubble should consider each supplier critically to ensure that Pacific Healthcare gets the best deal regarding quality and price. According to Cheraghi et al. (2011), the most important factors to consider when selecting a supplier are quality, delivery, price, and repair service respectively.
However, the Pacific Healthcare supply strategy emphasizes on quality and services more than the cost implications of the supplier choice. Therefore, Mr. Rubble should ...

Strategic Issues Faced by Nucor

The operational focus of the Nucor Corporation is to “Take Care of Our Customers.” The company operates under this philosophy by providing the highest quality good at the lowest cost maintaining highest operational standards in the industry. The company has a strong culture and follows environmental stewardess by paying back to the communities where it is operating. However, the corporation I facing some strategic issues that are given below:

Plant Efficiency and Cost reduction effort

New plants construction
International growth through joint ventures
Increased competition
High population and economic growth
Increased bargaining power of buyer.
Cost Reduction Effort
NUCOR is always trying to increase the ...

Netscape strategy is based on the concept of giving free browsing software to non-technical users. Once Netscape acquires a large base of users, it would make money by selling commercial software to corporations that want market access to its large base of users. For this strategy to be successful in the future Netscape should be able to woo not just users rapidly but also organizations who are willing to pay to access the users and conduct their transactions easily and securely. Without a critical mass of users organizations will be reluctant to buy Netscape software and services, and without ...

1.0 Introduction
Operating in a constantly changing business environment is a challenging task. Therefore, those organizations are most likely to develop and expand that take strategic initiative and avail opportunities available to them. However, the expansion could be international or regional where decision is made on the basis of target market and competing regions. This paper overviews case of Southwest Airline and proposes a marketing plan for expansion in a new market.
2.0 Overview of South West Airlines
South West Airlines is one of the largest low-cost airline in the world. The airline was founded on 1967 by Rollin ...

Parker & Pine is a new apparel company that is going to launch its very first product - the boxer briefs for the plus-sized men. The company carried out the test launch and received some positive feedback, but now it has to answer two questions in a short period of time: at what price to sell the boxer briefs and what promotional strategy to choose in order to market the products effectively and without the high costs.
The company was founded by Irfan Hajee and Leo Park who had some experience of working for a custom clothing start-up company. Two ...

Key Strategies Employed by Coach, Inc.

The first strategy employed by Coach is that of expanding in emerging markets. It is strengthening its sales in China, and has begun to expand as well in India, which it considers to be an emerging market and a potential source of growth in terms of sales. It also would like to increase its presence in Europe, South America and the rest of Asia. It also desires to increase its presence in the United States and in the rest of North America. It plans to do this by increasing both the number of full price stores and factory outlets. ...

Answer 1
I agree with the statement that supply usually creates its own demand according to the statement made by the economist who appeared on CNN (news station). In an economy, the production as well as the sales of goods usually produces automatically an income of the same value for the producers. The income is then re-injected into the same economy to create more demand which is enough to buy the same goods and services hence supply creating its own demand. This is in alignment with the market model which states that the return of a certain security is ...

Currency has been a medium of exchange from the existence of humanity and the Central bank was created for the sole initiative of ensuring reasonable currency exchange in different jurisdiction. Therefore, the thesis of this paper will be to look into the historical price movement and any central bank policy that has been put onto the British pound.

Price movement of sterling pound

First and foremost, it is worth noting that the British Sterling pound, is the fourth most traded form of currency after the US dollar, Euros and the Japanese yen. The price movement of the sterling pound is adversely affected by external ...

The accounting and financial issues related to foreign direct investment are the conversion of foreign GAAP to domestic GAAP, translation of statements kept in foreign currency to domestic currency so as to prepare a consolidated financial statement and make required supplementary disclosures of the subsidiary operations. There are two issues of taxes that relate to foreign direct investment. First, the company is taxed in the foreign country where the subsidiary is located. Second, the domestic tax department will also tax foreign income. The company should calculate, pay, and subtract the amount of tax paid by a foreign subsidiary. This ...

Integrated Marketing Communication Plan

Integrated Marketing Communication Plan

Integrated Marketing Plan

Objective:
The product should perform at a very fast speed. As an emergency power source, users do not have to wait long hours before enjoying the service support that ConsoGo can offer (Blakeman, 2014). For instance;

It powers a computer for 30 minutes.

It powers a mobile phone for 45 minutes.
It powers a PDA for 90 minutes.
It uses the sun and other electric lights to power up.
It only takes a few minutes to charge.
It can provide power to other devices while charging.
It has a six sided universal adapter hence increasing the number of gadgets it can service.
...

