Indigo Books and Music Inc: Strategic Corporate Assessment

Introduction

Indigo is expanding merchandize options at its stores to enhance customer appeal and encourage cross selling opportunities. In line with this strategy, the company has introduced new offerings such as electronics, lifestyle items (such as yoga mats), storage solutions, and paper products (cards, journals, gift wrap, etc.).

Scope

• Contains corporate strategy, value chain presence and SWOT Analysis
• Provides detailed business description, segment analysis, 5-year financial trends, key products and key competitors
• Includes information on suppliers/ partners, shareholding structure and key employees with biographies

Highlights

• Indigo is a Canadian book retailer that operates bookstores in all 10 Canadian provinces under the names Indigo Books Music & more, Chapters, The World's Biggest Bookstore and Coles.
• Indigo operates in the three segments of the retail value chain: wholesale (procurement of stock), operations and distribution (warehousing) and sales (physical store operation and online sales).
• The company has considerably cut down on direct store distribution and is targeting more DC cross-dock shipments to further improve margins. Adopting a low cost distribution model would help Indigo enhance its margins which could be invested in other business development opportunities.

Reasons to Purchase

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• Understand company's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats along with business strategy and value chain
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