Comparing Dollar General's Financial Performance with that of Family Dollar Dollar General has been performing well financially ever since they were established in 1955. In its first 10 years of existence, Dollar General had grown to 255 stores with nearly $26 million in annual sales. In 2002, annual sales were $6.1 billion and there were 6,300 stores in 27 states in operation. Strategy shifts as well as major acquisitions allowed for Dollar General to continue performing well financially over the years. Even despite major accounting errors in 2001, Dollar General continued to increase their sales. Through Dollar Generals initiative and success, the door was open for others to thrive in the extreme-value retailing industry. One company that was able to take Dollar General's concept and use it for their own success was Family Dollar. Family Dollar is considered to be the main competitor of Dollar General. They have been able to expand faster in terms of geography than Dollar General has, with stores in 41 states. Financially, both companies have been performing well. Although the number of stores a company may have doesn't always equate to success financially, it usually is a sign that they are performing well. Over the period 1998-2002, Dollar General opened 2,371 new stores compared to Family Dollars' 1,599. Based on this number alone you might think that Dollar General is performing better financially. Over the period 2000-2001, Dollar General and Family Dollar both increased net sales by nearly 17 percent. However, Dollar General increased its net income from $70,642 to $207,513. The nearly 193 percent increas... ... middle of paper ... ...p a close eye on competitors. Since dollar stores compete with stores like Wal-mart and big supermarkets, it is essential to not lose potential customers to these stores. He needs to maintain a steady customer base by continuing doing what has been done in the past. Focus on the same demographic groups as before. In order to build stakeholder confidence and better the credibility of the business, David needs to understand their needs and desires and make decision based on these needs. He will need to make tradeoffs where necessary and give the bad news honestly and quickly. The key is to involve and communicate. "Stakeholder's need to know, that their needs are being addressed, their concerns are understood, and their input is valued."
The company is on a growth trajectory and its stores have increased since 2011 at an overwhelming CAGR of 19%. The chart below shows the growth in the number of stores from 2011 to 2014. Moreover, around 40% of Dick’s Sporting Goods revenue is derived from equipment sales, 19% from footwear sales and the rest from sports apparel. Its stores are 15 times the size of Finish Line’s.
According to Gibbens, Robert. The Gazette, he states that, past 20 years Dollarama Inc. and chief architect have built 721 unit of national retail chain exceeding $4 billion market value from a small discount store in Matane in Quebec’s Gaspe region. As per the article Rossy open his first store in Montreal in 1992 and was the head buyer besides being the chief executive. “Rossy also innovated on the buying side, cutting deals with the manufacturers, not the distributors that most retailers deal with. He scouted out competitive retailers for items worth $5 and $10 that his suppliers could copy for him to sell for a Lonnie. This enabled Dollarama to offer higher-quality $1 merchandise than most of its competitors, while offering a more attractive (and predictable) shopping experience than most low-end discounters. In early 2009, Dollarama added additional price points of $1.25, $1.50 and $2, but offered loyal shoppers new, higher-quality products at those amounts, rather than simply raising the prices of existing inventory”, according to Gibbens, Robert. The Gazette. The passage states non grocery items will gradually be introduced by August at $2.5 and $3. In the article, its state that introduction of new electronic inventory management system and productivity program by 2014 and 2015 will prove beneficial. Subsequently will reduce most of the increased cost resulted by working through the retailing industry which includes transportation and energy as well. The article also tells, China covers majority part of Dollarama’s supply needs and the rest is spread around other countries including Canada and US. Yet buying is done directly in order to reduce the cost. “You need top rate regional managers but also dedicated indivi...
Assets turnover growth is impressive considering other competitors in the industry have closed many stores from losses caused by Amazon market share growth and Costco and Walmart low prices.
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Dollar General: Dollar General seems a lot more stable when compared to Dollar Tree. All of Dollar Genera’s ratios seem to be pretty consistent over time. It looks as if the TIE ratio has increased decently from the year-end 2013 levels (20.05 times compared to 12.71 times). This improvement may be attributed to the fact that Dollar General has been able to reduce its interest expense and increase its earnings before taxes over the time period
In the warehouse segment, Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Club competes harshly with Costco. Costco has fewer warehouses but greater sales and revenues. Costco customers also shop at Costco more frequently than Sam’s Club customers and, on average, spend more each visit as well. Costco’s dominance may be the result of better innovation. Costco offers luxury items and was the first to sell fresh meat and produce, and gasoline. This is important because innovation is a key factor in assessing competitors in an industry.
