Waterford Wedgwood
SWOT ANALYSIS
Strengths:
The following are some of the strengths of Waterford Wedgwood:
• One of the major strengths of the company is its standard procedures of production. As a result, the products offered to the customers have high quality.
• Each product is unique and hand made by group of finest craftsmen.
• The company reported the revenue of $38 billion in the year of 2008 and in 2012 the revenues were $42.7 billion. The growth rate of the company’s revenue is its major strength. Annual growth rate of the company is 2.96%. They have estimated their revenue for 2015 to be $49 billion.
• The company’s strong distribution network that is comprised of massive fleet of trucks, retail stores, airplanes and sales representatives.
• The company pays high rates of dividends quarterly of 0.14% and annual yielding is 0.62%
• The company has an earnings ratio of 14.02x. It reflects that the company has very high ability of generating profits.
• Another strength of the company is the confidence that its investors show in the future growth of the company, 78% of the share outstanding are taken by the institutional investors
• The company is adding new products to its product line regularly; meanwhile, it has been able to maintain the quality and standard of existing products.
Weaknesses:
• The net profit margins are only 4.76% that do not help the company to cover its rising input costs.
• The cash flow per share in 2012 was $17.00; however for the year 2013 the financial analysts estimated the cash flow to be $14.60, which is 14.12% lower than previous year.
• A very surprising fact about the company is that it does not have any vision statement.
• No emphasis made on the marketing strategy of the company, so ...
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• Will do everything to address the issues or problems faced by the clients through social media to enhance consumer brand equity.
• Will increase their social commerce by 20% in next five years by engaging their customers in every decision that will affect them directly or indirectly.
The company should acquire more companies in the Asian markets, like India, Pakistan and China and expand in these areas because these markets are still developing. The company has a good chance of growth because the labor of these countries is very cheap. The company can focus on all the strategies mentioned in the strategy alternative part because they can be adopted at the same time. Two of the strategies are related to the marketing campaign and positioning of the company, while the last one focuses on the expansion which should be the global agenda of the company.
...s are doing well and over the many years have gone up. The company has not lawsuits currently pending which is good. The company as a whole seems to be growing even when the market is down.
On 13, March 2016, the board of directors provides approval to increase the quarterly cash dividend of shareholders by 11.1%. which is increased from $0.09 per share to $0.10 per
The company is also leading the way in innovativeness and has already received recognition for introducing innovative products. This is one of the strengths of the company since innovative products will help to differentiate its products from the other competitor products as well as the new products can be exclusively branded as compared to the other flagship products from older Soviet times.
Net Income: The net income applicable common shares go from June 30th: $219,000,000 to September 30th: 290,000,000 to December 31st 2013: 2,001,000,000 to March 31st 2014: 480,000...
Management intends to focus on further improvement and will continue to build on these competencies through marketing efforts that increase the number of units sold and by constantly adapting to market changes and needs.
Our commitment to steady, long-term improvement in our products and processes is the cornerstone of our business strategy. To achieve this objective, we must work to continuously improve the overall quality of our design, manufacturing, administrative, and support organizations.
...rs, setting a good trend for the corporation. They also have a very low debt-to-equity ratio, indicating that they have enough equity to easily pay off any funds acquired from creditors. As a creditor I would feel safe in lending them funds for any future projects or endeavors.
The turnover of the company in 2008 was $15,627 million, gradually decreased in 2009 to $14,552 million which again decreased in 2010 to $13,772 million. We can see a gradual drop in the turnover.
Along the years, the company has been coming up with new and better products that has defferintiated from the rest based on its own methods and recipes.
The basic earnings per ordinary share in 2016 is RM19.14 and RM14.30 in 2015. This shows that the ordinary share had been increased RM4.84 compare to 2016 based on 2015. In the other hand, this company had declared a first interim single-tier dividend of 10 sen per ordinary share amounting to RM22.88 million in respect of the financial year ended 31 December 2016. They sold their ordinary shares of RM400,000,000 units of RM0.50 per each in 2016 and RM200,000,000 units of RM0.50 per each in 2015 to their shareholders. It is increased from 2015 to 2016 with 200,000,000 units. The other investments that available for sale is RM1000 same as in 2015 and 2016.
New technology, latest and updated all machines and equipment are available preparation and for customer pleasure.
Before beginning an analysis of a company it is necessary to have a complete set of financial statements, preferably for the pas few years so that historical trends can be obtained. Ratios are a way for anyone to get an idea of the financial performance of a company by using the information contained in the financial statements. Ratios are grouped into four basic categories, liquidity, activity, profitability, and financial leverage. This document will use a variety of these ratios to analyze the firm, Sample Company, as of December 31,2000.
withstanding a large recession, and commanding high market share. In the last five years, the company’s
By quality/value – positioning of the product based on high quality. Also can be claimed that the product have high value.