Question

Answer the following questions and use proper APA rules when you type up the data.

1. Basic company facts:
• Name of firm:
• Category your firm represents:
• State in which company was incorporated:
• Year in which the company was founded:
• Primary and secondary SIC codes:
• Independent auditor:
• Stock exchange where its shares are traded:
• Stock ticker symbol:

2. Describe the products your company offers and type(s) of customers to whom those products are probably sold.

3. Is your company a large company? Identity the several measures that could be used to describe the “size” of a company. How does your firm measure up on those attributes?

4. Describe your company’s Board of Directors as to age, gender, background, experience, etc.

5. Is your company part of a “group” or companies? For example, does it have subsidiaries? Is your firm a subsidiary of some other firm? Discuss.

6. What are the most interesting aspects of your company (or its industry) that your have discover so far? Discuss.

7. What information did you find in both the annual report and the SEC 10-K?

8. What information is found in one document that is not found in the other?

9. Why do you think these differences exist?

10. Article analysis (Company): Describe why this article is significant and interesting. Limit your response to about 100 and no more than 250 words. Use APA format when appropriate.

11. Article analysis (Industry): Any major trends within the industry indentified within the article? Why is this article interesting? Limit your response to about 100 and no more than 250 words. Use APA format when appropriate.

Answer 1

1. Basic company facts:

• Name of the firm: Britannia
• Category of the firm: FMCG
• State of incorporation: Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
• Year of foundation: 1918
• Primary & secondary SIC codes: N/A
• Independent auditor: BSR & Co
• Shares listed in: Bangalore stock exchange, national stock exchange, OTCEI, madras stock exchange, Delhi stock exchange, MCX stock exchange etc.
• Stock ticker symbol: BRITANNIA

2. Products offered: Biscuits, Breads, Dairy, Cakes, and Rusk, cream wafers etc.
3. Yes the company is one of the largest FMCG companies. The size of the company can be measured by attributes like sales turnover, capital employed, number of employees etc. sales turnover of Britannia is 9380.17 crores, number of employees is more than 4000
4. Company’s board of directors:

• Chairman: Mr. Nusli N Wadia
• MD: Mr. Varun Berry
• Company secretary: Mr. Rajesh Arora
• Directors: Dr. Ajai Puri, Mr. Jeh N Wadia, Mr. Avijit Deb Mr. SS Kelkar, Mrs. Ranjana Kumar etc.

5. The company itself is a major company & it is not part of any group. Subsidiaries of Britannia includes: Britannia Diary private limited, Daily Bread Gourmet Foods India private ltd, strategic food international co, manna food private limited, Ganges valley food private limited, international bakery products limited, Britannia & associates.
6. Interesting aspects: the most interesting aspects of the business is its continued diversification of business. They did not stop with bakery products alone but also expanded themselves to diary & other products which have majorly contributed for its success.
7. 10- k is an annual report for regulators, whereas annual report is created for investors. Both gives information about financial performance about the company