The answers are as follows:
1. When Peter Metcalf describes black diamond manufacturing facility in China as 'greenfield project', he means that BLACK DIAMOND BUILT THE PLANT AND OWNS IT COMPLETELY. Of all market entry strategies, this one carries the HIGHEST risk.
A greenfield project refers to a new facility or industrial plant that is built in a location where no such facility exist before. This means that such companies are usually the first of its kind in that environment. Such investment usually involves huge amount of money and other resources as the company has to build from scratch up. This type of market entry is considered to be very risky because it involves a lot of money and all this could be lost if things don't work out as planned.
2. The following advice should be given to Peter, Thomas and Wim:
I. Recruit local people to work as sale people and distributors.
II. Research what people with annual income of less than US $1,500 really need.
III. Assign Research and Development the project of developing gears that meet the basic needs for warmth and dryness but can be manufactured inexpensively.
Since these three people intend manufacturing for people of lower income in the society, they have to take the above listed steps in order to reduce the amount of money spent during the production process and distribution period so that they will be able to make profits from the venture.
Answer:
6.06%
Explanation:
The computation of the rate of return is shown below:
Given that
NPER = 20 years
PV = ($280,000 - $80,000) = $200,000
PMT = $0
FV = $75,000 × PVIFA factor at 10% for 21 years
= $75,000 × 8.6487
= $648,652.50
The following formula should be applied
= RATE(NPER;PMT;-PV;FV;TYPE)
The present value comes in negative
After applying the above formula, the rate of return is 6.06%
Answer:
Steve Jobs coming back, Innovations, and Tim Cook taking over as COO
Explanation:
The fluctuations in stock prices of a company are due to improved performance of the company in meeting it's objectives and perception that the business will do better in the future.
In the given scenario there was an initial increase in Apple’s stock price from $27.97 to $702.10, an increase of 25 times.
This can be attributed to the return of Steve Jobs as the CEO of Apple. There was a confidence boost by his coming back. Also there were various innovations like: iPhone, iMac, iPod, and iTunes. These improved the performance and by extension share price of Apple.
However when Tim Cook took over as COO he reduced production by half resulting in stock price decrease by 37% from its peak in September 2012 until the end of March 2013, from $702.10 to $442.66.
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