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Anyone know of two businesses in the same industry that are doing the opposite of each other economically/financially?

For my Organizational Behavior class, we have to do a huge project involving two businesses. One has to be doing excellent compared to the other (financially, etc.) and the other has to be doing considerably less-as-well than the first business. I've racked my brain for answers, and I've come up with nothing. It can be any business that has a decent amount of financial information available to the public.

Sadly enough, the following cannot be chosen: Disney, Dell Computer, Southwest Airlines, K Mart, or Wal Mart.


There goes a what I was thinking of. Anyway, anyone have any ideas?

I was thinking Blockbuster video for the business that's doing good, but I can't think of any video businesses that are doing bad.


Please make some suggestions :)

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Toy Stores
ToysR Us - vs FAO Schwarz (I think they're in bankruptcy)

that's some good stuff - are you sure Toys R Us is doing good though? I remember them doing badly in the last couple of years (but maybe it isn't as bad as FAO)


I might end up doing this suggestion.

what about some of the other airlines- Jet Blue (which I think is pretty solid) vs United who's back in bankruptcy .

Hoovers.com

has a listing of all companies by industry -

By subscription only, they have the Boneyard, which lists all mergers and such -- (I don't havea sub there, but maybe someone else does) WOuld give you some ideas of companies.

Or check www.Fuckedcompany.com for some more possible ideas.

I think I might do Acclaim vs. Electronic Arts

or possibly Nortel Networks vs. somebody else that's doing good


any thoughts?

I got the info off of fuckedcompany

Best Buy Vs Circuit City

Hands down. CC the last time i checked, was a penny stock.

IBM vs EDS

air canada vs any other air line at all!
A C has been going in the tank for while

All airlines aren't doing well. And I'm fairly sure Toys R Us is in the tank as well.


This is a pretty tough assingment. Sounds like fun though :) What's your major, Redjake? I remember taking Orginizational Behavior for my Marketing degree.

Air Canada vs WestJet. With Aircanada losing business, I can bet a fair amount that most of their customer is moving to WestJet

Nortel Networks vs Bell Canada/Western Electric/AT&T/Telus/

You can find information on most companies at this website
http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php

Wal-Mart vs. KMart

You leave EDS out of this!!!

Dell vs. MacIntosh

I did case studies on both companies back when i was doing my MBA...very interesting companies and very very different...especially financially.

try car manufacturers. Like Nissan vs Toyota for example. Or Hundai or Kia vs Scion. Until recently, Nissan was doing pretty bad but they've recently started to recover. There are other examples of car companies teetering on the brink while Toyota, Honda, and a few others keeps truckin along.

Can't do those...he mentioned it in the header post. :) I'm in his group for this project as well. I think we've finally decided on two videogame publishers/developers...Electronic Arts and Acclaim.

BadNick: those are the obvious choices, but the companies we do can't be part of a bigger company, and the companies also can't be corporations unless both are nearly identical. In other words, we can't do Volvo vs Blah, because Ford owns Volvo. Can't do Mercury because Ford owns Mercury. We basically can't do Ford because its financial information would be very hard to come by with it seperated from Volvo and Mercury's data and vice versa.

Needless to say, this teacher is making the guidelines too strict! Both companies have to be in the same genre. Both have to be doing well or poor because of the employees. They can't be corporations or subdivisions and they have to post extremely detailed financial information to the public.

Yeah, after convincing myself again, I think we'll do Acclaim vs Electronic Arts.

-Lasereth

Toyota vs. GM. The former is on the rise, the other on a decline.

You might want to go to Yahoo Finance and search by industry, pick the one with the highest and lowest market valuations. Otherwise, I have several years of Economist magazines that I could look through...

Disney vs. Viacom?

Disney wasn't allowed....

Thanks for all the suggestions guys, keep 'em coming!

Computer Information Systems :thumbsup:

Our department here insists that we not only know the CIS stuff, we need to know an obscene amount of Accounting, Management, and Marketing. I guess it will help in the long run.

NFL vs. NHL

Nike vs anything...

harley davidson and Indian motorcycle company

The interesting thing here is that Toyota's mission statement is to become larger than GM...

Guess they've got their priorities in order ;)