Tesco case (2005)
Case study - 5 pages - Distribution marketing
The growth of Tesco has been surprising: the company announced a forecast of $1.4 billion in annual profits in 2001, and the sales volume in the first semester of this year reached $16.8 billion. Its current market share in the UK is strong: it is now 25%, contrary to 14% in 1997, and has...
Toyota case
Case study - 4 pages - Automotive marketing
The success of Toyota is incredible today, and the company is showing astonishing financial results when most of Japanese companies are in the doldrums. It is the biggest of the heavyweight competitor in the car industry. General Motors and Ford, whose market shares are falling in favor of...
Eastman Kodak case
Case study - 4 pages - Brand management
Last year, 74 million digital cameras were sold worldwide, outperforming film cameras for the first time. Even though Kodak began the digital imaging revolution in 1974, with the first “electronic hand held still camera”, it made a late entry into the space, losing out to Japanese...
DELL: logistics research report
Case study - 21 pages - ICT marketing
Dell has revolutionized the industry in the last 20 years, to make computing accessible to customers around the globe, including businesses, institutional organizations and individual consumers. Because of Dell's direct model, and the industry's response to it, information technology is...
L'Oreal crisis scenario (2006)
Case study - 31 pages - Luxury marketing
This summary has been provided to allow top managers and executives at L'Oreal a rapid appreciation of the content of this report. Those with a particular interest in the crisis scenario management and communication may read the report to take advantage of the more comprehensive description of...
Infosys on the IT services market
Case study - 55 pages - ICT marketing
1. Briefly describe IT services industry with a particular focus on offshore segment using the Five Forces Framework 2. What are the reasons for the success of Infosys? Describe the firms positioning, its unique value chain and the resulting competitive advantage. Assess the extent of its cost...
Entry mode strategies of wall-mart in MEXICO
Market study - 15 pages - International marketing
Entry mode in the international business: The joint venture of Wal-Mart and Cifra. This paper will study why this venture is called a wealthy marriage. There will be a comparison of Wal-Mart's entry mode in Mexico and China, and a recommendation for foreign investment, as well as an analysis...
Haute couture in Paris
Essay - 7 pages - Luxury marketing
"Haute couture" is the professional sector in which fashion designers practice. Haute Couture is a French term. In English, it means high fashion. "Couture" refers to sewing, and "Haute" refers to high, or elegant. An haute couture costume is hand mane in order to fit the client perfectly. It...
Tiffany vs. Bvlgari
Case study - 45 pages - Luxury marketing
Jewelry sector is the largest in the luxury goods industry with global retail sales amounting to $150 billion. US.representing the biggest market of $ 43 billion. Within the luxury industry, the following jewelers are the major players: Tiffany, Cartier, under parent company Richemont, Bvlgari...
How Clarins and its "Body Lift" can be a total success in Brazil?
Market study - 36 pages - International marketing
After three centuries under the rule of Portugal, Brazil became an independent nation in 1822. Exploiting vast natural resources, it is today South America's leading economic power and a regional leader. Meanwhile Brazil continues to develop its interior with an industrial and agricultural...
The face shop - publié le 11/02/2008
Case study - 17 pages - Distribution marketing
The Face Shop is a cosmetics brand that started in Korea, featuring a wide range of all-natural products at affordable prices. The Face Shop has been expanding globally, with franchises in places like Japan, Australia, and Hong Kong. This expansion has now hit British Columbia, as The Face Shop...
Polonsky M. J., Brito P. Q., Pinto J. and Higgs-Kleyn N. (2001). Consumer Ethics in the European Union: A comparison of northern and southern views - publié le 10/02/2008
Book review - 2 pages - Marketing theories
Our article for seminar three is called Consumer Ethics in the European Union: a Comparison of Northern and Southern Views. It discusses the issue of a single European market and the cultural problems that occur in this growing “integrated” market. The authors have divided the European...
Marketing plan: Manix
Case study - 9 pages - Brand management
Manix competes on the condoms market, which is composed of two important brands: Durex and Manix itself. Durex is the market leader with 35% of market share and Manix follows it with 26%: their competition is based on branding (advertising campaigns based on sponsorship) and innovation in order...
Coach: introduction of an American leather goods producer to the French market
Case study - 10 pages - Brand management
Let us briefly recall the features of the French leather goods market. This market is composed of 123 enterprises generating a turnover of 1703.2 billions euros. In France, approximately 14.000 employees are working for leather goods companies. The low and middle price companies have entered a...
