Balance Sheet Observation Pinnacle Entertainment INC. (PNK) a) What is the trend, in each company, in total revenues over the three years? Growth has been observed in revenue. It is increased from (2012) 1,002,836 to (2014) 2,210,543 which is 120% growth as compare to base year. Revenue is very sensitive for the survival of company but since growth rate is very high, it is sign that company will grow further in future. PNK need to maintain it through the period, any negative in growth can badly affect the reputation of PNK.…
In January 2011, 19 orthopedists affiliated with six independent orthopaedic practices in Berks County merged to form Keystone. Orthopaedic Associates was one of those practices. There were five others as well. In the Federal Register, the FTC calls each of those five practices "Keystone component practices. " Each of them became divisions of Keystone after the merger.…
The article, “Barnes & Noble has been destroyed by Amazon” discusses how Barnes and Noble has been losing money over the past few years and the role that Amazon has played in its difficulties. Barnes and Noble’s sales have recently fallen again while its long term debt has tripled over the past year. Along with all of this, shares in the company have plummeted dramatically. It has struggled to keep up with Amazon, as its Nook e-reader, has not been successful and its online sales have dropped. In addition Barnes and Noble has had four different CEOs in five years which has made the company even more shaky and less likely to be able to recover.…
MEMORANDUM CONFIDENTIAL Attorney Work Product TO: Samantha Ryan FROM: Sam Student RE: William Montaigne; Abusive collection practices under the Federal Debt Collection Practices Act DATE: September 9, 2017 FACTS William Montaigne defaulted on a $24,500 college student loan. Ms. Kirk of Collegiate Debt Collection Service called Montaigne and demanded payment on the loan. This was Kirk’s first call to Montaigne.…
Introduction Merlin Entertainments is a British company based in Poole, Dorset. The company was founded by Nick Varney in the year 1998. Today Merlin Entertainments have over a dozen of attractions including theme parks, Midway attractions and Legoland. As of 2016, the revenue of the company is £1,457 million with an operating income of £320 million with 27000 employees working for the company. (Merlin Entertainments, public reports, 2016).…
Hae was buried in Leakin Park in Baltimore, Maryland. A man named Mr. S pulled over to pee and walked 127 ft from Franklintown Rd into the park where he spotted hair sticking up from the ground where Hae was buried. The evidence found at the scene were nineteen shell casings on both sides of the Franklintown Rd, 2 Blockbuster cases were found on the other side of the road, a rolled condom and a condom wrapper was found, tire impression cast were seen at the scene, a feather, rope, liquor bottle were near her body,and a piece of human hair and fibers were found under Hae's body.…
To a modern reader, it might seem amazing that the MLB was able to get exemption from anti-trust laws that nearly every other firm in the United States is subject to. To understand how this can be possible, it is important to understand the original court case that allowed Baseball to be exempt from the Sherman Act, as well as the three major court cases that have upheld its ruling over time. In 1913, when the Federal League of Base Ball Clubs came into existence, it challenged the preexisting American League and National League. The Federal League attempted to steal players away from the other two established leagues by removing the reserve clause that bound players to particular teams. The increased competition for players increased player…
1) The three companies I’m choosing to discuss are Comcast, Ford and Frontier Airlines. 2) I think that Comcast fits a monopolistic model and Ford and Frontier fit an oligopolistic model. 3)…
The first few weeks of the Stock Market Project consisted of me searching for possible companies that I would possibly want to invest my money into. But considering the fact that I had no idea what buying or trading stocked consisted of. I had to do additional research so I can have a better understanding of exactly what I had to do for this project. The first companies I looked into was Walt Disney World, reason being is because I already knew a few people who have invested into Walt Disney World Stocks. At the time I choice to invest in the Walt Disney stock it was actually down but because I knew people who made a great amount of money I decided to take the risk and make the purchase.…
Content Provider Paper: Crunchyroll Crunchyroll is a unique video streaming service, based out of San Francisco, which is primarily for streaming anime. It is “the leading global video service for Japanese anime and Asian media” (Crunchyroll). The company was founded by 3 UC Berkley graduates in 2008: Kun Gao, James Lin, and Brandon Ooi.…
Introduction The Walt Disney Company characterizes a truly massive business composed of four strategic professional units (SBUs) which, with the consideration of the consolidated revenue, represented roughly a whopping 35.5 billion dollars in 2007. The four SBUs are Disney Consumer Products, Studio Entertainment, Parks and Resorts, and Media Networks Broadcasting, and these can be further subdivided into 28 categories and are composed of a surplus of brands. The only two fundamental commonalities that can be deduced upon inspection of the entirety of the Walt Disney Company’s holdings are entertainment and information. Every business activity the organization is engaged in is related in some manner to providing its consumer base entertainment…
On the other hand, DC Entertainment is currently owned by Warner Brothers, which is a subsidiary to Time Warner. Time Warner is broken up into 3 main segments, which includes Turner, Home Box Office and Warner Bros. As of the 2015 - 2016 television season, Warner Brothers was ranked as the number 1 producer of primetime television series in the United States. The Warner Brothers segment consists primarily of the production, distribution, licensing of television series and feature films. In addition, the distribution of videogames and consumer products is also important to their business.…
The Walt Disney Company (Disney) utilizes a related diversification strategy. Related diversification “involves diversifying into businesses whose value chains possess competitively valuable ‘strategic fits’ with value chain(s) of [a] firm’s present business(es)” (Geiger, 2004). Strategic fits occurs when value chain activities of diverse businesses are similar to current opportunities for cross-business sharing or transmitting of the resources and capabilities that facilitate these activities (Thompson et al., 2016, p. 217). Disney utilizes this strategy with its numerous businesses organized into its five divisions of its business units (BUs): media networks, parks and resorts, studio entertainment, consumer products, and interactive media,…
After that the National Transcommunications Limited, known as “ntl” and Telewest were merged as “NTL: Telewest”, they bought Virgin mobile and created the UK’s first “Quad play” provider in 2006. In 2007, NTL: Telewest rebranded itself and its products under the name of Virgin media. Virgin media is the UK’s largest telecommunication media, nationwide fibre optic network; its head office is in Hook. Virgin media has sharply improved from few functions to many creative and different products.…
Best Buy uses a business model that does not distinguish between different segments and they will mainly focus on one large group of customers with broadly similar needs and problems, in this case involving technology. Per our textbook, Business Model Generation, “This type of business model is often found in the consumer electronics sector” (Osterwalder and Pigneur 21). “Best Buy has become one of the biggest consumer electronics retailers in the world” (Wilson, “Statistics and facts on Best Buy”). Therefore, since the mass market customer segment is often used in consumer electronics sector, Best Buy must use this sector. Value Propositions • Cost reduction: Best Buy offers price match guarantees to offer the lowest possible prices for their…