Business Strategy: HTC Corp in 2009
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
After a its success in ODM[1] and mobile operator business[2], HTC decided to sell handsets under its own name in 2007. Despite having a very innovative product line resulting from substantial R&D expenses, HTC had not yet established a distinctive brand value. To reduce costs and build its...
Marketing Mix - Fitbit
Case study - 5 pages - Sport marketing
Fitbit is an American group founded in 2007 by James Park and Eric Friedman. The company mainly markets products related to the field of fitness, connected watches and other activity trackers. In recent years, the group has shown a significant drop in turnover, the market being dominated by the...
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,...
SWOT Analysis - Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Case study - 6 pages - Tourism marketing
The company, or rather the concept, originated many years ago, in 1872, when the Compagnie Internationale des Wagonlits et du Tourisme (CWILT) was founded in Europe. At the same time, on the American continent, the Foster travel offices opened their doors. Today, the Carlson Wagonlit Travel group...
SWOT Analysis - Microsoft
Case study - 5 pages - ICT marketing
Microsoft is an American multinational computer company that was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. The American brand is among one of the largest manufacturers of operating systems, video games, software, phones, tablets, computers, and more. Microsoft is the creator of several...
Strategic Analysis of Microsoft
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
Apart from Microsoft being the designer and developer of the Windows Operating System, the company has been known for being innovative within other sectors, especially cloud service. However, the technology industry has witnessed some considerable changes and competition over the years with...
The Global Portable Media Player Industry
Thesis - 5 pages - Services marketing
A portable media player (PMP) is an electronic device that allows the owner to store, organize and play audio files as well as to view images and videos. The data is usually stored on a hard drive or a flash memory, enabling the storage of all kinds of files as on a USB flash drive. The PMP can...
US management and leadership: Steve Jobs
Essay - 9 pages - Management
The aim of this assignment is to consider the leadership style of the Apple's CEO Steve Jobs through the analysis of the articles and works connected with his business activity. Steve Jobs is the current CEO and co-founder of Apple, Inc. Steve Jobs also was the CEO and majority...
Corporate Entrepreneurship of Steve Jobs
Case study - 9 pages - Management
During the seminar, we used different case studies of the US management and leadership in applying theoretical concepts. In this assignment, I have chosen to analyze the CEO of the company Apple because of its particular way to lead the company that he created. Steve Jobs was trained as an...
Diversification of Nokia
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
Nokia is the world leader in the mobile telephone market and has 38% of the market shares. The telephone market witnessed a strong growth between 1990 and 2000. Today, it looks like the market is mature. However, competition remains fierce. The phones tend to include many more sophisticated...
Steve Jobs as a leader: US management and leadership
Case study - 4 pages - Services marketing
In the last century, we have seen major changes in the business world. Companies from all over the world have evolved from being small local companies to big international companies conducting activities all over the world. The modern business environment has evolved so much that management...
Pepsi - UK
Market study - 10 pages - Business strategy
Caleb Bradham, who was a pharmacist, found the Pepsi-Cola in 1898 in New Bern, North Carolina. It was initially known as "Brad's Drink" and later named Pepsi-Cola in 1903. Pepsi-Cola started its sale in UK in 1953 and ever since there is no looking back. In the United Kingdom, it has grown to...
Eye problems caused by technology
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
The human eye, profound and unique is its design. The human pupil adjusts constantly, thousands of times during one day, adapting to light and the proximity of things looked at in the places visited. No doubt, though, this world has drastically changed since the eye was designed and created. In...
Developments in the image of death: Walt Disney
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
The image of Death in the films of Walt Disney before his death was concealed. This was seen in the films of Neige White and the Seven Dwarfs, Bambi or Sleeping Beauty. But these days, the image of death is it not more explicit? Maybe it had to Hays code [66] applied from 1934, well after the...
Logistics gateway to Europe
Case study - 28 pages - Logistics
The project for a logistics gateway to Europe is about to set up a physical distribution system into the European market. The distribution system has to be developed for a non-European company with a new or existing product in a European market. Therefore we had to chose a couple of European...
The Orange Development Strategy
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
The document gives insights into the history of the Orange Company, Orange's strategy, Presence of Orange in world and European markets and the impacts of the strategy adopted by Orange. Launched in April 1994, Orange was the fourth mobile phone operator on the British market. By the end...
