This document outlines a presentation on Canadian Tire Corporation. It provides background on Canadian Tire's business segments and employee programs. It describes the organization's culture of striving for improvement, employee development, and flexible benefits. The presentation structure includes sections on organization structure, strategies and challenges, SWOT analysis, financial reports, and conclusions. It also lists references used in creating the presentation.

1. Canadian Tire
Mariam Hussein, Chris Flint,
Natasha Muthu, Rabab Akbar

2. Presentation Outline
Background
Organization Culture
Organization Structure
Canadian Tire Strategies and Challenges
Canadian Tire Corp. SWOT Analysis
Canadian Tire Corp. Financial Report
Conclusion
References

3. Background
● Canadian Tire, the country's largest hard goods retailer, consists of three business:
retail, financial services and gasoline outlets. Including staff on the retail side, the
company has 38,000 employees across Canada.
● Canadian Tire covers all the corporation's employee programs related to wealth,
health, the employee's role, growth, work environment and the community (Felix,
2001).
● Under each of these six categories, Canadian Tire offers a broad range of employee
programs such as holiday gift boxes to employee retail discounts, annual parties,
frequent public recognition, opportunities for training as well as fully paid university
tuition and a generous profit sharing and stock purchase plan (Felix, 2001).

4. Organization Culture
● “Strive always to make things better”
● Adapt, innovate and change quickly
● Development of their employees
● Implements flexible benefits program

5. Organization Structure
• This is a functional structure as it is divided into
departments

6. Organization Structure
● Different companies under CTC are Mark’s, FGL Sports,
PartSource and etc. run under a divisional structure

7. Canadian Tire Strategies and Challenges
• Driving, Living, Playing, Fixing
• Target market: Young Homeowners
• House of Innovation
• Franchising all retail stores
• Supply chain strategies and challenges
• Numerous vendors, third-party logistics

8. Canadian Tire Corp. SWOT Analysis

9. Canadian Tire Corp. Financial Report
• Canadian Tire revenue increased 3.4% or $76.2 million to $2.3 billion in the 1st
quarter.
- First quarter results for the period ended March 29, 2014, show positive sales,
revenue and margin growth.
- Consolidated revenue increased 3.8% or $93.3 million in the 1st quarter as a result
of higher shipments in key categories at Canadian Tire
- Financial Services selling, general and administrative expenses increased 11.3%
in the quarter
• Strong second quarter results
- Consolidated diluted EPS up 11.0% or 18.2% on an adjusted basis
- Consolidated revenue increased 4.8% or $145.0 million

10. Canadian Tire Corp. Financial Report
• Consolidated earnings performance reflects strong revenue and gross margin
contributions from the Retail segment
- Retail segment revenue increased 4.7% or $129.9 million
- Same store sales up 2.8% at Canadian Tire, 8.2% at FGL Sports and 3.2% at
Mark’s
• Solid second quarter performance at Financial Services
- Gross average accounts receivable growth of 7.4%
FINANCIAL SERVICES OVERVIEW
Financial Services continued its strong performance in the quarter. Income before
income taxes was $82.2 million, an increase of 6.4% in the quarter compared to Q1
2013 due to higher revenue from gross average receivables and interest expense
savings

11. Conclusion
• Canadian Tire Retail is becoming more engaging towards its customers via
its online retail and “House of Innovation” strategies.
• CTR’s functional structure allows for specialization within departments, to
better serve its employees. Franchising to local dealers saves CTR money,
while providing customers a more specialized experience.
• By focusing on employees and customer satisfaction, Canadian Tire Retail
has managed to increase profits while delivering on their plethora of
merchandise from tires to housewares and seasonal décor.

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