2) Facilities
- Marriott international
Marriott International is a leader and strong competitor in a variety of industries, including hotels and motels, food service, facilities management, retirement communities, and vacation interval ownership or time-shares. The Marriott family, the company's founders, owned a 21-percent interest in the company in the mid-1990s.
Marriott's primary enterpris
Ⅰ.2.Rosenbluth International overview
Rosenbluth International is a travel agency founded in 1892 in Philadelphia, U.S.A., and according to the data in the year 2000, it was ranked the 3rd in the world traveling market with the sales of 6 billion dollars. In addition, in the year 1998's Fortune Magazine, it was selected as 29th of the 100 firms with most convenient working conditions.
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International overview
Rosenbluth International is a travel agency founded in 1892 in Philadelphia, U.S.A., and according to the data in the year 2000, it was ranked the 3rd in the world traveling market with the sales of 6 billion dollars. In addition, in the year 1998's Fortune Magazine, it was selected as 29th of the 100 firms with most convenient working conditions.
Besides the facts th
1. With which of the international competitors listed in the case is it most interesting to compare Inditex’s financial results? Why? What do comparisons indicate about Inditex’s relative operating economics? Its relative capital efficiency?
GAP H&M Benetton Inditex
ROIC -0.15% 24.16% 11.20% 27.24%
Return on sales -0.06% 9.60% 7.05% 10.46%
COGS/sales 7
international golf market
various age groups of golfers
life style of time-spending on
recreation (leisure & sports)
golf industry declining as a whole
(saturated in U.S.)
Asian knock-off market
USGA regulations
low switching costs for consumer
good performance on product development and innovation in general, but for Top Flite
need for aggressive market activities thr