Management

The side business of George Lassiter has three alternatives for the special sale in the rock concert scheduled in the following two months. The alternatives depend on the public attendance to the rock concert. The standing area of 20,000 people will be sold with a probability of 100%. The second group is the grandstand seats which has three possibilities: 20,000; 50,000 and 80,000 public attendance. The t-shirt has a retail price of 10 USD and a procurement price between 3.21 USD and 3.55 USD, according to the volume of t-shirt acquisition to the distributor. The ...

Atari Rapid Growth

Atari’s rapid growth is attributed to the decision of its founder to transform the traditional gaming machines into a smaller home machine. Bushnell compressed the coin-operated Pong game into a smaller home system. The Atari 2600 was the most successful home based gaming system that used cartridge.

How Did Ninitendo Successfully Recreate the Home Video Game Business Following the Atari - Era Boom and Bust?

After the boom and bust of the Atari, Nintendo focused on a diversification strategy. Initially, the company focused on the production of playing cards before the diversification to the production of the video game business. As such, the organization acquired a licensing to produce video games from Magnafox, which led to ...

The firm does not have debt. Therefore, the firm value is the outstanding number of shares multiplied by market share price.
Value of Wrigley’s = 232.44 million *56.37 = 13.103 billion dollars

We assume that Wrigley uses the debt that has been raised to pay dividends to shareholders

Value of Wrigley’s = Market value of Equity + Debt Value
Value of Wrigley’s = 13.103 billion + 3 billion = 16.103 billion dollars
The proposed coupon rate is 13 percent. After the re-capitalization, the total debt ratio will be 73 percent. Therefore, the Bond will be rated between grade BB and grade B. The effective debt yield for a grade B debt security is 14.67 percent while that if grade ...

Five Below, Inc. is a retail chain belonging to the specialty retail industry which was incorporated in Pennsylvania, USA in 2002. It offers “dynamic, edited assortment of exciting products, all priced at $5 and below, including select brands and licensed merchandise” ("Overview | Fivebelow"). Five Below’s products range from sports equipments, styling merchandise, small décor items, craft works to candies and party items. It largely targets customers who are teenagers or pre-teens.
Since the company’s inception, it has expanded its business to almost all regions of the United States and has been successful in opening more than ...

Introduction

The first antitrust law was formed by the Congress in the year 1890. It was referred to as Sherman Act, and its aim was to ensure that there was economic liberty, by ensuring that the competition in the trade was fair. Later, the Congress passed other two antitrust laws in the year 1914, and these additional laws contained some revision to the first antitrust law. Those laws were the Clayton Law and the Federal Trade Commission Act. The court applies the antitrust law to prevent illegal business practices and unlawful mergers. The main objective of the antitrust law is ...

As cited by Dimovski and Brooks, underpricing refers to transfer of wealth from the issuing firm to the investors in the IPO. (Brooks, 2010) The issue of IPO being launched at a price substantially less than their market value on the first day of listing, is a global phenomenon now. The issue is now widely documented as academic researchers are performing a plethora of research work to evaluate the IPO underpricing. Even though the issue of IPO under pricing is internationally pervasive, however, in the recent years, researchers are getting more inclined in evaluating the IPO pricing in emerging ...

Question One: List and elaborate some strategic issues facing Coach Inc.? (One small paragraph listing top 5 strategic issues for Coach)

Coach faces challenges common to companies experiencing a growth "stand-off" as she expands globally. This stand-off is informed by specific and generic factors in luxury goods industry. Notably, Coach faces strategic challenges in 2012 in five areas: (1) market maturity, (2) value differentiation, (3) growth pattern, (4) counter-competition strategy and (5) market research in emerging markets. For market maturity, Coach has reached a point of market maturity beyond which more aggressive product innovation and marketing activities are required in order to offer a boost for growth. For, value differentiation, Coach has historically relied on pricing as a major driver ...

Investor Communication Plan

Investor Communication Plan

Background

Western States Electric Components Group, a subsidiary of Consolidated Electrical Company, mistakenly misrepresented its sales income for the past four years. Western has been selling about 55% of its connolator generators to various ConsoE’s divisions at lower internal retail prices. The different divisions resold these connolators acquired from Western to outside companies. Unfortunately, the financial department has been recording these activities as two separate earnings, hence double booking. Upon the revision of the accounts for the four years, profits for the following financial year will come out as big loses hence affecting the prices and ...

