Saturday, August 10, 2013

Week 5 EOC: Fixing JC Penny's


“They rose almost 11 percent late Monday after Penney confirmed it had ousted Ron Johnson as chief executive, but the stock slid when the company said Ullman was back.”
“Ron Johnson was running Apple’s stores, which had the highest profit per square foot of any retail chain in America. Sure he would bring the Midas touch to JC Penney they gave him a $50M sign-on bonus and complete latitude to do as he wished. “
Why’ll Ron Johnson was CEO at JCP for a whole 17-months, he made the store tank. He may have been very successful at Apple, but it seems clothing is not his expertise. He was so successful that he had the highest profit per square foot. So, JCP decided to sign him on and because of this the store may not recover from this hit. Over 111 years of JCP and the store may be over. So when JCP got rid of Ron, profits went up, until they brought Ullman back.
“He intends to return to JCP’s legacy, buy more newspaper coupons, and keep doing more of the same.”
I think that a good way for JCP to get on top is to bring in some new fresh designers that everyone love, but sell the products at the lowest end cost they can go. Like bring in knock off items that look lovely. Possibly get some new and fresh clothes, and especially new, fresh, and outstanding advertisements that are kid friendly, so that when kids watch shows on nick and Disney they will see their favorite stars where amazing clothes sold at JCP. Also they should take shows that every adult watches and do the same, like have Miley Cyrus on Two and a Half Men go shop at JCP. Or even have Project Runway do a episode where they use JCP items and reinvent them and then the top two products designed be sold at their store. It would bring a lot of publicity and sky rocket sales.






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