Term Paper: GPS Phone Case
Business plan - 28 pages - Business strategy
Nowadays, mobile phones are indispensable for communication, work, and trade, even on the other side of the world. There are more than 5 billion mobile users worldwide, representing 67% of the population. We are with our phone every day, whether it is in our bag or our pocket. We are therefore...
The company's strategic diagnostic tools - Toyota SWOT analysis
Course material - 3 pages - Marketing theories
In 1979, Michael Porter developed the five forces strategy based on a competitive analysis. These 5 forces all influence the performance of the company. There are initially five groups of players: competitors, customers, suppliers, potential entrants and...
Strategy marketing of the companies Carriere and Nivert
Case study - 6 pages - Finance
The two companies in this study are quite similar. The family canneries were created centuries ago in the Loire Valley. They preserve the same type of vegetables, and cater to the same type of customers. Their production methods differ and are targeted towards the upstream market. The company...
Marketing of the 21th century: EcoATM, the French recycling market
Tutorials/exercises - 20 pages - Business strategy
EcoATM is a very young enterprise with good respect of the environment. Their main idea is to develop in the United States for the moment an ECycling machine. It's a machine in which you can put your electronic wastes. In exchange it gives you money. You can choose to keep the money or to give it...
Strategic analysis of Cake Masters
Thesis - 11 pages - Business strategy
David Kuchen commenced his career in the investment division in a Canadian bank. However, his zest for challenges and desire to build his own business led him to create and run his own business in investment banking. But the company did not reach the dimensions that Kuchen wished. So he plunged...
European brewing market analysis
Market study - 4 pages - Services marketing
To introduce an analysis of the brewery industry, one point must be underlined: the European brewery market is mature, which is essential to understand its trends and its forces. We are now going to use the Porter's model of the Five Forces Analysis to develop this...
Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH) in the luxury market
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy, or LVMH, is currently the world leader in the luxury market. LVMH had recorded high profits in 2006, thus making it the best performer in the fashion and luxury industry. This achievement was acknowledged by the present CEO of the group, Bernard Arnault, who stated...
Strategic Management - Critic of management models
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
Porter's Five Forces model is designed with a focus on factors that built up the competitive advantage of a firm within the market (Afuah, 2003). It has achieved significant success in analyzing the industry in general and forms a very useful tool for assessing a company's...
SWOT Analysis - British Airways (2010)
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
British Airways (BA) has recently announced a merger with Iberia the results for both firms are due in May 2011. This case study will look at industrial relations within BA and how they will affect the recent merger and what is necessary to align both firms' resources whilst causing the least...
The VSM Group: Company analysis
Case study - 8 pages - Management
VSM group has been developing, manufacturing and selling household sewing machines for more than 130 years after its first sewing machine was launched in 1872. It became an independent company after it was divested from Electrolux and acquired by the investment fund, Industri Kapital in 1997....
The US airlines industry in 2002
Case study - 7 pages - Services marketing
Michael Porter's famous five forces of competitive position model provide a simple perspective for assessing and analyzing the competitive strength and position of a corporation or industrial organization. Let us consider these concepts of industry analysis in the context...
Strategic analysis of Liverpool FC
Case study - 21 pages - Sports
This assignment is to provide a strategic analysis of the football club Liverpool FC within the business environment of the English Premier League. Liverpool FC is historically seen as the most successful football club within the Premier League, having won 18 League titles, seven FA Cups and the...
Intel Strategic Analysis
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
Intel is a semi conductor, microprocessors, and chips manufacturer. It is an industry leader in the market with competitor such as Samsung, ARM, ADM and Toshiba. Intel's strategy revolves around technological innovations, quality service delivery and maintains a platform that gives them a...
Strategic Marketing Plan: Caroll entering the middle market in China
Case study - 10 pages - Business strategy
This document develops a strategic plan through the main tools; the first section is dedicated to the presentation of the company and its competitive market. Tools including the positioning of the brand, SWOT analysis and Value chain of the company Caroll are used to understand the strengths and...
An analysis of Ryanair competitiveness
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
This report illustrates an analysis of Ryanair competitiveness, adaptation to the macro-level factors in the United Kingdom and factors contributing to its current success. Initially, the Porter's five-force model entails analysis of the threat posed by buyers, suppliers, industrial...
Case study of Decathlon and the sector of the distribution of the articles of sport
Case study - 23 pages - Business strategy
In 1976, Michel Leclercq Roncq inaugurated a store selling sporting goods, and named it Decathlon. His challenge was to equip all athletes with the best kind of sporting utilities available at the best price. Today, Decathlon Group with about 3.4 billion euros in turnover in 2004, is present in...
