March 2008 - Posts - Strategy Muse

March 2008 - Posts

Google's income boosting strategy - 2

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Google may invest $1 billion in Sprint’s WiMax initiative to gain access to an open wireless network that could allow it to reach customers almost anywhere they go. The investment may put pressure on Verizon to open its wireless network to outside devices especially gadgets based on Android—a mobile software platform that Google launched late last year...

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US Cable companies' income boosting strategy

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Cable companies Comcast, Time Warner, and Brighthouse Networks are investing in Sprint’s Wimax initiative to gain access to an open wireless network that could allow them to reach customers almost anywhere they go and offer mobile Internet services to compete with new pay-TV offerings from AT&T and Verizon Wireless. They may add a wireless laptop...

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CNOOC's income boosting strategy

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Cnooc Ltd., China's largest offshore oil producer, aims to increase oil and gas output by 18 percent in 2008 to gain from rising oil prices. Its capital spending may jump 44 percent for acquisitions and to bring 10 projects on line, including a Nigerian field. It will spend $1.04 billion on oil and gas exploration in 2008 to replace the oil and...

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Compass Group's cost saving strategy

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Compass Group Plc, the big provider of food services to companies, hospitals and schools is compensating for increased food prices by changing menus and cutting supply costs, negotiating better terms with suppliers. It has thinned layers of management to better control far-flung regions with more volatile sales. It completed a planned $2 billion buyback...

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Kingfisher Plc's cost saving strategy

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Kingfisher Plc, the U.K.'s largest home-improvement retailer, cut its dividend as a slumping housing market caused Britons to spend less money redecorating. It will centralize management and cut costs. It sold its stake in a joint venture in Taiwan in December because of limited opportunity for market share growth. It will reduce its capital spending...

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Hennes & Mauritz's income boosting strategy

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Sweden’s Hennes & Mauritz AB, Europe's second-largest clothes retailer, will open 190 outlets this fiscal year (mostly in the U.S. and Europe) and its first shops in Japan and Saudi Arabia. It collaborated with celebrity designers such as Roberto Cavalli. It seeks to fuel sales with more costly shops in the U.K. and Germany. It agreed to buy...

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Hutchison Whampoa's income boosting strategy

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Hutchison Whampoa Ltd is relying on asset sales and earnings from ports, energy, property and retailing to fund a $25 billion bet on 3G phone services, which allow faster music and video downloads. It gained HK$35.8 billion in 2007 from selling its 67 percent stake in India's Hutchison Essar Ltd. to Vodafone Group Plc. It gained HK$955 million from...

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Tata Motors' income boosting strategy

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Tata Motors, India's biggest truckmaker, will spend $2.3 billion, to buy the Jaguar and Land Rover brands to add markets outside Asia. It has obtained $3 billion of loans for the purchase. It will retain the image, the touch, and the feel of Jaguar and Land Rover. It will not transfer Jaguar and Land Rover production or component sourcing from Britain...

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Ford Motor's cost saving strategy

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Ford Motor (F) will sell its British Jaguar and Land Rover brands to Indian carmaker Tata Motors for about $2.3 billion (less than half what Ford paid for the two brands). It will stop the hemorrhage of $10 billion in losses over the years. (After Ford pays British workers around $600 million toward pension liabilities, it will net around $1.7 billion...

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J.Sainsbury's income boosting strategy

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J Sainsbury Plc, Britain's third- largest supermarket chain, will buy back a stake in 38 stores owned by British Land Co. to speed up expansion. It will invest 273 million pounds ($546 million) in a venture with British Land that will take over stores the retailer now leases. It will add more space for products other than food to raise sales of...

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Motorola's cost saving and income strategy

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Motorola Inc. will separate its struggling handset business from other operations forming two separate publicly traded companies. The handset business will operate separately from another company that will encompass its home and networks business, which sells TV set-top boxes and modems, and its enterprise mobility solutions, which sells computing and...

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Google's income boosting strategy

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Google, the search giant, is advocating the benefits of auctioning the unused television airwaves in real time to wireless Internet providers and others. It would greatly expand Internet access and the capacity of Internet services. Google seeks openness because a more accessible Internet means more Google users. It is developing an open source platform...

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Kotak Mahindra's income boosting strategy

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Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd., the worst performer on India's banking index this year, plans to increase lending by 30 percent in the 12 months to March 2009 to weather a decline in stock trading and fund raisings. It will add 85 branches in India to extend more loans to individuals and companies. It is also looking to increase private equity investments...

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Heineken's income boosting strategy

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Heineken NV, the largest Dutch brewer, agreed to buy Drinks Union of the Czech Republic to add four breweries in the central European country. Expanding in emerging markets = scope for exponential growth of income. Share this post: email it! | del.icio.us! | digg it! | newsVine!

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Toho Tenax's income boosting strategy

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Teijin Ltd.'s carbon-fiber unit Toho Tenax Co., maker of more than half of the carbon fiber for the Airbus SAS A380 superjumbo, plans to supply the lightweight material to the new A350. It plans to expand carbon-fiber production to catch up with demand from builders of commercial planes and industrial equipment. It will not construct factories in...

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