...Joseph Calandro, Jr; Scott Lane Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce the relative profitability and growth matrix and to demonstrate its use as a competitive analysis tool. Design/methodology/approach Two well‐known drivers of value are profitability and growth. After...

... Group Publishing Limited 2007 Stock control Profit Consumer behaviour Every three or four years, manufacturers roll up their sleeves, muster an ounce of determination, and perform the obligatory SKU reduction effort. They set out to rid their inventories of the slow‐moving items and line...

... the industry's overall average. It found that those retailers who repeatedly attempted moves had a better track record than the rest. Practical implications Success (growing profitably at more than 5 percent a year) was achieved by retailers that repeated a certain type of adjacency maneuver...