Fur Case Studies Samples For Students

The Central Issue

The central issue in this case is the dominance of the American Fur Company in the fur trade. The case outlines the rise of Astor from a paid worker to a millionaire in the fur trade and the tactics that he employed in ensuring that he downplayed the efforts of other fur trading companies.

Recommended Course of Action

Since Astor had ensured that the other fur trading companies’ efforts in the trade, the government should have passed and enacted laws that outlawed extrapolated prices of goods and equitable pay for the fur. These government efforts should have included deploying civil officers to the west to ...

Report of Hudson’s Bay Company

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Introduction

Founded in 1670 in Canada, Hudson Bay Company (HBC) is the oldest firm in North America, operating in the retail segment across Canada, United States, Germany or Belgium (HBC official website, n.d.). With a long tradition in the fur market, the company adapted to socio-dynamic changes that marked clients’ loss of interest in fur, and adjusted to more modern requests, entering the general retailing business, currently operating in luxury fashion, after acquiring brands such as SAKS Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor, but also owning department store (GAMERIA Kaufhof, Galeria INNO, Sportarena), off-price stores (Designer Depot) or furniture, appliances ...

My reference company is Apple Inc., which currently trades at 535.73 dollars a share. I think that the futures of 100 shares of Apple Inc. are currently worth 60,000 dollars. This means that Apple shares to be delivered to me in a year’s time are worth 600 dollars each. This is because Apple has a great potential and I expect that its shares will appreciate in the coming months. However, I do not expect the share price for Apple Inc. to appreciate by huge margins because I strongly believe that market projections have been undervaluing the company’s share price ...