The company's success can only be derived from its current ability to keep costs to a low, employing minimum staff to operate each store as one point. Another would be stock in general; keeping it at a low price enables more of the item to be sold. Finally Dollar Generals policy's on getting a store ready and opened in 8 days or less. This in term would also generate enough hype and attention to a new stores opening without the means of expensive advertisement.
Callistus, thank you for outlining the growth that Best Buy has achieved. Based on the information you’ve provided in your post, it’s noteworthy to mention additional data specified in Best Buy 10K report, and highlight critical success factors that this organization will be focusing on to maintain their competitive advantage. To your point, Best Buy has experience exponential consistent growth experiencing an increase in operating income for fiscal 2017 of 479 million which equates to 4.7% of their revenue, this was primarily due to an increase in gross profit rate and decrease in restructuring activity. Gross profit in 2016 increase by .9%, net income increase by 39.6% in 2016, and up 19.1% in fiscal 2017. Best Buy is in
Regarding to organizational stakeholders, there are three main groups of stakeholders: customers, employees and investors. The company attempts to link stakeholders’ needs and expectations to the company’s goals. For customers, the company must treat them fairly and honestly. For employees, the company needs to treat them fairly, make them a part of the company and respect their needs. For investor, managers should comply with the accounting procedure, do not manip...
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Historically, Dollar General operated in a highly price sensitive market segment, with 55% of its consumer base earning an average annual gross income of less than $40,000.[2] To attract these customers, Dollar General employed an Everyday Low Price strategy similar to Wal-Mart’s. Thus, keeping costs low and driving high traffic volumes were critical to the company’s financial success. Dollar General achieved this strategy in several ways, including keeping rents and labor costs low, locating in low-income, high traffic areas that offered consumers few substitutes, and offering a wide variety of popular CPG and white label goods.
There is need to think of all people who are to be affected by the project or strategy, those who have influence or power over it or have an interest in its successful or unsuccessful conclusion. Stake holders for Delta corporation include:-
Stakeholders are individuals, groups, and organisations with the power to influence the delivery of an organisation’s strategy and thus the organisation’s performance and/or a significant interest in an organisation’s strategy and thus the organisation’s performance (Wisniewski, 2001; Ackermann & Eden, 2011). In the context of the draft BSC to be developed, however, the analysis shall focus on relatively aggregated stakeholder groups. Firstly, the aim of this stakeholder analysis is not to pinpoint individual persons as stakeholders who may then be managed more easily than large organisations, but to identify rather broad stakeholder groups interested in Zara’s performance. Secondly, addressing
Stakeholders are interest of an individual or groups that directly or indirectly affected by the organisation’s activities, policies and objectives (Henry Frechette, 2010). Stakeholders can be divided as internal (managers and employees) and external (shareholders, customers, and suppliers) (BPP F9). Different stakeholders may have common interests or conflict interests with company. Company board members or management must take care about stakeholders’ interest. They can’t make the decision based on their own interest or their relation with others organisation. Conflict of interest will arise when interests of organisation act in concert with managers’ personal interests or interests of another person or organisations, (Anon, no date).
But, perhaps the most revolutionary was the practice of unprecedented coordination with suppliers (Chekwa, 2015, Page 62). Gross profit during the year 2015 was actually a $10 billion increase from fiscal year 2014 (University of San Francisco, 2015). Over the past six years, Walmart continues to generate these types of numbers, representing increases in growth, time and time again. The company’s income was generated by more than 4,500 stores in the United States alone, which is supported by a supply chain that moved from number 14 to number 13 on research and analyst company Gartner’s annual ranking (University of San Francisco, 2015). Many business professionals have analyzed and interpreted Walmart’s supply chain management approaches, making it apparent which elements of their strategy have proven effective.