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Executive summary The report below provides an insight into the supermarket company, Sheng Siong Supermarket, a supermarket chain born and bred in Singapore with an analysis and evaluation emphasizing on its external environment. The report will also look into the analysis of its competitors and steps taken to attain an advantage over its competitions. A brief overview of the organisation will be identified, following its environment analysis using the PEST Analysis to state its key…

Company’s History and Growth Apple Computer was founded in April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. It was incorporated as Apple Computer, Inc. on 1977, but be re-named Apple, Inc. on 2007, to reflect its stance to shift away from computers towards consumer electronics and software products. Its success did not last long. During 1985, Apple approached bankruptcy due to a series of product flops and CEO changes. The products flopped as Apple Computer, Inc. was lack of…

Sephora is a cosmetics brand chain store founded in French by Dominique Mandonnaud in 1970. In 1997, Sephora owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world's leading luxury goods group. Sephora sells a broad category of products from more than 100 brands and its private label including skincare, color, fragrance, body care, smile care, and hair care. Today, Sephora is the leading chain of perfume and cosmetic retailers worldwide. It operates approximately 1,900 stores in 29 countries, with…

BIT501 Assignment 1 The business I have chosen for my case study is Apple Inc. Apple Inc. is a tech company based out of California, US. Apple Inc. is listed as a C Corporation business entity meaning that it shares stock on the public market for investors to own a part of the company. As Apple is a C Corporation, it means that the founders or owners are no longer responsible for paying the taxes on their share of the income as the company pay those taxes at a corporate level. The…

In today’s society, the topic of gender and gender stereotypes is a high rise of debate. In analysis of the study The Gender Marketing of Toys: An Analysis of Color and Type of Toy on the Disney Store Website conducted by Carol J. Auster and Claire S. Mansbach, the authors discuss the socialization of children, toys, and gender. From an early age, children learn to play with the toys that are appropriate to their gender through the guidance of adults and through the media (Auster and Mansbach,…

When Steve Jobs were alive, he used to have the mission and encapsulated in statement: "To make a contribution to the world by making tools for the mind that advance humankind." This reflects Jobs’ shows everything or the tools that his designs satisfied the needs of human. Besides, what desired him most was looking kids use Apple products in the classroom. Different from Jobs’ original ideals, Tim Cook verbalized regarding Apple’s business philosophy. He believes that “we live on the Earth, we…

Bridgewater Associates Bridgewater Associates, which is based in Westport, Connecticut, was founded by Ray Dalio in 1975. He operated Bridgewater out of his two-bedroom apartment. The American investment management firm manages approximately $160 billion in global investments. His clientele include foreign governments and central banks, corporate and pension funds, university endowments and charitable foundations. Bridgewater Associates is now the largest hedge fund in the world. The firm grew…

Corporation, Inc. is the Primary off price store of clothing and home fashions in the U.S as well as globally and at ranking number 108 in the most recent Fortune five hundred listings. (Fortune, 2014) As a global, off price, value distributor TJX earn $27.4 billion in profits (2013) TJX is truly a global company as they have more than 3,200 stores in six countries, three best websites, buying and about 191,000 Associates (Forbes, 2015). Over 3,200 stores TJX offer a quickly changing verity of…

The Steve jobs vision to transform the IT Company to smart phones yield very rich dividends. The introduction of IPod that helps to store thousands of songs and carry anywhere leads to development of phone that can carry anywhere. The success and improvement in technologies helps the Apple Company to introduced iPhone series that later turn to be best idea ever had by the company management…

supermarkets. Specifically it noted four issues. • Supermarkets have acquired many plots of land near their own stores to prevent rivals from buying the sites. The rivals are often unable to find alternative sites in the area because of planning restrictions. • The power to drive down the prices paid to suppliers has increased since 2000. This makes it more difficult for convenience stores to compete, given that their wholesalers often do not have equivalent power to drive down prices from…