Strategic Marketing of Caroll in China
Internship report - 16 pages - Marketing theories
The fashion sector is a constantly an evolving sector. In order to be successful and sustainable in this sector, it is essential to keep it updated with the new trends. It is important to have consumer awareness, in order to propose clothes according to their needs. It is a constant race between...
Aussie Fresh export strategy
Essay - 8 pages - Business strategy
Export strategy, a crucial part of international business management, can directly affect the success of transnational companies' business performance linked to their host-country nationals. In the meantime, a well-rounded export strategy should be formulated based on the analysis of both...
Strategic management in an organization
Thesis - 14 pages - Management
According to Johnson, Scholes and Whittington, ‘Strategic Management includes the understanding the strategic position of an organization, strategic choices for the future and turning strategy into action' (Johnson, Scholes & Whittington, 2005, p.16).There are many models and senior...
International management strategy: Nestle
Case study - 14 pages - Management
This paper critically evaluates the international strategy of the Nestle Waters. The paper deals with different theories such as Porter's five forces, SWOT analysis, Hofstede's four cultural dimensions, Hill's pressures for local responsiveness and cost reductions, the...
Lego rebuilt
Case study - 46 pages - Business strategy
Since 1949, the LEGO Group has manufactured over 400 billion plastic bricks, tiny tires, mini-figures, and other inter-compatible play pieces, making it the world's fifth-largest toy manufacturer, and the largest in Europe. From 1932 to 2001, LEGO group achieved remarkable successes,...
Marketing plan for Caroll in China
Case study - 9 pages - Services marketing
In this document we will present a brief marketing plan for Caroll. The firm would like to have a foothold on the Chinese market. As tool, we will use some common instruments such as B.C.G. Matrix, Ansoff Matrix or the well-known 4P's as well as Porter's five forces. An...
Hong Kong's port - Geographical advantages and current difficulties
Essay - 2 pages - International economy
With the Hong Kong port slipping out of the world's top five, terminal operators should work together where possible, and focus on competing with ports in the Greater Bay Area and beyond'. Here what says Jonathan Beard, head of business advisory, transportation and logistics in...
Drag Force Measurement
Tutorials/exercises - 7 pages - Physics
In this lab work, drag force measurements on a circular cylinder will be performed by using two experimental methods. One is based on the balance system and the other one, on the determination of the pressure distribution on the outer surface of the cylinder. The objective is to determine...
Tracts, Volume 1, n° 2 - Peter Force (1836) - Civilisation and History of America according to Peter Force
Text commentary - 1 pages - Medieval history
The text presented is an abstract of Tracts, volume 1 number 2, written by Peter Force in 1836, in Washington DC. The first part is an abstract of the Mayflower Compact, a pact written by the Pilgrim Fathers in 1620 during a trip between Plymouth, England and Plymouth, Massachusetts. The...
Caroll in China: strategic marketing plan
Case study - 22 pages - Services marketing
With an economic growth of nearly 10%, China looks very attractive to a lot of companies today. The emergence of a strong middle class characterized by a high purchasing power makes opportunities plentiful. However, China's huge market is much more complex and specific than western ones. That...
Starbucks Corporation Strategy
Thesis - 20 pages - Business strategy
The following document is an analysis of Starbucks' current strategy, as well as recommendations for the future. Beginning with a base case analysis, the company is introduced along with varying elements of its current strategy. Topics in this section include a brief history of the company, its...
The strategy marketing of Guinness, Irish beer
Case study - 12 pages - Services marketing
Guinness stout is a beer that is highly roasted and whose drinking is normal for the beer loving crowd, contrary to what many think. This beer is brewed from a mash characterized by its content of highly roasted grain that gives it a dark color and the taste of coffee. Also note the crown of...
Barclays bank: Strategic management
Case study - 6 pages - Finance
Barclays is a British bank based in London UK and is over 100 years old. Its history began in 1896 when several small London banks decided to join their forces to form a new bank that takes the name of Barclays & Company. In this area, it represented 182 new bank branches, now it has 4800...
Investigation of the factors and forces that promote internationalization of firms - A case study of Wal-Mart stores Inc.
Case study - 67 pages - International marketing
The world is more independent in recent time more than ever and changes occur constantly. Due to such changes, most of the organizations with the potential to grow tend to take their operations to foreign countries away from their home country through internalization. The level at which a firm...
