Motorola USA: Carving a Niche and Surviving Adversities
Market study - 10 pages - Business strategy
The name "Motorola" has been synonymous with innovation for quite some time now. Motorola Solutions Inc., formerly known as Motorola Inc., founded in 1928, is headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois, and provides products and services to educational segment, government, retail, health care,...
A study on branding with reference to laws of internet branding
Thesis - 8 pages - Business strategy
Time is money. And probably the quickest way to save time and create business, thereby generating income, is through e-commerce. But there is still a relevant question related to whether e-commerce business between consumer and the marketer would, in future, completely outplace the retail...
Tesco and the organic market
Case study - 11 pages - Services marketing
Tesco is the leading retailer in the United Kingdom, and one of the largest food retailers in the world. It is not limited solely to the food market and has expanded into areas such as electrical goods and clothing. Tesco has its headquarters in Hertfordshire and employs about 318,300 people. The...
Walmart success story
Case study - 22 pages - Services marketing
The large scale retail sector consists of multiple companies of very heterogeneous sizes. This disparity can be explained by the strategy adopted by certain companies to grow rapidly in order to be a market giant, by implementing waves of fusion-acquisitions, which make it possible for the...
Mark & Spencer: Company overview, market and competition
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
Marks & Spencer is a British retailer. Its head office is located in City of Westminster, London, England. It is the largest clothing retailer in UK. It was founded by Michael Marks and Thomas Spencer. Mark & Spencer is 43rd largest retailer in the world. Marks & Spencer have been for more than a...
Analysis of Carrefour's failures and success (citing the example of China and Mexico)
Thesis - 12 pages - Business strategy
‘Carrefour', which means ‘Crossroads' in French, is an international hypermarket chain headquartered in Levallois-Perret. A year after its conception in 1959, its first supermarket was opened in Annecy in Haute-Savoie. Today, in the large distribution sector, the Carrefour group is the...
China analysis: Marks & Spencer
Case study - 10 pages - Business strategy
China being a highly appreciated country for its power in the global market and its rapid growth, enterprises are keen to invest in it in order to remain competitive. In recent years, China has evolved and developed rapidly in many areas. For this reason, many companies such as Carrefour, a...
Network Strategy Systeme U
Case study - 20 pages - Business strategy
"Systeme U. It is primarily the story of traditional retailers who, guided by the relationship with their customers, evolved a desire for independence and interdependence, and thus have acquired the status of distributors and retailers”, Jean-Claude Bartholomew, former CEO of the group....
International strategy of Carrefour
Case study - 9 pages - Business strategy
Carrefour is a company which belongs to the distribution sector, the mode of self-service marketing aimed at achieving the economies of scale through large retail space. Since its birth, the retail sector has developed a regime of extensive growth and despite being young; it is now...
Strategic study of Decathlon
Case study - 36 pages - Business strategy
For over a decade, the retail brand Decathlon, has been the European leader in the retail market for sporting goods. This dominance manifests itself in France as the popularity of the slogan: "A background form” and the growing number of superstores located mainly in the...
The expansion of Clarins in India
Case study - 18 pages - Finance
The Clarins group was created in 1954 by Jacques Courtin-Clarins. It is a public company with a supervisory board and a Board of Directors, with a capital of around 325 million Euros divided into 40.6 million shares. In the beginning, Jacques Courtin first opened a beauty parlor in Paris. He...
Internet: A new pillar for the marketing of large distribution
Dissertation - 47 pages - Services marketing
Initially founded as the Arpanet, for military purposes in 1969, for some time, the Internet was reserved for researchers and academics. It functions primarily through a computer network connecting millions of computers to access and share information. Since the 1990s, the Internet has been...
Dubailand Case Study:Would the Pharaohs have dared?
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
Dubai is one of the seven Emirates that constitute the UAE - United Arabic Emirates - located between the Persian Gulf and the Oman Gulf on the Arabic Peninsula. Dubai is neither the capital nor the most populated Emirate, but it is the most popular and well known. Its fame is due to the media...
Conflict of interest at Walmart
Thesis - 4 pages - Accounting
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is the largest retailer in the world, and it was founded in 1962 by Sam Walton. It is expanding further throughout the world to penetrate the global market. Wal- Mart operates retail stores in the United State in three different segments: discount stores, supercenters...
Diesel - A study on its Global Operations
Market study - 7 pages - Business strategy
Diesel has been a brand that has been synonymous with fashion over the years. It is basically an Italian design company that is based out of Breganza (Italy), but has its market presence throughout the world. It has redefined the meaning of fashion aiming the generations of youngsters. The...
