Canadian Solar Incorporation – Value Chain
Under the name brand Canadian Solar, Canadian Solar Incorporation was established in Toronto in 2001 by Shawn (Xiaohua) Qu. Even thought Canadian Solar was founded in Canada and the name of the company also remembers Canada’s country, Canadian Solar is a Chinese business. Currently, Canadian Solar has more than 8,900 employees around the world and it is present in no less than 24 countries with operations in Middle East, Asia, Australia, Europe, Africa, South America and North America by offering to their customers worldwide a range of solar power solutions among other energy products and services (Canadian Solar Inc., 2010; Canadian Solar Inc., 2016 & Reuters, 2017). Canadian Solar belongs to the
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The SWOT analysis of the strengths, weakness, opportunities, and threats is a summary of the good scenario that this company currently face (Peng, 2012). The major strengths that Canadian Solar presents are its capability to quickly diversify its portfolio to truly reach the needs and wants of its costumers and potential customers. The heavy investment in research and development allowed and continues to allow Canadian Solar to provide products and services with both high-quality standards and cost differentiation. The company offers to its customers a high quality of products and services with a low price. In fact, they have undertaken in many subsidiaries to produce most of its raw materials and components in a local market and countries such as China where the labor and manufacturing cost is low. Turning to talk about the weakness, according to its value chain and investment in many subsidiaries, Canadian Solar may face difficult to adapt its internal operation in order to maintain its profitability in a case its major competitor such as the government decrease the energy consumption. Moving to discuss the opportunities, the Canadian Solar has the facility to penetrate and undertake in a new country due to a strong relationship with the governments inside and outside Canada. Canadian Solar acquired the opportunity to obtain funds such as working capital to support its normal activities as well as to invest from a major bank in Suisse by does not being confined in the relationship only with Chinese banks. As the last analysis, the major threats that Canadian Solar faces are the fact that its biggest customers are the government and they are in a commodity market. These fact themselves can directly affect the demand for its products and services. The government has the power to control the
Founded in 1966 and based in Calgary, Shaw Communications is a Canadian telecommunications company that provides telephone, Internet and television services as well as mass media related services. The Company operated through three principal business segments such as Cable, consisted of cable television, Internet, Digital Phone and Shaw Business operations. Satellite, consisted of direct-to-home (DTH) and Satellite Services. Lastly media consisted of television broadcasting. Shaw Media operates as conventional television networks in Canada, Global Television, and numerous specialty networks. It provides customers with entertainment, information and communications services, utilizing a variety of distribution
The literature reviewed to produce this report consisted of different online trusted sources, and official data from Loblaw Canada Limited website. Tangible and intangible assets have been taken into consideration, as well as the company’s stated goals, vision, mission and an overall structural review of the company. In order to properly conduct the analysis of Loblaw Canada Ltd., some well recognized tools were used, such as Porter’s Five Forces, SWOT analysis and PEST. Online journals, additional publications, and Loblaw’s annual reports were consulted throughout the report producing
In an industry with favorable conditions, a company with a solid history of investments and rates of return. Duke Energy has a bright economic outlook due to strategic investments internationally and market dominance in the rapidly growing southwest. Although a highly-regulated industry Duke has shown to maintain its value over the long term making it a high performing investment. The income potential is small when compared to other industries but with its document history of growth it is a wise
Canadian Tire was founded in 1968 and with a good track record has developed a strong and loyal customer base. Their wide range of products and services offered are targeted at customer needs and are competitively priced. Some of these include apparel, hardware, household goods, auto services, home services, and financial services (corp.canadiantire.ca). All of which are able to be purchase through their online store. Canadian Tire also has its own rebate program, Canadian Tire money which is received after purchases. Aside from the storefront Canadian Tire also has its own distribution and sales networks as well as the access to a skilled workforce. Lastly, being in business for such an extended period of time transforms Canadian Tire into an experienced
When thinking of improvements to our value chain, there are a few major outputs we might look for such as cost savings, an increased level of customer service, and an increased level of customer satisfaction. These results can be achieved a number of ways, but they similarly are usually derived from crucial areas in an organization’s value chain. When looking at TMNAS, I would like to offer a few improvements that I believe would help achieve some of the desired outputs previously mentioned. To start, I think that there should be an enterprise wide emphasis on employing service level agreements (SLA’s) to as many, if not all, services provided to our customers as possible. At the current stage, there is obviously a high expectation of customer
One of the issues that has a significant influence on sustainable economic and social development is energy. The utilization of energy results in climate change owing to its impact on environment by greenhouse gas emissions. This is resulted from the convention of using oil, gas, and coal that emit CO2, NOx and other poisoning substances into the air. The national strategy of China is to reduce this pollution by replacing fossil fuels with alternative energy such as wind, nuclear, geothermal, hydropower or solar energy. (Zhen 2008). Qian and Ling state that Northwest China is an ideal place to develop solar energy, the energy used by absorption of sun radiation, because there is a very wide access to sun heating, which is about 2000 hours a year. (Qian and Ling 1998). However, since there is a very little support from science, government and market, that fact causes the main difficulties to popularize this energy. Despite high prices some of the solar energy technologies have been already installed, and after several years’ costs decreasing the economic growth enables China to achieve the highest level of solar energy development in the world in 10 years.(Bullis 2010, 53). Although there are many useful and perspective features of applying solar energy technologies, the purpose of this study is to analyze advantages and disadvantages of the impact of solar energy and using these technologies on environment and economy in China. Firstly, there will be discussed the role of solar energy in environmental, socio-economical, and political issues. Then several kinds of solar energy technologies and their application will be demonstrated and analyzed. Finally, the answer for the question whether China should spread the development of the...
Canada provides a successful formula for foreign investment by leveraging abundant energy resources with a capacity for innovation, a fiscally stable and predictable economy and a competitive business environment. While innovation is the basis for high profit margins, Canada’s predictable economic environment ensures the benefits of innovation can be maintained year over year. With a wealth of opportunity for profits over both the short and long terms, it is easy to see why more and more companies continue to expand their presence in Canada through successive investments.
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Sweet, Bill. "China's Suntech in Bankruptcy Proceedings." - IEEE Spectrum. Energywise, 12 Mar. 2013. Web. 18 Nov. 2013. http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/green-tech/solar/chinas-suntech-in-bankruptcy-proceedings
The purpose of this report is to determine if it is profitable for Great Central Bank to invest in the shares of F & N long-term, and we can do this by analyzing the financial statements of the Group, and also through information that we have obtained from other sources. We will look at the trends of their financial ratios for the past 5 years, and from there, project the future trends of the share prices. Using Porter's 5 Forces of Industry Attractiveness, we will also evaluate the prospects of the industries that F&N is in. We will then look at their competitive strategy, their value chain and other non financial measures.