Marketing Case study: Minute Maid
Case study - 10 pages - Services marketing
Minute Maid is not a company that is new to the market. It was founded in 1940, but it was only during the war in 1945, that the success of Minute Maid orange juice began to be felt. The U.S. soldiers used it in high quantity and the company acquired some fame thanks to J.M Fox, who was leading...
International customer behavior: How mp3 industries created and developed a new market?
Thesis - 26 pages - Services marketing
We prefer to study the MP3 player market as it is a novel and fast growing one. Flourished in 2004, the MP3 player replaced the old devices like walkman and disc man, thanks to the technological developments. In 1998, an unfamiliar brand introduced the first MP3 player and it was only in 2001...
An overview of the Kronenbourg Brewery
Thesis - 25 pages - Business strategy
With over 8 million hectoliters sold per year and nearly 32% of the market shares, ‘Brasseries Kronenbourg' or the Kronenbourg Brewery occupies the leading position in the beer sector in France and plays a pivotal role globally. We decided to study the mode of operation followed by this...
The launching of the iTunes Music Store
Thesis - 7 pages - Business strategy
The iTunes Music Store (iTMS) created by Apple, which provides legal digital music downloads, revolutionized the music market through its MP3 technology. Since its launch, the success of iTMS continues to be confirmed by a large number of downloads on the online store. In February 2006...
Marketing strategy of the iTunes Music Store
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
The iTunes Store is an intuitive and user friendly solution for mobile phone users. It is characterized by its ease of installation, which is convenient even for non techies. The proposed offer by the iTunes Store is a large and diverse catalog of more than 8 million tracks in early 2009 and...
Strategic analysis of Sony
Case study - 5 pages - Business strategy
Sony generated about 70 billion dollars in sales in the year 2007, thanks to its Consumer Electronics division, which is its main business. Despite the big figure, this sector has also experienced a loss of 321 million dollars. While the primary sector was hit by loss, the secondary sectors in...
Dell's customer relationship management (CRM) strategy
Thesis - 11 pages - Management
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is one of the most efficient systems which could be implanted in a company for its success. CRM is a process, a data mining, a technology and a philosophy base on the customer which aims to strengthen the relationship between the customers and the company,...
Strategic analysis of Starbucks Coffee
Case study - 22 pages - Business strategy
Starbucks is a multinational chain of coffee shops and restaurants and is known as the coffee shop. The first store was opened in 1971 in Seattle. The idea emanated from three teachers: Jerry Baldin, Zev Siegel and Gordon Bowker. Starbucks is named after the character that appeared in “Moby...
Integrated marketing communication: Promotional report for Kindle
Case study - 19 pages - Services marketing
This promotional plan is designed for Kindle, an eBook reader produced by Amazon. Three objectives have been set out for the year 2011. Making an impressive introduction of Kindle in the Australian market which establishes and increases brand awareness of Kindle is the first objective. Secondly,...
Study of brand of Nina Ricci
Case study - 5 pages - Services marketing
Nina Ricci was born in Turin in January, 1883. During her apprenticeship, she realised that she had a gift for designing and decided to pursue this career. Along with her son, Robert, she opened her first fashion house on 20 rue des Capucines in Paris. It became successful quickly and on the eve...
Analysis of the Virgin group
Case study - 7 pages - Services marketing
The Virgin Group is led by a charismatic leader, Richard Branson (RB), who is described as an "architect of the 20th century" in a campaign organized by Apple. At the organizational level, RB promotes accountability and managerial decision-making autonomy for the entities. Each one...
The evolution of the video game industry
Market study - 7 pages - Services marketing
During its inception, the video game was represented as pure marginal software, created by computer enthusiasts, with only a basic computer as the tool. Over time, this simplistic representation faded. Meanwhile, the game established itself as an application in its own computer, thus finding its...
Consumer behavior: Influence of customer needs, organization motivations and goals
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
In today's competitive business environment, the key to a company's survival lies in its ability to identify and influence unsatisfied consumer needs in a marketplace crowded with players. From the marketing/consumer behavior standpoint, there are differences and similarities between promoting...
Brand Management Analysis: Case of Sony
Case study - 15 pages - Business strategy
Founded in 1946 in Tokyo by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita, SONY is the world number 2 in the electronic market. In 1979, the company create the walkman, the CD player in 1982 and the Blu-ray technology in 2003. The company also had developed activities in video-games, computing, mobile phone...