Diesel - redefining fashion for the US
Market study - 10 pages - Business strategy
Diesel has been redefining the world of fashion in the American market for quite sometime now. The entry of Diesel into the United States of America was a bit late when compared to its entry into the other peripheral markets. This can be attributed to the fact that the USA (United States of...
Strategic marketing plan for Caroll (the French "fashion house") in China
Market study - 10 pages - Services marketing
Today, with the globalization, companies have to establish in other countries than their origin country, to be more competitive and to resist in the market, especially in the clothing retail market. So, the main part of companies opens new subsidiaries in other countries and more on...
Financial analysis of the French company Carrefour
Thesis - 10 pages - Finance
Carrefour SA is a France-based company that is engaged in retail distribution. It was founded in 1959 and opened its first supermarkets and hypermarkets in France in the 1960s. During the following two decades Carrefour expanded in Europe (UK, Italy) and widened its service range (consumer...
Project Definition
Case study - 4 pages - Management
The objective of this business project is to come up with a new ordering system for Benhams retail stores. Benhams deals in the sales of garments in Britain, Ireland and Denmark. Lately, it has been experiencing stocking problems associated with customer ordering processes and the ability...
The international development of Starbucks (2004)
Essay - 4 pages - Business strategy
The Starbucks Coffee Company owns today more than 6,000 retail locations in 37 countries: It is situated in all the continents: North America, Latin America, the Middle East and the Pacific Rim, that is to say “wherever there is a demand for good coffee”. The first foreign...
Ready to wear - Zara and its competitors
Case study - 8 pages - Fashion and ready to wear marketing
Perhaps one of the most recognized brands around the world and also a significant international fashion organization, Zara, has been cited as the third largest brand within the apparel industry and is a unit of Inditex. Founded in 1975 by Mera Rosalina and Ortega Amancio, the company has been the...
Barista Vs Coffee Day
Tutorials/exercises - 73 pages - Services marketing
It all began around 1000 A.D. when Arab traders began to cultivate coffee beans in large plantations. They began to boil the beans creating a drink they called ‘qahwa' which translates to ‘that which prevents sleep'. The Coffee Café industry is currently one of the biggest and fastest...
A study on customer's satisfaction on Pantaloons
Case study - 23 pages - Services marketing
Retailing, it's an emerging trend in the India and Hyderabad is not far behind which is also witnessing the stupendous growth and opportunities presented by this sector. The term Retailing is defined as “All activities involved in selling goods and services directly to final consumers for...
An overview of Walmart
Thesis - 9 pages - Business strategy
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is the American corporation that operates discount department stores. In terms of revenue it happens to be the world's largest public corporation and the evaluation was made by 2008 Fortune Global 500. It was started by Sam Walton in 1962, and incorporated on October 31,...
Strategic analysis of McCarthy motors limited
Thesis - 20 pages - Business strategy
McCarthy Motors Limited is owned by Bid Auto (Who Owns Whom, 2008). Bid Auto is the vehicle retail and services division of the Bidvest Group Limited, a JSE listed investment holding company. Bid Auto is one of the largest competitors in the South African vehicle retail market with...
The strategy of investment and development of the French companies in Poland
Dissertation - 75 pages - Business strategy
This paper deals with the strategy of investment and development of the French companies in Poland. In a first part, the author discusses the theory of Foreign Direct Investment, more commonly called FDI: its different types and their alternatives, their motives, benefits and risks. In the second...
Online electronic version on physical book purchase: An analysis on resale and welfare impact
Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science
Amazon recently began a new service: providing an electronic version of books to its consumers after they purchase the physical books. This business practice provides consumers with an opportunity to reseller brand new books, which will influence publisher, retailers and consumers. Using a...
Wine & Riviera: business plan project
Business plan - 35 pages - Business strategy
The company is considered to be a top end retailer of wine and champagne in Dublin City center, and in addition the company provides tasting session. The wines are made in France, Spain and California and sold in Parliament Street, in Dublin. The products are selected for their top quality and...
Tesco Plc Financial analysis
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
The first requires an identification of Tesco's capital structure. Other than that, it requires the type of finance raised by the company from one of Tesco's balance sheet and comment on the balance sheet using the financial ratio based on Tesco's capital structure. Tesco is well known of...
Strategic management assignment: Marks & Spencer case study
Case study - 3 pages - Management
Marks & Spencer is a British clothing and food retailer created in 1884 at Leeds (www.marksandspencer.com). It is the largest retailer in the United Kingdom and the firm is listed on the London stock exchange. The company was in a terrible crisis of growth in the early 2000s. Competition became...
