Essays on Best Buy

1. A company from which I have made online purchase is Best buy. The website link is http://www.bestbuy.com/. Best Buy operations are comprised of retail store and online shopping website. Best Buy uses Semantic Web markup language called RDFa for adding semantics to the web pages (Retailgeek, 2012). This was done with an objective of increasing visibility of its online store. It uses the Semantic Web vocabulary for describing products on e-commerce website. The website has a user friendly interface for customer support. In the pre-sales, sales and post sales phase, it has a support function for orders which

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MEMORANDUM

Best Buy Co., Inc Analysis
Introduction
Best Buy is an accredited consumer electronics retailer. The company has a strong presence all over the world. That makes it a very interesting consideration for investment since the demand for consumer electronics will not slow down any time soon. Investors will always take a keen interest in a company’s nature of business, major costs, management style as well as financial performance before deciding on the company to invest in. This memo attempts a detailed analysis and description of the Best Buy’s activities, financial performance and future outlook, (Business, 4)

Revenue Generation

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The current distribution strategy of Best Buy was developed in 2012 after the appointment of the new C.E.O, Hubert Joly. The brand, “Renew Blue,” came about after the new C.E.O gave out a five-point manifesto. The firm adopted the “Omni channel” retailing distribution strategy so that it could fully penetrate into the market. The new strategy focuses on the way products and services of the firm will reach the consumers. The “Omni channel” strategy ensures the products find the consumer wherever they are. It ensures that the consumers are in a position to access the products offered through online

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Overview:

Best Buy, currently fighting to be the number one consumer electronics retailer title in the United States, began quite humbly indeed. The company started as a single location car and home stereo store in 1966. In North America alone, Best Buy has some 1400 locations, while the figure goes up to 2600 in Europe and China. Industry analysts believe that Best Buy has certainly improved its standing in recent times, and this is backed by the demise of two of the company's major competitors, Circuit City, and CompUSA. Best Buy was pushed on by a strong market share, healthy

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Background Information

The Future Shop is the leading Canadian consumer electronics retailer. In 200l, the Best Buy acquired all of the common stock of Future shop worth $377 including transaction costs. After the acquisition, the company was renamed Best Buy Canada Ltd (CBCNEWS, 2001). The acquisition was meant to expand the plans and increase shareholder value of Best Buy. Since most of the locations are under the original name, Best Buy Canada Limited continues to manage Future shop as a separate unit. The acquisition was a success for both companies because they have expanded their operation since the acquisition. After the

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ANALYSIS OF BBY CURRENT FINANCIAL POSITION

Best Buy (BBY) is a multinational company operates entertainment products, computing and mobile phone products and related services. Current financial position of the company, as at 30th April 2013, stands at: total assets-$14.3 billion, total liabilities-$11.4 billion and total equity of $2.92 billion. In addition to the total assets, liabilities and owners’ equity, the company has $ 160 million total cash flow and a working capital of $1.43 billion (Gowthorpe & Catherine, 298).

Best Buy has $2.92 Billion in total equity and $2.92 Billion in common stock equity as reported in the filings for their most recent quarter. Additionally,

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Best Buy Co., Inc.
Best Buy Co., Inc.

Best Buy Co., Inc. is performing fairly well in terms of critical success factors. The factors of consideration in this case are cost and efficiency, timelines, quality, and innovation. Ideally, for electronic markets, these factors are mandatory and missing them could be fatal. Best Buy sufficiently shows evidence of success in this front. For instance, through its online system, the company meets the ever growing requirement of timeliness. Customers all over the globe easily access their products and make their orders online. This element enables timeliness in that clients do not

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General Environment

Economic –It appears that economically that a lot of customers spend a lot of money at Best Buy.   However, if the customers do not have any cash they will not purchase anything in the store. Best Buy is known for customers spending cash rather than using checks and credit cards.
Sociocultural – Best Buy will be able to cater to the needs of specific types of customers in forte boutiques inside its full-size stores.
Global –Best buy already recognizes that when it came to globalizing, they understood they will have to get involved in other markets and engross what precisely

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Introduction of Best Buy

Best Buy Company, Inc. is considered to be the world’s biggest specialty retailer of name-brand consumer electronic merchandises. Product groups contain things such as entertainment software, consumer electronics, home office, and major appliance merchandises. The Company at this time proposes over 7,000 products in these product categories (Chakravarthy). For the period of fiscal 2000, the organization was able to increase its store total by about 25%, with the accumulation of 47 new stores, which would involve nine small-market provisions and, as of December 2000, was working beyond 600 stores in 50 states (Kohnen). The Company forestalls opening

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Introduction

Best Buy as an all electronics consumers cooperation is faced with an alarming competition from other companies such as apple stores and online virtual retailers such as Amazon. Not so long ago, the company was considered the most admired cooperate by the Fortune magazine and the company of the year by Forbes magazine in 2004. However, this success has shifted over the years and currently the company is losing consumers and market share that it once dominated across the globe. This paper seeks to deliberate some of the challenges that Best Buy is faced with and how they could

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