Essays on Retail

City outskirts are sprouting malls. Will they help decongest Bangalore? Mall culture is here to stay and new malls coming up on the city outskirts seem to be offering a ray of hope to the jam-packed city centre. Hopefully, these will cater to the lifestyle …

Sainsbury’s is the third-largest store chain in UK and 80th placed in FTSE 100 companies with market capitalization of 5,457.35 million. The essay employs SWOT analysis to assess the strengths, opportunities, weaknesses, and threats in relation to its strategy and operations in the UK and …

“A STUDY ON THE PROCESSES AND CHALLENGES INVOLVED IN RECRUITMENT FOR RETAIL INDUSTRY WITH RESPECT TO RELIANCE FRESH, BANGALORE” (Project Report Submitted in Partial fulfilment of the requirements of two year Post Graduate diploma in Business Administration) By Saumya Sinha (Registration no. 2K11058) Under the …

Case Study of “Bookoff, Amazon Japan, and the Japanese Retail Bookselling Industry” 1. The reasons for the profitability of large Japanese retail booksellers relatively poor and their scale relatively small. One reason for this is that there is no significant industry consolidation has occurred, so …

STARBUCKS IN 2009 Starbucks issues and causes Starbucks share price went down from the peak of $40(October 2006) more than 75% over the next two years. The sale and operating profits decreased 73. 1 million dollars compared to the last year in 2008 (Table 1 …

Electronic commerce over the Internet is a new way of conducting business. Though only three years old, it has the potentials to radically alter the economic activities and the social environment. Already, it affects such large sectors as communications, finance and retail trade (altogether, about …

Premier Furniture Company It was mid-Aprll. and Richard Zimmerman, credit analyst for the Premier Furniture Company, was completing his first round of credit reviews for 1984. Two of his accounts”Deslgners, Inc. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Walcott Department Stores of Hartford, Connecticut”had moved well beyond the …

Previously BBC has had the honor of being and holding he number one spot. Although they still hold the number one spot, TV has become and is remaining the most dominant channel at peak time hours taking a 31. 6% share of the audience compared …

Introduction Gap, Inc. is a leading American specialty apparel retailer based in San Francisco, California. It sells casual apparels, accessories, and other personal care products for men, women, and children. The products of Gap, Inc. include denim, khakis, T-shirts, boxers, casual wear, and others. Currently, …

Tesco For my assignment I have chosen Tesco’s. In order for this business to operate it needs four factors of production; the capital, the labourer, the entrepreneur and the land. In this essay I will include information on Tesco’s Physical, technological, human and financial resources. …

Several cases had Wal-Mart class action lawsuits pending over unpaid overtime as well. Current Wal-Mart class action lawsuits are that the retail giant has laid some deliberate incentives to management employees to consistently under-staff Wal-Mart stores as well as to pressure employees for them to …

Walter and later by home centers such as Home Depot. These stores allowed independent specialty retailers to buy less inventory per order while getting a lower price which reduced the cost and pressure for markdowns caused by over ordering. In 1995, three retail buying groups: …

When it comes to internationalization strategies, ZARA is the perfect case to look at. By putting in practice a set of different strategies, ZARA has accomplished great positioning worldwide and is one of the most recognized brands in the apparel market. Listed below are the …

The business world nowadays is very different from the past. It is fast changing, challenging and full of opportunities. In order to sustain the business, the companies need to minimize costs, maximize profits and make the business environmentally sustainable. The management of the organization achieve …

Unfair Trade Practices – Hoarding, destruction or refusal to sell. The Unfair Trade practices include cases of hoarding, destruction of or refusal to sell, goods or services. Clause (5) says that a practice will be unfair if it permits the hoarding or destruction of goods, …

As competition increases in the retail consumer markets, it becomes increasingly necessary for businesses to examine the marketing environment. (more…)

In United States as in Sweden, we can observe there are some companies operating in the furniture industry and there are many on the market retailers like Home Depot, Wal-Mart, Costco, Euromarket, etc… The import of products from China for all these companies allows them …

Welcome to GLO-BUS You and your co-managers are taking over the operation of a digital camera company that is in a neck-and-neck race for global market leadership, competing against rival digital camera companies. All digital camera makers presently have the same worldwide market share, although …

What is the addressable market size for Coracle? Is the first year goal of $1. 5M sales reasonable? Ans. Coracle is one of the clarifiers developed and produced by Soren Chemicals targeting residential pools which have smaller size than commercial pools and water parks, that …

My business will be called Usman’ Fish and Chip shop, located at 7 Queensbury Parade. My business will be a sole trader operator as this is the easiest set up. Being a sole trader there are less regulations that I would have to comply with …

In “Down and Out in Discount America,” writer Liza Featherstone (2004) exposes the dirty tactics and unfair business practices that fuel Wal-Mart’s success as a giant retail company, and suggests effective strategies to defeat corporate crime. According to Featherstone, Wal-Mart is one company that literally …

Introduction The purpose of this paper is to present the marketing success, retail & consumer trends, expansion and future marketing plan for “Mall of America: Shopping and a Whole Lot More. For over 20 years Mall of America has been able to attract over 40 …

Wal-Mart’s business is the result of Sam Walton’s visionary leadership, along with generations of associates whose focus was on customers and how they could save money and live better. Sam Walton believed that by putting everything a person may need in one place such as …

Eclipse Chill has also settled In a corporate office situated at 23/4, Dhanmondl 4/A, Dhaka-121 5. We also have a small storage house, at Ashulia, Savar, Dhaka, for keeping inventories and machineries. The company is now at the initial stage of transition with the plan …

Nowadays when a person is in need of some groceries, or even clothes, instead of making multiple stops at diffrent outlets they visit their nearest Walmart. There are many opinions on how Walmart has impacted America in various ways. One of the most popular contreversary …

IKEA is a private home products retailer, which deals internationally in flat pack furniture, accessories, and bathroom and kitchen items. IKEA is the company which is being regarded as the pioneer in flat-pack designed furniture; this firm is now the largest furniture manufacturer of the …

Introduction Primark Primark is a clothing retailer, operating in Ireland, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Portugal and Belgium. It operates a total of 196 stores with 38 in Ireland, 138 in the UK, 14 in Spain, 2 in Germany, 1 in the Netherlands, …

“Evaluation of Entry into Ice cream Business for Unilever Bangladesh Limited” Submitted to Sharmin Shabnam Rahman Lecturer BRAC Business School BRAC University Submitted by Md. Robin Miah Id# 06204032 BRAC University Date: 02-09-2010 September 2, 2010 SHARMIN SHABNAM RAHMAN Lecture BRAC Business School BRAC University …

A normal business question that management asks in the decision-making process and performance evaluation exercises is how well is the money invested in stock generating wealth.  A financial ratio that can be utilized in order to provide financial information to management on the above mentioned …

The year is 1992 and Goodyear is planning to release its new tire the Aquatred. The new tire is a premium tire which reroutes water away from the main tread making it have superior traction in wet conditions. With the launch of this tire coming …