J.P. Leggett and C.B. Platt a local entrepreneur from Carthage Missouri started a business partnership in 1883. Leggett was an inventor and Platt was an expert on establishing a manufacturing setup and both patented in 1885 a spiral steel coal beds (Leggett & Platt®,2011). In 1942, Leggett & Platt opens a plant in Kentucky. Harry M. Cornell Jr. became President and started an expansion effort in 1960 and in 1970 Leggett & Platt partners with Armco Steel Corp to construct a wire mill in Carthage. In 1999, the company net earnings reached to 290.5 million by May 2002 Leggett & Platt had evolve from a small regional company into an international Fortune 500 company and establish a contract with Sears (Leggett & Platt®,2011). Roebuck and Co. …show more content…
The company breaks each product into four main product segments. These product segments are: Residential Furnishings, Commercial Products, Industrial Material, and Specialized Products. Each one of these product segments are a key in Leggett And Platt 's current and future success.
Residential Furnishings are a wide rang of products and components for the home (Leggett & Platt®,2011). Some of these products include mattress springs, pocketed coils, power foundations, bed frames, ornamental beds, bedding, accessories, carpet cushions. (Leggett & Platt®, 2011).
The next segment is Commercial Product 's, which is suits of retail store fixtures and point-of-purchase displays for major retailers and specialty shops (Leggett & Platt®, 2011). So really what Leggett and Platt is producing in this segment is displays for other retail stores to use in their store. They do this because it dresses up the product they are trying to sell, if a customer walks into a store with only mattresses on the ground then they might not want to buy it. But if a customer walks into a store with a mattress in a display with a dresser and frame around it then they might be more interested in buying the mattress product. Some of these Commercial Products categories include: gondola and shelving, in-store displays, seat mechanisms and controls, furniture bases,
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These products can be found in many of the worlds markets. They use titanium, nickel, and stainless steel tubing in many of these Specialized Products. Some of these Specialized Products include: L&P Automotive Group, Paris Spring, Western Pneumatic Tubes, Specitubes, Global Systems Group, and Vertex Fasteners (Leggett & Platt®, 2011).
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In liasion, the company’s products include services for home improvement professionals and contractors. This marketing mix from Home Depot highlights the quality of service they wish to provide. On the other hand, the majority of the products at the firm’s stores are from third parties, such as equipment manufacturers. Home Depot’s multi-faceted product mix include building materials, lawn and garden products, and home appliances, among other things. Kitchen and garden products accounted for nearly 27% of revenues in fiscal 2014 making them the best-grossing product categories. (Exhibit*- Revenue by product
The merchandise assortment which ranges from home accessories such as candles, vases and picture frames to full-sized, upholstered furniture, hand-carved armoires, large-scale vases and eclectic wall décor. As much as 75 percent of our merchandise assortment includes new product introductions each year.
Lowe’s Companies, Inc. is the fourteenth largest retailer in America, and overall the world’s second largest home improvement retailer. They are the 108th ranked corporation on the Fortune 500 top corporations list. With an impressive in store stock of 40,000 home improvement items on hand, ranging from lumber to Home décor items, plus an additional 400,000 home improvement items available through a special order program. Lowe’s provides a onetime stop for all home improvement needs, for both the Do-It-Yourselfer, and the ever-expanding market of the Commercial Business Customer.
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Conclusion: Given the current economic status the home improvement industry is in a low spot with sales. With the decrease in building new homes we have to focus mainly on home improvements. The three strong points we have against existing rivalries are our great locations, quantity of quality products, and convenient customer service. With these great qualities we can move ahead and stay ahead of our competitors during these times.
Business Analysis Introduction: - Barilla has encountered many areas of their manufacturing and distribution processes that, for many reasons, could be vastly improved. To try to improve these areas, top logistics management decided to try to implement a JITD (just in time distribution) system, similar to VMI (vendor managed inventory). The management felt that they could cut back on problems such as wild demand swings and stock outs by using this method. Their distributors also felt a great deal of pressure to increase their inventory to prevent these stock outs while also ADDING items that they did not already carry, which would lead to even more inventory. Many employees in the logistics department thought the distributors should carry more inventory to deal with the stock outs but other knew the current inventory was already too much.
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