DAPTS CONSULTANTS ® REPORT ON BELL CANADA ENTERPRISE (BCE) COMPILED BY: PRABHLEENGREWAL TARANDEEP ANIKET GUPTA SOHAIL DEEPAK GABA SAMARVEER SINGH KAMRA PRATEEK SINGH Contents INTRODUCTION 3 COMPANY OVERVIEW 3 PRODUCTS AND SERVICES 4 HISTORY 6 REVENUE ACCORDING TO THE SECTORS 9 VISION AND MISSION STATEMENT 10 SWOT ANALYSIS 13 INTRODUCTION Bell Communications Enterprise is the largest communications company in Canada with a subscription of approximately 21 million users out of a population of 35.50 million approximately . Bell deals in all three types of businesses as it provides services to consumers (B2C), business (B2B) and the government (B2G). It is a company known to provide the best quality communication service
Background You have asked me to research on accounting treatment for goodwill and goodwill impairment under the scope of ASC-350 (Intangibles-Goodwill and Other) and ASC-805 (Business Combinations). Soar is a leading manufacturer and distributor of aircraft maintenance equipment and services, and it has two reporting units, namely Subsidiary A and Subsidiary B. Soar performs its annual goodwill impairment test on January 1. Issues and Analysis 1. What is the meaning of “goodwill” acquired in a business combination?
I. Strengths of TARGET Corporation Target Corporation is one of the largest and oldest public discount retailing company operate in the United States. The company founded in 1902’s by George Dayton (as also known as Dayton Dry Goods in 1962’s). Target store has a huge store footprint and enjoys considerable brand recognition. Target’s portfolio of owned and exclusive brands is also its strength, which allow retailer to a valuable differentiating lover in high competitive retail environment.
(P1.3) Once the business strategy is formed, there are different techniques in developing the strategic plans of the business using various tools by the organization. These techniques show the strengths and weaknesses of the organization and as well as their opportunities and threats that are possible to the business in order to form an effective developed strategic plan during the process of operation. In this case, Nordstrom uses these types of tool in developing their strategic plans which are the BCG matrix and SOAR analysis. BCG matrix is the matrix which determines the level industry relative share of the industry and the business with the help of four dimensions. Strategic business plans are set by considering the growth rate of the industry and current situation of the business.
RECENT OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE Gap Inc. Gap Inc. is a global specialty retailer offering clothing, accessories and personal care products for men, women, children and babies. The company has grown from a single store to a global fashion business with five brands — Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Athleta and Intermix. Gap was founded by Doris and Don Fisher in 1969. The Fisher family still owns about 40% of Gap Inc..
In this fast-paced industry, Samsung Electronics Company (SEC) has done a remarkable job in turning the company around and reaching a top-of-mind brand awareness over the past few years. The Samsung brand identity and values were poorly regarded up until the early 90s. The brand was positioned as a low-end electronics company that was mainly manufacturing consumer televisions and VCRs. Samsung was not able to compete with the industry’s leaders (i.e. Sony) in the global market. A positive change was needed to reinvent the company’s culture and brand position at that time.
1. Introduction Samsung first started as a South-Korean family owned business but has now earned acceptance around the globe now. Samsung has grown into a global information technology leader, managing more than 200 subsidiaries around the world. The company’s offerings include home appliances such as TVs, monitors, refrigerators, and washing machines as well as smartphones and tablets.
That is the firm spends over “four hundred million dollars on advertising” for its various products aiming to target different slides of the customers in the global market as it floods the market with various products. This strategy comes with another one that is the pricing strategy , Samsung’s products are inexpensive if compared with other competitors. This strategy has enhanced the position of the firm to be one of the largest in selling products as it targets all the slides of the communities worldwide( David and Enrich 2000)
Porters Five Forces Analysis: Samsung Electronics Introduction Samsung Electronics focuses in three specific areas; Consumer Electronics, IT & Mobile Communications and Device Solution. Porter’s Five Forces model has been used to analyse Samsung Electronics competitive position within the global market they operate in. By using this model, an evaluation of their current position will highlight which of the five forces are “affecting the intensity of competition in an industry and its profitability level” (Jurevicius, 2013). Nevertheless, when conducting analysis on an international company such as this, studying of market trends is already carried out thoroughly to ensure that they are fully aware of that market, in order to achieve success and maintain within it. With this in mind, it would be considered that Samsung Electronics would have a relatively good competitive advantage against other rival companies.
Sensitive market to these kinds of products are commercial line and offices those has to get technological interface to attain day to day tasks. Samsung has contributed in so many innovative products to make users life easy such as tablets, mini laptops, and televisions to provide with the wide range of technology for personal use. Samsung is known for its colors and picture quality in the
Staff: As We mentioned that Samsung always respect their staff, Samsung have a good name in welfares and social events. Even they supports the families of their employees and have a good and proper medical services in which annual check for the members who’re above 40 in age. Samsung also prefer passing away & favourable supports to the staff. They also provide teaching to their youth members.
Process Strategies The process strategies, for such a large manufacturing company, would need to be varied. The production process type would be determined by the product life cycle stage at that time (Thayer 2004).Product life cycles for items such as smartphones and tablets do not generally follow the standard life cycle stages. The maturity stage can be interrupted by discontinuation or irrelevance of a technology, which recommences the cycle (Giachetti & Marchi 2010). Incidentally, during the product life cycle of these items, a cyclic improvement of both process and product is required to stay in contact with market changes.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a South Korean multinational electronics company which headquartered in Suwon, South Korea. Samsung has long been a major manufacturer of electronic device such as lithium-ion batteries, semiconductors, microchips, flash memory and hard drive devices for clients such as Apple, Sony, HTC and Nokia. Samsung has been the world 's largest manufacturer of LCD panels since 2002, the world 's largest television manufacturer since 2006 and world 's largest manufacturer of mobile phones since 2011.Samsung Electronics displaced Apple Inc. as the world 's largest technology company in 2011 and is a major part of the South Korean economy. In June 2014 Samsung published the Tizen OS with the new Samsung Z. For Samsung Electronics, 2003 was a watershed year. It successfully positioned itself as one of the world’s best and largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world.
• Change: Samsung always comes up with new products and innovative services in order to fulfill their customers’ needs and demands. • Integrity: Samsung makes sure that ethics are followed at each and every level and thus stay faithful and give respect to its stakeholders (Globart, 2012). • Co-prosperity: For a business to prosper, it is very much needed that auxiliaries, employers and others too, must be given opportunities to flourish. Samsung strongly believes in it and move ahead by taking everyone together. They are fulfilling their responsibilities towards society and environment as well by being a responsible corporate citizen (Annual Report, 2013).
Individually, employees of Samsung are encouraged to take part in the many volunteer programs offered by the company. REVENUE STREAMS Samsung posted quarterly revenue of 51.68 trillion Korean won, or$45 billion. up 8.9% year over year.