A new type of tourism: Activity-based tourism, the examples of dark tourism and sport tourism
Essay - 13 pages - Tourism marketing
During the last decades, we have witnessed the existence of a tourism consumption model were consumers massively colonized all destinations worldwide indifferent to quality, environment and local cultures. However, for a few years, we have noticed the appearance of new trends in consumer...
Buyer interview
Case study - 6 pages - Clients and users behaviour
To conduct my buyer interview, I have contacted a French company named Alimentation Fine de France (AFF), which means French Fine Food. My contact was Marie-Dominique X, the key buyer of the company. I asked her a few questions about her company, the general buying process, and the people who...
Biometrics
Course material - 9 pages - ICT marketing
Increasing international communications in volume and diversity (physical or virtual) as well as increasing threats (terrorism, piracy...) appeal for a need to identify individuals. Indeed, important issues raise the numbers of terrorists, criminals and so on. People can prove their identity...
Crossroads: The process of internationalization
Case study - 9 pages - Distribution marketing
La première partie de ce cas présente pas à pas le processus de d?implantation de Carrefour à Taiwan de l?étude de faisabilité à l?ouverture du dernier magasin en 1994. Entre 1986 et 1994, Carrefour a adapté son modèle au marché taiwanais et a ouvert avec succès 7 hypermarchés. Nous allons donc...
The hospitality industry
Essay - 6 pages - Services marketing
In today's highly competitive business environment, budget orientated planning is insufficient for a large corporation to survive and prosper. Indeed, rapid-paced changes in trade, technology and investment patterns are elements that are impacting each business in one way or another. That is...
The role of e-commerce within the global economy
Essay - 4 pages - Digital & e-marketing
Nowadays, the business world is driven by two economic trends: globalization and the adoption of information technologies. Those changes are entirely linked. “Technology is both driven by and a driver of globalization, as both forces continually reinforce one another” (Bradley et al.,...
Marketing of Miller Lite
Case study - 15 pages - ICT marketing
Few years ago, we noticed that the main impetus for growth came from increased consumption in developing countries. However, in more established beer markets, volume growth was very slow due to increasing saturation. Subsequently, we noticed a radical change. Manufacturers were seen actively...
Business Value of Amazon e-business
Case study - 12 pages - ICT marketing
In a world where anyone can purchase just about anything online, it can be difficult to start and maintain a business selling online goods. Media such as CDs, books, and movies are common ware being sold on the Internet. Over the last decade, online stores have come and gone so often, that many...
Heineken premium light
Case study - 12 pages - Brand management
Dark, blond or red, there is beer for all tastes. Every year all over the world the beer market generates billions of Euros in turnover. There are six international players who are sharing this market. InBev is the result of the merger of the Belgian brewery "Interbrew" and the Brazilian brewery...
To launch a free night-life magazine distributed in Los Angeles
Case study - 10 pages - Medias&communication marketing
The night life business is based on the organization of popular events. Thus, Nocturnal Co. is planning to set up a party every 2 months, which will enable direct marketing activities such as the following: -cross advertising campaigns via flyers, billboards, radio -gifts, sporting the...
Patagonia company
Case study - 28 pages - Sport marketing
Nowadays, people increasingly realize that the earth is in danger and that if we keep on damaging it the future generation will face significant problems such as lack of water, of natural resources and global warming. That's why many actions are taken by numerous organisations and that people not...
Contrex - Marketing plan
Case study - 4 pages - Brand management
Contrex is calorie free and offers a convenient and natural source of minerals. Calcium, magnesium and other minerals give Contrex its unique taste. It mitigates deficiencies of an unbalanced food. It is also good for pregnant women thanks to its important content rock salt. Finally, it permits a...
Clarins : Yesterday and today
Case study - 15 pages - Luxury marketing
The aim of this document is to critically review the marketing and business of the company plan by producing a marketing strategy report (see Appendix). Afterward, we shall present a new strategy to address issues that have been highlighted during the audit. This report contains a marketing...
Targeting the Teenagers in Marketing
Market study - 15 pages - Clients and users behaviour
Teenagers today are a very integral part of almost every western society including France and represent a very big market. Owing to the increase in the number of adolescents, the need to understand them and their needs becomes quintessential. This essay goes on to define teenagers and what they...
Croatia
Case study - 15 pages - ICT marketing
The goal of this group work is to analyze a country e-marketing strategy, to see if it is adapted to the target, to its cultural and economical environment and its potential and finally to have a critical opinion on the strategy employed. To reach these objectives we will divide our paper in 3...
Orcanta in Russia
Case study - 9 pages - International marketing
Russia is one of the largest markets in the world. As the western culture slowly infiltrated the eastern mentality many young people began adopting western culture and appearances. In the past few years Russia has not only began to accept western ideas and fashion, but has developed an energetic...
