Shoppers Stop is an Indian department store chain promoted by the K Raheja Corp Group, started in the year 1991 with its first store in Andheri, Mumbai Shoppers Stop Ltd has been awarded "the Hall of Fame" and won "the Emerging Market Retailer of the Year Award", by World Retail Congress at Barcelona, on April 10, 2008. Shoppers Stop is listed on the BSE. In 2011, Shoppers Stop has 53 stores in India. Shoppers Stop is one of the leading retail stores in India. Shoppers Stop began by operating...
Corporate governance which seemed scarcely existed before the 1990s,nowadays attracts increasingly more attention and develops quickly over last two decades, especially after the crash of giants such as Barings Bank and Enron as well as many other corporate failings. It is also the case in China in light of the scandals are more seriously and prevailing-it had been reported that from 1992 to 2004, there were 200 scandals happened among China's 1200 listed companies, the proportion was about 1...
According to the current situation of Glee Plc, this company is underperforming in term of profit and the new projects are not going as well. To solve this problem, the manager of Glee Plc should conducts investment appraisal to appraise the investment opportunities. What is Investment appraisal? Investment appraisal refers to the ''evaluation of proposed investment ''(DC, Blood, 2010) and also known as capital budgeting. In order to improve the profit, Glee Plc should undertake the projects ...
Warren Buffett is one of the most successful stock market investors of the past 30 years. His entire approach is to focus on the value of the business and its market price. THE BUFFETT APPROACH TO INVESTMENT: Never follow the day to day fluctuations of the stock market. -The market only exists to make it easier to buy and sell, not to set values. -Keep an eye on the market only for someone who is willing to sell a stock at a not-to-be-missed price. A stock market exists simply to facilitate t...
Plus Motors is planning to launch a two-wheeled electric vehicle, PEVO, in the UK market next year. The aim of this research would be to identify customer behaviors, attitudes and needs towards cycle-based commuting, perceptions of electric vehicles as well as provide recommendations of how PEVO should be marketed. Research Methodology The methodology will take a quantitative approach and research will be carried out using interview surveys, hall tests and online surveys. All the data collect...
It has long been an accepted perception that the objective of management is the maximization of shareholder wealth. As we know the corporate objective of a firm is to maximization share holders wealth in order to achieve this corporate goal there is a problem arising called agency problem. The corporate firms are managed by professional managers these managers do not own a 100% share so managers may not work to ward's the best of firms goal of maximizing shareholders wealth because of the con...
Finance and Investment I. Introduction The purpose of preparing this report is to analyse and investigate the capital structures and the cost of capital of Tesco plc and J Sainsbury plc. Tesco plc and J Sainsbury plc are both leading food retailers in the market providing both food and non-food products. This report is going to look at Tesco plc and J Sainsbury plc in food retailing market over the last 5 years (2005-2009), on how they performed compared to each other. II. Food Retailing Mark...
Crazy Eddie Electronics was a regional electronics chain in New York City that was failed due to massive fraud committed by its management. The company appeared to be bulletproof and invisible on Wall Street but soon resulted in huge losses to many investors and employees of the retail chain. The company that was known for its eccentric advertising campaign and aggressive in-store sales techniques fell victim to not only its management but also the auditors who failed to detect the crimes. Ma...
Question 1 List the methods that a firm can use to evaluate a potential investment. The methods used to evaluate a potential investment of the firm are as follows Net present value(NPV) Internal rate of return(IRR) Profitability index(PI) Cash discounted flow Pay back period Accounting rate of return(ARR) Question 2 Why is the NPV a preferred method when evaluating a potential investment opportunity? Npv can be explained as the difference between the initial cost outlay and the present value ...
Five waste management strategies Incineration, Pyrolysis Gasification, Improved Recycling, Anaerobic Digestion and Composting were analysed based on the 'investors' point of view. Capital and operating costs of the mentioned waste management, including its profitability for a period of 10 years were concluded using cumulative cash flow diagrams. The results showed that both incineration and Thermoselect took 7 years to break even. However, incineration will have a higher cumulative cash flow ...
