Belle Montaseur’s Inc. is a high-end shoe company (firm) with a reputation for integrity, quality craftsmanship, and excellence in management. In the final year our Game-to-Date (G-T-D) Score came to eighty five. Belle Montaseur’s Inc. was formed by Michael P. Blattner as an entity in September 2013. In Year Eleven our Net Revenues were $253,670,000. In Year Eighteen our Net Revenues were $273,077,000. We had a couple of down years from not allowing a forty percent markup in prices which was one of our major downfalls (this led to bad numbers for those Years). We did not earn a Gold Star Award like Dashing Shoes did every year.
The Company experienced steady growth in Years Eleven, Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen, Seventeen, and Eighteen. The game is about selling shoes. You sell in the internet, wholesale, and retail industry with sublevels in the private label sector. You compete against your classmates to be the best provider in the industry and keep your figures at a high level. You are judged on several factors that change from Year to Year.
You operate within Years eleven through eighteen. It is a very competitive industry and you have to stay ahead of the competition. The scores range from in the fifty’s for the struggling teams to eighty plus for the teams that are exceling. I learned quickly that you have to allow at least for a forty percent markup from wholesale to retail prices. To do well you cannot spend too much money in the nonessential areas (over seventy percent of your funds going toward marketing, as an example, would be a huge mistake).
You sell within four geographic areas “which are North America, Europe Africa, Asia Pacific, and Latin America” (BSG-Online). You have to allow for the exchange rate...
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...improved upon is helping you understand if you are struggling in certain geographic areas and why/how to remedy it if at all possible. An ongoing threat is the harsh competition every Year from the other companies continuously improving upon their strategy and changing/adapting if needed. We can go into the simulation and look to see what the other companies are pricing at and whether they are getting the bids. An example would be looking to see what they are spending on Advertising every year. Extreme Excellence dominated the Industry for almost all of the Years and was in the top one hundred of all teams in the world at least one Year. I did do better than I expected as of early on in the simulation. At first I thought I would only get half of the twenty five percentage points for poor performance in the bsg-online simulation.
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