Know Your Pre-seen (KYP) Strategic Case Study – May 2016
Senior Finance Manager of Dreempark You are the Senior Finance Manager at Dreempark, which operates in the leisure industry.
Your roles include ; Supervising the management accounting work within the Finance Department. Reporting to and carrying out assignments for the Finance Director.
Company Snapshot
Company Snapshot
Name: Dreempark Industry: Leisure Industry Home Country: The United Kingdom (UK) Inception : 1962 ( 53 years) Founder: Burl Stanton Status: Is a quoted company Quoted Since:( The year of listing is not given)
Company Snapshot 2015 Revenue GBP 1,998 million Gross ProIit GBP 873 million Net ProIit GBP 608 million
• Gross ProIit margin 44% • Net ProIit margin 30%
Company ProIile in Brief • Dreempark is a quoted company, which operates in the leisure industry. • It has 5 theme park complexes around the world. • In fact, Dreempark is the pioneer of the Theme park concept. • Every Dreempark is consistent with the other and each Dreempark complex has three separate parks namely; ü Dreem Forest ü Dreem Blast ü Dreem Depth.
Dreempark -‐ Locations @ the moment The UK-‐ The original theme park complex and Dreempark’s corporate headquarters are located
Europe – Has 3 of Dreempark’s theme parks Middle-‐East -‐ One Dreempark is located here.
Dreempark -‐ Milestones
2017 The Far East Theme park complex will be opening in 2017
2013
Burl Stanton, the founder reDred as Chief ExecuDve Officer.
Dreempark became a quoted company (The year is not available)
1962
The first Dreempark, founded by Burl Stanton, was opened in the UK.
Dreempark and The Leisure Industry
Leisure Industry -‐ DeIinition “The leisure industry is the segment of business focused on recreation, entertainment, sports and tourism related products and services.”
The numerous industry ]ields in the industry include; restaurants, amusement parks, theatres, hotels, gaming places, sporting arenas, venues for musical groups and golf courses.
Leisure Industry -‐ Relation to Dreempark • As per the above classi]ication Dreempark falls under the category of Amusement parks. • But, it is mentioned in the pre-‐seen that ; “Dreempark operates a number of major theme parks around the world.” Are Theme parks and Amusement parks both the same? Or are they different?