About the case:

Rodney Chu, the managing director of Sierra Capital Partners is interested in purchasing 60% equity interest in Arcadian Microarray Technologies, a biotechnology firm founded in the year 2003. At present, Sierra Capital Partners have offered $40 million to Arcadian for selling their equity interest. This amount will be used for expansion of the firm. While Arcadian management have forecasted an optimistic projection for their firm’s performance over the period of 11 years, however, Sierra’s projections reveal a conservative outlook. Therefore, Mr. Chu is interested in ascertaining the terminal value and discounting the cash flows and the terminal ...

Importance of understanding cost changes

Introduction
Introduction
The report outlines the importance of having a good understanding of the cost changes. The two commonly used methods used to derive the cost function are the econometric method and accounting method. The report gives details on how the CVP analysis technique has been used to get prices of diverse range of products and services. The CVP analysis is based on certain assumptions which are extensively covered in the report. This report is intended to help in improving the efficiency of carrying out operations in both small and large business organisations.

Different methods were used in collecting ...

Contract Formation, Breach, and Defenses

Question1.As a general rule, the party who receives the contractual right is the assignee. Assignments do not need to be supported by consideration to be legally effective even though it is often is. Madonna has the right to receive payments in return for needed cash.
Question2. If a place of performance is not designated by a statute, other legal acts, or contract does not appear to form the customs of trade or the nature of the obligation, performance must be made on an obligation to transfer property
Question3. Against a backdrop of several properties rights, the two components of ...

The case study ‘Brighter Smiles for the Masses-Colgate vs. P&G, focused on the working mechanics by the two American consumer giants, on how to connect with the target market and strategically outdoing the competition.

The following are the case analysis and answers to the questions pertaining to the case study.

What is the case statement? What decisions does P & G need to make?
The case statement is the introduction of Crest Whitestrips by P&G that revolutionized the oral care market, by allowing the consumers to whiten the teeth in the convenience of their home and the inception of a new category that became a cash cow for P&G in the tune of millions of dollars, ...

Question one

The economic recession that happened in Asia in 1990 did not affect the Nucor Company. It affected most of the major steel consumers in the construction, automobiles, and firm equipment companies. The terrorist attack of the USA in 2001 caused an economic recession that hampered production and demand. Some of these sectors are still recovering from the recession.
The decrease in demand is because there are other firms supplying the United States. The firms are from China, Russia, Brazil, and India. These firms are subsidized by the US government thus creating stiff competition.
The raw materials that have increased ...

04 September 20XX

With regard to the question “should marijuana be legalized,” we conclude the answer is “yes.” This conclusion is made based on the economics of the issue. The existing system involves significant expense to local government with no appreciable result. Marijuana remains readily available virtually anywhere in the nation, decades of the war on drugs notwithstanding. That a demand for this product exists is undeniable. Continued criminalization will accomplish nothing beyond driving costs up marginally. The evidence is seen in the results. To continue to do the same thing and expect a different result is one classic ...

Question 1:

Wendy Borg and Jason Kushdog were two entrepreneurs who came together to form Trendsetters Inc. trendsetter Inc. was a startup aimed at providing new warehousing and distribution solutions to clothing retailers. They however had a major challenge of capital as they only had six weeks of operations before they could run out of the initial seed capital they had invested. This prompted them to seek for alternative sources of capital, venture capital being one of the most lucrative one.
Neither of them had knowledge in how venture capitals work since Wendy had her background in supply chain management and ...

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The given case expounds over the situation when Roger Cahill – Vice President of BoldFlash Mobile Division came across the situation where BoldFlash is struggling to adjust to a progressing and challenging marketplace. In the case study, four working groups within a division refused to work collaboratively and as a result, the division has failed to make the most of some exceedingly significant new product opportunities. In order to address these issues, Roger Cahill undertake a number of personnel and organizational changes since he takes his designation in control. While facing eroding profit margins and low ...

Issue identification and root cause analysis:

Poor internal culture in the organization
Poor brand identification in the market
Understanding the CEO’s new vision for the organization
Strategic effect of the communication plan:
Support the strategic goals of BrightStar by improving brand perception and increasing market share
Establish effective communication practices in the organization
Strategic goals of the communication plan:
Inform persuade obtain buy-in
Improve communication between the company and the buyers
Explain the impact of the merger on the buyers
Establish a clear vision and mission
Gain consensus from buyers on the new vision and strategy
Reposition the company’s brand to increase market ...

Introduction

Pegasus Technologies is a technology solutions provider, with an extensive team of devoted professionals. It is looking forward to manufacturing 8-inch touch-screen color LCD panels, which they expect to be of exceptional quality and high resolution. The company has for several years been recognized as the leading company in the manufacture of various lines of palm pallet computers. The capability of being touch screen is intended to ease its use since the user does not need to carry the keyboard as well as the mouse. It thus enhances its portability level, making it less bulky.
The company is not ...