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Deloitte Case: Footloose
Duraflex is a German footwear company with annual men’s footwear sales of approximately €1 b.They have always relied on the boot market for the majority of their volume. In this market they compete with three other major competitors.In the fall of 2019, Badger – one of Duraflex’s competitiors – launched a new line of aggressively priced work boots. The strong success of this line has caused Duraflex’s management to re-evaluate their position in work boots.With limited additional resources, the management must now decide if they should focus their efforts on competing with Badger in the work boot sector, or allocate their resources on further strengthening their position with casual boots. The management team approached you and asked for your advice. In order to advise them on their future work boot strategy please prepare first some insights regarding market size and competitive landscape.
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Difficulty: Intermediate
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Hagen
Retail Banking Profitability
RetailBankingCo is a regional, US-based retail bank that is looking to increase its revenues. As a result, the client is considering introducing a commission-based incentive program for its sales force.RetailBankingCo wants to determine the conditions under which implementing the incentive program would be economically viable.
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Difficulty: Beginner
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Nearshoring - Opportunity study and Business case
Your client is an international Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB). It is France based and has already expanded to Poland (Warsaw), Asia and Americas. Your client now wants to look into the development of the existing hub in Warsaw and is contacting you to help him assess this option. How would you help him?
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Difficulty: Intermediate
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Powered Wheelchairs
We have been hired by the CEO of Comfort Chairs, a company that manufactures complex powered wheelchairs. Comfort Chairs has headquarters in Sweden with manufacturing in Sweden and sales all over Europe. The company enjoys a strong market position and is known for being a pioneer in its industry. It was recently acquired by a leading global private equity firm that is interested in driving the international growth of Comfort Chairs. Especially, the US market looks very interesting.The CEO has hired you to help him with two things:1. Determine the size and the growth of the US market for complex powered wheelchairs.2. Analyze whether entering the US market is attractive.
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Difficulty: Advanced
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Market entry Market sizing
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PrepLounge
PE Portfolio Strategy
We are a private equity firm operating primarily in the automotive industry. We would like you to figure out whether we should increase our portfolio in the sensor market or not.We would like you to do a profit/margin growth potential analysis and tell us how we can add value to this company given the other companies in our portfolio.
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Difficulty: Intermediate
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PrepLounge
GamingHub
Our client, GamingHub, is a large diversified entertainment corporation that received a request to approve a $200 m capital allocation from its video game manufacturing division. The division wants to triple the capacity.The client hired us to help him decide if he should approve this capital request and have asked you what critical issues are to be looked into to decide if the division's market is attractive enough to expand.
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Difficulty: Intermediate
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Growth strategy Market analysis
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PrepLounge
Chip equity
Our client is an electronics holding called Chip’n’Chip.They want to invest in a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) manufacturer called OnBoard, and asked you whether it’s going to be a good investment.How would you help them?
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Difficulty: Advanced
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Mergers & Acquisition
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PrepLounge
Bank envelope
Your client, Customlope, is the leader in the US secure envelope manufacturing industry. Banks buy these envelopes for operations such as money deposits and high value transactions.Next year, a new digital technology will reduce the overall number of units sold in the industry by 25%.In the short term, our client wants to maintain his current profit level without investing in the new technology.How can you help him?
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Difficulty: Beginner
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Pricing Profitability analysis
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PrepLounge
Nutripremium
Nutripremium is a very well-known premium nutrition food company in Europe (€1 billion revenue last year). It is based in Spain and has an excellent market share not only in its home country but also in Portugal, France, Italy and Germany. Nutripremium has two main lines of products:Vitamin-supplements for pregnant womenConcentrated dehydrated aliments and vitamin pills for sick patients (with Diabetes or Cancer).The CEO of Nutripremium thinks that the market in Europe is starting to get saturated and wants you to analyze the Chinese market.What are the key areas you would explore to determine whether this is a good idea?
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Difficulty: Advanced
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PrepLounge
General Holding
Our client is a French holding company with annual revenues of about €1 billion. Their portfolio consists of different companies that are mostly in manufacturing industries such as the oil & gas industry and the automotive industry.They do not have a specific investment focus. They prefer to buy the best companies available that are also related to their existing businesses.They are thinking about acquiring an auto parts dealer, OTOpart, and want to know whether you think it is a good idea.
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Difficulty: Intermediate
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Bank growth strategy
A bank based in a developing country in Africa has hired us to find out how it can grow its local retail banking business unit.What aspects would you investigate? What would you recommend to our client?
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Difficulty: Intermediate
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