Universal Corporation - Financial and Strategic Analysis Review
Global Markets Direct
February 18, 2009 19 Pages - SKU: GMD2116939
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Universal Corporation - Financial and Strategic Analysis Review
Summary
Universal Corporation (Universal) is one of the world’s leading leaf tobacco merchants and processors. It is engaged in selecting, buying, processing, packing, storing, shipping, and financing leaf tobacco for sale to the manufacturers of consumer tobacco products throughout the world. The company provides its customers with many services that include blending, chemical and physical testing of tobacco, providing just-in-time inventory management and manufacturing reconstituted sheet tobacco. It operates in 35 countries.
Global Markets Direct, the leading business information provider, presents an in-depth business, strategic and financial analysis of Universal Corporation. The report provides a comprehensive insight into the company, including business structure and operations, executive biographies and key competitors. The hallmark of the report is the detailed strategic analysis and Global Markets Direct’s views on the company.
Scope- The company’s strengths and weaknesses and areas of development or decline are analyzed. Financial, strategic and operational factors are considered.
- The opportunities open to the company are considered and its growth potential assessed. Competitive or technological threats are highlighted.
- The report contains critical company information - business structure and operations, the company history, major products and services, key competitors, key employees and executive biographies, different locations and important subsidiaries.
- It provides detailed financial ratios for the past five years as well as interim ratios for the last four quarters.
- Financial ratios include profitability, margins and returns, liquidity and leverage, financial position and efficiency ratios.
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- Key Information
- Key Ratios
- Share Data
- Performance Chart
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Key Facts
- Company Overview
- Major Products and Services
- Overview
- History
- SWOT Analysis Overview
- Overview
- Universal Corporation - Strengths
- Wide Geographic Presence
- Steady Revenue Growth
- Diversified Tobacco Procurement Operations
- Universal Corporation - Weaknesses
- Focus on Few Customers
- Discontinued Operations
- Universal Corporation - Opportunities
- Growing Global Tobacco Market
- Extension of Smokeless Tobacco Market
- Rise in China and Indian Markets
- Universal Corporation - Threats
- Limitations on Commercialization of Tobacco Products
- Intense Competition
- Increasing Health Concerns Worldwide
- Key Competitors
- Key Employees
- Key Employee Biographies
- Company Statement
- Locations And Subsidiaries
- Head Office
- Other Locations & Subsidiaries
- Financial Ratios
- Capital Market Ratios
- Annual Ratios
- Interim Ratios
- Ratio Charts
- Appendix
- Methodology
- Ratio Definitions
- About Global Markets Direct
- Contact Us
- Disclaimer
- List of Tables
- Universal Corporation, Key Facts
- Universal Corporation, Key Ratios
- Universal Corporation, Share Data
- Universal Corporation, Key Facts
- Major Products and Services
- Universal Corporation, History
- Universal Corporation, Key Employee Biographies
- Currency Codes
- Capital Market Ratios
- Equity Ratios
- These ratios are based on per share value.
- Profitability Ratios
- Cost Ratios
- Liquidity Ratios
- Leverage Ratios
- Efficiency Ratios
- List of Figures
- Universal Corporation, Performance Chart (2004 - 2008)
- Universal Corporation, Ratio Charts
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